Google Caffaine

Caffaine is the codename of the new, upgraded version of Google search engine.

This explains how it performs against the old one.



If you want to have an early look hear are the steps.

First look at Google Chrome OS

First we need to download the Chrome OS VMWare image from here.

To run this - we need to have VMWare Workstation - a 7 days trial version availbale from here to download.

Now - you need to wait hours and hours to get the trial version license key from VMWare. Instead of that use this - M142T-1034J-M8280-0KA8H-A49PC. If you are curious about this - here is the news behind that.

All set - setup your image with the VMWare Workstaion - steps here.


That's it - now you can login with your GMail account to your OS :)


Not bad at all - how about using an OpenID instead...

Read this for more info - "11 Things You Need to Know About Google's Chrome OS".

Google moves towards sso with OpenID

As per this announcement by Google, now all your Google accounts are OpenID enabled.

In other words - Google acts as an OpenID Provider - you may recall that even your Blogger urls are OpenID enabled.

Google's support to OpenID is through the OpenID 2.0 Directed Identity protocol.

Directed Identity is a term introduced with the seven laws of Identity and it says,

"A universal identity system must support both ‘Omni-directional’ identifiers for use by public entities and ‘unidirectional’ identifiers for use by private entities, thus facilitating discovery while preventing un-necessary release of correlation handles."

Under the OpenID terminology 'Omni-directional’ identifier is equivalent to the OP-Local identifier.

With Google, you can login to any OpenID RP by entering Google OP-Local Identifier, that is https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id.

Improve your Google PageRank with OpenID

Under Google PageRank, the importance of a page is judged by the number of pages linking to it as well as their importance.

Higher the citations to your web site from the rest - higher the PageRank.

Turn your blog(web site) to your OpenID - my previous post explains how to do that - and start commenting on other sites with your OpenID - which automatically links back to your web site.