Google Gears: Taking the web offline

Google Gears: Taking the web offline

Search engine giant Google has announced their new project named Google Gears. This product is designed to enable the web users to use Google services offline.

The company is developing this web software that runs online and offline. As a result, users would be able to continue their work even when they are in the remotest of areas where the net connectivity is not stable or available.

Google said that the service would allow users of computers, phones and other devices to manipulate Web services like e-mail, online calendars or news readers.

Jeff Huber, Google’s vice president of engineering talked about Google Gears: “The Web is great but it doesn’t work very well when you don’t have a Web connection. Gears addresses a functional gap on the Web.”

Google Gears would be made available to the developers as an open source project. As a result, the technology would be available to anyone who is interested in contributing to it or using it for their own applications.

Some of the partners working with Google on Gears include Adobe, Opera Software and Mozilla.

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