Google was working on its Chrome Metro style browser, but the company has released an early version for Windows 8 Release Preview users. Chrome's Metro mode can be activated by installing the latest dev channel release from Google and switching it to the default browser in Windows 8 Release Preview. This switch enables Chrome to run in a Metro container, but not in the typical way you'd expect a Metro style app to function.

If you haven’t paid attention to Google’s Chrome OS in a while, you might not recognise it after today’s update: the cloud-based OS UI has been revamped and now has multitouch trackpad support. Coinciding with that release is an updated Samsung Series 5 Chromebook and a Series 3 Chromebox. The emphasis here is nearly singular: speed, speed, speed.

Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility will finally close by Wednesday. Motorola Mobility announced in a Form-8K filed yesterday with the Securities and Exchange Commission that now that the Bureau of the Ministry of the Commerce of China has cleared Google's acquisition, the companies will finalize the transaction "within two business days." China announced on Saturday that it had approved the acquisition, making it the last major regulator to give the deal the green light. Both the U.S. Justice Department and European Union regulators approved the acquisition in February.

Apparently, Google has not forgotten its major product which catapulted the company to where it is right now. Arnold Zafra is referring to Google’s search engine which just received a bit of attention by way of the Knowledge Graph. According to Google, the Knowledge Graph aims to help you discover new information – quickly and easily. The Knowledge Graph enables fast searching for things, people or places that Google knows about including landmarks, celebrities, cities, sports teams and more.

Google has confirmed that it plans to join Mozilla in developing a next-generation browser optimized for the Metro style of Windows 8. It’s an important validation of the Windows 8 platform from the developers of two of the most widely used Windows apps around. First it was Mozilla. Now Google has tipped its plans to produce a version of its flagship Chrome browser built specifically for the Windows 8 platform.

Google updated its Google Docs app for Android devices and enabled real-time document collaboration and editing without having to launch a browser. The app also got some overall improvements that enhance the user experience while creating, editing, uploading and sharing documents on Android phone or tablet.

New bookmarklet called “don’t be evil” modifies Google’s code of the Search plus Your World feature and includes results from different social networks like Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, GitHub, Google+, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. The code of the bookmarklet was released as open source so that anyone can use it to create similar browser extension.

Google introduced a new search style “Search, plus Your World”. The company is integrating its social network, Google+ and the photo-sharing site, Picasa with Google search. Three new features, called "People and Pages" ,"Profiles in Search", or "Personal Results" will help you find information related to a specific topic or people you may know when searching the web.

Monotype released its compression technology that shrinks font download sizes and made it free for public use. MicroType Express is going to be used in major browsers like Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. Google even plans to include the Monotype's technology into its Web fonts site for free to use fonts that can be embedded on Web pages.

Searches for the keyword "browser" no longer bring up the Google Chrome home page after Google applied a penalty against the page and demoted it in the search results for a period of at least 60 days. The company also banned the Google Chrome download page over paid links. The reason for those actions was Google’s own sponsored post campaign on blog sites that seemed to encourage low-quality content.