For the last three years, Google’s Chrome browser has left the world’s premiere hacking competition unscathed, even as Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari have all been taken down by the assembled security researchers. So this year, Google is offering hackers a million reasons to re-focus their efforts.

Google has today announced that it’s putting up a bounty of $1 Million for anyone who can hack its Chrome browser and pinpointing vulnerabilities within it.

The competition called Pwnium will take place at this years CanSecWest security conference on March 7th. With prices totalling a million dollars, with prizes for $60,000, $40,000 and $20,000, for finding vulnerabilities in Chrome.

Pwnium is being organised by Google and is a splinter contest from the well known Pwn2Own hacking

Search giant Google will punish itself for violating its own advertising policy – the company is going to drop the search ranking of the Chrome website for 2 months. The reason was that Google paid hundreds of bloggers to claim this Internet browser was the best.

A number of the paid blog posts featured cut and paste "garbage" text, containing links to the pages where Internet users were able to download the web browser. Meanwhile, if any other company did the same, it would have been banned from the search engine index for at least a month and up to a year. However, Google made an exception for Chrome.

It seems that Google is now blaming Chrome's advertising companies, though it claimed today that it would now reduce the page ranking of the browser home page as a punishment. The search giant made some updates to its algorithm in order to penalize websites offering so-called "thin" content and thus reducing their search rankings. Nevertheless, Danny Sullivan from Search Engine Land managed to find 400 examples of blog posts sponsored by the search engine.

According to media reports, links to sites mentioned in sponsored posts should have included the so-called "nofollow" tag, i.e. they weren’t meant to be used to determine a site's ranking on the Google index. Thus far, it’s the 3rd time that the company has banned one of its own acquired companies –in 2011, BeatThatQuote.com was also banned for infringing its search guidelines, as well as Google Japan has been

Recently there was lot of controversy when Apple pulled down all the applications from app store which had Google Voice. This move by Apple had raised lot of eyebrows, including an FCC investigation but didn’t make a change in Apple’s decision. One of the companies affected by this decision of Apple was Riverturn, whose VoiceCentral application was shut down, according to Tech Crunch.

After a few months wait Riverturn is back with a bang and have launched the same applications but this time on browser. The application is called Black Swan edition and is completely browser-based but has the look and feel of a regular app, complete with a dialer, list of transcribed voicemails, and SMS messages.

When you dial a number, Google Voice simply makes a call to your iPhone while simultaneously calling the number of the person you are trying to reach, so you still pay for the voice minutes. But the appeal of having Google Voice on your iPhone is the ability to read transcribed voicemails, or play them, and avoid SMS charges by texting through Google Voice. It even offers offline caching and takes advantage of the HTML5 features of mobile Safari. But all these things are not completely compatible with the phone browser as of now.

The application has many flaws, the main one being that it cannot access your contact list on your iPhone through the browser. Although, VoiceCentral mimics the look and feel of the iPhone contact manager, you have to export your contacts to Google Voice first and access them that way. Another limitation is that the

Seems like there is a pro foodie behind Google who names Android operating systems.

Now after Gingerbread, new Android OS is expected to hit market in this October named – The Ice Cream Sandwich.

Moreover it is said that with the launch of its next-gen Android OS (version 4.0) Google will also roll out a new smartphone from its Nexus series. As we didn’t hear anything from Google after it introduced The Royal Droid – Nexus S.

This time seems like company has planned to compete with Apple since iPhone 5 with iOS5 is expected to hit markets in the first week of October.

At the moment Google is taking smartphones and tablets separately with Gingerbread for smartphones and Honeycomb for tablets. With the launch of Ice Cream

So finally one of the awaited features and good news for the fans of Google+ is here: Games on Google+!

Google+ has now started rolling out games and I must say, reckoning the current hype about Google+ loosing grip, company will surely come up with other attractive features in near future as well as Google cannot afford to flop again.

One of the extinguishing features that Google has incorporated is the ability to keep your stream free from games’ updates. Unlike Facebook, your notifications and main stream won’t be flooded by games. There is a separate tab for games that will carry all your game stats, invitations and updates from other gamers.

When you’re ready to play, the Games page is waiting—click the games button at the top of your stream. You can see the latest game updates from your circles, browse the invites you’ve received and check out games that people you know have played recently. The Games page is also where your game accomplishments will appear. So you can comfortably share your latest high score—your circles will only see the updates when they’re interested in playing games too.

Many would not agree with what is stated above, but this is how I look at it: With each passing day Google Plus is losing users’ interest, at least in Pakistan.

Google Plus seemed pretty decent yet dashing when it was launched. Invite-only trick did well for Google as it attracted millions of users in matter of days.

This was when everybody was rushing for invites to explore the wonders that Google Plus had to offer (some junkies even sold Google Plus invites online, BTW if you need one here’s is a way).

But everyone know by now, the product was half baked and was probably launched before time to stand early in line. This half featured product didn’t incentivize the users much. I agree that people can wait for the features to come-in, but their bread-limit is quickly nearing and soon they may stop preferring Google Plus over Facebook.

ComScore – a web-traffic watcher company has revealed that Google Plus has witnessed more than 20 million unique visitors in less than a month.

It is three weeks or so since Google launched its social networking platform which was welcomed with both hands by users.

It is said that Google+ has shown such a steep rising curve which no product had ever shown so far. Despite of the fact that registration on Google+ is still invitation based, it has managed to get 20 million users in three weeks after its launch.