LIVE: Google I/O Keynote, Day 2

Google I/O keynote day 2

Day 2 of Google's I/O developer conference kicks off in a few minutes here, and we're covering the keynote live.

Sundar Pichai, the senior vice president of Chrome, is expected to speak this morning, and we're probably going to see the first real Chrome OS notebooks, perhaps with a $20 per month installment payment plan.

We might also hear more about Google TV and some of its favored Web development technologies like HTML5.

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9:25 AM PT: We're waiting for the show to start. They're playing the same unidentifiable techno music as they did yesterday.

9:30: Here's Vic Gundotra, the exec in charge of I/O. He leads Google's social initiatives, but we don't expect to hear anything new about them here today.

More than 60,000 simultaneous viewers watched I/O yesterday. Total uniques yesterday: over 600,000.

Gundotra calls the open Web "the only platform for all of us."

Now Chrome Senior VP Sundar Pichai is taking the stage as expected. This is the "Chrome keynote."

9:33. Momentum announcements. A year ago, 70 million users had Chrome as their main Web borwser. Now it's 160 million.

He's going through the history of Chrome, releasing every 6 weeks. Over 8 versions just in the last year.

A whole slew of new APIs in the last year. Focused on speed. 20% increase in JavaScript improvements. Security -- sandboxes to prevent plug-ins from affecting the rest of your computer.

Chrome OS head Sundar Pichai at Google I/O

HTML5 -- all modern browsers are now investing in HTML5.

Now it's Ian Ellison-Taylor, head of dev platform in Chrome.

It looks like this keynote is going to start off pretty geeky. Taylor is showing how to add speech attributes to a Web search box. Typing code on the screen.

One of the rules of keynotes is never do speech demos. But they're going to do it anyway!

It worked -- he searched for an actress and the Web site returned the right result. He says he's geniuinely surprised.

Speech in Google Translate as well.

Performance also important to Chrome, has been since the early days. He's showing a chart of Javascript performance, and says he hopes he never has to share this chart again -- Javascript is no longer the bottleneck it used to be. Chrome is focusing on other areas where there's room for improvement.

Graphics -- GPU acceleration.

This is something Microsoft has made a big deal about with Internet Explorer 9 and 10.

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