Google announces the creation of a software that allows people to run online services such as e-mail, online calendars, and news aggregators even when offline. With this latest innovation from Google, users can work offline in places with bad connections or even in locations that have no means to connect to the net.

Introduced to the market as the Google Gears, this technology bridges the gap between the desktop environment and the online world where data changes are stored in the computer’s memory so that these data can be used even when not connected. “The Web is great but it doesn’t work very well when you don’t have a Web connection,” Jeff Huber, Google’s vice president of engineering, said in an interview. “Gears addresses a functional gap on the Web.”

Available as open-source software, developers are free to manipulate Google Gears to meet individual requirements. Most of these web applications, however, make limited searches offline as data are downloaded only when connected. Full web search functions returns once reconnected to the internet.

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