Google announcement coming later today

Google will present something--we don't yet know what--in a special 15-minute slot at the TechCrunch50 event Monday at 11:45 a.m. Pacific time. I will be there and will cover the announcement in a live blog. For the as-it-happens report, check in on Webware at 11:40 a.m. or so, or sign up in the widget below to get a reminder e-mail.

If you have a theory about the announcement, take the poll at right. You can enter your own option if you don't like the ones I've included.

Update: Google has just announced the Google News Archive, which includes digitized newspapers from way back. Story coming soon on News.com.

See more product launch stories from TechCrunch50 and DemoFall.

[Kev_Orng]

IE6 is on the poll?
I'm having a hard time imagining a big secret media event to announce support for an obsolete version of an obsolete browser. Even if IE6 is still prominent in corporate environments because some apps don't work with IE7 due to non-compliance with web standards. That's for Microsoft to make announcements about, not Google.

[pedrosl]

GDrive!! ;)

[livecrunch]

Pedrosl yes you are right :)

See here
http://www.livecrunch.com/2008/09/08/google-gdrive-at-techcrunch50/

[Alexandre Linhares]

GDrive seems to go against Google's vision. They seem to want emails, pictures, videos, documents, spreadsheets, pdfs, and presentations in their servers. 15 minutes is really quick, and there would not be time to present GDrive. Chrome for mac & linux, amongst all those web2.0 developers, seems much more likely.

[pedrosl]

It's too soon for a Mac & Linux version of Chrome. As a Google employee says on their mac blog:

"Right now, both are in the "pieces build and pass tests, but there's no Chromium application yet." "

Full post here: http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/09/platforms-and-priorities.html