Google is obsessed with speeding up the Web, and the company hopes sprucing up its image format will help. It's got a lot of convincing to do, though. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Other browser makers are unmoved by file-size advantages of the image format, but Google is pressing ahead. And it's saving terabytes of network usage a day on its own sites. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Google is promoting a new image format, aimed at overthrowing the venerable JPEG, GIF, and PNG. Naturally, WebP is faster, and it’s open source. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers squint at their pixels. Your ...

Google has introduced a new image format to help speed up the performance of websites. WebP (pronounced “weppy”) reduces the file size of images by 40 percent, the company claims. Images make up 65 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Google has introduced a new Web image format, known as ...

Bangalore: To make page loading faster, Google has launched a new image format called WebP which is intended to reduce the file size of undefined images without compromising with the quality. Google's ...

These pictures look the same—but they’re not. Because the sign on the right, hypothetically, takes up nearly 40% less space. That’s the version in WebP, Google’s plan to speed up the internet by ...