Article: Is Google in the Right Gear?; Opinion: I think Google Gears is cool, but a handful of experts weigh in on the significance of the search giant's technology.

Now that some of the hype has died down a bit about Google Gears-the search giant's open-source technology for creating offline Web applications-I thought I'd take a look at what folks are saying about the technology.

To me it holds a lot of promise, but I was concerned about what others had to say.

The typically secretive Google dropped a good deal of information about Gears around the time of its Google Developer Day May 31. Since then, the company hasn't had a lot of official word on the technology, but others have taken up the slack.

However, when asked whether they thought Google Gears would be a game-changing technology, many RIA (rich Internet application) experts weighed in ...

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