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As part of its self-imposed mission to make the web faster, Google has rolled its own image format. It’s called WebP, and it’s based on open source technology. Google launched the initiative ...

Google claims that its Play Store website's PNG images have been replaced with lossless WebP images resulting in file sizes reduced on average by nearly 35 per cent.

Google says that it is rolling out support of the WebP image format across its websites, including YouTube, claiming that it reduces file sizes as well as load time for web pages.

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. WebP, Google's answer to JPEG, gets better ...

Just as Google spun off WebP from WebM, the industry players just finished developing the HEVC/H.265 video codec and included a still-image compressed format derived from it. Services and Software ...

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.

Google has introduced the new WebP image format as another in a series of moves the company has made to speed up the Web.

Google released a new image format, called WebP, designed to replace the dominant JPG with smaller file sizes and more features that benefit just about everyone--regular users, designers ...

Google built the royalty-free WebM video format with the sophisticated VP8 compression technology that it obtained in its 2009 acquisition of On2. In addition to advancing the goal of open video ...