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 ...

Google argues WebP can replace all three image formats, but has yet to persuade other browser makers to support WebP, despite some urging from sites such as Facebook and Netflix.

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 ...

The WebP image format developed by Google for the past eight years has found a home this week in Microsoft's Edge browser, and will also be added in Firefox next year. Enterprise Software.

So Google is developing a new image format called WebP (which is a sister format to its WebM project for videos). The images above, for instance, are from this gallery comparing JPEG to WebP.

Google has positioned WebP as an image format for the Web, at least to start, but when people save them to their hard drives, edit them, or reshare them, problems arise.

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 has developed a new web image format known as WebP to deal with the issue of latency when loading image-heavy web pages, particularly on mobile devices.The announcement came via the ...

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

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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 ...