Blogger Gives Commenters Faces

Blogger has extended the comments feature it annoucned last year, which lets users embed comments and the commenting form below blog posts. The feature has been extended to display profile images next to comments that blog visitors write.

Google Makes Book Search an Option

Google has added Book Search to its Search Options. In case you haven't been closely following everything Google has launched this year (and that is quite a bit), these options are presented to searchers at the top of the results page when they perform a search. I think the feature can be quite useful, but I often wonder how many people actually think to use…

Google CEO Skeptical About Charging For Online Content

Google CEO, Eric Schmidt has added his voice to the debate about charging for online news content. Speaking via video link with British broadcasting executives, Schmidt said there is so much free content online that many publishers would not succeed if they put their content behind a pay- wall.

Google Unleashes DoubleClick Ad Exchange

Google has announced the DoubleClick Ad Exchange, which it refers to as a real-time marketplace for helping online publishers and ad networks/agencies buy and sell display ad space. Prices in the marketplace are set in a real-time auction. Google says it has three principles for its approach to display advertising:

Yahoo “Might Be Open” To Letting Google On Homepage

The Yahoo search experience might at some point change in a very surprising way.  That Bing may take over, we've come to accept.  But at least one high-ranking Yahoo employee thinks Google could get a shot, too. Let's talk about said employee for a moment.  Burke Culligan is the senior director of product planning and strategy over Yahoo's front page and My Yahoo, so he's…