Put Less Effort Into Your Gmail Searching

Google introduced a new lab for Gmail today that improves the search feature. The new Search Autocomplete lab is basically like Google Suggest for your inbox. Start typing in the searchbox, and it gives you suggestions.

URL Shortener Gets Long On Money

So what’s beyond social networking and microblogging? Some speculate it might URL-shortening, mostly because of sheer practicality. A new type of metrics URL-shortners offer also make them attractive topic, though nobody’s quite that sure just yet.

Analyst Says Google China Still In Trouble

So much for the time, money, and compromises on censorship Google's committed in the region thus far.  Plus its new music venture.  An analyst said this morning that Google's Chinese arm won't do so well, anyway. 

Facebook Testing New Ad Format?

Update: I contacted Facebook asking for more details on the testing, and I was given only the following official statement from the company:

The DiggBar Cometh

Remember in late February when a new Digg Toolbar was uncovered via an image on Flickr? It was said to be coming out to take on StumbleUpon and TinyURL (and similar services) at the same time. Well now we get a closer look at that as Digg prepares to roll out the DiggBar. Kevin Rose posted about it at Digg the Blog today and included…