As if the title weren’t enough to tip you off, take a peak at some of the headlines that have gotten my attention today (don’t worry, this isn’t Linky Goodness or Pilgrim’s Picks, I’m still going to hold your hand and tell you what to think):
NY Times Tops In Google News For 2007
No one received more top ranking story placements on Google News than the New York Times, which dropped its subscription-based Times Select model earlier this year.
Google Earth May Solve Murder
Police in Melbourne, Australia are scrutinizing satellite images to see if a murder suspect was caught on film dumping a woman’s body in the front yard of a house.
Compete Puts Overall Searches, Google Higher
According to new numbers from Compete, the search engines were busier than ever in November – Americans made a record 8.1 billion queries. Also – you guessed it – Google’s market share went up.
Google Maps In NZ Gets Business Listings
A service’s ability to provide driving directions is valuable only if you know where you’re going. So New Zealand’s version of Google Maps is stepping up and providing something new: business listings.
Subscribed Links Now in Google Organic Results
Ben Allen found that Google now integrates Subscribed Links results in-between other organic search results, as part of the “universal search” initiative; this may be new, though it’s hard to tell for sure.
Google Asks Feds For Better Document Access
The numerous agencies of the federal government possess thousands of documents and pieces of information that can’t be found by Google’s crawlers.
Google Lets Go Of Postini Employees?
Last week, all eyes were on AOL, and perhaps even Yahoo, to see if employees would be let go prior to Christmas. Now a surprising rumor has spread that Google filled the Grinch’s role by firing around 60 former Postini employees.
ISP Hijacks Google Homepage
Controversy is brewing over a Canadian ISP inserting customer messages at the top Google’s homepage, brought to you by Yahoo.
Google, Search Drives Health, Travel Traffic
Websites in the health & medical and the travel categories received substantial traffic driven to them from search engines in November 2007.