After quietly dropping Plus Boxes alongside certain search results, Google openly discussed this new search feature on their official blog.
The Google Talk Team Talks
In a recent email interview the Google Talk team revealed to Murdok their future plans for Google Talk and the Google Talk Gadget.
KinderStart Case Against Google Dismissed
Almost a year after KinderStart sued Google for dropping it from the search engine’s index, the presiding judge has put an end to the case by siding with Google’s requests.
Getting Your Blog Ranked Well by Google Blog Search
As a web analytics junkie I tend to notice trends and changes in my blog statistics. One recent trend I’ve noticed is that I get more search traffic from Google Blog Search than I used to get.
Changes Abound For Google India
It’s a mixed bag of good news, bad news, and just plain “news” news for Google in India this week. One piece from the region describes the company’s expansion in glowing terms; another reports that its site ranked low in terms of usability. Lastly, there’s a new man in place to deal with all this: Shailesh Rao was appointed managing director of sales and operations for Google India.
Google Looks For Lobbyists In Europe
Lobbyists, on the whole, have a pretty bad reputation. They’re regarded as a rather shady group of people; one of the main headings in a Wikipedia article is “corruption concerns.” Draw your own conclusions, then, about this bit of news: Google wants to hire lobbyists throughout Europe.
Google Reader’s Integrated Podcast Player
I just noticed as I was browsing through my google reader that it now has an integrated podcast player, simple little feature but really neat.
Google Homepage Skins – Change of Note for SEOs
I just had the official walk-through of Google’s recent announcement for personalized home pages. In a nutshell, they are allowing users the opportunity to skin their home page with one of six different themes. The goal, and I quote, is to "delight users". And they don’t just want to delight them in the short term. They want this to be a long-lasting love affair with the Google home page.
Is Google’s Pay-Per-Action a Threat to Affiliate Networks?
If you’re reading this post, then you can expect a flurry of news covering Google’s beta launch of its Pay-Per-Action (PPA) product for AdWords.
How Might Google Be Ranking Your Blog?
Bill Slawski found a new patent on ranking blog documents that should be of interest to anyone with a blog. As you would expect Bill has given his usual overview of the patent, explaining things and making simple for the rest of us.