Google has released a gadget called What’s Popular for iGoogle. You may draw some connections between it and a certain site called Digg, and some are speculating that it is even an indication of a broader plan from Google to creep into Digg territory.
State AGs Look Into Google Book Deal
Google is facing more scrutiny over its proposed settlement it reached with copyright holders allowing it to digitize millions of books.
This time a group of state attorneys general have discussed the deal in a conference call held on Tuesday, Peter Brantley director of the Internet Archive told Reuters.
Americans Turn To Google And Then Google For Swine Flu Info
When sufficiently scared from TV swine flu hype*, people turned to the Internet for information, specifically Google, according to Pew Internet and American Life.
Looking at the State of Google
Google held its annual stockholders’ meeting yesterday evening and to accompany that Co-founder Sergey Brin decided to re-share the 2008 Founders’ Letter, which was originally published on Google’s Investor Relations site. Brin says they wanted to make this more widely available so they posted it on the Official Google Blog.
Google Translates Comments with Google Friend Connect
Google has launched an enhanced version of its comments gadget for Google Friend Connect. With the gadget, users can easily translate comments that aren’t in their language native.
Google Aims to Increase Relevancy for Ads on TV
Google is offering a look into its process for measuring and analyzing data from television ads. It’s interesting to see the metrics they use and how they are trying to make television ads more relevant to viewers.
4 New Updates Coming to Google Analytics
At eMetrics in San Jose, Google’s Brett Crosby announced 4 new features that are coming to Google Analytics. The features are aimed specifically at the more advanced users of the tool. They are:
Google Remembers it Owns YouTube
Beginning today, people who sign up for YouTube will be given a Google account. Given that Google has owned the popular video service since 2006, it is a little surprising that this happened in the past, but it certainly makes sense that they would do it sooner or later. Note: I am not yet seeing an indication of this news on the YouTube sign up page, but I assume it’s in the process of rolling out.
PayPal Introduces App for Google Android Phones
PayPal has introduced an app for Google’s Android today. The app gives PayPal users easy access to their accounts from Android Phones.
A post at the PayPal Blog lays out the features:
Some Changes in Google’s New AdWords Interface
AdWords users who use the English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Hebrew, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, or Brazilian Portuguese versions of AdWords will see the new AdWords interface next time they login to their accounts if they have not already.
There are a number of changes within the new interface, and Google has taken the opportunity to highlight a few of them.