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Google Docs List View Not Just for Mobile Anymore
Google Docs users may recall last month when Google improved the mobile version by adding list view for spreadsheets, which allows you to view, edit, sort, and filter them. Before that you could only view them.
Google has now made the same list view available for working on spreadsheets from desktop and notebook computers. It can be found in the View menu.
Sony Reader Gains Access To Google Books
Sony has reached a deal with Google to offer access to more than a half-million public domain books from Google available on its current models of its Reader.
The books will be available for free to users of the Reader via Sony’s eBook Store, which now boasts more than 600,000 titles. The move is seen as a direct challenge to Amazon’s Kindle eBook reader, which has access to over 245,000 titles along with newspapers, magazines and blogs.
FAQ Pages Could Increase Your Google Rankings
Increase your website’s Google rankings with an effective FAQ page. Learn how FAQs enhance SEO and best practices to implement.
Google Launching Friend Connect API
At PubCon Matt Cutts just announced the launch of the Google Friend Connect API. It let’s you copy javascript and make your blog more social.
Editor’s note: How do you think the launch of the Google Friend Connect API will affect data portability? Share your thoughts. Murdok anchor Abby Jonnson spoke with Cutts at the conference:
Google Won’t Remove Pages About You
If you’ve been involved with the web for any significant amount of time, there is a good chance there may be pages up somewhere that you’re not thrilled about, but are out of your power to remove. Whether it is a page you made in high school or somebody else talking smack about you, you’re concerned about your online reputation (as you should be) and would like to see the page removed from Google’s index altogether.
Ex-Googlers Reveal Startup and Google’s Big Weakness
Having the title Ex-Googler is probably a good thing if you’re in the startup business. Twitter, after all, is run by ex-Googlers. That credibility worked the old hype machine for Cuil, too, until it couldn’t perform. Bindu Reddy and Arvind Sundararajan, ex-Googlers, suggest it’s a bad idea to take on Google where Google is strong—like Cuil did with search—but taking it to Google where it is weak can work.
And so they’ve fairly quietly launched Likaholix in private beta.
Google TV Ads Reporting Options Improved
It’s getting hard to imagine how the Google TV Ads team could make things any easier on marketers. After these promoters have been given suggestions concerning which shows are best-suited to a given audience, a new series of features and options will report back ad viewership data in greater-than-ever detail.
Google, WPP To Study Online Ads’ Effectiveness
Cute stories and a charismatic personality can go a long way towards making a sale; people like to feel good about their purchases. At the same time, solid facts are pretty convincing, and Google and WPP intend to collect more of these concerning the power of online ads.
Google Names Armstrong Replacement
Google’s head of American Advertising Sales and Operations Tim Armstrong recently left Google to become AOL’s new Chairman and CEO. Google has announced his replacement (staying within the company) with Dennis Woodside.