Reuters reports launch of Google mobile news site in Japan. The service has about 30 news outlets, including Asahi newspaper and state-run NHK and Google said it aims to expand the line-up.
"Angela Lee, Google's senior product manager in Tokyo, said at a briefing earlier this week: "People want to check the news all the time. We've created something that's easy to use and view on handsets."
If you are using an old version of Adwords Editor, you will be prompted to update the software, as version 2.0 is now publicly available. Till now AdWords Editor was available only on 'invitation' basis. Inside AdWords blog explains the features of Version 2.0:
Recently, Google has launched a new program, Google For Educators. This is a good opportunity for the educators to become Google Certified through Google
Teacher Academy. “The Google Teacher Academy is a pilot program designed to help K-12 educators get the most from innovative technologies. The Academy is a one-day experience at Google’s Mountain View Headquarters where participants get hands-on experience with Google products and other technologies, receive instructional resources to share with colleagues, and share innovative instructional strategies with other local educators. Upon completion, Academy participants will become Google Certified Teachers”.
Matt Cutts informs on his blog that you can now upload "unlisted" videos to Google video. The webmaster help page explains "If you have a video you'd rather notshare with the entire world, you can choose to restrict access to it by marking it as "unlisted". Similar to an unlisted telephone number that isn't available in public phone number databases, videos that have been unlisted are not accessible through Google Video search results. This option is especially useful for family videos. Just set your video to "unlisted" and email the link to your family and friends."
Google Gadgets, the mini devices make your website more interesting by presenting your content to the visitors. Gadgets have gained more popularity after they are made free and less geeky. These gadgets may contain any dynamic content including games, news, horoscope, quiz or anything that can make your site informative as well as interesting. You can find a free gadget of your choice for your webpage from Google's Gadget Directory. You can easily set a gadget on your webpage by following three simple steps:
Why hasn't the Google algorithm been leaked? This is the hot topic of debate on some of the forum discussions. Looking at the history of the company when it comes to leaking official information which may be a product release or anything more, it has come as surprise that its algorithms is not yet leaked.
Ben Edelma in his analysis 'False and Deceptive Pay-Per-Click Ads', writes about specific ads on Google.com. These ads seems to be violating Google's editorial guidelines and may be also US laws regarding "free" services being offered.
Matt Cutts' blog gives update on search quality/infrastructure on Google going into the fall.
Go to Writely.com and it will redirect you to http://docs.google.com/. This is because Google has launched information-sharing software, Google Docs & Spreadsheets that combines Google Spreadsheets with Writely. The beta version of the combination is available under the name of Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
This is no joke that YouTube pays its users for their video clips, this decision was made after the website was bought by Google for the price of $1.6bn. The users will receive some portion of advertising revenues collected from the page containing their videos. The video clip can be anything from a home video to a snippet of TV shows, music gigs or even be a sports event. This has attracted many big shots of recording industry, including Universal, which has signed a deal with YouTube to distribute clips and protecting the rights of their artists.
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