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Google has announced Lively - an avatar and online room/chat combination.Google Lively is billed as a "chat experience" using avatars. Google says, "You're about to embark on a chat experience in which you can communicate and express yourself using avatars in your very own space. Choose an avatar and use it to make friends and chat. Create rooms, decorate them to your liking, and m

A really bad news for Second Life: Google is launching a new service today called Lively, a browser based virtual world add-on that lets users create and customize avatars and worlds, interact with other users, and generally have a richer social interaction than is offered by GTalk today. Worlds can be embedded into web pages, although only Windows users on IE or Firefox can view them, after an ad

Google has just launched Lively, a new social network built around the concept of each user creating an avatar and a personal virtual room that can be embedded anywhere on the Web. In essence, Google is looking to create a massive distributed virtual world, where every Google account can have its own avatar that can be used wherever a Lively virtual room is present – for example, on a blog, a

Google has launched a new traditional media blog to pushes their TV, Print and Audio Ads. A lot of people don't participate in Google's TV, newspaper, and radio advertising programs. Others aren't even aware they exist.more information at

Earlier today, Google launched an affiliate ad network.Pay-per-action advertising is a new pricing model that allows advertisers to pay only when specific actions that they define are completed by a user on their site. Rather than paying for clicks or impressions, advertisers can choose to pay when a user makes a purchase, signs up for a newsletter, or completes any other clearly defined action th

Multilingual search is one of the growth areas of our industry and Google has added its own help in the space by launching its Latin American AdWords Blog. Written in Spanish, the launch today introduces itself and gives an overview of its intentions and direction. I used a machine translator to get the English version of the opening post - but its seems to be pretty good (guess the translators a

After a rocky start yesterday, when an announcement of its announcement was un-announced and a conference Web page was taken down, Google has launched an invitation-only beta of an online advertising campaign assistance tool for buyers. What Google is calling Ad Planner is an extension of the demographic and targeting service the company unveiled just last [...]

After a rocky start yesterday, when an announcement of its announcement was un-announced and a conference Web page was taken down, Google has launched an invitation-only beta of an online advertising campaign assistance tool for buyers. What Google is calling Ad Planner is an extension of the demographic and targeting service the company unveiled just last week in its new Google Trends, but dev

After years of discussion among SEO’s about whether paid text links will work for getting ranked high on Google, now Google itself has gotten into the game. The Search Daily News blog reports that Google now offers a new type of ad - the text ad link. It is basically a 90-character or less link, where [...]

Google has announced the launch of Adwords Editor Version 6.0. According to the Adwords Agency blog, here are the new features: New bulk editing tools: Spell check, append text, and drag and drop ad groups within the tree view. Account statistics features: Export performance statistics to CSV, update minimum CPC bids, and experience improved downloading of account performance data. Com

Google has updated and enhanced the UI for its Advanced Search page. In addition to the recent "date range" options that expand from the menu, Google has now added topic-specific searches. In effect, that's Google's answer to the explosive growth of vertical search engines. Tip of the hat to Chris Granier for highlighting this change in Twitter. Topic-specific search engines from Go

A few days ago Google relaunched Custom Search as Site Search. This is a new service Google is offering to anyone with a website, Site Search is a search box which you can place on your website. This will then allow users to search your site for that hard to find content. Please watch the [...]

Today at the SMX Advanced conference in Seattle, Google announced the Website Workout contest to help businesses pump up their websites. Any U.S. business can enter to have a webpage optimized for free by Google's team of consultants to boost sales, sign-ups or leads. Interested businesses can enter the contest by visiting the Website Optimizer Workout site.In the coming weeks, Google will select

Google, the search engine giant, has launched Google Health, a free service for patients offering a personal electronic medical record (www.google.com/health). But the move has prompted fears over the security of health information stored in this way. President George Bush has promoted electronic health records as a means of reducing medical errors and cutting the costs of health care in the Unite

Google Merchant Search has quietly launched as a test program to compare products and services in shopping comparison engine fashion. Google Merchant Search is a test feature, apparently in the UK, and is not available for every search. You may see it when conducting some searches but not others. Lead gen providers like Bankrate.com in financial services, one of Google's largest customer segme

In the escalating war over the planet Earth between Google and Microsoft, Google has opened up Google Earth for development. Today at the Google I/O developers conference, Google launched the Google Earth API and browser plug-in. The Google Earth API enables web developers to Web pages into 3D map apps. Google points to the rise of the Geoweb, a collection of user-generated content (UGCe.g. p

Google has unveiled a new feature, Google Health, a long-anticipated health information service that combines the Web company's search services with a user's personal health records online. The password-protected service, stores a user's basic medical history and gathers relevant information connected to their health conditions. It includes a link to help users find doctors by location or speciali

Google has officially launched their highly anticipated online health service. The new service stores user's medical history and gathers related information connected to users health conditions. Google has already teamed up with pharmacies, doctors, and medical testing to labs bridging the gap between traditional medical information. Its launch partners include Walgreen's CVS, Quest Diagnostics

Google Health Releases, Patient Records Go OnlineGoogle Inc. on Monday opened its hosted online patient medical records service to the public, seven months after first announcing plans for a foray into health care.The Google Health program, which allows patients to store personal health information online, this week continued to generate more questions about privacy and security than fanfare.Carl

Google has launched a hosted security service for enterprise customers in Australia. The hosted service, called “Google Web Security for Enterprise”, protects corporate Web and e-mail users from viruses, spyware, malicious Web sites, and offers hosted e-mail archiving services. The service offers a choice of cheap security features. The option of Google Message Filtering (e-mail filter

Google launched Hindi translation service.The service allows automated translation between Hindi and English.Google Translate,also offers many translation to many other languages.Users who want to translate some text, a web page, or issue a query in Hindi and have results translated from English, can do it on: Translate will allow the users typing in Hindi using a regular keyboard. The user will only be required to type the word as it sounds. For instance, if a user wants to write the Hindi word “mera” meaning my or mine, he can do it simply typing "mera" using regular English characters; the word will be automatically converted to Hindi word.Another product from Google,the iGoogle Gadget,can use to add services to their home page.iGoogle Gadget comes in various languages including,

Google launched Hindi translation service.The service allows automated translation between Hindi and English. Google Translate,also offers many translation to many other languages. Users who want to... Visit Live Kerala ! or click the news TITLE to read the complete news and More !

oCERT to make the world safe for GPL Google is spearheading a volunteer workforce it hopes will become the centralized authority for responding to security issues in open source software.… Read more…

As the iPhone continues to march across the globe, Google's special (and slick) interface that was introduced in mid-December has been limited to English speakers. However, yesterday the company rolled it out to 33 countries in 16 languages, including Chinese--despite the fact the handset is not available through any ...

Google has taken the beta label off yet another project that is significantly younger than Gmail, which remains in beta. Google Website Optimizer has been available to AdWords customers for the past year, but now the company is making it available to anyone who wants to test out different web site layouts.

AdWords conversion tracking has been updated for the first time in years. The new system allows advertisers to classify conversion actions and track them separately. Conversion actions can be classified as: Purchase/Sale Signup Lead View of a key page Other Actions can be used with pay per click as well as pay per action campaigns. Google launched the pay per action beta [...]

Today, Google launched the preview release of the new Google App Engine which is a way for developers to run their web applications on Google’s infrastructure. Google has always provided useful tools for developers and with this new engine Google plans to make it easy for programmers to develop and run web applications. Google App Engine [...]

After beta testing their scrolling ads for months (we have been seeing them all over the Internet since last december), Google Adsense has eventually launched them for the publishers today. It lets you scroll vertically or horizontally according to what suits your websites. These ads are not browser dependent at all and will work in [...]

"Google for Nonprofits, a site designed to educate charities about the search giant's suite of Web-based tools, debuted Tuesday. Essentially, it's a lineup of links to Google's various applications and tutorials for using them, but with a charitable spin. A link to YouTube is accompanied with "broadcast your cause to the world's largest online video community." Google Groups come with a suggestion of "communicate easily to staff or volunteers and encourage discussions among supporters."[via cnet news]

Google has just launched Sky Online.  It's just like Google Maps, but for outer space, using the same data as "Sky Mode" in Google Earth.  Very cool! Details on the Digital Earth Blog.  Digg their entry!

Google has just released a version of Google Sky that can be viewed in your browser, very similar to Google Maps. The interface is very similar to Google Maps, but with some sky-based changes.  The main change is that the tools which are normally “Map”, “Satellite” and “Terrain” have now become “Backyard Astronomy”, “Infrared”, “Microwave” and [...]

Ad Manager, which Google said has already been tested by a few businesses, is designed to streamline how ads are placed on Web sites and generate performance reports detailing how successful those ads are in reaching consumers, including click through-rates and revenue paid by the advertisers for those clicks.Google said Ad Manager's purpose is to ease some of the problems that come with managing advertisements on a Web site, such as gauging available inventory and how to pick the highest-paying ads. The service is hosted on Google's servers, and Web site publishers can access it through a Web browser.

Google is going all out to increase the scope for mobile based Web search. After receiving encouraging results in the U.S. they introduced their improved mobile search service in the U.K., Germany, France and Canada last week. They are also laying out the basic infrastructure for new mobile applications, as reported by BBC. The new service [...]

Google announced that they have launched a new web-based application for the Apple iPhone integrates its multiple services into a single interface. The new application is based on AJAX/Web 2.0 technologies and is launched when an iPhone user visits http://www.google.com. To accomplish this, Google is taking advantage of browser technologies (like AJAX) that made Gmail and Google Maps possible on the desktop. In supporting these advances in web technology, the iPhone’s Safari browser not only delivers an excellent mobile Internet experience; it enabled our product and engineering teams to create an optimal Google experience on a mobile device. The Google web-application offers iPhone-optimzed versions of Gmail, Calendar, Reader (RSS) and other services. Read more here

Google today announced the release of version 2.0 of Google Maps for mobile, its innovative and widely used mobile mapping and local search application. New in v2.0 is a beta version of Google’s “My Location” technology, which uses cell tower ID information to provide users with their approximate location, helping them determine where they are, what’s around them, and how to get there. [via google] ShareThis

Google has launched a advertising service for its partner network in the UK and Ireland that will allow targeted ads to run around YouTube videos.The new offering, called Video Units, is the latest effort by Google in its bid to monetise YouTube video content.The new service is available to the thousands of websites that are signed up to Google's AdSense ad network.

  Andriod is the latest mobile software platform that is being developed by Google. Google is developing android by collaborating with thirty other leading technology companies and wireless development authorities. This software is being developed so as to bettering the users experience on today’s mobile phone basis. As a part of the project the companies involved [...]

Google launched a privacy channel on YouTube Wednesday with videos explaining its privacy policies. The move comes on the eve of a two-day Federal Trade Commission-hosted town hall event on behavioral ad targeting to be held in Washington, D.C. In a Google video titled “Google Search Privacy: Plain and Simple,” a Google support engineer draws on [...]

Borrowing a page from Sun’s Java playbook, Google is announcing a way for programmers to build social applications for multiple Web sites at once. Google’s version of this “write once run anywhere” concept is called OpenSocial, a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) that will enable developers to create applications for social networks, blogs and [...]

Writes Elinor Mills Borrowing a page from Sun’s Java playbook, Google is announcing a way for programmers to build social applications for multiple Web sites at once. Google’s version of this “write once run anywhere” concept is called OpenSocial, a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) that will enable developers to create applications for [...]

Google on Tuesday announced the availability of AdSense for Mobile, its service for placing contextual ads with mobile Web content. "We've just launched AdSense for Mobile, which can help you expand your online content to new platforms," said Alex Kenin, AdSense product marketing manager, in a blog post. "If you have a Web site optimized for mobile browsers, or are interested in creating one, you can start monetizing your mobile site by accessing a growing number of our mobile advertisers."AdSense for Mobile complements Google's original AdSense service, which places ads on participating publishers' sites that correspond to the publishers' content. Both versions of AdSense run on Google's auction model and AdSense publishers earning money based on the number of ads clicked on by viewers.

Google is sneaky. It has quietly launched a new service that lets people share bookmarks. It is called Google Shared Stuff. To get started, you drag an “Email/Share” button to your browser toolbar. When you click on the button, you have the option of e-mailing the link or a preview of the Web page you are [...]

Google has launched another blog called “Google Entertainment Advertising Blog Italia“, brought to you by the Google Milan team. (more…) Blog, Google, Google Entertainment Blog, Italian, LaunchShare This

Google China has launched a new blog search portal for mainland China, just a few weeks after doing so for Hong Kong and Taiwan. The blogging search engine is still in beta mode, but already gives results from both international and Chinese major blogging platforms. Even blogs hosted by Google top competitor Baidu can be found. Time will tell if the new site will have any positive impact on Google presence in China and on the Chinese blogosphere. Google Blog Search China can be accessed through this link . Source: www.seo4china.com

Google has integrated a way for webmasters to be notified of eventual problems with the websites they own. I’m guessing the concept is similar to the one implemented in adsense. This might be very useful if Google actually uses the system to notify website owners of problems before they act on them. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=61504&hl=en

Google launched a search interface optimized for iPhone that uses the AJAX Search API and it's available at www.google.com/uds/samples/iphone/isearch.html. The interface has all the limitations of the API (for example, you can only see the first 8 results), but it's more usable on a phone.Mark Lucovsky's team has also added image search to the API, which now includes support for web search, custom search engines, image search, Google News, blog search, Google Maps and video search. Until now, the AJAX Search API was mostly used to build widgets for blogs and personalized homepages and didn't successfully replace the discontinued SOAP API.

Looks like Google has finally launched their Google Pay Per Action in Beta to a limited amount of Advertisers … in which I am proud to say I am! This is a Major Step they have taken to clean up click fraud for their advertisers! Will it work … only time can tell, however I am happy to see it in my account and I will be taking some screen shots to show you the inside look. For now here are some teasers: When you login you see a new link! Here is a Screen Shot of the Page! http://www.darin.cc/Google-PPA-Beta.html I’ll update with more screenshots once I set up an account! Darin Share This

Today Google announced and launched a pretty amazing new feature to Google maps. The Street view. You may be asking yourself, how do they take a satellite picture from that angle… uhhh yeah… it’s not a satellite photo. Google has broken out of the mold and has hit the streets apparently with the help of a company called Immersive. As you can see from the video and pics it is a pretty amazing tool. They currently only have 5 cities available, but I’m sure there are more to come. So far it’s:Miami, San Francisco, Denver, New York City, and Las Vegas Joel Burslem points out on the Inman blog that it will have a “great application” in real estate, but I’m not so sure yet… After playing around with it for a while and considering the markets available, and the cities themselves, I see very little value for the residential marketplace. Sure, it is a great tool, but how much residential area is actually represented? It may hav

Google’s search algorithm now has an integrated interface, integrating all relevant results from Google Blog Search, Google News, Google Maps, Google Images, Local Search, etc. into one results page. You can now find “all” relevant content in one place, instead of moving in between sub-services. How does this affect Search Engine Marketing? Due to the universal inclusion of [...]

Right, let’s get this week’s iphone news out of the way first. Another leaked document from AT&T apparently claims there’ll be no pre-sales, in the states at least, so bad news if you were hoping to show off to your friends by getting one ahead of everyone else. Apple’s said it eventually wants to sell 10 million, so hopefully you’ll get one in the end. Meanwhile, phone rival Nokia’s welcomed the iphone to the market – saying it’ll boost consumer appetite for more expensive models- though the firm is quick to point out they’ve been in the multi media handset market for a while. Nokia CFO Rick Simonson has said ‘Don’t get me wrong, they will bring some things to the table…but we have been investing in the area for some time’. Still with Apple, and reports this week claim that the ipod is still losing market share – dropping below 70 percent for the first time in a year. Creative, who recently launched their Zen stone (see last week’s blog), increased t

Google Reader running on Ninento's Wii. To use it yourself at here.The new interface even makes use of the buttons found on your Wiimote. On my initial digging, I cannot find a similar interface designed specifically for the PS3 browser. If you insist on browsing the web on your Wii like some kind of stubborn myopic, now you can read your RSS feeds there as well. Google Reader just released a Wii-optimized version of their site, which you can view directly on your TVTips and tricksGoogle Reader can take advantage of the buttons on your Wiimote, letting you navigate easily from the comfort of your couch:up/down: scroll up/down right/left: next/previous item 1 button: show subscriptions 2 button: show links When showing subscriptions:up/down: previous/next subscription right: select current subscription left: close -/+: collapse/expand folder More related : Top 10 Games Release 2007Turn a 3G Smartphone into a Wireless ModemUnited's New First Class SuiteWorld First Gold Porsche BoxterL

With Google History, you’ll be able to… View and manage your web activity. You know that great web site you saw online and now can’t find? From now on, you can. With Web History, you can view and search across the full text of the pages you’ve visited, including Google searches, web pages, images, videos and news stories. You can also manage your web activity and remove items from your web history at any time. Get the search results most relevant to you. Web History helps deliver more personalized search results based on what you’ve searched for on Google and which sites you’ve visited. You might not notice a big impact on your search results early on, but they should steadily improve over time as you use Web History. Follow interesting trends in your web activity. Which sites do you visit frequently? How many searches did you do between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.? Web History can tell you about these and other interesting trends on your web activity. Eve

Google has recently launched it’s own 411 service, perhaps in response to Microsoft’s purchase of Tellme networks which specialize in telephone based applications. This new service is ad-supported, like most of Google’s applications, and is basically another step in Google’s plan to introduce add-supported search services. Techcrunch writes :"Goog-411 can be accessed by dialing 1-800-GOOG-411. The product is completely automated and there is no way to talk to a human for additional or clarifying information. You tell it your city and state, and then ask for a specific business or business category. In my tests the product was excellent. Although the voice recognition was only working at about 70% efficiency, I just said “back” and retried when it didn’t understand what I said. Results are spoken back or text messaged back to you, and you are automatically put through to the phone number requested."

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Google threw a new product called Goog-411 into Google Labs today - a free telephone based information service that could replace toll 411 calls. About 2.6 billion 411 calls are made in the U.S. each year, and it is a $7 billion/year market. Goog-411 can be accessed by dialing 1-800-GOOG-411. The product is completely automated and there is no way to talk to a human for additional or clarifying information. You tell it your city and state, and then ask for a specific business or business category. In my tests the product was excellent. Although the voice recognition was only working at about 70% efficiency, I just said “back” and retried when it didn’t understand what I said. Results are spoken back or text messaged back to you, and you are automatically put through to the phone number requested. (more…)

The CPA ad model is a very commonly used one in affiliate marketing. In this model, advertisers pay publishers only if a user takes a specific action after being referred from their site. This action could be requesting a call back, signing up for a newsletter or making an actual purchase. The price paid for [...]

Google has launched a Web-based software alternative to Microsoft Office and hopes to take the bulk of Microsoft's corporate business.Google Apps Premier Edition will cost users $50 annually. Google Apps Education Edition will remain free for educational institutions.According to The New York Times, the software suite includes applications for e-mail, instant messaging, calendars, word processing and spreadsheets. Google Apps will be accessible only over the Internet. All files and attachments will be stored on Google servers. Microsoft also has Web-based software available at Office Live.Whitney Burk, Microsoft's Competitive Strategy manager, said Microsoft wants to meet the need of its 450 million customers using Office software."Security, privacy, transparency and productivity are top of mind for all our customers as the lines blur between the online and offline worlds," Burk said. "Ultimately, customers benefit from competition, and with the release of Microsoft Office 2007 there

This week, Google introduced a new version of their hosted Apps called Google Apps Premier Edition aimed at businesses for $50 per user, per year.  What you get for the $50 is GMail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Docs & Spreadsheets, Page Creator and Start Page.  Also, you get 10GB per account of Email storage and an option on relevant text-based ads alongside email.  They also claim 99.9% uptime and 24/7 user support.  I also saw that they are partnering with Avaya to provide an integration of some of their services into the Google Apps.  Many web sites are seeing this as a direct attack to Microsoft with a software as service model and a lower price.  Click the link to find out more information about the Avaya partnership with Google.  ZDNet along with others have a little different take on things are may be heading for trouble, see the article below.   Google needs to read the "Hailstorm' history books by ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley &