Google reorganized their Webmaster Tools site a bit and grouped several configurations within a single Settings section. There you can toggle and adjust things like: your site's geographic target, if any your preferred URL display, like example.com vs www.example.com whether or not you'd like your site to be part of the Google Image Labeler game what your preferred crawl rate is, from slower ("May reduce freshness and number of crawled pages") to faster than Google's default ("May increase Googlebot traffic on yo ... Full story...
The NYT on Wednesday wrote:
Google and Intel have teamed with Sony to develop a platform called Google TV to bring the Web into the living room through a new generation of televisions and set-top boxes.
One of the most powerful citizens of Webtown also happens to be rather well-behaved at times -- which serves the interests of others as well as (arguably) the long term interests of the citizen itself.
Chief Counsel of Google-owned YouTube, Zahavah Levine, in a blog post relating to the Viacom vs. YouTube lawsuit writes:
For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there.
Hitwise, a web analysis business, said on its Analyst Weblog that Facebook was the most visited site last week, overtaking Google Search for the first time.
Google released Street View imagery for Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a fun and busy place where it's easy to get lost, perhaps less so with these photo maps.
OK, I can see myself waste some time with this. Google Reader Play is a casual, push style way to feed yourself distracting/ enlightening/ inspiring snippets, imagery and videos.
Ten years ago, the best-available translation software analysed the source text to determine its structure: subject, object, nouns, verbs, phrases, etc.
If you've opted in to YouTube's HTML5 experiment, the videos will play in your own browser's player, instead of in an Adobe Flash player.
Wikipedia has a whole page dedicated to criticism of Google.
Do some people confuse public Buzz messages with private email conversations? I don't know, but some of the following conversations I found using Gmail's Buzz search sounded a bit odd.