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• Gmail Gets New Themes
  Just a few minutes ago, I refreshed my Gmail and noticed a blue rim. Only to notice that there are new Gmail themes available! Finally! At last, we have different themes. Here are some great new themes for Gmail, A huge congrats goes out to the Gmail team for launching this new feature! Learn more [...]
• AdSense Now on Finance and Images
  Google has gone ahead and taken the liberty to start advertising on two of their online properties; Google Finance and Google Images. Here’s what Google is doing with these ads. Having ads on various online properties is still relatively new for Google, aside from running ads on the google.com search engine. Yahoo!, however, has been [...]
• Search by Saying with Google Mobile on the iPhone
  Google recently released an iPhone app which will let you search the web, both the world wide web and the local web, by simply saying so. Google produced a video about the application, but I actually think the video is pretty lame. It doesn’t really dig into how the application works or give you any [...]
• Tracking Flash with Google Analytics
  Google announced the partnership with Adobe to start indexing flash sites better. Google is piggybacking on that partnership to also now offer better analytics for flash sites. For those all-flash sites that used to be a nightmare to analyze, aside from unique visitors, now you can see where people are going around your flash site. [...]
• Google Analytics Advanced Segmentation
  Google Analytics has some new features that you will think are worth taking a look at. Advanced segmentation comparison. Three simple words, but when combined together and applied to Google Analytics, they mean something very powerful. In short, you will now be able to [easily] compare key segments of data side by side to create custom [...]
• Searching for Books Using Android
  Google has been holding a few tricks up their sleeve and have been waiting to pull them out. It’s time. Google’s Android product is a platform for mobile phones, a competitor would be Windows Mobile. Google announced that they are rolling out some software which will allow Android-powered phones to search Google Books’ platform for physical [...]
• Life at Google Friday: Amanda in Seattle
  Today, Amanda Camp is bringing us a Life at Google video about what life is like at Google. Amanda is a software engineer at Google’s office in Seattle, WA. Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfJPs6JbI7I Offer your visitors RSS via e-mail using www.aweber.com Blogged on Google News by Jonathan Dingman © Fireside Media Life at Google Friday: Amanda in Seattle
• Google Partners with Buy.com
  Google recently launched video chat for Gmail. But, you obviously cannot have a video chat without a video camera. So Google has generously offered some links through Buy.com to purchase a camera. As far as I can tell after looking at the links (in the source view), they are clear HTML clears. No [...]
• Google Launches On-Demand Indexing
  Google has had their Custom Search Engine (CSE) platform rolled out for quite a while now, but there have been some drawbacks for many users. One of those drawbacks was how deep it would crawl your site. This kind of limitation really diminishes the value of the CSE to smaller sites because they cannot get [...]
• Google Tracks Flu Season Trends
  Google.org, note the .org, not the .com, has created a tool to help detect flu trends and patterns. Take a look at the video below (click through to google.org to play it) and see how a search engine can actually detect a pattern faster than the government can. This is a great tool for being [...]