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Google Image Search Update, Again 2009-02-20
Ads in Google News search results
googlenewsblog.blogspot.com — Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:58 AM Posted by Josh Cohen, Business Product Manager If you're in the... US, starting today you may notice something a bit different when you search Google News. Last November, we announced plans to begin experimenting ... (more) Ads in Google News search results
New Status Dashboard for Google Apps
New Status Dashboard for Google Apps
googleenterprise.blogspot.com — We made a commitment last year to increase transparency and communication with Google Apps customers in several... ways. We heard your feedback around the need for better communication when issues like yesterday's Gmail outage occur. As part of that ... (more) New Status Dashboard for Google Apps
Google Shared Stuff to Be Discontinued
Google Shared Stuff to Be Discontinued
googlesystem.blogspot.com — Google Shared Stuff , the social bookmarking service that has never been officially launched, will no longer... be available after the end of March. As usually, Google's suggestions for replacing the discontinued services are hilarious: " If you want ... (more) Google Shared Stuff to Be Discontinued
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February '09 Google Image Search Update?
Search Engine Roundtable — ... and now I am seeing reports of another update. A senior WebmasterWorld member posted a thread at WebmasterWorld on the 20th, reporting a new Google Image Search update. Zeus said: Yesterday I saw some few glitches here and there in the Image search, but today there are some BIG changes, new Images has been added again, maybe also moderate filter update, where they for years have had a problem with loosing good sites images, be cause other sites are hotlinking to those images with bad text, then Google see the Original site as bad. What is interesting is that we rarely see ...

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Download Books from Google Book Search
googlesystem.blogspot.com 2/19/2009 — Google Book Search lets you download books, but only if they're in public domain, like Hamlet . All the other books are available as a limited preview or as a snippet view in Google Book Search. You could download the image corresponding to each page ...
Google's Advanced Image Search Lets You Restrict to a Certain Width and HeightGoogle Blogoscoped
Google’s advanced image search now includes an option to restrict results to a certain width and height (you need to enter both values to make this work). The syntax that will be added to your query is e.g. imagesize:500x400 , which was previously spotted by Ionut . [Thanks Ionut!]  ...
Yahoo Results Show Image AdsGoogle Blogoscoped
Old is the new new in times of recession, and Yahoo now integrates imagery in its search result ads. Try searching for pedigree , and you’ll see a video thumbnail inviting you to play a video. Click it and a commercial expands within the Pedigree-sponsored banner area. ...
Download books as PDF from Google Book SearchD' Technology Weblog
Google Book Search now let you download books from public domain like Hamlet . You can download the image corresponding to each page of a book or you could automatize the process using a tool  Google Book Downloader , which allows you to save book as PDF from google ...