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Two new improvements to Google results pages - Official Google Blog

Today we’re rolling out two new improvements to Google search. The first offers an expanded list of useful related searches and the second is the addition of longer search result descriptions — both of which help guide users more effectively to the information they need.
More and better search refinements
Starting today, we’re deploying a new [...]

New Google Insights for Search Features (Video)

Google Insights for search (launched last summer) has just released several new features to help online marketeers.  The key changes are as follows.
Insights for Search now incorporates data from Google News, Image and Product search. This provides users with a much greater insight into what people are searching for beyond just basic web searches
The second [...]

Google Reader ads Conversation Feature

One of the things that we love best about Reader is the ability to easily share interesting items with your friends. In fact, we like it so much that we’ve been adding bunches of new sharing features over the last year including choosing friends to share with, sharing with note and the sharing bookmarklet. But [...]

How Google Ranks its Advertisers - Video

Google Voice Features - Video

The new google voice service appears to have some very interesting features.  Anyone who thinks the iPhones visual voicemail is useful will love this “Listen in” option.

Here comes Google Voice

We’ve just started to release a preview of Google Voice, an application that helps you better manage your voice communications. Google Voice will be available initially to existing users of GrandCentral, a service we acquired in July of 2007.
The new application improves the way you use your phone. You can get transcripts of your voicemail [...]

Google Street View ads Photos (Video)

Google has just added photos to selected worldwide locations.  So now when you view a popular location, such as the Golden Gate Bride, you will be presented with a range of photos taken by users from around the world.  Here’s an official video which explains in more detail how the service works.

Gmail adds new multi attachment feature

Up until today, it’s been a little tedious to send large or multiple attachments with an email. You had to select each attachment individually and you never knew how long it would be before those bigger files were ready to send.
Today, we’re making some changes to the way Gmail attachments work. If you want to [...]

Google maps running on Palm Pre (Video)

Offline Gmail for iPhone (Video)

A demo of the soon to be released update for the iPhone.  Which should include an offline mode, and the ability to tag emails in the same way you can via an internet browser.  Great news for everyone out there whose as boringly organized as me.