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Google recently added a small but interesting feature in its search results. There appears a small text box below result itself to search the site alone, Not all sites but google does have the feature on for few popular sites like Nvidia, eBay.

Google says

when we detect a high probability that a user wants more refined search results within a specific site. Like the rest of our snippets, the sites that display the site search box are chosen algorithmically based on metrics that measure how useful the search box is to users. We hope that you will make use of the site search box in order to get the information you’re looking for as quickly and easily as possible.

Google has released its new tool, the Google Book Search. It features many Cool features. There are no load times when flipping pages, as most pages are pre-loaded while you are reading.You can scroll through the pages of books by scrolling down your mouse. Its no different than scrolling a web page or a office document. You can use the left and right arrows to flip pages, as if you were holding the book.You can read the book, or download it to PDF. And of course, you can purchase a copy of the book from selected retailers.

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Google has introduced some great new features to Gmail and Google Talk

Google Talk

Orkut, as we know is an Internet social network service run by Google and named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten, has given us another great feature. You can now login to your Google Talk and get all your Orkut friends there in the messenger. So no more scrapbook hassels, if your friend is online, just go ahead and chat with him/her.Its interesting how you can scrap directly from Gtalk. Orkut friends will automatically appear in your Friends list, and you’ll find out instantly if you’ve received a new orkut scrap.

Offline Messages
Now if your friends have chat history enabled, you can send them messages even when they’re not online. Just enter a message into the chat window as you would normally, and they’ll get it the next time they sign into Google Talk. In Gmail, offline messages can be searched and organized — just like instant messages in their chat history.

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Google renewed its Gmail Mobile service with lots of new features. Its ideal WAP/WML interface makes it really easy for the user to read their Gmail. Download it once, and start accessing Gmail on your phone with just a click or two. You’ll also like it because:

• Your friends can leave you a voicemail using Google Talk. The voice message is sent to your Gmail account as an audio file that you can download or play right from your inbox.
• It has the same Gmail interface you know and love
• Your account stays synchronized whether you access it from your computer or the phone
• You can easily view attachments such as photos, documents and .pdf files

Today Google officially aquired JotSpot, a Online Spreadsheets application, Its been a very popular Ajax based web 2.0 application. Perhaps Google has started a sort of trend to acquire a new web 2.0 application every month ;) , in fact its not even a month since it got hold of youtube

Google shares JotSpot’s vision for helping people collaborate, share and work together online. JotSpot’s team and technology are a strong fit with existing Google products like Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Apps for Your Domain and Google Groups.

Google today released a new service for webmasters and bloggers where you can create your own search engine powered by Google, called Google Co-op.

But personally I feel the only thing that makes this different from adsense custom search is that adsense custom search does not allow more than four websites to search, but on the other side in adsense we can choose atleast the colors. Have a look at a custom search engine I have made.

Features :

Build and customize your own search engine

• Specify the sites you want to include in searches.
• Place a search box and search results on your website.
• Customize the look and feel to match your website.
• Invite your community to contribute to the search engine.
• Make money from relevant ads in your search results.

After so much buzz around Google finally announced (Oct 09 / ‘06) that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction.

The acquisition combines one of the largest and fastest growing online video entertainment communities with Google’s expertise in organizing information and creating new models for advertising on the Internet. The combined companies will focus on providing a better, more comprehensive experience for users interested in uploading, watching and sharing videos, and will offer new opportunities for professional content owners to distribute their work to reach a vast new audience.

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Six months after the last Google pagerank update, google has started to update its datacenters. The best part is www.sr-ultimate.com is Pagerank 6 now :) .

I have collected a few tools to check pagerank in various ways, various data centers. Please do note that different tools listed use different datacenters so the result may vary and I suggest you check once in google toolbar . It is normal that it shows different pagerank in different datacenters, In the past it’s usually lasted a few days and then they all gave out the same PR.

PageRank Check
PageRank Checker
All-in-One PageRank Checker (AJAX based Alexa+Google,Yahoo backlinks+DMOZ lookup)
http://www.seologs.com/pr-check/pagerank-dc.html
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/pagerank-lookup/
Various Datacanter
http://www.mcdar.net/Q-Check/datatool.asp
http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_checker