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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

Searchmach is the latest lil buzz around, its new search from Google, though does not state anywhere that it is a part of Google. A quick whois lookup shows the search engine on Google’s server. searchmash basically has few differences compared to normal google search.

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Google Image Labeler is new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google’s image search results.

You’ll be randomly paired with a partner who’s online and using the feature. Over a 90-second period, you and your partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see. When your label matches your partner’s label, you’ll earn some points and move on to the next image until time runs out. After time expires, you can explore the images you’ve seen and the websites where those images were found. And we’ll show you the points you’ve earned throughout the session.

Gpoker shows what you can do with the google web toolkit. It is a cool multiplayer no-limit Texas Hold’Em implementation with real-time chat. The front end is written with Java which the google web toolkit compiles to javascript. This is an impressive task that GWT does and so far, even though the toolkit is beta, seems seamless. The front end talks to a java servlet on the backend through an RPC layer on top of XMLHttpRequest. The server sends
events back to the clients through the same RPC mechanism so that the players at the table always have an updated rendering.

The layout which comes with a ajax chat, is pretty neat and easy to understand on the first look. Google Web toolkit blog talks about Ryan’s work here

Gbuy The much awaited payment system from the trusted Google Inc. is about to be launched at the end of the month, expected to be on 28`th of this June. It’s main competitor would be the market dominating, eBay’s online payment system, Paypal. Gbuy is expected to be free during the initial phase, but merchants may eventually be charged a 1.5 percent to 2 percent per-transaction fee, Jordan Rohan, an RBC Capital Markets analyst, said in his research note. A fee of that size would be slightly less than that charged by PayPal.

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Google Spreadsheet is now Live, According to Rueters relies Google Spreadsheet on technology the company acquired from a small Wall Street software developer it bought last year called 2Web Technologies, which in 2004 introduced tools to convert Microsoft Excel spreadsheets into Web services. Users interested in experimenting with the application can go to Google Labs (http://labs.google.com/) to sign up Today (Tuesday June ‘06). An undisclosed number of users can join the initial trial phase on a first-come, first-served basis. Hurry now

It is another step from Google to get into the list of online web applications. Google stepped into Online Office with acquisition of Writely, an online word processor. Though time will speak how Google Spreadsheets competes with already exisiting spreadsheet applications like iRows, DabbleDb , JotSpot, ajaxXLS. Google spreadsheets will have a very usefull advantage over these as Google offers realtime chat option with it.

Few highlights :

Create basic spreadsheets from scratch.
You can start from scratch and do all the basics, including changing the number format, sorting by columns, and adding formulas.

Upload your spreadsheet files.
Upload spreadsheets or worksheets from CSV or XLS format - all your formulas and formatting will come across intact.

Familiar desktop feel makes editing a breeze.
Just click the toolbar buttons to bold, underline, change the font, change the cell background color and more. (more…)

Google has released a AJAX Search API which allows you to embed a search control that displays the results inside of the page using AJAX requests. You can sign up here