Google Tags makes it easy as pie to find local customers From  Official Google Blog - This is the latest post in our series about Small Business and the real-life entrepreneurs who are using Google tools to fuel their success. Previous posts have illustrated the possibilities enabled by online resources like Google Places, Google Apps, Google AdWords and YouTube. Starting today, we invite small business owners to check out our new...

You can count the number of books in the world on 25,972,976 hands From Official Google Blog - Ever wonder just how many different books there are in the world? After some intensive analysis, we’ve come up with a number. Standing on the shoulders of giants—libraries and cataloging organizations—and based on our computational resources and experience of organizing millions of books through our Books Library Project and Books...

Update on Google Wave From Google official Blog - We have always pursued innovative projects because we want to drive breakthroughs in computer science that dramatically improve our users’ lives. Last year at Google I/O, when we launched our developer preview of Google Wave, a web app for real time communication and collaboration, it set a high bar for what was possible in a web browser. We showed character-by-character live typing, and...

World Cup search trends: the final countdown In the past two weeks of World Cup action, 16 teams have been narrowed down to just two—Spain and the Netherlands—who will face off in the World Cup final tomorrow. For both countries, there are high stakes: not only are the two sides contending for the title of best football team in the world, but this will be the first-ever Cup win for either team and Spain is in the finals for the first...

Google’s Open Spot Makes Parking A Breeze, Assuming Everyone Turns Into A Good Samaritan Sick of circling the city streets in your car, looking for a spot — any spot — that you can squeeze into? Google may have the answer, or at least the very beginnings of one - Sick of circling the city streets in your car, looking for a spot — any spot — that you can squeeze into? Google may have the answer, or at least the very beginnings...

China Renews Google License To Operate In China Google updated their blog post on China saying the Chinese government has renewed their licenses to operate in China. Google said they “are very pleased that the government has renewed our ICP license and we look forward to continuing to provide web search and local products to our users in China.” When Google stopped censoring their search results, they were afraid the Chinese...

Life in a Day by Google Every day, 6.7 billion people view the world through their own unique lens. Imagine if there was a way to collect all of these perspectives, to aggregate and mold them into the cohesive story of a single day on earth. Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of “Life in a Day,” a historic cinematic experiment that will attempt to do just that: document one day, as seen through the eyes of people around...

10 Reasons Why Google Is Still Better than Bing from – eWeek.com —- for more information please visit this Blog News Analysis: Microsoft Bing has come a long way since it was released a year ago. But that doesn’t mean that it’s better than Google. Whether Microsoft likes it or not, its search engine has a long way to go if it wants to compete with Google Search. There is some debate across the Web over whether or...