There’s some buzz about Google being able to read Flash text. It seems that Google is using Adobe Systems’ Search Engine SDK technology.

This is great news, Flash and SEO were like two “enemies” but I believe that finally great days are coming for Flash and Developers.

I’ll leave here the link to an article where you will get more info about this.

More: http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13530_1-9844989-28.html

Today I had a good surprise, it seems guys at Google decided to re-create SearchMash using Flex. Their interface will allow you to see small thumbnails of your search with Snap, consult related images, videos and maps.

Great job!

I found a article spectulating that Google might buy Adobe, and the reasons for it. Has for me this has no point at the moment. Anyone?!

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As much as site publishers want to present the best possible presence to their visitors, they equally want to stay in the good graces of search engine spiders, and Google’s in particular. It presents a challenge to webmasters: how to use Flash while showing the Googlebot what it needs to see?

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“With almost no effort and at no cost, webpage owners can add complex, dynamically updating content to their own websites using Google Gadgets. Because there is such an enormous variety of Google Gadgets to choose from, webmasters also have a great deal of freedom to select only the gadgets that will best complement their own page. There are games, news clips, weather reports, maps, and more.”

Google Gadgets

Via lifehacker

Via Lifehacker

“Programming competition that will grab your interest, entice your mind and engage your skills.”

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Create 3D objects for free with Google SketchUp

Google SketchUp

Authoring tool and publisher that lets you set up a web page at yourgmailname.googlepages.com.

http://pages.google.com/

Today Google introduced a new feature at Gmail that will allow user´s to chat with other user´s of Gmail
directly from the mail box…

This feature was not implemented in all mail accounts so if you still don´t see this feature at your Gmail account you will have to wait for the activation.

Take a look to a screenshot and get more info here

Yesterday while watching a video at “Google Video”, I detect some options at right panel to download the video, and a new option that will give you the code to embed the video on your site.

Google Video

Google.com - Top Gainers of 2005

1. Myspace

2. Ares

3. Baidu

4. wikipedia

5. orkut

6. iTunes

7. Sky News

8. World of Warcraft

9. Green Day

10. Leonardo da Vinci

Google News - Top Searches in 2005

1. Janet Jackson

2. Hurricane Katrina

3. tsunami

4. xbox 360

5. Brad Pitt

6. Michael Jackson

7. American Idol

8. Britney Spears

9. Angelina Jolie

10. Harry Potter

Froogle - Top Searches in 2005

1. ipod

2. digital camera

3. mp3 player

4. ipod mini

5. psp

6. laptop

7. xbox

8. ipod shuffle

9. computer desk

10. ipod nano

Visit the Google Press Center to take a look at the impact of some 2005 events.

Gmail accounts will now have a mini RSS reader built in. Simply go to settings and choose any RSS feed that you would like to be displayed in your inbox.

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Google has unveiled a beta of its Google Reader, a web-based RSS reader, to the search engine’s registered users.

Full article here.

Google has switched to Flash platform to deploy their video.

http://video.google.com

The Birth of Google

Larry thought Sergey was arrogant. Sergey thought Larry was obnoxious. But their obsession with backlinks just might be the start of something big.

The Birth of Google.

Google plans to sweeten up the release of the Google Toolbar for the Firefox browser with two extensions: Suggest and Send to Phone. The beta extensions will be released on Thursday, along with the toolbar.

Full article here.

Google is preparing an online-payment system that would compete with PayPal, according to an online retailer who has been approached by Google to take part in the effort.

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Aiming to make search easier for users on the go, Google released Google Mobile Web Search on Thursday.

The new service points users of Internet-enabled mobile devices to a special index of Web pages that have been optimized by their publishers for the small screen. The XHTML-based service takes advantage of the alignments of text, graphics and tables that mobile-aware publishers have created to make them easier to navigate on a mobile phone.

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