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Blogsearch being redirected to Baidu in China, new reports have surfaced that would indicate that China has unilaterally blocked all three major search engines in China and is redirecting all requests to Baidu. More on Google Blogoscoped.

Tony Ruscoe posts on blogoscoped.com about past and recent traces in the wild about evidence of GDrive.

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-04-n51.html

This is straight from Writely help.

“No need to wait until Writely registration opens up again. When you have a Writely account, you have the power to get your 12 friends in immediately. Just add them as collaborators on a Writely document and click “OK” to email them. You can invite up to 50 new people by adding them as collaborators to Writely documents.”

http://www.google.com/support/writely/bin/answer.py?answer=39642&ctx=sibling

Garret Rogers has been snoopy with gmail and google code in past and has done it again. This time he as discovered a new entry in gmail javascript code suggesting that soon google would be adding link to product prices in the advert area by the email

Google has been doing something similar in past, I have briefly touched this point here.

• Linking addresses in the email to google maps.
• Linking UPS numbers to Tracking package link.
• Linking mention of events to add event link to Google Calendar
• Creating a link on google homepage if you are using IE7 to make google as default search engine.
• Linking to google books search from search results.
• Linking to google groups from search results.
• Linking to google scholar from search results.

Google has been linking all its products to make useful for users and advertisers not necessarily in that order.

I guess his new “Get prices” link would link to product price link to Froogle.

Consider a scenario where a company engages heavily in email marketing and sends newsletter mentioning new prices and offers to all the existing customers. Customers open the email and finds this Get Price link and follows it to Froogle to find a better deal on other sites or on ebay.

Customer : very happy.
Company : Fuming…

It would be interesting to see how Google manage this without being evil to either one of the parties.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan 17, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) today announced it has agreed to acquire dMarc Broadcasting, Inc., a Newport Beach, Calif.-based digital solutions provider for the radio broadcast industry.

dMarc connects advertisers directly to radio stations through its automated advertising platform. The platform simplifies the sales process, scheduling, delivery and reporting of radio advertising, enabling advertisers to more efficiently purchase and track their campaigns. For broadcasters, dMarc’s technology automatically schedules and places advertising, helping to increase revenue and decrease the costs associated with processing advertisements.

In the future, Google plans to integrate dMarc technology into the Google AdWords platform, creating a new radio ad distribution channel for Google advertisers.

“Google is committed to exploring new ways to extend targeted, measurable advertising to other forms of media,” said Tim Armstrong, vice president of Advertising Sales, Google. “We anticipate that this acquisition will bring new ad dollars and accountability to radio by combining Google’s expansive network of advertisers with dMarc’s talented team and innovative radio advertising technology. We look forward to working together to continue to grow and improve the ecosystem of the radio industry.”

“We are excited to be joining one of the most innovative companies in the world,” said Chad Steelberg, CEO of dMarc Broadcasting, Inc. “We are bringing together complementary visions of simplicity, efficiency, and accountability to the radio advertising process.”

Vnunet reports : Australian researchers have patented a method of exploring the web which they claim could revolutionise existing search engines.

Developed by Ori Allon, a 26 year-old PhD student from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), the Orion search engine is designed to complement searches conducted on services such as Google, Yahoo or MSN Search.

Allon explained that conventional search engines find pages in which keywords occur and that sometimes these pages are important to the topic, but at other times are not.

Orion is designed to find pages where the content is about a topic strongly related to the keyword. It then returns a section of the page, and lists other topics related to the keyword so that the user can pick the most relevant.

Read more…

Googles blog has this post today.

“A Washington state judge ruled today that Dr. Kai-Fu Lee can immediately begin working for Google. (There’s a profile of Dr. Lee in today’s San Francisco Chronicle.) We’re thrilled, and he’s excited to get right to work on several big things, including recruiting, building our Chinese R&D center, and related government relations.

You may remember that in July, right after we hired Dr. Lee to build and head our new China R&D center, Microsoft sued both of us. They argued that Dr. Lee was going to do work at Google that was competitive with what he had been doing at Microsoft – which they said would violate the one-year non-compete agreement that Microsoft requires employees to sign. (They sued even before knowing what Dr. Lee was going to be doing here. Hmmm…) At first, the judge in the case decided temporarily to limit what work Dr. Lee could do at Google until he learned more about the dispute….” Read it here on Googles Official blog.