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Gmail Clips

Gmail has introduced a mini RSS reader in Gmail. I for one do not use the Gmail interface but instead pop the e-mail, it just takes to long to organize everything in the reader. Nice little edition and will be good for public education if nothing else. [Gmail Clips]

European Publishers essentially tell Google quit stealing our content!

I know many of you use Google News, personally I have been to the site maybe a dozen times or so over the past year. It seems though that European publishers are getting a little tired of Google making money of the backs of all of their paid staff and thinks they have went to far and are abusing fair

Google Click to Call

Tired of clicking on a Google Search Results well now you can just call the person that you have found in the search results and talk to a warm body about their service or product. I am not sure I want my phone ringing at 3am from someone complaining about a point of view I have on the website but

Google Base

Get ready to play ladies and gentleman it looks like Google Base is about to be cut loose. [www.google.com/base/welcome] For those of you that want to know what Google Base is here is a pretty good description. Is it just me but is it like Google is releasing something new each week. My god I could only hope to have

Make the Google API Open!

Dave Winer has called for something that many of us will consider a longshot but think of the possibilities if it happened. In his first paragraph Dave sets the challenge. "An open message to Microsoft and Yahoo, and major implementors of search engines: Please clone the Google API, without the limits." I support his proposal, I encourage you to read

Has Blogspot allowed Google Adsense Fraud!

Nial Kennedy has a great write up on the Google, BlogSpot Spam issue that have come to the forefront of a lot of people's discussions of recent days. Nial doesn't come out and say that Google is allowing these sites to perpetrate fraud on companies and individuals that advertise on Google Adsense but in my opinion it sure looks like

RSS Blog Search functionality within your Desktop News Reader

I have went to very great pains to create over 100 search terms for each of the major blog search engines including. Over the past year they have served me well but I find myself going to those search terms on a less frequent basis. The fact of the matter is the blog search engines are becoming less reliable most