Sorry about the long title but I just couldn't think of a better way of expressing my amazement at how much Google knows about my online life/activities. Well, at least for all the things that I do while I'm log in to my Google Account.  Google Dashboard - we were just asking about this yesterday and here comes Google  officially announcing it. My reaction upon checking http://www.google.com/dashboard? - I was surprised and scared at the same time. In their own words,

What an opportune time for Google to launch another business enteprise solution geared for big e-commerce site than right now? Just in time for the onset of the holiday shopping season Google unveiled Commerce Search . Think of it as a the Custom Search Engine for e-commerce sites, big commerce sites to be exact. Google Commerce Search aims to make the otherwise cumbersome task of searching for products on e-commerce sites easier and more fun,

Google has just made it easier to monitor news items from the Google News stream. Now, you can create your own topical news streams based on keywords that you would normally use if you want to get the latest news on a particular topic. To create your customized news section, simply go to your Google News home page, click on the "Add a Section" link located at the top right hand corner of the page and select from the current sections created by Google.

Did anybody from Google just leaked out information about a new service called Google Dashboard? GOS blog was reporting about Google Dashboard and even pointed a YouTube video explaining Google Dashboard, which is currently now set to "private" viewing. Anyway, Google Dashboard is supposed to be a feature of Google Profile. In fact, it should appear just below the security options under the personal settings of your Google Profile.

If you have implemented Google Friend Connect on your blogs or websites, you'd either be glad or get annoyed by the new features that Google rolled out. These new features aim to make Google Friend Connect more social with the hopes of making Google Friend Connect a better social networking platform. First Google Friend Connect now lets you add widget-like questions that will encourage your visitors to interact with each other as well as communicate with you.

Microsoft is previewing a newly redesigned MSN portal starting tomorrow. The new MSN.com will now have a simpler,  cleaner and sleeker look. And as if taking a cue from Yahoo.com, MSN is also tapping on various social networks including live updates from Twitter, Facebook and Windows Live which will displayed on the right side of the MSN home page.

Google has just released the latest beta version of its Chrome browser.  Aside from speed improvement which according to Google is a 30% improvement from the current stable release, the new Chrome beta comes with bookmark synching feature. This new feature simply means that you can now synchonize all your bookmarks across all computers where you installed Google Chrome beta.

The Google Webmaster Centra l Blog has just posted a short note to announce that Google is now using RSS/Atom feeds to discover new webpages. In other words Google is now indexing and crawling not only contents found on websites and blogs but contents that are syndicated from them through RSS/Atom feeds. Whereas before, Google relies mainly on the links provided on website and blog contents,

There you go, what has been buzzing around for the couple of days is now finally official. Google has just rolled a new search feature for discovering millions of songs via the same simple Google music search interface. So now every music-related query that you do on Google's music search will give you search results with links to an audio preview those songs. This is made possible through Google's collaboration with major online music players MySpace, iLike and Lala.

#mce_temp_url# Google has just graduated the Similar Images feature from Google Labs. If you will recall, the Similar Images feature was introduced sometime in April as a facility for finding more pictures of a particular search query when you use Google Image Search. Similar Images now becomes the first major feature in Google Labs that has taken the big leap into becoming a permanent feature of Google Search.

If you are Barry Diller and you know that Ask.com has been running at a distant fourth place against the third major search engine, would you sell out your search engine? Apparently, that seems to be what Barry Diller of Ask.com is contemplating on right now especially with the unshakeable stand that the three major search engines have waged upon in the search engine market.

If the reason why you won't use Google Voice is because you need to a new number to use it's features, that changes right now. Google is now allowing users to get Google Voice either with a new Google number or with their existing number . Although using your own numbers will not enable some of the nifty features of Google Voice with a new Google number, using your own number will still allow you to use some of the other features. This include  online,

With it its 3 years of existence, Google Custom Search now has more than a million users serving many tens of millions of search queries daily. Google  Custom Search is also now among the top two widgets available online, used by not only small business entities but some big content network as well. And to celebrate its third year anniversary, Google has just rolled out three new useful features of its Custom Search engine.

Google has just rolled out a new experiment in Google Labs that brings a new option in search results -Social. This new Social results option brings in relevant blog posts and items that were posted by your friends and contacts. The new Social search feature is currently in an opt-in mode, wherein you need to sign up first before it shows up when you are doing search. After signing up, you will see a new search result filtering options at the top of your search results page.

Like Google, Facebook would rather take its time before integrating public updates to Bing's search results. So if you are a Bing user, you won't be seeing Facebook public updates on Bing's search results until after two months. This was confirmed by none other than Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg to the Telegraph UK . In case you are worried that Facebook will give away your profile udpates to Bing, well you can stop worrying now since Ms.

Yesterday we reported about the Bing-Twitter integration. And now, the official words are out coming from Microsoft's President of Online Service Groups Qi Lu. The integrated Bing-Twitter search facility is also now out, well at least for U.S. users is reportedly now working. You can try it on this link . It's not really integrated into Bing.com, but a subsite. Bing has access to all the Twitter public timeline.

Oh, that was fast. Google's Marissa Mayer just announced that Google will also include Twitter's public updates to Google's searh results. So, that's what the non-exclusive Twitter deal with Microsoft Bing meant. Exactly how  Google will implement this search result integration is yet unknown. This is where Microsoft one upped Google. But it might actually work in favor of Google though. It's like saying, go ahead test it first and see how it goes,

How about about this, all your Facebook public updates and Twitter tweets becoming searchable on Bing search engine? Or another way at looking at it is a real-time search engine finally coming into a realization. Well, believe it or not that might happen soon as an annonucement it about to be made  about the Bing-Twitter-Facebook partnership. The buzz was started earlier today by Kara Swisher when she reported that Microsoft might announce a partnership deal with Twitter.

Music service has not been Google's cup of tea for such a long time now. While others have successfully )or otherwise( implemented  their music downloading or streaming sites, it makes you wonder whether Google has any interest to get into this niche. But that maybe answered soon, as TechCrunch is reporting that Google might actually be launching a still unknown type of music service. Unfortunately,

After Google reported its Q3 earnings, it's now Yahoo's turn to report.   Yahoo's Q3 revenues registered a slight increase from last quarter's data despite being a 12% decrease from the same quarter in 2008. Yahoo's total earnings for Q3 2009 is $1,575 million. Yahoo's CEO Carol Bartz attributes the slight increase in her company's revenues to the new Yahoo homepage,