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,

Google is rolling out some useful enhancements to its already useful and powerful Google Analytics tool. These new features give the Analytics tools more power, flexibility and intelligence. Here are the highlights of the new features of Google Analytics: Addition of two new goal types for measuring user engagement and branding success that allows webmasters to set thresholds for Time on Site and Pages per visit. Up to 20 goals can now be defined.

Following the view-through reporting campaign it rolled out recently, Google AdWords is launching a new ad campaign impact measurement tool called Campaign Insights. Campaign Insights will let you measure how well your display ad campaign is working beyond just clicks. According to the Inside AdWords blog ,

While the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal is pending scrutiny from the government, here comes a group of advertising agencies issuing an open letter in support of the said deal. The American Association of Advertising Agencies is urges the U.S. Department of Justice to approve the deal saying that it enhances the search competition. The open letter was addressed to the U.S.

If you're one of the many who already received their Google Wave invites, you are probably exploring the new Google communication tool right now. Or you might be just like me, who occasionally visit http://wave.google.com to check if anything exciting has come up on my Google Wave account.  But like Twitter, logging to Google Wave via the web browser can become quite tedious. Fortunately, a new desktop client for Google Wave has just came out,

We're all familiar here with the Google Street View car, right? It's that roving Google vehicle equipped with a satellite camera that drives around major U.S. cities to bring timely video footages via Google Maps Street View. Now, it has a little brother - the Google Street View Trike. The Google Street View trike aims to probe into various far-flung areas apparently unreachable by the Stree View car or even hard-to-reach areas in the U.S.

The numbers are out for Google's 3Q revenue performance. And quite what many analysts have predicted, Google's earnings are actually all in the positive note. How's a 7% year-over-year revenue growth sounds? Especially if you're operating amidts an economic crisis? Now for some highlights of Google's 3rd Quarter Earnings Report: A total of $5.94 billion in revenues which is a 7%  last years $5.54 billion A total of $3.96 billion in revenues from Google-owned sites,

The whole e-Book market which is just starting to get excited right now due to Amazon's Kindle and various e-book readers that are coming out may soon be shaked up some more with the entry of an Internet giant. That giant of course is Google which just announced about is newest project - Google Editions. To put is simply,

With the Promoted Videos program driving millions of views and increasing paid search clicks to almost  500% after the program was launched Google is now letting video content owners to buy Promoted Video slots. This means that anyone who wants to promote their video content no matter how professional or not those videos are can easily get their video promoted via Google AdWords.