To get Google Mobile App on your iPhone, go to the App Store and search for "Google Mobile App," or click on this link to install from a computer. If you have an older version of Google Mobile App installed, you might want to uninstall the older version before installing the newer version. Voice recognition is turned off by default for non-U.S. users. To enable voice recognition,

I have a very good feeling about Google's new iPhone app that does voice recognition . I've been playing with this voice recognition application for several weeks and I have to say that I'm really impressed. First and foremost, the voice recognition works really well . Crazy long-tail specialized vocabulary is tricky )more on that later(, but for queries with normal words in them, the voice recognition is really accurate and I think it will get even better.

I'm not sure what Google Docs market share is, but I thought it would be interesting to mention a couple data points and add a new data point. Data point #1: Compete . Compete just estimated that 4.4M visitors stopped by Google Docs in September, which is just a hair below 2.4% of the U.S. online population, according to them. Compete buys data from ISPs , among other sources, but doesn't reveal which ISPs sell their surfing data,

I arrive Wednesday afternoon for the 2008 Pubcon conference , and I'll be staying until after the networking event on the last day, which is the heart of the event. It's the heart because the networking event is held at a pub, and the original idea of Pubcon was that some of the best parts of a conference take place at the pub after the official conference is done. If you see me, please come up and say hello! Tell me how you're doing,

Every so often I get an email like this: Dear Webmaster, I have browsed your site and I'm interested in purchasing advertising space in it. I am mainly interested in placing a new page on your site with content and links that I will supply. Please let me know if you would like to discuss this further or if you have other ideas. Kind Regards, Rob Normally I just delete junk like this, but I decided to reply.

You probably saw Google's Halloween logo today: But you may not have noticed that Google made another change for Halloween. Check out Google's robots.txt file today: That's right. Zombies are disallowed from accessing /brains on Google today. You can never be too safe!

Pay no attention this to page with a noindex tag . I just want to check on how Yahoo/Live/Ask treat pages with noindex meta tags.

At 9 a.m. Pacific time )noon Eastern( today, we're going to do our third Google webmaster chat. People will be able to ask questions via Google moderator and we'll answer a bunch either in Google moderator or over the audio portion of the chat. There will also be several Googlers doing short presentations. I hope to chat with lots of people, so please thinking about signing up. Here's how to do it .

I'm really happy about a new experiment that we're trying that has the potential to help a ton of site owners. A new blog post on the Google webmaster blog )you are subscribed to the webmaster blog, right? You'll find at least as much good SEO and search-related info on that blog as on my blog( mentions that we're alerting webmasters to vulnerable webserver software . There's been a recent trend of spammers hacking websites,

I can't believe a new feature from Google isn't getting more notice, because it converts already-existing links to your site into much higher quality links, for free . The Google webmaster blog just announced that you can find the pages that link to 404 pages on your site . Let me back up and give you a little history. When someone comes to your site's webserver and asks for a page that doesn't exist, like http://www.mattcutts.com/asdfasdfasdf ,

Om Malik wrote an interesting post about Google Chrome one month after the public launch . While I was reading Om's post, I realized that I wrote a post for the Google Chrome release that I never published. I'll include it here, and then let's meet at the bottom and compare notes. Like many Google engineers, I've been running Google Chrome for several months. When I sat down with a blank piece of paper to write down why you should try Google Chrome,

I tried to leave a comment on pixelrn.com but the problem with talking about hacked sites is that you often end up using language that gets flagged as spammy. Here's what I tried to say but the WordPress installation over on pixelrn wouldn't let me: Hi Beth, I checked and it doesn't look like you have any spam-related penalties or anything like that. For a long time, something seemed wonky on your WordPress where http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:c_RD9jcaIRUJ:www.

Okay, I'll help on this. A Google blog post and the corresponding video ask people to register to vote )find out how at http://maps.google.com/vote ( and/or send this video to five of their friends. I'm game for that, mainly because Jonah Hill is the funniest man in the world and he says to do it. If Jonah ever starts lifecasting, that would end my productivity for life. So here's the video: And I'm registered to vote,

More and more people are spending free time )and work time( online and lots of those people want to discover interesting things on the web. Google Blogsearch's new home page applies that insight with a browsable version of what's going on in the blogosphere . The UI design is a little reminiscent of Google News, but the new Blogsearch home page uses a lot of different code. It's great to see this new home page go live,

Here's a fun link for you. Google just released a free service called Google Moderator . This is a port to Google App Engine of an existing tool we use all the time at Google. Internally it was called Dory )after the fish who asked questions all the time in Finding Nemo (. What does Google Moderator do? When we have tech talks or company-wide meetings, it lets anyone ask a question and then people can vote up the questions that they'd like answered.

Yesterday John Battelle emailed me to ask about Rae's post . This will be a little inside baseball to some people who don't live and breathe search and Twitter , but I figured I'd take what I emailed to John, add some pictures, and post it here. Here's the email: Sorry for the delay in replying; I'm really behind on email because I've been talking about Chrome this past week. The short answer is that back in July I saw this post http://www.davidnaylor.co.

It's easy to find out what Google Chrome's user-agent is. Using the same trick as I did with the iPhone , I searched for phpinfo HTTP_USER_AGENT in Google Chrome. Click on one of the results and search for HTTP_USER_AGENT on the page. Here's the image that I see: My exact user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 )Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US( AppleWebKit/525.13 )KHTML, like Gecko( Chrome/0.A.B.C Safari/525.13 So "0.2.149.27″ is the current version,

Alright, I've got another conspiracy theory to dispel. After reading through the Chrome Terms of Service, some people are worried that Google is trying to assert rights on everything that you do on Chrome. From one example story by Marshall Kirkpatrick: The terms include a section giving Google "a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform,

I spend a fair amount of my time debunking misconceptions about Google. So when I found out that Google Chrome was going to be released, I put on my thinking cap about what objections people would throw out about Google Chrome. Here are the questions that I came up with, along with my personal answers. I want to stress that this is my personal blog, so even though I believe all of this is accurate, these are not official answers.

For better or worse, my blog is popular with the Google conspiracy-theorist demographic. I knew that as soon as Google Chrome launched, some readers would ask tough questions about privacy and how/when Google Chrome communicates with google.com. So I decided to tackle this issue head-on. I talked to the Chrome team to find out if there's anything to worry about. The short answer is no. For the long answer, read on.