Google has bought video annotation site Omnisio to have their team join the YouTube team. Omnisio, as covered before , allows users to mix together YouTube videos. Also, Omnisio visitors can add comments over the videos in specific time frames - a feature that made some early Omnisio videos completely unwatchable, but you're now able to select whose comments you'd like to see overlaid. The acquisition statement on the Omnisio homepage says,

Google's webmailer Gmail has an apparently* new filter function named "Never send it to Spam". Ticking this should ensure that a certain email - with criteria you define, like by entering your friend's name in the "From" field - will not be accidentally sorted into the spam folder. It's a nice option to have as last resort, like when you identified certain types of good mail which never see the inbox,

Yuil is "a mashup of Yahoo! search results )using their BOSS platform (, presented using the new Cuil look and feel, and running on Google's App Engine ," as Tyler Hall tells us. )"Just in case things weren't confusing enough".( [Thanks Tyler! Links added.] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Yuil | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to advertise here? Your ad will show in the blog and feed.

The following snippets with accompanying thumbnails were taken from search engine Cuil.com )they are not a representative sampling of all thumbnails - Cuil gets it right sometimes - but it also doesn't take long to compile these errors, as they're not too rare either(.

Visual Adsense takes your Google AdSense Comma-Separated Values file as input and generates a chart like the above out of it. )As with any site where you'd share your information, apply some care and see if you trust them...( [Thanks Dantart!] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Create AdSense Charts | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to advertise here? Your ad will show in the blog and feed.

Alex Ksikes, who I worked with on GoogleModules.com some years back, this month with his team mates launched ChiefMall.com . Alex tells me "The search engine indexes a fairly large corpus of over 420 000 contractors and features geocoding and live indexing ... An interesting aspect of the site is that users can not only search for contractors but also post jobs to all contractors they have searched for.

Back in May this year, Google OS and others noticed a Google Maps redesign experiment showing to a portion of users. Apparently, the results of the experiment are satisfying to Google, as the design was now made live for everyone )or if you can't see it yet, perhaps it's being rolled out for you right now(. [Hat tip to Keir Clarke and Jess Lee ! Also see Google's official post on this.

You might have heard of Cuil , a new search engine partly created by ex-Google employees. )As a Reddit commenter wrapped it up in reference to Cuil's result rankings, "It's a great search engine if you're not interested in finding what you're looking for."( What's interesting to note is that Cuil may be violating Google's webmaster guidelines. Not that everyone needs to comply to these, though a violation may bring a Google penalty with it.

The photo gadget of Google's 3D chat world Lively is working again. Its customization feature to add any pic you like had been disabled a while ago for untold reasons )the gadget is still broken though when it comes to do proper scaling of pics added to it - refer to the FAQ for one workaround(. On that note, I'd like to welcome you to Mackereel McRoy's Museum of Modern Stuff .

Motoko Hunt is originally from Japan and has been doing business in the US and Japan for two decades. She founded her company in 1998 and provides Japanese search marketing services in the US, Europe and Asia. She's also the co-chair of the upcoming Search Engine Strategies Tokyo conference and will be speaking at the SES in San Jose . Motoko loves scuba diving, heavy metal music and Guinness. By your estimate, what are the most popular search engines in Japan?

Reto Meier in a comment to the ranking debate over Knol wrote, "I don't see any evidence that the moderated collaboration is working yet." This led to some thoughts on the editing of other people's Knols feature, and the question "What is the motivation for editing someone else's Knol article?" For instance: When I edit someone else's Knol article, as opposed to what happens on Wikipedia, my edit may never see the light of the day. To see the light of day,

Some people noticed Knol articles are already sometimes ranking very well in Google results, even though Google promised Knol articles wouldn't get any artificial boost. Until further evidence comes in I don't think we've much reason to distrust Google's statement, and yet, the site does get a major boost all the same simply because it's in the vicinity of the superbly ranking network of Google websites )not yet on the PageRank 10 homepage,

Google added a new feature to Gmail to always use a secure )https( connection. Switch to the settings/ general tab and scroll down to "Browser connection" to see if you got it already )if not, it may still be rolled out for you(. While safer, Google in their blog announcement of this also notes it may slow down your Gmail a bit. [Thanks Mrrix32!

Date: August 7, 2032 From: The Bureau of Public Anomaly Screenings Subject: A notice Dear citizen, As you may know, under the Public Screening Act of 2030, all citizens are undergoing routine checks for anomalies. We do so through the use of public sources only, aggregating and mining your digital traces. According to our findings, which are accurate in 99.

Domains using the full character spectrum aren't really supported well in browsers, partly due to security issues... so entering something like bücherei.com )the German word for library( will resolve into what is called a punycode address, namely xn-bcherei-n2a.com. This kinda ruins it for serious uses, but still, there's domains out there using more than just ASCII letters.

Nope, this is not the title of a children's book )though it would be great as that!(. Quote Google: <<Chubby is a fault-tolerant system at Google that provides a distributed locking mechanism and stores small files. Typically there is one Chubby instance, or "cell", per data center. Several Google systems - such as the Google Filesystem )GFS( and Bigtable - use Chubby for distributed coordination and to store a small amount of metadata.

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Knol is a publishing tool but unlike some other such tools by Google, this time all your article's outgoing links will be "nofollowed." The nofollow attribute is a mechanism to disable the juice a link is sending to another site. So while you can link to Knol pages to give them more authority in the eyes of Googlebot and others, Knol pages do not pass this authority measure back to other sites. In a Knol article, at first glance,

Google's new publishing platform Knol has an interesting feature to offer: authors are allowed to use one cartoon from The New Yorker magazine per article*. The New Yorker started in the mid-1920s and collectively there's lots of cartoon content.

Google went live with Knol , a platform to read and write articles on all kinds of subject. Knol was being tested privately since some time and had been pre-announced back in 2007. The address is knol.google.com, but notably not knol.com or knol.org or even googleknol.com. This project is somewhat reminiscent of Wikipedia, though there are many differences as well.