Hittery.com presents you with a whole bunch of specialized search engines as widgets, and you can customize the dashboard by moving, removing, or adding specific search engines. It's a bit like iGoogle but for search engine widgets only, and taking the opposite approach to "universal search" approach by Google, which aims to deliver all necessary results from the same single search engine.

The Wall Street Journal writes: <<Google Inc. will help set up a two-story, 8,000 square-foot headquarters for hundreds of bloggers descending on the Democratic convention in Denver next week, and it will offer similar services at the Republican convention in September, as new media gain influence in politics. )...( Not only will bloggers have Internet access, workspaces and couches for napping in the "Big Tent" headquarters, they will be provided food and beverages,

Google now offers webmasters a JavaScript-based gadget to include into their 404 )page not found( pages. Depending on where the user went and what other pages are available on the server, this widget will show suggestions of where to go, and offer a search box )sometimes with a suggested query in it as well(. To get the widget, log-in to your Google Webmaster Tools and pick Tools -> "Enhance 404 pages" from the navigation.

Peter Gasser noticed that when you search Google Germany for google rss feed , the top result will point to the German Google Reader service... with a title that can be roughly translated to "RSS reader of data-harvesting octopus Google" )"RSS-Reader der Datenkrake Google" - the word "Krake" is typically used negatively in contexts like these to express that a company has its arms in every sector, with potential privacy implications(. What's happening?

According to scientists : New data could help Canada stake claim to a highly disputed area of the Arctic seabed People can see the future An octopus has only six arms Ugly Betty will never come out on top Dogs pick up yawning from their owners Neanderthals and modern humans shared an ancient ancestor who lived about 660,

The Unwrap Mosaics approach by Microsoft Research/ Weizmann Institute was presented at the recent Siggraph conference . In this project a flat surface is algorithmically produced and allows the artist to paint over it, like by adding a moustache to a face; the painted parts then appear in the video and adjust to the camera movements. [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Unwrap Mosaics, a Form of Video Editing | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to advertise here?

)If you're using the Google Docs document editor, that is.( [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: What Was the Last Google Docs Document You Ed ... | Comments ] [Advertisement] Google books at eBay : background info on Google, AdWords, AdSense, Blogger and more.

If you're using Google Feedburner feeds for your blog or other site )or you're willing to switch to using them(, you can now include AdSense ads into it . The service had been tested with some publishers before but now it's apparently live for more. As feeds grow in features, the lines between normal HTML and the feed format may become more blurred... and the original reason why people switched to feeds - easy uncluttered updates, and perhaps ad-free content,

Google has changed the color of the top bar showing above and below search results, making the blue a bit lighter than before. [Thanks Ionut !] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Slightly Adjusts Results Bar Color | Comments ] [Advertisement] Google books at eBay : background info on Google, AdWords, AdSense, Blogger and more.

Google's blogging service Blogger, acquired in 2003 and chronically slow with new features but lately catching up more quickly, rolled out a new feature called "reactions." This is a quick user poll widget, available if you're using Blogger's experimental version, which lets you define a set of attributes like "funny", "interesting", "cool", or anything else. Then,

What happens when Google buys a company? Sometimes, as Slate's Farhad Manjoo argues, the company and its product will enter the Google black hole ... not to be heard of again for a long time )or ever(, with new sign-ups closed and existing users growing impatient. [Thanks Farhad!] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: The Google Acquisitions Black Hole | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to advertise here? Your ad will show in the blog and feed.

I'm not sure Google thought of uses like these when they started to allow you to search the text of the YouTube video channels of some US politicians . Hugh Atkin put together a video of Barack Obama covering Rick Astley's song "Never Gonna Give You Up". "Yes", Hugh says in an email, "I did use Google's new full-text search." For previous videos of this nature he manually compiled transcricts of debates and searched for words.

The University of Washington and Microsoft Research took many photos from a location from Flickr and algorithmically stitched them together to let users explore them in a 3D view . [Via Reddit .] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Clustering Photos To Make for a 3D Scene )Vid ... | Comments ] [Advertisement] Google books at eBay : background info on Google, AdWords, AdSense, Blogger and more.

For Acrobat Reader files, Google shows information such as the author in results now, like in this search . Does anyone know if this is new? [Thanks TomHTML !] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Shows PDF Info | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to advertise here? Your ad will show in the blog and feed.

Google provides a new function for spreadsheets: importRange . This will import the data from a Google Docs spreadsheet you saved into another spreadsheet. For instance, my first spreadsheet has the URL spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key= pvm6FPiylicLb_2cwmpkHfw &hl=en In it, I define a range named "PeopleAges" to make referring to this data easier. In my second spreadsheet I now edit a cell and copy the key of above URL as first parameter.

RevWaldo at Slashdot writes: <<The International Olympic Committee filed a copyright infringement claim yesterday against YouTube for hosting video of a Free Tibet protest at the Chinese Consulate in Manhattan Thursday night. The video depicts demonstrators conducting a candlelight vigil and projecting a protest video onto the consulate building; the projection features recent footage of Tibetan monks being arrested and riffs on the Olympic logo of the five interlocking rings,

Do you believe Google pushes its own properties too much in their search results? If so, Google Minus Google is for you. It's an unofficial clone of Google that looks just like the real thing... except, as the homepage disclaims, you'll search Google "without getting results from Google sites such as Knol, Blogger and YouTube." Creator Timo Paloheimo in his blog says Google Minus Google was inspired "by an article in NYT about Google becoming a media company.

Jeffrey Stibel is the CEO of Web.com and a brain scientist and author. At his blog , he talks about The Internet & the Brain. He once told BusinessWeek, "Don't be afraid to make mistakes, and be proud of your mistakes. At the end of the day learning and getting experience and getting advice from others shouldn't be seen as a weakness, it should be seen as a positive." What are the similarities between the internet and the brain,

Google analyzes backlinks posted on web pages to calculate PageRank, which in turn influences the search results ranking of pages. But web pages aren't the only places to find URL pointers. Whether or not Google evaluates any of these,

Previously , David sent in a special ad by Google which was different from ads you can do in AdWords, which is in contrast to how Google once said their "ads are created and managed under the exact same guidelines, principles, practices and algorithms as the ads of any other advertiser" and that they "use the very same tools and account interface.