Google has a new malware diagnosis tool; just append any domain - your domain or another site you want to check on - to the end of the URL "google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=", or paste a domain in the box below, and you will find an overview page listing potential problems like trojans or exploits )or the result may be telling you the site is OK(. As Ionut points out at his blog , Google.com too had problems in the past. But as Google.

FriendFeed )the social news streamer run by a team of by now seven ex-Google employees ( got a new tab on top to create rooms. A room is a public or private area for discussions circling around one topic, group or need. For instance, you could create an invite-only room for discussing a specific work project, adding some other FriendFeed members. Once the room is created via the Room tab and members are invited - the invite box auto-completes names,

Over at Search Engine Land's Sphinn , people are discussing a search engine optimization tactic which tries to assemble backlink juice by posting a fake news article . Jonathan Crossfield wraps it up : "Online marketer Lyndon Antcliff recently helped a client achieve over 1500 inbound links in under a week with a story designed to grab attention." The article, titled "13 Year Old Steals Dad's Credit Card to Buy Hookers,

What was the internet? The internet and the world web was a computing system to transfer human information. Scientists have based its beginning to the years 1920 to 1940. What was electromail? Electromail was another transport protocol to transfer human information, but it was quickly discontinued as it caused misunderstandings due to lack of correctly representing emotions. What were world web sites?

YouTomb is a "research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from [Google-owned] YouTube for alleged copyright violation." [Via Google Operating System .] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: YouTomb Lists YouTube Removals | Comments ] [Advertisement] Google books at eBay : background info on Google, AdWords, AdSense, Blogger and more.

Today starting at 9:30am Californian time , Google will hold a press event in their Mountain View headquarters lasting until noon. Google announced they will give insights into search, with Google's R.J. Pittman, Carter Maslan, Johanna Wright, and Marissa Mayer speaking. I'm live-blogging from the webcast . [This post is being edited throughout the event.

After apparently two years in Taiwan, Google recently moved their office from Taipei 101 - one of the world's tallest skyscrapers - from floor 37 to... floor 73. Not the uncoolest building in the world. Above picture was added by Yenwen Feng on May 5th, and is from the opening or anniversary ceremony. The Taipei office is laid out in typical colorful Google style and includes ping pong and foosball tables.

The Google Lat Long blog points to several climate change information layers for Google Earth. One of these layers, titled "Climate Change in Our World," is by the Met Office UK and you can also make it show in Google Maps ; note that I created a copy of this layer to remove all font and background color definitions from the file, as they were causing problems in Google Maps.

Google China has launched a multitude of help efforts for people looking for information in relation to the disastrous May 12th earthquake centered in Sichuan province. Some days ago, the Google China homepage linked to a special Google Maps layer , as previously mentioned : Google China also shows a custom search engine , made for the purpose of looking for relatives )qin ren(.

A source is telling me that Gmail will get themes - custom layouts to personalize Google's web mail client. According to the source, the launch of this may happen within the next months. There will be 12 themes to pick from, according to this information, like a black-and-green "terminal" view, as well as a flowery view. Already, using third-party tools like Greasemonkey or custom user stylesheets, you are able to add skins to Gmail... but officially,

This is one of the weirder and more interesting logos to show on the Google homepage : in disco neon lights, Google celebrates the anniversary of the first laser. Wikipedia explains )footnotes removes, my emphasis(: <<A laser is an electronic-optical device that emits coherent light radiation. The term "laser" is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation . )...( The first working laser was demonstrated on May 16,

The Boing Boing blog joined the Billboard Liberation Front and the Monochrom group to erect a "great firewall of China" near the Google headquarters company sign in Mountan View, California. Their work starts at minute 5. One commenter at Boing Boing nicknamed Netsharc argues that he agrees with the protest idea but found the video too "self-congratulatory," asking why China "is China represented with those farmers' hats anyway". Another commenter argued, "It's campy, sure,

"Suicide" is a potentially important search query because it may be entered by people contemplating committing suicide. Both Google and Yahoo in 2008 give relevant results of sites trying to help people or educate them on the subject; at both search engines, the number one result is a Wikipedia entry, and the second result is a page titled "Suicide: Read This First". Back in 2003 , some of the top Google results for this and related queries included music bands.

Google released a Flash/ ActionScript API for Google Maps . Google says this allows current Flash developers to easily integrate Google Maps into existing Flash apps, but that it also provides new possibilities for displaying map content for developers currently not using Flash. Flash has just been released in a version 10 preview , by the way, bringing a couple of changes .

Ionut Alex. Chitu reports you can now edit a spreadsheet with anyone who knows the URL, as an option, and not just people with a Google account which you invite. To set this up, start at Google Docs and click New Spreadsheet. Prepare your data and hit the Share tab; now configure the "Anyone can [edit] this without logging in" box, and share the URL Google provides you with. Ionut says, "your spreadsheet becomes a wiki." For sample purposes,

The following list shows the current top 15 Google search results for the query "google" which are not from Google or from direct Google partners )third-party content hosted with Google is OK(: Google at Wikipedia Google at Yahoo Finance TouchGraph's Google Browser Google Weblog Google Fight Google news at The New York Times Google Me,

The homepage of Google China links to a special map showing eartquake information. Auto-translating the homepage text results in: "New! Google launched an emergency situation in the earthquake map, view the latest situation in earthquake relief". [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google China Homepage Links to Earthquake Inf ... | Comments ] [Advertisement] Google books at eBay : background info on Google, AdWords, AdSense, Blogger and more.

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Google updated the panorama photo imagery of New York as part of Google Maps, and for this update also blurred the faces of persons shown in the pictures. Google at their maps-related blog writes, "This effort has been a year in the making - working at Street View-scale is a tough challenge that required us to advance state-of-the-art automatic face detection, and we continue working hard to improve it as we roll it out for our existing and future imagery.

Google released Friend Connect , a service for webmasters to add such gadgets as comments, reviews, or contact lists to their site. Furthermore, Friend Connect supports any creation from the Google gadget initiative "OpenSocial," and also adds social features to a given site which connect the site to the social network site of a user. The latter, Google argues, holds the potential to increase your traffic,