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Google Changes AdWords URL Policy

Google is implementing a change in its URL policy for AdWords. Starting the week of February 24, all display URLs within an ad group must have the same top-level domain.

Picasa Web Albums Get Lock Option

Google added an option to their photo gallery app Picasa Web Albums offering you to lock albums. The option is named “Sign-in required to view,” meaning only people you share the album with are meant to access it, after signing in with their Google account.

Twitter And FriendFeed Turning Into A Chat Room?

You’ve seen Twitter’s election feature that showed a select kind of tweet in real time. A few minutes ago FriendFeed released a real-time-web feature that lets you watch FriendFeed in real time. This is fun to watch!

Microsoft Prepped To Launch Social Bookmarking

According to Microsoft's John Martin, Microsoft has launched a preview of its Social Bookmarking Service. This service is available for both MSDN and TechNet. This new service will not be fully operational in the 'preview' version and will only be available in English. However, it will enable the users to:

Yahoo Makes Minor Changes To Advertisement Layout

According to Search Engine Roundtable Yahoo! has incorporated some minor changes in the advertisement layout of its SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) and has also reduced the number of advertisements shown in the SERPs. They have now relocated the position of the display URL under the description. The advertisement layout now also contains only three advertisements, instead of four as in the previous layout.

Google To Topple Baidu With Short Domain Name?

Someone who’s too weak, lazy, or pressed for time to type eight letters and a period is in serious trouble.  But anyone who would rather type eight than three is just silly, and so Google China has unveiled a new domain name: G.cn.

With "Google" In Your URL, No AdSense For You!

"AdSense Disallowed On URLs Containing 'Google'". This was said by Google itself. A Google Blogoscoped account shows an AdSense ban of a portion of an active site.

Google's URL Spellchecker

Google started to sometimes show URL suggestions if you used the search box as “address box” but mistyped the address.

Search Update Rolling At Yahoo

The latest 'weather report' from Yahoo Search said an ongoing update should wrap up very soon.

Google Looks For URL Suggestions In Search Result!

In a recent thread at WebmasterWorld, some members have reported that Google is asking searchers to suggest some URLs for specific searches. "Help improve search for everyone" is how Google is asking for suggestions. Google asks the users to Click a link to submit a link. The link open a form where you need to login.