Web content management company Clickability has signed a deal with Google that will see the company featured in Google’s Website Optimizer Technology Partner (WOTEP) program.
Google Website Optimizer allows companies to more effectively convert visitors to customers. Features include graphical reports showing which content and layouts are most effective with audiences, and integration with Google AdWords […]

As expected, Yahoo has announced a search ad agreement with Google, just hours after officially ending its Microsoft talks.
The company will now run Google-supplied AdSense ads next to its search results as well as on some of its other Yahoo sites. Yahoo will retain control over where and how the ads appear.
Yahoo predicts the […]

Google is evidently no longer using the name Gmail in Germany.
Philipp Lenssen discovered the interesting change over on his Google Blogoscoped site. Apparently, Lenssen says, navigating to gmail.com in Germany now results in a splashscreen message:
“We can’t provide service under the Gmail name in Germany; we’re called Google Mail here instead.
If you’re traveling […]

First came the announcement of a massive new development center on NASA property. Now Google co-founder Sergey Brin is planning to go directly to space himself.
Brin is one of six people slated to be on the first Space Adventures tourist trip to the International Space Station, according to an announcement made this morning. […]

Google’s got another strong month under its belt in terms of web traffic.
Media measuring company HitWise released its May data this morning. The researcher found Google took a full 68 percent of all U.S. searches in the month, followed by Yahoo at just under 20 percent, MSN at about six, and ask.com […]

Viewzi, the visual search engine I described back in May as “visual search nearly done right” has opened its doors to the public.
According to the Viewzi team, the private beta program has been “a great success” with nearly 10,000 users on the site after a couple months. They claim that during this time they’ve […]

Google has officially launched Gmail labs, a testing area of Gmail features.
The good news: despite a TechCrunch report suggesting that Gmail Labs was georetarded to the United States and United Kingdom, I’m seeing labs here in Australia.
Gmail labs offers a variety of optional extras, including layout tweaks, shortcuts and even a game titled “Old Snakey.” […]

Google has sealed a deal to build a new high-tech campus at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.
The two organizations signed a 40-year lease that’ll give Google 42 acres of land on the space agency property. Google plans to use the space to build a massive research and development facility, joining the […]

Google is now offering real-time stock quotes on its Finance service.
The G-Team announced the launch of up-to-the-second updates on NASDAQ securities at its official blog this afternoon. Engineers say real-time data has historically been limited to subscription-based services and brokers, leaving outside sites with delays as long as 20 minutes.
Google has been working on […]

October 2009: Matthew logs onto his social aggregation service. In front of him appears everything his friends have been doing across every different social networking service. He decides that he needs to write a few blog posts, upload some photos, and comment on a few threads. He clicks on the menu in his aggregation service […]

Google is gaining new ground in Australia.
The search engine has signed an agreement with Netregistry and Devnet to bring a specially tailored version of Google Apps to the country. The customized suite will be marketed as a complete communication solution for businesses, boasting features such as local domain integration, email, calendar functions, […]

fbCal is a Facebook application that allows users to export date specific information from Facebook to external calander services including Apple iCal, Mozilla Sunbird, Google Calendar, and Microsoft Outlook.
To setup, users add the fbCal application via the fbCal page here. The app setup is simple, you tick that you give permission for the app to […]

Google has demonstrated their Android Mobile Operating system and Android Community was there. One video above but they have a range of shots and other videos on their site. The demo of streetview with built in directional support certainly got a wow from me.
Impressions: this is shaping up to be a very nice looking mobile […]