We just made some improvements to managing your stuff in Google Reader to better enable doing lots of things at once. If Reader were a house, I guess we just knocked down a wall — so you can finally get to the bathroom from the bedroom. (And we added a new patio while we were at it.)A new settings page.There’s now a link in the top right that says “Settings”. Clicking on that link opens up a new screen that lists all of your subscriptions and la

Theresa discusses the following:1. How many Google AdSense products can I use in each website?2. How do I get rid of an ad that I don’t want on my site? I have some disagreements with it.3. In case we would like to add other websites, do we need to create another AdSense account?UPDATED to provide summary of content

Seems the censorship problems in China have extended to the two largest Chinese portals: Sina and Sohu.

Adotas reports that the search engines at both have temporarily been suspended.

The latest research by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication shows that there are more mobile Internet users (approx. 69.23mil) than PC Internet users (approx. 66.01mil) in Japan for the first time in history.

It also shows 57% (approx. 48.62mil) of …

Google introduced today Add Scheduling and Day Part selections. From now on you can choose what day and periods of time to run your Adwords campaign. You can also determine different budgets for each day part. That is a huge …

Joyo, the Chinese Amazon.com, has signed a deal with Baidu for placement of ads on the Baidu site.

Joyo, which expanded into numerous ecommerce areas, is a prominent Chinese b2b player.

Well there we have it, Digital Britain rules and the empire is back to it’s former glory. Just released research from Informa Telecoms & Media puts UK as number one in digital content consumption among all the markets of Western …

Tired of losing a large percentage of every AdSense check to bank processing fees? As I mentioned in my last post, if you’re outside the US and receive USD checks, you can let your earnings accrue and then receive larger checks less frequently by placing a self-hold on your account. This will help reduce the overall impact of any check processing fees charged by your bank.Should you decide to experiment with this option, please keep in mind that

Reed Elsevier has recently launched a search engine aimed at the business market in The Netherlands. Zibbsearch.nl is running on hundreds of servers in the United States and aims to conquer 20 percent of the business search market in The …

Chinese auction website eBay Eachnet has launched a mobile based auction platform with Tom Online. Under the agreement Tom Online provides wireless technology for eBay Eachnet. This new platform will allow users to do their shopping through any WAP-enabled mobile …

Microsoft introduced this week a new feature to MSN Messenger: now you can send SMS messages from your computer while chating. You can also do it from your mobile phone to a computer connected to MSN Messenger. The feature is …

Vint Cerf, Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist and so called one of internet’s father (have you noticed that all invention has a father, but no mother?) spent this week visiting Brazil.

I had the privilege to have lunch with him yesterday, together …

Yesterday we launched a new gadget for the Google Personalized Homepage that is based on the Google AJAX Search API. Why embed a search gadget on a search homepage, you may ask? Well, it can actually be pretty useful. I have mine configured for just GlocalSearch() scoped to my home town. I use it as a very fast, in-page phone book

We launched the Google AJAX Search API as a Version 0.1 API so that we could take a little bit of time to gather feedback from you. We welcome feedback on the current API as well as suggest features that we could add that would make your lives easier.
One suggestion that we have heard from many of you concerns site restricted searching

Sergey Brin, Google co-founder, met with reporters near Capitol Hill and acknowledged the company has compromised its values by relenting to Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is trying to make the deal work before deciding whether to …

The Reader team is pretty small and while the list of things we’d like to do is a mile long, there are only so many hours in a day. It’s always very satisfying to see that we have users passionate enough to step in and do some of the things that we always thought would be nice to have. Here’s some recent examples of this: Jason Toal has put together an excellent screencast that covers nearly all of the features that Google Reader has to offer. I

Posted by Michele Covell & Shumeet Baluja, Research Scientists

Euro ITV (the interactive television conference) took place in Athens last week. The presentations included a diverse collection of user studies, new application areas, and exploratory business models. One of the main themes was the integration of multiple information sources

We’re really happy that so many people have started digging into the Google Web Toolkit! If you’re new to GWT, check out Robert Cooper’s nice tutorial on getting started with GWT. If you’re already a seasoned GWT veteran (it’s been out almost 3 weeks, after all :-), then you might find some of these links interesting: In addition to his GWT widget library, Robert Hanson’s blog discusses a variety of useful GWT topics, including RPC basics an

Our French correspondent Renaud Euvrard is back with this week’s France Google Maps Mashup Roundup. This is Renaud’s second post. Check out his last post here, which has a list of all known Google Maps mashups from France:You are looking for……A bookshop with the lastest book from O’ Reilly which you wish to buy? With O’ Reilly, where to find… it is easy to enter your postal code and ISBN code of the book that you to seek, and the maps in

Posted by Joshua Bloch, Software EngineerI remember vividly Jon Bentley’s first Algorithms lecture at CMU, where he asked all of us incoming Ph.D. students to write a binary search, and then dissected one of our implementations in front of the class. Of course it was broken, as were most of our implementations