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Breaking news I missed. 5 Days ago Google announced its new “Google Blog Search Pinging Service, which is a way for individual bloggers and blog platform providers to inform us of content changes. Blogging providers who syndicate RSS/Atom/XML and want to be included in our Blog Search index can now ping us directly”. [Continue Reading >>]
It’s Tuesday, and it’s high time I round up all the news I missed from last week and over the weekend. Pick what you like best and click on it 
The ‘Doodle 4 Google - My Britain’ competition asks young people across the UK to design a doodle that represents what it means to be British today. The winning doodle, which will be displayed on the Google UK homepage for a day, will be seen by around 18 million people.
The contest is over, and you can see the winning doodle on Google’s UK homepage. You might also want to check out the list of winning entries.
Welcome to our new Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) blog. Our motto: all the news from Google’s ad team that fits in your fridge or pantry…and maybe a little bit more. A bit of background is in order. Our sales teams are organized by industry so that we can focus on the distinctive qualities and business needs of our advertisers and marketers. The CPG vertical, with teams in New York, Chicago, and Mountain View, has taken the leap to the blogosphere so that we can share ideas and touch on an array on topics related to the CPG industry, advertising, and Google.
Go ahead and switch your blog over to the new architecture now.
From West Hollywood’s Halloween carnaval.
Handelsblatt reports that the German GEMA institution – the German Society for Musical Performing and Mechanical Reproduction Rights, who cashes in whenever you use copyrighted musical works – now asked Google to remove videos with non-licensed music.
Via Blog Outer Court.
It’s an invention?
Google’s official blog based on the blogger platform was hacked a couple of days ago. On Oct 8th, this post appeared on their blog
Google Click-to-Call project cancelled
10/07/2006 05:07:34 PM
After concientiously considering, Google has decided not to continue with Google Click-to-call project. The project has been in the media on last days because of the notice of Google agreement with e-Bay. We finally consider click-to-call agreement with e-Bay a monopolistic aproach that would damage small companies in the CRM area.This message has been translated using Google language tools.
Google quickly removed the fake post.
What gets me is Google then proceeded to admit that the blogger platform had a bug that allowed hacking.
A bug in Blogger enabled an unauthorized user to make a fake post on the Google Blog claiming that we have discontinued our AdWords click-to-call test. The bug was fixed quickly and the post removed. Our click-to-call test is progressing on schedule and we are pleased with the results thus far.
I certainly hope it’s fixed and that none of the other thousands of blogger users are suceptible.
Mildly interesting how these two guys got together to try an fool us. The only problem is I found it 3 days late…. oh well. Follow the story: Matt Cutts leaves Google and goes to Yahoo!, and Jeremy Zawodny leaves Yahoo! and goes to Google. Then Matt posts a couple of times on Jeremey’s blog, and Jeremy does the same on mattcutts.com. Hmm, now it’s April 3rd and neither one has posted…. maybe they both got fired? Maybe it doesn’t matter now that the People’s Republic of China bought Google.
Google has just posted in their blog that they have aquired MeasureMap, unique blog statistics/analytics software, from Adaptive Path. There’s no mention of what they paid, but Jeffery Veen of MeasureMap wrote the post, so it looks like he was part of the purchase. Looks like this product will go well with GoogleAnalytics (formerly Urchin). You can also read about this on Adaptive Path’s site.
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