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Master of search and advertising, Google certainly doesn’t waste time in it’s business ventures! On Friday, I was surprised to read the unsubstantiated, and self proclaimed 40% likely, rumour that Google was to buy YouTube. Now I see that they have paid $1.65 billion for the social video site.

So what of Google Video? What does this tell us about Google’s current strategies? First search and advertising on Myspace now they buy up another popular social site, have they run out of ideas or did they miss the web 2.0 boat and decided to throw their money into catching up? What do you think?

Then again, $1.65 billion… if only I had that much to spend.

Google announced the Google Blog Search Pinging Service today. If you want to make sure your latest posts appear in Google’s Blog Search then, like other services including Technorati or Weblogs.com, you will want to ping them when you update. This can be done in two ways:

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Recently we have seen Google Accessible Search pop up in Google Labs and already there are a bunch of complaints about the search engine giant’s latest idea.

Firstly, there have been moans about how the search only caters for those who are blind or visually impaired. This isn’t a surprise when one of the research scientists on the Accessible Search team is blind. However, many of the methods that the WCAG 1.0
recommend that target problems that the visually impaired may have remain relevant to those with other disabilities. Thus a search that prioritises those features will benefit other disabled users anyway. Continue reading “Accessible Search - It’s a start” »