The New York Times says that Google News, Google’s semi-automated mainstream and blog news indexing service, is experiencing slow growth:
<<… traffic growth is sluggish. With 11.4 million users in May, Google News ranked No. 8 among news sites, far behind Yahoo News, which was No. 1 with 35.8 million visitors, according to Nielsen Online.
Its growth [...]

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Reuters today writes:
<<Google Inc was named on Monday in a trade secrets lawsuit alleging that the company’s business software unit copied a tiny start-up’s tool for moving customers off of Microsoft software onto Google’s.
LimitNone LLC filed a complaint in an Illinois circuit court alleging that Google at first began promoting the smaller firm’s tool for [...]

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Google just went live with Map Maker, a program that makes certain regions around the world – like Jamaica, Iceland, Bahamas, Grenada and more – editable by everyone (everyone with a Google account, that is). “Map Maker allows you and your peers to add, edit and moderate most features you see on maps including roads, [...]

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Google “Universal” includes results from Google Maps as well as other verticals. In addition to relevancy, Google Maps includes geographic factors in determining ranking order in search engine results pages.

Google Universal search engine results page including Google Maps results.
By creating their own business listing, business owners are helping drive traffic to their site as well [...]

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Brian Jepson is the editor who worked with me on the book Google Apps Hacks, and I asked him to describe the technical process of what it took to convert the book from Google Documents – in which the book was written – to the InDesign format. Here’s his explanation.
One of the tricky parts for [...]

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