A so called  “bug” has allowed someone with a blogger account to post and google offical blog..

The real odd thing about the post is it was on topic.. Not some political or porn/cassino links.. hmmm not sure..

Anyway this is what going is say:

A bug in Blogger enabled an unauthorized user to make a fake post on the Google Blog last night, claiming that we’ve discontinued our AdWords click-to-call test. The bug was fixed quickly and the post removed. As for the click-to-call test, it is progressing on schedule, and we’re pleased with the results thus far. 

See it here: 

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/about-that-fake-post.html

People did say this might happen and here its is in black and white..

 information week are suggesting

Google’s YouTube Purchase Gives It A Big Lead Over Microsoft

In buying a market leader, Google immediately took a giant step ahead of Microsoft, which only launched a test version of its YouTube competitor Soapbox last month. While not without risks, Google’s buy-to-build strategy certainly removed the difficult job of gathering an online video audience. YouTube in August had 34 million unique visitors, according to Nielsen NetRatings.

Read the full article here: http://www.informationweek.com/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193200428

ok..

My gf is italian and just sent me this link ..

 Its well worth watching and if you know anyone who is italian you completely understand..

http://www.infonegocio.com/xeron/bruno/italy.html

Enjoy

ADD: http://www.google.com/support/adwordseditor/

This is for adwordseditor version2 

Email from awords today

I hope that you are well. Following on from our conversation last week
about the AdWords Editor, I wanted to let you know about some great
improvements that we have made to the this tool, which I know that you
have used before. We have just launched the second version of this tool
and you will prompted to update your version the next time you open this
tool.Please find attached a presentation on these new features. In brief, some
of the improvements are:

- Keyword management tools - find duplicate keywords, keyword grouper
- Add/Update Multiple tools - add multiple ad texts/keywords, add/update
multiple Ad Groups
- Advanced searching and editing tools - advanced maximum CPC changes, URL
changes, replace text feature.

I hope that you will find this information useful and that this tool now
better suits your updating needs. If you have any questions about these
features, please do not hesitate to contact me.

New tools.. Must go and play

I don’t really know what to say other than READ THIS..

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/more-info-on-pagerank/

Where it all began lol

Google declined to reveal how much it paid for its original home, but similar houses in the same neighborhood have been selling in the $1.1 million to $1.3 million range. That’s a small fraction of the $319 million that Google paid earlier this year for its current 1-million-square-foot headquarters located six miles to the south.

 

 

Quoted from : http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/10/01/382338-google-buys-garage-where-it-all-started

This is great news imho.

Just for some reason only just got around to blogging it..

Ah well..

Anyway for anyone who hasn’t read about this yet it the fact that google going to give us far fresher Query Stats in the webmaster tools Query stats page..

From a 3 weeks stats to just a week .. i’m happy (and i’m clicking on the )

Previously, we showed data that was averaged over a period of three weeks. Now, we show data that is averaged over a period of one week.

 Read more : 

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/09/fresher-query-stats.html

I’m sure many people have noticed this and most likely blog about it..

But hey i’ve only just noticed it..

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
— Evan Esar (1899-1995), American Humorist

The above quote is taken on my sitemaps / webmaster tools “Crawl stats” page

Bit of fun.. Thanks google