The Google Webmaster Central Blog posted a YouTube Video of the day in the life of the Google Webmaster Support team. It’s a really cool account of the daily routine of the different members of the Google Webmaster Central team. Just when I thought the video couldn’t get any cooler, Matt Cutts whips out his [...]

Yahoo is launching the new version of Delicious.com (del.icio.us) today and with or without the dots, the company seems to be moving on with its social bookmarking platform, even without Joshua Schachter (the original founder of del.icio.us who left Yahoo in the Spring) behind the wheel. Delicious was supposed to rebrand about a year ago, [...]

Google and Yahoo spent a combined $1.36 Million last quarter in lobbying according to the Associated Press, with Yahoo spending $630,000 and Google topping off at $730,000. Google spent their lobbying funds the following political efforts : The agreement to let Google serve advertising on the Yahoo network and regulation of online advertising Net neutrality [...]

Google has been given the go ahead to begin their StreetView project in the UK, which will capture images from Google cars with cameras perched on the top, and publish those images on Google Maps. Privacy concerns surround Google StreetView because of photos published of vehicles, license plates, private property and individuals online.

Google has acquired Omnisio, a social video mashup service which lets its users splice and edit online videos found on YouTube, Google Video and Blip.TV, adding balloons and annotations to the videos while also mixing segments together in a remix type setting. Omnisio, a Y Combinator company, will now join the YouTube family to allow [...]

So while Microsoft is redefining its Live Search portal with interactive background images, and a search engine startup is hitting on Google’s user privacy policy, Google is the meantime is introducing a new search feature which is aimed at helping users understand how it customized search results.

If you think the Live Search Cashback was a silly program to promote its search engine, Microsoft might be doing unusual again with the redesign of the Live Search portal. Guess what the redesign is all about?- Background images, which according to the Live Search Team was made to “to find the best way to [...]