Google Book Search has got updated including the Information and Viewing pages. For the Information page, Google has added sections displaying “keywords and phrases” of book, Related books, References from book, and References from other scholarly works.

On the Viewing pages, zoom in/out of the digitalized text to suit the choice, select a one-page or two-page view, use full screen mode, and scroll thru the content rather than clicking on the arrows for moving to a new page. You can see new logo on the Book View pages.

Recently Google Checkout service has commissioned a survey into holiday shopping trends. The Monday, following the Thanksgiving weekend in U.S, is the day when most of the online shoppers are expected to buy the gifts from the online retailers.

Google is promoting its special Google holiday site by encouraging the people, and to help them in making the holiday shopping easier and faster.

Google has announced that the new Google Checkout holiday site www.google.com/checkout/holiday/ will enable the online shoppers to find participating merchants and special promotions. This site will

According to the report of both Google Webmaster Central and the Official Google Blog, English language publishers can now easily develop XML sitemaps, to aware the Google News about the pages to crawl.

Publishers would be able to see reports on error, and detailing the information on the types of inquiries of visitors that have made to find their news stories.

Google Webmaster Tools is enabled with the news features for the websites currently included in Google News. Google includes the sites according to its rules. In the beginning of this year, Google News dropped the Blogoscoped wi

Are you having some troubles while managing your AdWords account? Is your ad not showing for a particular keyword? It is of the most common troubles people face while managing their AdWords account. But, a new feature in ads diagnostic tool will help you ward off this problem. The new feature will provide one-click troubleshooting for the above mentioned trouble.

The Ads Diagnostic Tool will now be incorporated into the Ad Group details page and you will be able to access the new feature thru the new magnifying glass icon next to each keyword. The new feature will allow you to get an instant diagnosis for a keyword pointing your cursor at the magnifying glass, if you feel an ad is under-performing because of a particular keyword.

Three new features have been reportedly added to Google Page Creator. The tree new features include Image editing, Multiple sites functionality, and Pages for mobile.

“Image editing” allows users to rotate, crop, lighten & darken, and to add special effects to the images that are uploaded, without requiring any additional software.

“Multiple sites functionality”, with new feature allows you to hide your sites. This can help in reducing spam sent to Gmail addresses by spam bots, but it could also increase the spam amount hosted by Google as every user has up to four extra sites including spammers.

Now, Picasa Web Albums of Google offer more options for users with a U.S billing address to upgrade.

Earlier there was only single upgrade option i.e., $25 per year for an additional 6GB, but now the new features cater 250GB of storage space available.

Plans are turning costlier, e.g. 25GB - $100 per year, 100GB - $300 per year and 250GB - $500 per year. Picasa Web Albums lets users with upgraded accounts for uploading the videos.

Now it’ll be possible for you to send invoices to buyers and have them pay through Google Checkout! A newly added feature to Google Checkout, “Email invoices” will facilitate you do it easily.

The “Email invoices” will allow you to send your customers a bill thru email. It’s an easy to use feature. You will just be required to make a few clicks from your Google Checkout account. The service will allow you to use the Merchant Center to email invoices to buyers.

The procedure is pretty easy. You just need to set amount for the invoice, compose a quick message, and send it off. Your customer will receive the email and pay using Google Checkout.

The Free webmaster tools by Google are the useful tools that will help you, or your webmaster to make your site more Google-friendly. The webmaster tools will help you see Google’s view of your site, diagnose problems, and share information with Google in order to improve your site’s visibility in Google’s search results.

Google Webmaster Tools will help you know—

How can you let Google know about all the pages on your site?
What search-queries will bring you site the most traffic?
Why is your site being returned for particular keywords?
What page according to Google are the most important one on your site?

Google has enhanced the new custom targeting channels for the AdSense publishers. With the new option, the AdSense users will be allowed labeling different ad units on their site, and the AdWords advertisers will be allowed to see the units and select them for their advertisements.

Publishers will be required to turn on the feature for relevant custom channel in the account, or establish brand new custom channels, making the site or ad units easy in ways the advertisers want to target.

Advertisers can also access the information of the channel for particular publishers to choose and sel

The Google Mini is a hardware and software appliance that will make searching your website as easy as searching for information on Google.com. It powers website search over multiple websites and delivers search results that seamlessly integrate with your website's design.

According to the reports of research firm IDC, 80% of visitors abandon a website if search functionality is poor, and Jupiter Research reveals that 85% of website searches don’t return what the user was looking for. So, in such conditions Google Mini will be a wonderful tool.