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Google has added a Traffic button to Google Maps (next to the Maps, Satellite & Hybrid buttons). Routes with traffic flow show red, yellow or green, for stop-go travel, heavy traffic and for light or no traffic.
… with the purchase of a vertical search engine company Medstory, a privately held California company with a health information search site, for its newly formed Health Solutions Group. (Vertical search engines return results relevant only to select topics like health care, finance, programming or law.)
Merchants who accept payments from Google Checkout now get a new shopping cart logo in their ads. More details at Google Checkout Blog
Google has started integrating local search into the main results when searching for a local business for example
Cities Car Hire Edinburgh
Small towns Agents Ayr
Zips /Postcodes w2 Estate Agents
More details at the Google Blog
Google has just turned in a record 4th quarter profit.
$3.21B Total Revenue (+19.3%)
$976M Traffic Acquisition Costs (+18.3%)
$1.03B Net income
$3.29 EPS (+39.4%)
Google.com = $1.98B ( 62%) (+22%)
Partner Network = $1.2B (37%) (+16%)
Clicks +22% on previous quarter
Wikiseek has just launched. It’s a really neat vertical search tool. for searching Wikipedia. (A vertical search is one which only searches a specific niche, business area, topic etc.
Wikiseek only spiders Wikipedia, this means Wikiseek only lists 3 kinds of pages – Ones from Wikipedia, ones which are linked to from a Wikipedia page and Sponsored pages adverts.
The Online Historical Populations Reports (OHPR) website was launched on 9 January 2007.
A fascinating resource with over 200,000 pages of digitised reports and data showing detailed changes in population between 1800 and 1940.
GPM Group 