Google Update

No, it's not another new service (that I know of) from the indexer of the world. I'm just trying to play catch up with some pertinent posts on Google. The first two come thanks to Tara Calishain, proprietress of Research Buzz. First she wrote about all the blogs concerning the multitude of services in ResearchBuzz: Google Blogs Everywhere! and also tried creating a Cloud Tag on them with as little success as I obtained using that service. Then she was all worked up over the renamed book scanning service: ResearchBuzz: Google Print is Now Google Book Search:

Part of the reason the Open Content Alliance is so exciting is that they're considering expanding into other arenas, into periodicals and non-book printed items. Google's not going to do that? All books? No magazines? No government reports? There are so many more printed materials out there than books, and it seems to me that the ephemera can be more rare, harder to find, and more important to archive!

Finally, more info on Google Rocks the Analytics World from Websiteservices, the online home of a new magazine with opportunities for writers to sell articles on, what else, websites. I got my Google Analytics on, and the results are marvelous to behold. It scrutinizes activity on a website up the wazoo and spits out pretty Flash pictures. You can slice and dice the data six ways from Sunday. I can see how this free service is meaningful for heavily commercial sites. [resources]

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