Google just published an amazing large scale interactive infographic titled How Search Works. It is one of their attempts to bring us closer to their work, unweil some mysteries and reassure us once again of their war on spam.

The infographic is divided into three parts:

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Any real user of Google+ knows by now that Google+ launched Google+ Communities, social network version of forums, message boards, discussion boards or even Q/A sites. You can read up on the announcement from Google blog or check the Google+ Communities yourself.

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The human thirst for knowledge is an unquenchable one. A desire that is limited by the constraints of time, with volumes and volumes of data to consume, and only one lifetime to absorb it all. An index in at the back of a book, the Dewey Decimal System and the mighty Google: all created to satisfy the need to divide the infinite mound of information, to locate the proverbial needle in the haystack.

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In April of 2011, Google bought ITA Software and combined it with their existing company. The founder of ITA Software became the Vice President of Travel at Google headquarters. The main result of the acquisition that we can see today is Google’s recently released Flight Search feature.

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A group of Facebook engineers, along with engineers from Twitter and My Space, have rebuilt Google’s new personalisation feature head on by offering a bookmarklet that integrates other social networks data from Social Web into searches.

The bookmarklet is called “Focus On The User” and compares Google’s recent Search Plus Your World to those that would be, the engineers say, more relevant.

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Google made a great improvement to our website’s sitelinks shown in the SERPs. From now on users will have a better view, better quality and more diverse results based on the search query, and there is also the possibility of removing the sitelinks you don’t want to show in the SERPs.

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Google Plus has now been live just over a month. It has amassed over 20 million users since its time of release, even though technically it is still in its beta version and hasn’t even been properly released yet, which is saying something.

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Google just made our lives a whole lot easier when it comes to displaying authorship in the search results. For non techy people it was not that easy to implement rel=author so they could see the benefits of having their image and links show up in SERP as well as getting the right contribution for their work.

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We just received word that Google has launched another service that will help the webmasters increase the speed of their websites, and according to Google’s announcement[1]it will increase the speed of a site from 25% to 60%.

The new service is called Page Speed Service and is currently in a beta phase for which you can sign up on their website[2].

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Australian eCommerce retailers rejoice,  Google has finally released it shopping engine to the Australian market. Google Shopping has been quite successful in the United States and United Kingdom, bringing highly targeted traffic (shoppers) directly to product pages ready to buy.  They are now displaying their shopping engine in the results found on www.google.com.au.  

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