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Be careful what you post on MySpace. It will instantly be indexed by Google. I see a flood of get rich quick scheme on MySpace.

Official Google Blog: This week in search 2/21/10

Yahoo! is plunging headfirst into having Microsoft’s Bing take over their search services. Yahoo! ad programs and webmaster tools will be transisitioning to Microsoft’s services. Are we ready? Yup. This is no surprise. Yahoo! has been falling flat on their face for some time now.

Yahoo! Transition Center – Home

Google wants to also be your ISP. Yes, connect to the Internet using Google. Say hello to more ads and goodbye to privacy. Is this really a good idea? Is there really any privacy now?
Official Google Blog: Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network

Google is rolling out Buzz into your Gmail account. What is the buzz? It’s a social tool to share photos, videos, etc……yawn. Another social tool. I haven’t tried it yet, but it seems like a stripped down version of Wave.
Google Buzz

If you are still using IE6 and try to access GoogleDocs and other online Google services, you may discover that you can’t. Google is dropping IE6 support. If you are still using such an old browser, it should not be a total surprise that you’d have issues. Web designers are rejoicing.

Official Google Enterprise Blog: ​Modern browsers for modern applications

It appears that the Chinese government has tried to hack into Gmail accounts. Google already filters results shown on Google.cn in compliance with an agreement with China but apparently this was the last straw.
Official Google Blog: A new approach to China

It’s official, the Google page rank is updated…..for what it’s worth.
Twitter / Matt Cutts: Yes, Google updated our to …

With speed being a part of the new Google in 2010, Google has added a tool to test the speed of your site in the Webmaster Tools.
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: How fast is your site?

View the Google Caffeine update on their server 209.85.225.103. This one data center will serve up the caffeine update 50% of the time. The final update is not suppose to go live until after the holidays.
Google

News Corp wants Google to pay for indexing their news content and serving it on Google news pages. Google says, tell us not to index it and we won’t. News Corp, says you took it now pay. You get the argument from there. It’s the War of Standstill Hill.
Now Microsoft sees an opportunity and offers to pay News Corp to index their material if they do de-list themselves from Google. Microsoft’s Bing would be the only source of News Corp information?
Do you think that information should only be available if you search multiple sources? Is this the start of a slippery slope?
There’s a discussion of the good and bad of this at Microsoft and News Corp To Consider Web Pact?