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Google Labs has launched their Fast Clip online tool. Fast Clip provides users with a quick (and visual overview) of many reputable online publications. You can sort through articles by the most viewed, category, or publication. It can be a very useful tool for those who frequent newspaper/magazine publication web sites on a daily basis.

Earlier today Google launched an aggregated internet stats site. Oddly, it’s hidden behind a UK url. The site collects industry facts and insights from a number of partners and third party vendors that include; Core Metrics, Times Online, Guardian and YouTube.
The metrics seem to have a UK skew as my initial search for ‘iPhone Canada’ [...]

Microsoft and Yahoo have signed an agreement to partner up in the search engine business. Beginning in 2010 Microsoft’s technology will power both Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo Search while Yahoo will take care of all the advertising on both search engines.
Read more at CNET

The new Google directions gadget will allow business owners to pre-fill the direction “To” field with one or multiple addresses, while leaving open the “From” field so that customers can input their address or some other starting point. Read the full story at Small Business Trends.

Google is in the process of building another gadget called the Google PowerMeter. “PowerMeter will show consumers their electricity consumption in near real-time in a secure iGoogle Gadget”.
Google is looking to educate consumers on power consumption and how they can go about reducing their monthly bills while saving the world from harmful emissions.
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Ever wondered where your friends work at this exact moment? No longer wonder! Google has “solved” the problem once again. Just get them to sign up for Google Latitude.
Google’s quest to know everything moves forward with this new advancement. While, the concept is very neat do we really want a third party to store all [...]

nru (near you) is the latest innovation from lastminute.com’s labs team. Using technology provided by T-Mobile’s G1 running Google’s Android software, lastminute.com can now show you things to do near you, from bars and restaurants to cinemas and cafes.
It does this using the GPS and compass found in T-Mobile’s G1, the only phone on the [...]

One of Google’s newest and coolest additions to Google Labs is “Google Trends”. www.google.com/trends
Google Trends is a search trend report tool that shows the most popular search terms on Google within a user-specified period of time.
You can also compare two search terms for their relative strengths. For example, if you search [...]

I hate to break it to you, but with the growing maturity of the Internet your operation system is becoming less and less relevant. With services like Google’s Docs, Apple’s MobileMe, and Microsoft’s upcoming cloud operating system, individuals and businesses are moving their workflows onto the web where your operation system is no longer relevant.
As a [...]

Google, notorious for offering amazing free services, has yet again come up with a free solution that is bound to take the communication landscape by storm. GOOG-411 was released out of beta in late 2007, and has yet to get the attention it deserves.
Google’s “GOOG-411”, a service which draws data from the Google Local [...]