According to Techdirt, the same person who hacked DVD encryption, DVD Jon, has modified the Google video player. Now it plays on any site.

Google is rolling out a new version of personal search today, one based on your search history rather than the rather anemic approach it previously took. More soon, but for an overview, head to SEW.

It’s official: Google Earth, 3D interface to the planet, is here. Below is the press release.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - June 28, 2005 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google Earth, Google’s new satellite imagery-based mapping product that combines 3D buildings and terrain with mapping capability and Google search. Based on […]

I’ve confirmed that Monday Google will launch an in-browser video playback feature based on the open source VLC media player. This is the logical next step for Google’s video search and upload function, which began taking uploads from anyone who cared to submit back in April.
Google will not disclose the raw numbers of videos that […]

BEIJING, June 20 — Online search-engine leader Google Inc. plans to introduce an electronic payment system later this year that could help it diversify revenue and may heighten competition with eBay Inc.’s PayPal unit.
Exact details of the search company’s planned service are not known, the report said, but quoted people familiar with the matter […]

Google Maps is now indicating one-way streets. Little blue arrows appear on the first, second, and third zoom notches. This picture shows a full zoom.

In a marketing tactic used primarily by spyware and adware companies, Google has begun bundling its Google Toolbar and Desktop Search software with the popular WinZip archive utility, writes Natan Mook from BetaNews. The move comes as Google begins to expand its bundling effort with a number of leading software applications. WinZip quietly updated its […]

Today, Google announced the launch of Site Targeting, giving AdWords members the ability to target their ads towards specific sites. Site Targeting operates on the recently adopted CPM model. So, when Google or Yahoo (the two biggest PPC search ad suppliers) add or subtract something to their respective services, everyone in the industry looks up […]

Aiming to make search easier for users on the go, Google released Google Mobile Web Search on Thursday.
The new service points users of Internet-enabled mobile devices to a special index of Web pages that have been optimized by their publishers for the small screen. The XHTML-based service takes advantage of the alignments of […]

People’s Daily Online reports that Google, the No.1 search engine company in the world has announced to launch “university search”service in China. Google aims to help users to search for information about the Chinese universities by launching the special service at the time when China’s college entrance exam just ended. This is the first time […]