I see PageRank numbers decreasing on some websites. I think this may be an indication that Google is updating the visible PageRank numbers. It is December 26 – just one day after Christmas, and a few days until the New Year. Could it be a new update for 2006?

The $1 billion investment Google made in AOL could lead to an IPO in 2008. If Time Warner doesn’t want to pursue an IPO then, it could buy back Google’s 5% stake based on a fair market appraisal.
Based on the Google investment, AOL’s market value stands at $20 billion. Google’s market value has increased from [...]

Google has released their 2005 Zeitgeist, an annual tradition that reflects on the most interesting Google searches of the past year.

Take a look at the top 5 gainers of 2005:
1. Myspace
2. Ares
3. Baidu
4. wikipedia
5. orkut
It’s no wonder that orkut invites have been such a hot topic at Google Community [...]

Google is offering something very similar to a social networking service with its new Personalized Search feature. It’s similar to del.icio.us:
“Create bookmarks you can access anywhereBookmark your favorite websites and add labels and notes to them. Your labels and notes are searchable later, and you can access your bookmarks from any computer by signing in.”
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It’s interesting to see where personalization and history can take us. Is this an invasion of privacy? Remember that your search queries are always recorded and monitored. That information can be useful and dangerous. But harnessing its usefulness has been a challenge… until now.
Yu Chen, a Software Engineer at Google, says: “… today we launched [...]

Google and AOL today announced that they “agreed, under certain unspecified conditions, to allow users of Google’s recently introduced instant messaging system Google Talk to communicate with users of AOL’s market-leading AIM instant messaging service.”
This means users of Google Talk could some day enter an AIM screenname — such as intelliot@aim.com — and chat directly [...]

AOL is already Google’s largest customer, with AOL search being powered by Google and ads across AOL’s online properties being provided by Google.
“Google Inc. investors seemed pleased with the news that Time Warner Inc. is expected to sell a 5 percent stake of internet service provider AOL to Google Inc. for $5 billion, sending shares [...]

There’s a rumor that Google may be launching its own computers for sale in the India and Chinese markets.
“While Google is keeping its plans under wraps, industry sources said that global search engine company is in active negotiations with Wyse Technologies to introduce the product in Inia. Google will develop the software and Wyse will [...]

Jeremy is saying … what site owners have been saying from the start about their right to sell ads on their own site. Google is the most threatened by this on two counts: Google is completely dependant on linking for relevency; Google wants to be the gatekeeper to publisher ad revenues with Adsense. Google is [...]

I guess there’s not likely to be a Google-Opera partnership. After all, Google’s favorite browser is Firefox: they’re even paying AdSense publishers for Firefox with Google toolbar download/installs.
Read more at today.reuters.com/inves…