The Times of India reports that the Myanmar (Burma) government has blocked access to Google web search and Gmail.
YANGON: The Myanmar government has blocked the Google search engine and its mail service Gmail, say Internet users.
Users in the country have not been able to access the Google site for more than a week, reported the Mizzima […]

Looks like a German book publisher isn’t fighting it anymore. Do you use it?

Garett Rogers reports that Google has released Account Authentication. It allows installed applications or web applications to: (1) Be accessed by Google Accounts or (2) access Google Accounts. The program is available in two flavors: (1) Account Authentication for Installed Applications or (2) Account Authentication Proxy for Web Applications.

Google’s online payment service is here, and it’s called Google Checkout. For a fun overview, check out the video tour. More info on the Google Blog. This is the Google Checkout logo, so look for it.

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They’ve just posted the announcement on the Official Google Blog about the Google Gadget Contest, in which you write a new gadget for Google Desktop Search 4. The search utility just came out of beta, and they’re offering up to $5,000 for you to create a gadget.
If you’re going to make one, post about it […]

Evolving Trends has posted a popular article called Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google?
Here are some key points:

The Semantic Web is Web 3.0 and it promises to organize the world’s information in a better way than Google does
Info agents will form a collective “mind” that becomes the Ultimate Answer Machine, rendering Google obsolete
The emergence of […]

A few minutes ago when I went to tweak some of my Google Alerts, I noticed that Google had revamped their Accounts page layout, probably preparing the way for their launch of Google Checkout. (click on images for an enlarged view)
This is what Google Accounts looked like then:

& This is what Google Accounts looks […]

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Infoworld doesn’t think Google is innovating:
Perhaps, like Microsoft, [Google] will find that some innovation doesn’t come from Stanford PhDs. Because, at its core, the best innovation solves human needs, and not many humans are engineers. It may be time for Google to start “scratching” a wider variety of “itches.”
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I tend to agree. Matt writes on […]

Google releases in the last three days:

Picasa Web Albums
US Government Search
Shakespeare Search
Google Maps for Enterprise
Google News in Arabic