It looks like with the latest AdWords update, they’re starting to put any local advertisements in Google AdWords into Google Maps. You can see images of some examples of that here, in Search Engine Land.
The ads appear almost the same as Google Local listings, only with blue numbered pushpins instead of red lettered pushpins. I’ll most definitely have to look further into AdWords to see exactly how to take advantage of this new update.
So the Associated Press has stepped up and actually scanned a full book to be available for search (Sarah Palin’s book, to be specific). The funny thing about this is that they have openly protested Google doing the same thing with story headlines and summaries as going beyond fair use.
Who’s in the right? Is this something that’s going to blow up in the AP’s… face? More details from Danny Sullivan here.
So it seems like some security guys have found a few new attacks, posted as image links on blogs. These posts are engineered to end up on high Google results, but point to malware sites. It apparently doesn’t work on up to date server software, so keeping your updates current is a good idea.
Google Caffeine is finally going live, apparently after the holidays. Caffeine is the latest update to the Google algorithm, which makes a few people nervous They’re starting with a single data center update, but Matt Cutts says they’ll be rolling it out fully by the end of the holidays.
