Google announced that Google Map Maker, that has been launched in India has been designed and developed by Indian engineering team of Google. It allows user to add or edit features, such as roads, businesses, parks, schools, apartment buildings, localities and even more. With the help of Google Marker Tools, now users are able to add detailed information about their desired locations and other users can immediately view the updated information.

Now, it’s been several weeks that Google has blocked the ‘WebPosition Gold’, Google’s widely used search engine rank checking tool. In a post, Matt Cutts and Googler JohnMu have also spoke about the reasons behind this and the methods that have been used to block such automated rank checking tools.

Now according to Search Engine Roundtable, it seems that Google is determined on its resolution to evade the block scrapers, by deliberately changing the search results in an effort to confuse the scrapers.

Google has announced the introduction of its own web browser, called ‘Google Chrome.’ The new multi-functional web browser has been launched in the BETA mode, in more than 100 countries on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008. For some time now, Google Chrome is exclusively available for Microsoft Operating System platforms, however, Google will release its versions for Mac and Linux as well. In the creation of Google Chrome, Google has used the components from Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox, instead Google is making it as an open source browser.

Google has introduced Google Chrome via a comic book. Here, find the Google Comic Book.

Following are the features of Google Chrome:

According to many reports at Webmaster World, it has been assumed that Google has probably removed or disabled the AdSense advertisements from Google Cache.

Following are some of the excerpts from the thread at Webmaster World:

“We used to all complain about AdSense displaying off topic ads when your page was displayed in the Google cache.

Patrick Altoft at BlogStorm, has come up with an intriguing post, where he theorized that Google is in the process of changing its algorithms, due to which it has reduced the importance of anchor text to a bare minimum.

According to Patrick, “Quite a number of the queries we track have altered recently and websites that previously ranked have dropped down by a number of places. This doesn’t appear to be a penalty – just an alteration in the algorithm. The common characteristic all the sites have is that their rankings were based very heavily on anchor text rather than on-site optimization. The changes don’t seem to have affected major commercial queries yet but they are visible when you search for particular peoples names.”

Google, via the Official Google Blog has announced the introduction of a new search related feature known as, “Google Suggest”. This new feature is designed to significantly simplify a user’s search experience by providing search suggestions as the query is typed in.

According to Google, “We’re excited because Google Suggest will be “graduating” from Labs and available by default on the Google.com homepage. Over the next week, we’ll be rolling this out so that more and more of you will start seeing a list of query suggestions when you start typing into the search box.”

The top search engine, Google has been rated as ‘Unsatisfactory’ by the Better Business Bureaus (BBB) recently, as the customers are not getting satisfactory response to their complaints. Though, Google is not accredited to BBB, it has a record on the BBB files that says, Google has overlooked a number of concerns of its customers. However, Google has been able to take care of many of the concerns, still it needs to focus on its myriad of responsibilities towards its users.

In yet another round of search engine rankings, ComScore has released the ‘U.S. Search Engine Rankings for June 2008′. The latest results show that Google is still steaming ahead of the competition, but there has been slight improvements in the figures of Microsoft and Yahoo! as well. However, the figure for the raw searches for Google, have sky rocketed according to the latest figures, with record a record high of 11.5 billion searches.

For the month of June 2008, all across America, an astounding 11.5 billion searches were conducted in just 30 days and yet again Google was on top of the table with a major chunk of the search ration, a whopping 61.5%. Yahoo! recorded 20.9% searches, a slight jump from the figure of 20.6% in May 2008. Microsoft posted a gain amounting to almost 1% with a figure of 9.2%, where its figure for May was 8.5%.

Noel of Search Engine Herald has put up a post about a topic, that is sort of a taboo in the world of SEO (Search Engine Optimization). This topic is called ‘Keyword Mining’. Now, every website has it very own web statistics, that enable the Webmasters to understand operational critical factors about their websites such as, the number of visitors, visiting frequency and other details as well.

All Webmasters have an option of keeping their web statistics private and thus inaccessible to the public in general. However, most of the Webmasters do not bother to use the privacy option and in many cases, some of the Webmasters have been absolutely ignorant about the existence of such an option in their analytical tools. At present, Google is the King of Search and practically indexes every page on the Internet. Many a times, with the pages that are being indexed, these website statistics also get indexed by Google and are displayed in the search results for the whole world to see.

Google has announced, the release of a new feature for Google AdWords. This new feature would be comprised of an advertiser’s Keyword & Placement Targeted campaigns, combined together, thus giving the advertiser a unique opportunity to combine these separate campaigns into a single online campaign.

According to Google, “Starting today, you can target keywords and placements together in the same ad group. By doing so, you combine the benefits of contextual targeting with placement targeting: use keywords to show your ads only on contextually relevant pages, then use placements to set specific bids for, or restrict your targeting to, sites you value differently from the rest of the content network.”