Google has come up with a new wizard. It allows its users to create a Google News headlines box. The wizard is an integral part of the Google Ajax Search API’s “NewsShow” feature.

Here is the code that users need to copy and paste wherever they want their NewsShow to appear:

<iframe frameborder=”0″ width=”728″ height=”90″ marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″
src=”http://www.google.com/uds/modules/elements/newsshow/iframe.html?topic=h&rsz=small&format=728×90″>
</iframe>

According to the reports of New York Times, Google executives are on trail, who have been accused for defamation and violation of the terms and conditions in reference to a video, that has been posted to the Italian Google Video site. It is a cellphone video of a Down Syndrome boy being teased by four boys from Turin.

“Four executives of Google begin trial Tuesday in Milan on criminal charges of defamation and privacy violation in regard to a video posted on Google’s Italian site.”

Search engine optimization (SEO) is a method, used to increase the amount of visitors and the awareness of a website by ranking it high in the search engines. And, the higher the rank of a website, the better the chance of the website to get traffic! Now, we all are aware of the importance of search engine optimization. Recently, Best Rank came up with a number of SEO tools that would help every webmaster in search marketing.

Tools to check the your website’s keyword rank:

• Fire Fox Rank Checker– It enables you to have a quick keyword ranking check.
• Advanced Web Ranking– It is a java based application that costs $99/year. It has the ability to track keyword rankings over time and export data into XML format.

Yahoo! Search Marketing has recently updated its help center. Following are changes that have been made:

• Better organization and easier navigation: Now, fewer clicks, and better navigation is the main motto of Yahoo! Search.
• Stronger search functionality: Now, search results are more relevant than they used to be.
  Links: Users will now get links to their related search as well.
• Single Page FAQ: The Help Center FAQs are now hosted on a single page. Users are not required to surf them every where.

There have been a lot of talking about Google SMS Search that it has been facing certain complications. Some of the reports said that it is not working, others said, it is not functioning properly, while some even said it is dead! Well, finally it is confirmed that Google SMS search has been fixed and is working!

Google representative, Bret said, Google has “recently made some changes on our end to address this issue.”

The reports revolving around Google’s requirement of one domain per ad group in their new display URL policy in the AdWords program were just speculations, until it was confirmed officially. Of late, an AdWords Advisor in a WebmasterWorld thread confirmed the change:

• “I can confirm that there is a change coming up, the intent of which is to make sure users are sent to the site to which they expect to be sent.
• That said, I am so far behind in general (which, by the way, also accounts for my less than sterling attendence in the forum the past week and more) that I am not yet up-to-speed on the details.

Google is asking its users to give feedback on Ad Planner

“Over the past few months, the Ad Planner team has released a number of new features that were based largely on user feedback. To continue improving Ad Planner, we invite you to take this brief survey on how you’re using the tool today and what you’d like to see in the future.”- Google
You might be thinking, what will you get from this! Well, just give your response with your complete information and contact details, you might get a $50 gift certificate to the Google Store

Google AdWords has opened up Conversion Optimizer to greater eligibility. Customers who use AdWords’ free Conversion Tracking tool and have at least 30 conversions in the last 30 days are eligible or they can use Conversion Optimizer.

“We’re also happy to announce that the Conversion Optimizer is now available to all campaigns using AdWords’ free Conversion Tracking tool that also have at least 30 conversions in the last 30 days. So, if you were previously unable to use the Conversion Optimizer in AdWords, you may now be eligible to use it.”

Google AdWords has released new help videos in order to help all the Internet users and advertisers in their search marketing campaigns. Following are the topics of new videos:

• Entering billing information
• Adjusting your budget
• Using the Ad Preview tool

Yahoo! in a recent email to the Search Marketing advertisers, notified about their new terms and conditions, as well as informed that they can create ads, remove or add keywords to campaigns and optimize accounts. It has also been notified that the search engine can do all these without the permission of the advertisers. Read more at Barry Schwartz post.

Have a look at the the current version and the archived version of the terms and conditions. Here is the snippet of the terms and conditions, which states: