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It looks like like google Share is safe investment. Google announcement of a 26 percent increase in third-quarter profits that surpassed analysts' forecasts.
Check the Statement of Google :
"People suddenly realized that if there a stock you are going to own through this uncertainty, (Google) is the one," said Canaccord Adams analyst Colin Gillis.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin predicted the company will emerge from the turmoil even stronger. "My favorite time to manage is during a bust," Brin said in a Thursday interview with The Associated Press. "It brings more clarity about what your customers need and what your priorities should be."

Check more info here: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20081017/ap_on_hi_te/earns_google

Google on Friday announced that it would for the first time display links to video ads with search results.
Frm the next week the advertisers will be given the option of running video links under the traditional text advertising that runs alongside search results. The new links would be a box with a plus sign next to the words "watch video." When the box is clicked, a window would drop down with the video playing inside..
A Google spokesman said the new offering is a test and would only be used with a "small percentage" of searches. "The vast majority of users probably won't see this," he said.

While adding video ads doesn't pose any technical challenges, Google wants to monitor its impact on users of the site before committing to broader deployment. "We want to understand how users interact with these types of ads," the spokesman said.
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Microsoft Corp. views its proposed takeover of Yahoo Inc. as the missing piece in its Internet advertising puzzle, but skeptics think the deal could become a jumbled mess that will help make rival Google Inc. even stronger.

The second-guessing about Microsoft's unsolicited bid, initially valued at $44.6 billion, is typical for large acquisitions. Investors are debating whether the benefits outweigh the potential management distractions, sagging employee morale and other headaches that can arise after the deal is done

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A new firexox browser version is released an it is mainly for developers. New Version offers improvements on finding frequently visited Web sites and tools for running Web applications without a live Internet connection.

There's also a new star button for easily adding sites to your bookmark list — similar to what's already available on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 browser.

Offline Web support — for example, letting you compose Web mail while offline to send after you're back online — is bound to come in handy as more software developers design programs to be run completely over the Internet, eliminating installation complexities.

For more info http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0b1/releasenotes

Microsoft announced its Live Search Webmasters tools open.

Currently the LIVE search webmasters tools provides reporting on:

Linking data
Indexing data
Crawling data

The webmaster center allows you to Submit your content to Live Search in following manner:
Books
Business listings
Product information
Submit your website's URL
Videos

For this you nedd live email id.

The Live Search Webmaster Center Team says:
"We want the center and the blog to be a place for two way communication between Live Search and the webmaster community because we understand that SEO's and webmasters need this kind of information and the tools we are building to keep their sites performing well."

We will see more development and enhancements in the tools which would make the existing reports more comprehensive and meaningful.