Google Adsense is now accepting advertisements served from qualified third-party vendors for its content network, opening its content network to third-party vendors should increase the revenue for publisher.

Currently, third-party ads are only available in image or Flash formats, and publishers will be able to control display of these ads using Adsense "Ad Review Center".

Google's newest offering Google App Engine lets you use Google's infrastructure for hosting your applications online, the service currently released as a PREVIEW for first 10,000 developers allows participants to use Google's highly scalable fully-integrated application environment with upto 500MB of persistent storage and enough bandwidth and CPU for 5 million monthly page views for free.

Google has announced public release of their web traffic analysis software Urchin Beta for download as a 90 day evaluation version, the software provides functions similar to the free Google Analytics service but Urchin can be installed and managed on your own servers, Google warned that the beta software "should only be used for evaluation purposes," and is not recommended for production environment.

Urchin can be used on servers having content behind a security firewall or having restrictions which does not allow use of Google Analytics.

Urchin Software from Google features the following upgrades from Urchin 5, among many others:

• More accurate geo-identification of visitors
• Cross-segmentation options similar to Google Analytics
• E-commerce and campaign tracking included (no longer requiring additional modules)
• Vastly improved embedded scheduler to more easily manage processing and re-processing jobs
• Improved user interface
• More robust log processing engine

Google has banned the world largest human edited web-directory DMOZ from its index, searching for DMOZ does not bring the directory as the top result, also Google cache does not show anything for the domain.

This is yet another example of how useful Google Maps can be, "GMaps Flight Tracker" is a Google Map mashup for tracking inbound flights to land at Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, JFK New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle airports, the flight progress is updated every 40 seconds.

Try searching for "100000000..10000000000" (without quotes) into Google or click here - > The Google Search Bug, this should display the usual did not match message:

Your search - 100000000..10000000000 - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

* Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
* Try different keywords.
* Try more general keywords.