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Google’s been on a homepage logo changing spree: they’ve celebrated H.G. Wells, the bar code, Confucious, Gandhi, and Sesame Street over the last few months alone.

According to a post on their webmaster blog yesterday:

Michael Jackson’s death this week hasn’t shown Google (Google) in its best light: not only did Google News fail on Thursday (the system interpreted the flood of searches for “michael jackson” as an attack), but earlier today the search engine was claiming that Michael Jackson died in 2007 – for a time, the message was being appended to the top of searches.

Google announced that a couple of changes have been made to search results. You can now get semantically-related searches for some queries, and more complex queries will yield longer “search snippets”.
First things first. Google has for a long time had synonym searching. You can put a tilde (~) in front of the word and Google [...]

Google has added another Labs feature to Gmail: a quick todo list.

Today, Google revealed in our Gmail accounts their new feature. Gmail Themes.