N you can change customize your driving directions on Google Maps by simply dragging & dropping the default directions to your preferred roads or highways, route around traffic, or add multiple stops on your way.

Fauxto, released in late 2006, is a online image editor. You can call it as a online Adob photoshop. They growing their list of features. You can edit the images online also you can save it online no need to go back to your machine hard drive. Sign up totally free of cost.. Read more about it here.

Google is the biggest winner in this year’s Webware 100, with 14 (Count 15 if we add Firefox in this list) products on the list.

• Browsing: Firefox, Google Reader
• Communication: Gmail
• Data: Google
• Media: YouTube
• Mobile: Gmail Mobile, Google Maps Mobile, Google 411
• Productivity and Commerce: Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Calendar, Google AdWords
• Publishing: Blogger, Google Analytics, FeedBurner
• Preference: Google Maps

In their expanding network of blogs, Google launched their public policy blog. There, Google will post its “views on government, policy and politics”, like - important issues that matter to Google and the people that use it such as privacy, child online safety, copyright and trademark protection, content regulation, reform of the patent system, and broadband policy.

As per google's guidelines buying links to improve PageRank violates their quality guidelines. Google uses a number of methods to detect paid links, including algorithmic techniques. Now they released "Report paid links" form to detect who buy links and who sell links. May be google punish both for this business. They said :-

We also welcome information from our users. If you know of a site that buys or sells links, please tell us by filling out the fields below. We'll investigate your submissions, and we'll use your data to improve our algorithmic detection of paid links.

If you run a blog, you might have noticed several “shadow blogs” which scrape your content, omit your name in the credits, but display big ads instead. In a Google-world, where traffic (and revenue) is often dependent on your content’s position in search results, this can harm you most if those shadow blogs actually appear above you in the SERPs. If you have a stronger PageRank, this might act as defense, and Google now handed out some more details on this in a blog post discussing duplicate content.

Thirty days ago, Google Video was only a place where you can share, and find videos from YouTube and Google Video. Then, Google started indexing videos from Metacafe. Now, Google Video gives users the ability to find more videos from video sharing sites such as MySpace, Break, Vimeo, Yahoo Video, DailyMotion and CollegeHumor. Well, you can search all over the web. With all these unfiltered videos out there, Google Video now included the SafeSearch option so you (/your kids) can watch family safe videos.

When you click on a search result, you will be send to another Google page that frames the destination page, rather than going there directly like it used to be. Sort of like how Google Images works, only that Google Video uses IFrame. You can navigate through related video using the arrow buttons or click on the thumbnails under Related videos. To rate the video, just click on the stars on the left of the top frame. Want to get back some screen-o-estate? The Collapse link allows you to minimize the top frame and the Remove link will send you to the video page.

I agree that Google Video should be focusing on what Google does best: search.

note: It seems like that you can manipulate the number of search results showing on the top frame. I am not seeing this as a security breach, though.

Via News From Googlified.

Yesterday Google’s Blogger has launched a new homepage for blogger, as they say: draft.blogger.com*. From here you will be able to get new features still in test mode, like a current video upload option which you can trigger with an icon button above your editor. They also started one new blog for the draft Blogger. Read More