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On its quest to provide a more reliable traffic update thru its own service – Google Map, Google recently announce that they are using location-enabled mobile phones to access real-time traffic data.

Using Google Map’s My Location, users send anonymous data thru their GPS-enabled phones to Google describing their speed in moving in a given area. By combining these bits of data with others, Google provide these information back to users to inform the updated traffic layers.

In this way, Google needs user’s cooperation to get accurate data though it didn’t require much effort. Google said that users will just have to turn on their Google Maps before driving and as more people participate on this data transmission, a more accurate traffic report will result.

One catch on this is the users privacy. With this, Google assured that all information sent to Google thru this process will remain anonymous and will permanently delete the data once captured for traffic update purposes.

Also, Google said that this service will be available not only to iPhone and iPod Touch users but also to other smartphone platforms.

Do you handle a site in Lithuanian, Latvian or Ukrainian? Then you should rejoice because you can now have Adsense into your sites. If you have not applied for an account, now would be the right time. Get those blogs up and get the content rolling and get your Adsense account now.

To do this, simply visit Adsense at adsense.google.com and apply for an account. When approved all you need to do is generate an ad code and place it on your site and Adsense will immediately populate it with relevant ads. Adsense is one of the greatest ways to monetize a site and it is working for both beginners and experts.

The complaint on misleading ads has always existed. Some ads are formatted in such a way that it will provide real information only to find out that it leads to a useless website. This happens when the titles and descriptions of ads are misleading and the owner of the website advertised is merely concerned about hits.

With this concern, a member of Webmasterworld thought about having information show up as a person hovers over the text link. This will give the person enough time to think if the site is really worth the visit.

My problem with that is that advertising is meant to lure or bait people. Not in a bad way, but the idea is to create interest and then have people take a look. Words are formatted in such a way as to encourage interest. If more information about the site is going to be shown in the mouse over, it will only be formatted in such a way as to reinforce the original ad. So it is a pretty useless idea if you will ask me.

As Bing has been developing some new ways to capture the audience, Google will not be left behind. They are also working in their rooms to create new applications that will capture their market. One such application is Google Wave.

In this age, multitasking has been second nature to us. In fact, having all things in one secure place is better than having them in multiple areas. This is what Google Wave will do. They will integrate all the important communication and documents in one place.

When I saw the preview, it reminds me a lot of Google apps. It is like creating a place in your browser where everything is integrated. But Google Wave is so much more. It can let people communicate and work together while sharing important texts, photos, videos and more.

The goal of Google wave is common workspace. Online jobs are normal nowadays and projects must be collaborated on an online setting. Google wave does just that. But this does not mean that you should also be online for the wave can rewind back so you can see what has happened. Like Google Docs, editing is done in real time so participants can easily communicate and tell the others what they think. It is a very convenient tools for different types of projects.

Google is making a stronger backbone for all of its services such as Search, Gmail, YouTube and Wave. According to The Register, Google is working on version of two of its current Google File System (GFS). This new version will replace GFS after ten years of being of service to Google.

This new system is absolutely different with Google’s release of Caffeine which will be the testing ground for a new Google Search.

One of the primary reason why Google decided to improve the current GFS is that its first version doesn’t handle operations with other Google products including Gmail and YouTube. Originally, it was made to power Google’s search queries and right now, as the company grows bigger, it is being asked to do more. The second version of GFS will handle all Google services and related applications.