Ask.com - Skin feature (Awesome)

Ask.com has launched a skins feature. This feature will help you personalizing ask.com homepage. You can choose this feature from the different skins given by ask.com or you can upload your any image from your computer.

To access this feature, click on the skins button which is just below the search box.



Now you choose from the available skins or you can upload a new skin by choosing upload your own option.

If you choose "upload your own" option, a new window will appear which will ask you to browse an image from your computer or you can add an image from web by giving its url.




After clicking I agree, the next window will ask for the name of the image and you can also align your picture according to your preferences. Click next and you skin will be ready to upload.

You can use the uploaded image as skin or you can save it for later use.



Well if you would like to make some changes you can always go back & edit it or upload a new one.

You can save your skin preferences by signing into Mystuff account. This is a way to make your own ask.com home page.

Updated conversionuniversity.com

Google Analytics blog has recently launched an an updated version of ConversionUniversity.com.

For those who don't know what Conversion university is, Conversion university offers tips and best practices designed to help you improve your online results.

It is now available in all 25 Google Analytics supported languages. It can give you help on different internet marketing topics like Adwords targeting, Adwords tracking, SEM strategy, Optimizing Adwords ROI and may more.

It also contains videos which includes full presentations from Conversion University events. The following video explains how to establish context for your data and empower stakeholders to take action by Avinash Kaushik.

Google Docs - customizable headers and footers

Google docs has recently announced customizable headers and footers features for printed documents. This feature has been announced to improve the printing features in Google Docs.

You can insert a header or footer by selecting header or footer from the "insert" tab. A box surrounded by dashed lines will appear and whatever is placed in that box will be repeated on each page of printed document.

More information available at: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/01/headers-and-footers.html

Launch of Adsense Newbie Central

Adsense has launched Newbie Central where new adsense account holders can find a walk-through of the initial steps getting started, from familiarizing yourself with your account to placing ads on your site to receiving your very first payment. There are also brief guides available about various features, policies, and tools.

There is a Earnings and Expectations section available, which provide insight into how much you can expect to earn and you can do to influence your earnings.

More information available at: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/01/ring-in-new-year-with-newbie-central.html

Sitelinks got multiplied by 2

Google search search results will now show 8 sitelinks instead of 4. Sitelinks are the set of links below some search results that lets you jump directly to useful pages deeper in the site. Google blog has given this information few days back.

The extra will give users to access to more areas of the website and will also provide a good overview of the website.

Google people are working on bringing sitelinks for many more website with descriptive names. Google aims at providing users with more meaningful improvements so that users can access information quickly.

New Features in Adsense account

Adsense Blog has announced that they have made some updates in Adsense account based on the suggestions received from Adsense account users:

• Now ID number associated with a specific custom channel can be viewed by visiting Channels link under Adsense Tab. This information has been added because many users want channel ID numbers for ad management programs which they are using.
• All ad units generated within last 7 days that haven't yet received any impressions will now be listed as New rather than active in Status column.
• Most recent date will be displayed when ever you will update your ad units. Any ad units generated or edited before this display change will show a last-edited date of November 1st, 2007.
• Google guys are working on the manage ads feature for referral units. They say that soon they will prompt you to enter names for your newly generated referral units.

All the features sound interesting & useful to me. You can also send your suggestions to Google by visiting the following link:

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/request.py?search_ask=1&subtopic=&contact=suggest_feature&sourceid=aso&subid=ww-en-et-asblog_2007-12-10&medium=link

Important Adsense announcement – Save your top queries data

Adsense Blog has announced that there is an important change coming on December 10th that will affect your top queries data. From December 10th Adsense for Search top query data that's more than a year old will no longer be available.

If you have important top queries data which are older than a year old, please run any appropriate reports and save them before December 10^th.

Gmail Colored Labels

Gmail blog has announced that they have added colors to labels.

Labels in Gmail do all the work of folders. You can add color to labels by clicking the color swatch next to each label to assign a color. The colored labels will help you better organize email with new colored labels.

More Information available at: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/next-evolution-of-labels.html

Google Adwords Template Center

Google Adwords blog has announced that they have launched Adwords Template Center.

This is free tool and it is available via My Client Center (MCC). This will allow My Client Center account managers to create templates for pre-defined Adwords campaigns and share them with their directly linked Adwords accounts. Advertisers with these linked accounts can quickly and easily view and customize the templates to run their own Adwords campaigns. The MCC account managers can create policies to restrict use of certain keywords.

More information available at: https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=13065

New features in Google Reader

Google reader has announced two new features. The new features are recommendations & drag-and-drop capabilities.

Google recommendations can be found on the top right hand side corner of the Google reader home page and on the directory page.

These recommendations are determined by what other feeds you subscribe to, as well as your Web History data.

Another feature which is announced is drag-and-drop support for subscriptions and folders. You can now easily move feeds between folders, as well as reorder things up and down within the list.

More Information available at: http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2007/11/attack-of-interns-recommendations-and.html