Search Satisfaction, Google's Mobile App Development Purchase, Blog Zombies Attacking
So here's today's search news, hand picked, sun dried:

Search Satisfaction Levels
Danny's got a great post and graph showing satisfaction levels for the fantastic five over the past four years.

Google's Android Purchase
BusinessWeek has the goods:

"In a 2003 interview with BusinessWeek, just two months before incorporating Android, Rubin said there was tremendous potential in developing smarter mobile devices that are more aware of its owner's location and preferences."

So the new Google cell phone will integrate into Google Maps, right? (via)

Google Blog Hoopla
An enhanced (how?) Froogle Mobile
Blogging directly from MS Word so you can spell check.

Oodle: Local Classified Search
From their press release: "Oodle covers everything from Cars.com, Craigslist and the New York Times to Trucker-to-Trucker, MyKidsCloset and the Greenwich Time." Available in 22 US cities. Maps for housing listings according to SEW.

AdSense Blog Launches
Here it is. Off to a roaring one post start. And... "you can look forward to posts around 2-3 times a week from an assortment of Googlers involved in the operation of AdSense – engineers, product managers, product marketing managers, and operations staff." (via)

Google the Movie
Gary watches what urls Google registers (most recently of note GoogleMovieReviews.com and GoogleShowTime.com) and speculates. TW readers scoff.

Google and Geico
"Google is pondering whether to settle a trademark-infringement lawsuit with Geico after a judge ruled for Google regarding one part of the case but against it in another..." MVox

Cuban's BlogSpam "Zombies" Keeping BlogSpot Out of IceRocket
"Google seems to be working hard to adjust their relevancy indexes to exclude splog from having influence on search rankings, but they dont seem to be doing anything more than removing reported splogs. Kind of like going after the zombies one at a time with a shovel."

Man I love that imagery. Via
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