Most of Google’s services are optimized for mobile web browsers, including their search page, Google News, RSS reader, and email client. Google has yet to release a version for Windows Mobile, so developer Bryan Burkholder decided to create one. It is called Google2Go.

The application supports almost all Google mobile services, including:

Google web, image, and local search
Google Calendar
Google Reader
Gmail
Google Docs
Picasa
Google News
Google Notes

Google2Go requires a Windows Mobile 6 Professional device with a touchscreen, but Burkholder plans to add support for other devices later this year.

via Google Blogoscoped

Google has just introduced an online business software package designed to make it easier for people in the same organization to share documents and information.

The free “Team Edition” version, released today, shows the Internet search leader’s latest attempt to attract more users to free applications, which makes Microsoft quiver because of their costly word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and calendar programs.

Most likely Google chose to release the software this week due to Microsoft offering a bid to buy Yahoo Inc. in an attempt to stop Google’s lead in Internet search and advertising.

Microsoft’s bid, said to be $44.6 billion, is from the profit of software.

Google knows that giving away free software cloaks how they make a profit. By users clicking ads on search result pages.

At this time more than 500,000 businesses have signed up to use Google’s applications, according to Google. Some businesses pay $50 extra per user for more features, but the fees are measly compared to Google’s $16.6 billion in annual revenue. Google makes $181 million for software sales.

gDocsBar is a new add-on for Firefox that gives users instant, access to their Google Documents. It features a built-in search and filtering, and browsing online documents is a breeze, gDocsBar is one of the best firefox extensions that we have used.

Once installation is completed, users will be required to login to their Google account. Login is sent using SSL so it is safe.

After logging on users will see a list of all of their Google Documents, including Spreadsheets and Presentations. Users have the option to sort them by date, title, or author, in ascending or descending order.

With gDocsBar it is simple to upload a document. Simply drag and drop a file to the upload part at the bottom of the gDocsBar sidebar, and the file is automatically uploaded. We love this firefox add-on because it is so easy to use.

Gmail now offers you a 5GB space to store your email as you can see on the home page.

From Google:

In April 2005, we started increasing Gmail storage as part of our “Infinity+1″ storage plan. At that time, we realized we’d never reach infinity, but we promised to keep giving Gmail users more space as we were able. That said, a few of you are using Gmail so much that you’re running out of space, so to make good on our promise, today we’re announcing we are speeding up our counter and giving out more free storage.

Google recently added support for labels to Google Notebook. The addition was needed. Users can use labels to organize Gmail, Google Documents, and RSS feeds in Google Reader. It seems like Google would have added this feature long ago but now we can’t complain.

Labels are automatically imported from your Google Bookmarks settings, if you use Google Bookmarks. You can then sort or filter your notes by label using either the Google Notebook web page or the Google Notebook browser plugin.

Via Google

As we all know Google has been fighting for sometime with other social networks such as facebook.

Tomorrow, Google will launch its new social network site, called OpenSocial, with a some social networking players already at the party. The most significant of these players are LinkedIn, Salesforce, and Orkut, who’ve all been around quite a while and have substantialy high popularity: LinkedIn in the business work, Salesforce in CRM applications, and Orkut as a South-American Myspace. Even Friendster has joined the party. Maybe these social networks see Google as their guide to competing with MySpace and Facebook.

Like Facebook, Google’s API will offer users options for customizing profiles. But unlike Facebook, OpenSocial will rely on commonplace JavaScript to do the API’s bidding. Google’s intention is to get as many third-party social nets supporting OpenSocial as possible. And developers will go to anything that saves them from having to re-develop their widgets for different social networks.

Via TechCrunch

Many known websites and blogs have been slapped with Pagerank decreases in the last days. Most went down two points (10 Maximum)  from one day to the other. The Pagerank drop does not affect SERP.

The reason for page rankings dropping is because of selling text links which is against googles terms of service.

Microsoft is adding some making some changes to its services in the coming weeks. A new page will offer a many new features making it easier to find and print driving directions. Here are a few of new features:

• A new display mode will let you compress the first few or last few directions. If you’re tired of wasting paper by printing out the 5 step directions for getting out of your driveway, this feature could make your day (and prolong your printer’s days).
• The two-box search bar at the top of the page will be transformed into a single search box with multiple tabs.
• There’s a new option to select the best route to avoid current traffic.
• A new 1-click directions feature will let you search for a location and then get directions to that location from the North, South, East, or West.

The question we need to ask ourselves is are we going to start using Live Search maps now?