The +1 button is a shorthand for "this is pretty cool" or "you should check this out". Click +1 to publicly give something your stamp of approval. Your +1's can help friends, contacts and others find the best stuff when they search. Danny Sullivan's got a great article about what the change means for the search giant in the greater scheme of things over at SearchEngineLand.com.

http://google.com/instant | Meet the new way to search. Google Instant shows results as you type.

Street Slide is a novel browsing interface for street-level imagery that combines the best aspects of the immersive nature of "bubbles" with the overview provided by multiperspective strip panoramas, figures to attract significant interest, in large part because of the ingenious way in which Microsoft Researchers tackle problems with current street-side imagery on the web.

Last year I was lucky enough to hear Matt Cutts' speech at WordPress Conference 09 in San Francisco on Search Engine Optomization (SEO). Matt Cutts is part of the Search Quality team at Google. In the following new video he does a great job at explains the inner workings of Google search in layman's terms. You can check out other videos on how google works here.

This new Bing maps feature takes tagged photos from Flickr, and relates them to our Streetside imagery to show images matched to their original context. See if you're really going to get a good sunset at that B&B youre looking to book, or check out the crowds on a Saturday morning at Pike Place Market in Seattle.

The first step in an ongoing effort to make Google Search as social as the web itself, Google social search is an new feature that surfaces public web content from your friends and online contacts. It is currently available on google.com for all signed-in users.

Our new music search feature makes it easy to find music. Just search for an artist, album, song or even a few lyrics to get song previews from our partners.