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Sun Apr 24 04:44:07 EDT 2011
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Google Celebrating Children and Children's Stories With Doodles Worldwide -

Google Doodle logos are popping up in various Google sites around the world. While they are all different, they share a common theme: children.

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Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of April 17 to 23, as reported by Search Engine Watch.

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I received an email this morning from the Google Video team explaining how to transfer my videos from their hosting to YouTube and that the closing of this product on April 29 will not be happening. The email was a followup to a previous one detailing how to download the videos to my computer. Apparently a large number of users had asked Google for a quick way to transfer them to YouTube.

"Google Video users can rest assured that they won't be losing any of their content and we are eliminating the April 29 deadline. We will be working to automatically migrate your Google Videos to YouTube. In the meantime, your videos hosted on Google Video will remain accessible on the web and existing links to Google Videos will remain accessible," the email stated.

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Here's a roundup of today's other search news and headlines from around the web, sorted by category.

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For the past few months, Google has been testing new news layouts in the wild. Today, they announced those tests are now official.

If you're signed into your Google account, you'll now see "News for You" under the three "Top Stories" area. The stories in the News for You area are personalized and recommended based upon your Web search history.

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Bing has announced expanded options for earning credits from its Bing Rewards Program. Bing Rewards is now integrated directly into Bing Web search. This opens it up to people using the latest versions of the Firefox, Chrome, and Safari browsers.

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Google has released a new plugin that will help you verify your WordPress site in Webmaster Tools.

Blogger users already know this was an option for Google-owned-blogger blogs. Now, it's an option for WordPress users as well. Bloggers who have a blog hosted on WordPress.com can't use the plugin just yet as it only works on self-hosted WordPress installations.

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Google have raised awareness of Earth Day for the last 10 years with a new Doodle. The doodle designs have got more creative and complex with the years and have touched upon different planetary themes and concerns such as solar energy to polar ice caps.

This month, known as Earth Month, Google has really put it's money where it's mouth is by investing over $300 million dollars in clean-technology and alternative energy schemes. So, at SEW we have been expecting something a little bit special from the eco-conscious company.

SEW spotted today's Earth Day Google Doodle, seven hours earlier and it was nice a doodle, but because it was a static image it did not show off the interactivity that these logos have been known for in the last 12 months (the most famous of which celebrated Pacman).

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Here's a roundup of today's other search news and headlines from around the web, sorted by category.

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A Texas jury recently ruled that Google infringed on an information storage and retrieval patent. The court verdict documents, filed last Friday, specify a sum of $5 million in damages are to be awarded to Bedrock Computer Technologies, LLC. The court has yet to decide on the injunction for which Bedrock had also asked.

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Google Offers, Google's version of Groupon or LivingSocial, has launched in Portland, Oregon, and will soon offer daily deals from local restaurants and businesses in New York City (Downtown, Midtown, Uptown), Oakland/East Bay, and San Francisco.

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Every year, without fail, Google celebrates Earth Day and SEW has been on the lookout for how Google will honor it. Earth Day is tomorrow, April 22, but the Google Doodle has already been sighted in New Zealand, Australia, and India.

You can get a preview of it below.

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Hot on the heels of their latest 'Live' landing page, is the news that the BBC's coverage of the royal wedding will be streamed live on YouTube on The Royal Channel, dubbed "the Official Channel of The British Monarchy."

It is with some humility that, in discussion with Google's PR team in the UK, SEW found out that this is an altruistic collaboration with Clarence House and the footage will be provided by the BBC.

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Google users will soon see a new twist on Google's autocomplete feature when typing longer queries. Google announced that autocomplete will begin serving up search predictions based on only part of your search.

Autocomplete, which basically tries to predict or refine what you're searching for based on popularity of search terms, will focus on the last word or words of your query to suggest searches -- even on less popular search queries and keyword combinations that have never been typed before.

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It's critical for websites to appear on Page 1 of Google, especially in one of the top three organic positions, as these spots receive 58.4 percent of all clicks from users, according to a new study from Optify.

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