AdSense Video Units is here! Get great video content from YouTube for your site and earn extra revenue along the way. So now you can make money and enhance your site with high quality, relevant video content from YouTube partners, and earn extra revenue along the way. To get started just log in to your AdSense account and click on the AdSense Setup tab. You will see a new product listed there called Video Units.
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Google seems to be finally gearing up to cash in on its $1.65 billion investment in YouTube.  Google AdSense is going to be rolling out Video Units.  Publishers will be able to make money from YouTube videos with embedded AdSense ads. The full details are yet to be released, but here is a preview of what we can expect. Continue »

So I was doing some basic blog surfing on BlogSearch when all of a sudden I saw an error page with this text:

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Google released the preview of its 3D mapping service named “Street View”. You can see this view as a new layer in addition to Satellite and Traffic in Google Maps. Street View shows you eye level photos of the current location. It is currently only offered for major metropolitan cities of San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, New York, and Miami.
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Watch out eBay, here comes Base, Google Base that is. Today the GOOG stock hit the $400 mark after the general public caught on.

It will be sometime before you can find your next concert ticket on Google Base and purchase it from Google. Completion of Google Wallet will help.

It remained to be seen how eBay, which owns a stake in craigslist, will react to the potential for Google to become a competitor. >>