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A little update on a previous post about Google’s coverage of the NZ elections.

YouTube - debate’s Channel
As the 2008 general election campaign heats up, the official ONE News YouTube Election Debate, between Helen Clark and John Key, will be broadcast live on TV ONE on Tuesday, October 14th.

Unlike previous debates in which the host asks all the questions, this year we want the leaders to face YOUR questions.

The ONE News YouTube Election Debate is your chance to ask Helen Clark and John Key about the issues that matter to you.

All you have to do is create a short video (no more than 30 seconds) and submit it here.

The best questions uploaded to this site will be broadcast live during the debate and the leaders will have to answer them.

This event will be history in the making. So go on New Zealand, be seen and be heard.

Search Engine Marketing Blog by ineedhits: Google.org Reveals 5 Initiatives to Save the World
Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, has announced five core initiatives that it plans to focus on over the next five to ten years.

Google.org will “collaborate with experienced partners working in each of these fields, investing its resources and tapping the strengths of Google’s employees and global operations to advance its core initiatives.” More than $25 million in new grants and investments from Google.org, will be handed to these initial partners.

Google’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have committed to devoting approximately 1 percent of the company’s equity plus 1 percent of annual profits to philanthropy.

In the past, Google.org has focused mainly on environmental issues but they are now expanding their vision.

BUSINESSWIRE. Mountain View-based search giant Google Inc today announced they’ve acquired the internet for the astounding sum of $2,455.5 billion in cash. The deal had been rumored in various search blogs since the beginning of the year and was now confirmed by the company’s CEO. “This is in line with our vision to make information more accessible to end users,” says Eric Schmidt. “With the acquisition, we can increase the speed of indexing as everything will already be on our servers by the time it’s published.” … Don’t believe it? keep reading

Tonight I’m experimenting with a new beta gadget from Google labs - ajax search. With an API you can embed a Google Search in your web pages and other web applications. But not just any old Google search box - no sir.

The Google AJAX Search API provides simple web objects that perform inline searches over a number of Google services (Web Search, Local Search, Video Search, Blog Search, and News Search). If your web page is designed to help users create content (e.g. message boards, blogs, etc.), the API is designed to support these activities by allowing them to copy search results directly into their messages.

Nice. So I’ve popped one together here. Next I’ll need to integrate it into Wordpress but that’s a job for another rainy day.
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