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Google Blog Search’s front page has been redesigned and now it tracks and groups the related blog posts according to the number of blogs about a story and the published time.

Google blog search front page

The new Google blog search looks very much like Google News. The related blog posts are clustered, and a blog count and thumbnail are displayed on the left hand side.

Clicking the blog count will dig further to the story and a chart on the right is showing the “hotness” of the story based on the number of blogs covering the story in the past 16 hours.

On the left most sides, the blog posts are categorized in different topics: Politics, US, World, Business, Technology, Video Games, Science, Entertainment, Movies, Television and Sports.

However, unlike Google blog search results, no feed is available for each blog topic. You can’t get the latest updates via feed or email.

For some tech geeks, the new Google blog search front page may look like a killer to Techmeme but Matt of Google showed the different.

Do you like the new Google blog search front page?

Google Inc. launched Google News in Malaysia on September 18th, 2008, providing 14.9 million Malaysian Internet users the latest news from more than 4,500 English-language sources, including a wide range of Malaysian media outlets.

Google News for Malaysia is available at http://news.google.com.my. With this launch there are now 56 regional editions of Google News available in 20 different languages.

Just like Google News, you can personalize the news page for your own preferences. What’s different is that Google News for Malaysia has “Malaysia” and “Southeast Asia” news sections.

Other Malaysian news are also given higher priority in related news sections such as Sci/Tech, Business, Health, Entertainment, and Sports.

What do you think of Google News for Malaysia?

[hat tip: Jana Ponnudurai]

Google Audio Indexing (GAudi) is the new member of Google Labs. The project allows users to search what people are saying inside YouTube videos.

GAudi uses speech technology to find spoken words inside videos and lets the user jump to the right portion of the video where these words are spoken.

How to search audio in video?

Goto Google Audio Indexing, simply type a query in the search box and press the “Search videos” button. The results of your search will appear in the left column. Clicking the result will display the video on right column.

Currently. Google Audio Indexing only return results from (USA?) politicians videos. Google will do audio index on every YouTube videos and make them “speech-searchable”.

More information about Google Audio Indexing

Google Chrome is the open source web browser developed from scratch by Google. Available in beta in more than 40 languages, Google Chrome is a new approach to the browser that’s based on the simplicity and power that users have come to expect from Google products.

Features of Google Chrome

At the first launch, you will notice that Google Chrome has a very simple user interface. It has no menu bar, no status bar, and no search bar. All you got is a window frame and a tab at the top of address bar.

Screenshot of Google Chrome with multiple tabs and most visited sites (click to enlarge)

What’s inside Google Chrome is the Webkit web browser engine (same as Apple Safari) and the fast javascript engine, V8. Here are some of the features of Google Chrome:

Address bar — the address bar is combined with search and history quickly takes you where they want to go in just a few keystrokes.

New tab page — when you open a new tab, you will see a page that includes thumbnails of your most visited sites, searches, recent bookmarks and closed tabs.

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Beijing 2008 Olympics Games is over. I had a great time sitting in front TV most of the time and watching the performances of world’s greatest athletes, hadn’t you? For Malaysians, the biggest item of interest in the 2008 Olympic Games was our badminton team.

But you probably never knew the other Olympics-related matters that Malaysians are interested in. With the help of Google Insights for Search Malaysia, here is the roundup of the Malaysian Olympics-related search habits:

1. The Beijing 2008 Olympics was twice as popular with Malaysians as the 2004 Athens Games.
2. [Badminton] takes the lead in Malaysian searches over [gymnastics], [swimming], [diving] and even [football] largely due to the silver medal win of Lee Chong Wei in badminton singles. No surprises there!
3. [Lee Chong Wei] also tops the athlete searches from the start of the Olympics and surges ahead of other famous Olympians like [Michael Phelps], [Usain Bolt], [Rafael Nadal] and [Liu Xiang].
4. There was also little doubt whose side Malaysians were on during [Chong Wei]’s eventual defeat to China’s [Lin Dan] for the badminton singles final.
5. Movie-loving Malaysians were also tuning-into the Olympics rather than checking out the latest movies with [Olympics] getting more hits than both [gsc] or [tgv], abbreviations for cinema chains Golden Screen Cinemas and Tanjong Golden Village, combined.
6. Despite the by-election fever heating up for [Anwar Ibrahim], Malaysians were still upbeat in their search for [Olympics] news and material. The Malaysians’ search for [badminton] tipped the scale on 17 Aug. That was the day the men’s badminton singles finals between Lee Chong Wei and Li Dan was held.
7. Interestingly, searches for the [Olympics opening ceremony] and [Olympics closing ceremony] follow the same trends, with the opening ceremony taking a slight lead. With last night’s fireworks-ridden closing ceremony featuring appearances by Jackie Chan and David Beckham, among others, it’s no surprise that viewers were just as excited to see it!
8. It seems like most KL-ites were hot on the trail of the Olympics by topping the other States in Malaysia on online search of the [Beijing Olympics] followed closely by Selangor and Pahang.

Google Insights for Search is a new tool for advertisers, marketers, and Internet users who are interested in finding out what’s on top of Malaysians’ minds and looking to compare search patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames.

[Hat tip: Jana Ponnudurai]