Add Google News to your website

From the Official Google Blog:

The world is a quickly changing place and it’s getting harder and harder to stay on top of the news. With this in mind, we’ve just released a Google News–based element for webmasters and developers. This makes it easy to integrate headlines and previews from Google News into any webpage, and for newspapers to reach new audiences across the web. Whether your visitors are interested in business, entertainment or fashion, you control the types of stories in your personal news show. You can input keywords like “Obama ” or “Superbowl” or broad topics like “world news” or “politics.” For more information, check out our post on the AJAX Search API Blog or get started with our wizard to automatically generate the code for you.

Google adds magazines to book search

Google is digitizing the archives of magazines. Search Google Books now to find issues of New York, Runner’s World, Baseball Digest, Popular Science, CIO, Ebony, Wedding, Jet, and Popular Mechanics. Not surprisingly, Google plans to add more:

Over time, as we scan more articles, you’ll see more and more magazines appear in Google Book Search results. Eventually, we’ll also begin blending magazine results into our main Google.com search results, so you may begin finding magazines you didn’t even know you were looking for. For now you can restrict your search to magazines we’ve scanned by trying an advanced search.

Life photo archive hosted by Google

“Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.”

How to do stuff with Google Docs

How to upload Office docs from your desktop, view Powerpoint presentations on your phone, and other tips from this great Google Docs Guide: How to do stuff with Google Docs, via journerdism.