Drew B's take on tech PR

Google set to make the web the new blogs

Valleywag reports on rumours from Google that it's working on an Ajax web page editor, something a bit like GeoCities (they were what people used to use if they wanted their own personal website, before blogs existed). Does this mean Google's bringing out a new kind of website offer to top blogs? Rumour rumours. True or false?

Via Steve Rubel

Google beefing up PR presence in Europe

PR Week says Google is bolstering its PR in Europe, trebling its size in 2006.

Google adds RSS reader to personalised homepage

Logged in to http://www.google.com/ig today and saw that there's more new features. I can now add RSS feeds to my personalised homepage. Nice! I now have Gmail and RSS feeds on the same page.

Google SMS out

Google has launched its SMS service - trying it now and its amazing! You punch in a question / request / whatever, and you get a response texted back from the Google uber computer.

Earlier today I spent at least 15 minutes trying to track down a few guest houses in a town down the road from me. Web searches, Yellow Pages and the phone book were all time consuming and didn't come up with the goods.

But just sent the query to Google SMS service and got two texts back within 10 seconds. Nice!

- one small thing, 64664 on UK mobiles spells MINNG, not GOOGL!