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Stories Discussed In The Show

• Looking For Old News? Use Google's News Archive Search
  Today, the Search Engine Roundtable has a post explaining that Google News only shows results for news articles up to thirty-days old. To access any older news content, you must use Google News Archive Search. The thing is, not all Google News sources are included in Google News Archive Search....
• Power Searching Google News With Cluster Filtering
  Ionut Alex Chitu noticed a new feature in Google News that allows you to filter news clusters by three options. The three options include, "All Sources," "Blogs," and local news options. Let me walk you through this step by step....
• Google Maps Cleans Up Its Act
  Google Maps (Earth) is far and away the company's most successful product after search. It is now the second most popular mapping service online (Mapquest still leads) and the most popular mobile mapping tool (Mapquest Mobile is second), according to comScore. Every few months, it seems, Google "tweaks" the service,...
• SearchBiz: Whetstone Becomes New Google PR Chief; Google And The "M-Word;" Flickr Founder Criticizes Yahoo & Digg Confirms Google Rumors (Sort Of)
  Remember Google losing its head of PR, Elliott Schrage, to Facebook back in May? Google has quietly found a replacement, that of Rachel Whetstone. She formerly headed corporate communications for Google in Europe. Google confirmed to us she was named to the post several weeks ago, though no announcement was...
• Google's Send Mail Server Security Certificate Expires
  It appears that Google's Gmail SMTP (send mail) server might have let their secure certificate expire. I personally just got notified that the smtp.gmail.com server was not secure, due to the certificate expiring. Here is a screen capture:...
• A Comprehensive Look at Digg's Recommendation Engine
  It's hard to believe but Digg's latest feature, the recommendation engine is one that has been in the works for over two years. Before they developed images functionality, launched visualization tools, released Google, Netvibes, and Myspace widgets, developed Facebook functionality, rolled out dataportability enhancements, released updates to the comment...
• Google Logos For NASA's & Beatrix Potter's Birthdays
  Today, Google has a special logo up for NASA's birthday. Yesterday, Google had a logo up for the late Beatrix Potter's birthday. NASA was established on July 29, 1958. Potter was born on July 28, 1866 and died on December 22, 1943. Here are the logos:...