The company announced the release of its Caffeine indexing technology–which it has been testing for almost a year–in a blog post late Tuesday evening. “Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it's the largest collection of web content we've offered. Whether it's a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible ever before,” the company said in a blog post.

via Google’s new search index Caffeine goes live | Relevant Results – CNET News.

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Google’s Wonder Wheel visually represents the way Google’s search engine perceives the relationships between keywords, and is how Google’s bot initially chooses sites for ads in the Content Network. Check it out the next time you ‘google’ something!  It’s easy!  Go to www.google.com, do a search and click on “Show Options.” Down a few inches on the left is a link called “Wonder Wheel.” Click on it and voila!

Google, a company that stores lots of data for lots of people, today announced the Google Data Liberation Front. The web site, dataliberation.org is dedicated to explaining how to get your data out of Google and to discuss the ideology behind data portability.

via HOW TO: Get Your Data Out of Google.