Google is now offering a reporting dashboard for Google Local Business Center. Learn how people find
your business. Its all about helping customers find you on Google and it’s free.

So if you’re a business owner who maintains one or more physical locations, and you’re curious about what people are searching for when they see your business listing and where your customers are coming from, the dashboard will answer many of those questions for you.

Data available in the dashboard will include the following:

* Impressions: The number of times the business listing appeared as a result on a Google.com search or Google Maps search in a given period.

* Actions: The number of times people interacted with the listing; for example, the number of times they clicked through to the business’ website or requested driving directions to the business.

* Top search queries: Which queries led customers to the business listing; for example, are they finding the listing for a cafe by searching for “tea” or “coffee”?

* Zip codes – where driving directions come from: Which zip codes customers are coming from when they request directions to your location.

And guess what… its free! Use the Local Business Center to create your free listing. When potential customers search Maps for local information, they’ll find your business: your address, hours of operation, even coupons to print out and bring to your shop. It’s easy, free, and you don’t need a website of your own.

Interested? Goto http://www.google.com/lbc now!

Watch a quick video tour on how this Google Local Business Center works:

Even for Egypt Google has a Doodle and has a Google Doodle competition held also. The Doodle is now showing in the Google Egypt homepage and the theme was “My Egypt …”…. The winner for Google egypt contest is Sameh Fadel (15 Years) from AlShabat AlMuslimat Orphanage.

It was five years ago yesterday that Gmail launched by giving out a gig. Back then, a typical webmail account could only store about five megabytes of mail. It’s hard to remember what those days were like, considering that today, you can send a single 20 megabyte attachment, four times the size of an entire webmail account from 2004. A gigabyte of online storage may have been what got a lot of people to give Gmail a try, but changes to the email experience — like search, labels, conversation view, and strong spam protection — seem to be what kept people around.

With all the new April fool’s bash of fooling people around and creating hoaxes, Google sure seemed to celebrate the birthday very well…. :P

Google has released a new version of the browser plug-ins of the Google Earth API. With the 5.0.11655.6079 version of the plugin, Google Earth API is also released.

One of the major new feature is the support of Google Ocean, since the beginning of February, part of Google Earth is. The new version should be in the next few days will automatically install.

Read Changes in the released notes.

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Red Eye on images like nothing else. Google now has a new version of Picasa incorporated, just the opposite. Instead of the natural eye color black in Picasa 4.1 it automatically changes the eye color to RED :) and unfortunately this is only accessible through proxy!