Google has launched a music search engine in China that will give users access to free downloads of licensed songs.

After months of negotiations, Google announced last night the new service would be supported by advertising revenue that would be split between the music industry and Chinese music download website Top100.cn.

Google's first music search service will allow internet users in China to search for songs on Google.cn by singer, song or album title and then download and stream licensed music for free.

If successful, the venture could curb the rampant culture of illegal music downloads that has been crippling the growth of the legitimate digital music industry in China, the country with the world's largest number of internet users.

Read more: guardian.co.uk 

Labels: China, downloads, freeware, music

Boston (dbTechno) - Google is getting ready to unveil a new tool that will allow them to measure Internet usage.

The report comes out of The Wall Street Journal, which stated that Google will announce the new tool as early as Tuesday morning.

The idea behind the new tool is to help out advertisers in a big way.

Read more: dbtechno.com 

Labels: freeware, Internet, tool

Free Monitor for Google is free web promotion software designed for search engine specialists and webmasters. With it, you can find position of your web site in Google Top for popular keywords and get more traffic from Google. Google Monitor will query Google and show you the position of your site by your target keywords and also how well your competitors are doing. It keeps statistics for several URLs and several lists of keywords. You can add notes.

Google is the most popular search engine. Monitor Google with this free software.

Download: Free Monitor for Google 2.4 

Labels: freeware, keywords, monitor, Software

ZebDisk is a free software, and you can store, and share your files on the internet with it using Google’s Picasa service.

Google’s Picasa service gives its users the ability to share their photos on the internet. ZebDisk places other files in these photos using a technic similar to steganography.

· Download : Users can connect to any Picasa address shared via ZebDisk, and they can download and save any file which was accessible publicly.

· Upload : Users can sign up a Picasa account, and can send any file to this account. They can set these files accessible publicly or restricted to themselves only.

Download: ZebDisk 0.0.1.1 

Labels: freeware, photos, picasa, share, Web, ZebDisk