Here are the latest Google-related news items for your Friday wrap-up:

Speed-Obsessed Google to Make Websites Faster

Google plans to offer a service where they download and host a copy of your website pages, crunched and optimized for speed, then served up from their servers. This might be helpful for those that have notoriously slow websites. We’d like to know how well it will work with dynamic, database-driven sites like our own. [Source: Google to speed up, host customers' Web sites ]

It’s a Google Patent-palooza!

Google acquired over 1,000 IBM patents, covering IP from databases to chip design. Google isn’t saying how much they spent or why they purchased them; popular thinking is to protect against patent litigation. [Source: Google Acquires 1,000 IBM Patents ]

Google Launches Hotel Finder

Google launched yet another search tool this week — this one helps you “find the perfect hotel.” [Source: Google launches 'Hotel Finder', a new experimental search tool ]

Got $99? Google TV to Get Cheaper

“Logitech is preparing to slash the price of its Revue Google TV set-top box to just $99, down from $249. The price cut is meant to “remove price as barrier to broad consumer acceptance.” [Source: Google TV price slashed to $99 as Logitech stumbles ]

Microsoft Goes Postal on Gmail

And for your entertainment, here’s a Microsoft Office 365 advertisement slamming Gmail, hosted on Google-owned YouTube. [Source: Gmail Man (Microsoft Office 365 Advertisement) ]

 

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