Google joins the already crowded RSS aggregator space with their new ajax RSS reader, done in the style of Gmail. Blogger project manager Jason Shellen led the project.

http://www.google.com/reader/

Google now lets you do searches -- including regular expression searches -- across public source code.

http://www.google.com/codesearch

James Yu has a screenshot of a new design Google has been testing lately.

http://www.jamesyu.org/archives/2006/03/possible_google.html

Google has released a new program that gives users 100MB of web space to make simple HTML pages in.

http://pages.google.com/

Google is buying the leftover ad space in the _Chicago Sun-Times_ and filling it with AdWords ads related to the rest of the content. I wonder how they're going to charge advertisers. The domains posted are the real domains, so it can't exactly be pay-per-click.

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=19053

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/searching-for-music.html

Some great stories about Google's early days, with more to come.

http://xooglers.blogspot.com/

Uses Ajax and some other web2.0-ish features.

http://www.searchmash.com/

(screenshot)

http://www.google.com/help/faq_clicktocall.html

The Search Engine Experiment gives you the results from Yahoo, MSN, and Google without saying which is which. Currently, 41% of those who have taken the test picked Google (33% Yahoo, 26% MSN).

http://www.webmasterbrain.com/seo-news/seo-tools-news/blind-study-finds-google-really-does-offer-best-results/

A free version of Urchin, a company Google bought. (official blog post)

http://www.google.com/analytics/