After the improvement of flash-content indexation, Google intends to optimize and improve image search technology by organizing trillions of images on the web.
Currently, Google indexes images through the text and other meta-data. In the future, using new technologies, the search engine will index images by comparing them with the existing library of images.

Google AdWords team has added to API service a new tool for determining the traffic - Traffic Estimator Service, which makes it possible to determine such characteristics as indicators of CPC campaigns, the number of clicks per day, etc..

AdWords API users can use this tool to gain access to the history of individual keywords and identify various parameters of traffic at different clique cost.

Service will be useful not only to create new campaigns, but also to determine the change in the course of the campaign, depending on the maximum cost of clicks at different time.

Panoramic image service Google Street View functioning as part of a broader project Google Maps was opened in France. It is the second edition of the service after the release in the United States. The server provides images of cities and attractions, located along the route Tour de France. The next Google Street View project will, probably, be Germany.



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Google has developed a new algorithm for indexing textual content of the Flash technology. The latest improvement of the technology is the integration of Adobe's Flash Player, which will allow search engines to determine the content of Flash-banners, Flash-menu and Flash-sites.

The new algorithm will simplify the work of Web designers, reducing the amount of effort needed to improve "visibility" of the site for search engines. In addition to improving visibility, the new algorithm will ensure the emergence of more relevant snippets and more relevant search results.

The Paris court ordered the online auction site eBay to pay 40 million euros ($ 63 million) to fashion house Louis Vuitton as compensation for selling counterfeit goods bearing the logo of this brand.

Fashion House filed a lawsuit against eBay one and a half years ago for selling counterfeit handbags on the Internet and other leather goods bearing the logo of the company and the illegal sale of spirits brands Louis Vuitton. There were found 235 thousand allegedly forged items from Louis Vuitton class luxury on 340 eBay pages.

eBay representative told the agency that the company intends to appeal the court's decision.