Several google-related items of note. Where to begin...

Frist, An interesting article from Salon: The google backlash.

Second, Aaron talks about the google AdSense program here and finds it interesting.

Third, News.com reports on the recent moves by Microsoft and concludes that Microsoft and Google may go head to head. Well, now, that's an original conclusion. MS goes after anything that is a big market, end-user, and with low "revenue scalability requirements", and, more importantly, anything that threatens the Windows Platform. As Google does. (Anything on which you spend too much of your time does). Aside from the ultra-obvious conclusion, the article has some interesting information in it.

And, last but definitely not least, Google has release the new Google Toolbar 2.0 beta with --surprise, surprise-- a quick "BlogThis!" link. I'm sure it's only the first of many features that will tie blogs more deeply into the fabric of google. It's Blogger-only though, which isn't so great. Sidenote: The "autofill" feature sounds simple, and something the browsers already do. It's not. I'll talk more about its ramifications later...