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If you are reading straight from our blog, you must have noticed the new website. ItÂ’s only been a few hours and we have got compliments from around the world. Quite a relief when it comes after more than a year of mind racking, hair splitting, sanity threatening efforts.

Google Analytics has now been made even more global. The Analytics blog announced the availability of Google Analytics in six more languages: Slovak, Bulgarian, Greek, Catalan, Lithuanian and Vietnamese. This has made it accessible in a total of 31 languages. The users can see the new languages updated in the language menu, on the Google Analytics login page.

Mobile ads have now been made more potential in terms of reaching to the customers. Google announced that now mobile phone users will automatically get click-to-call phone numbers of the advertisers or the companies to directly contact them for details of their services.

Google Analytics had launched its skill qualification program Google Analytics IQ last year. Google Analytics blog has announced  that the passing score, previously 75%, has been raised to 80%. It may be that the analysts were doing so very well in this qualification program that this easy test has now been made difficult to clear.

Google's official blog announced the launch of the beta version for its Social Search. The effect of this will be that now on all web and image searches will have results from blogs/reviews/public images uploaded by your friends and social contacts.

The Google Reader Blog has announced a new functionality which allows creation of custom feed for web pages that don't offer their own feeds.

This will ensure a track of the website changes made on any web pages. These custom feeds will in turn alert you about every updated information on your favorite web pages. Google Reader initiated this new feature to easily follow the updates through its custom feed, even for those websites that do not have their own RSS feed.

 Bing has launched its all new In-depth stock pages to do research about investments in US stocks and funds.

This new feature provides the user with all the information about the stock market and finance. Considering the recent downturn of the world economies, this new research information providing system is a great help. It might not predict trends or but goes a long way in getting all the data together in one place for those who are wary of compiling data.

Yahoo! Search Blog has announced that the algorithm update is underway.

The Yahoo! Search engineering teams are rolling out updates to crawling, indexing, and ranking algorithms.  Similar to previous updates, you may notice some ranking changes and page shuffling during the process, which we expect to complete over the next few days.

If you have any thoughts or feedback on the update, you can visit the Site Explorer Suggestion Board.

Google advertisers can now target ads based on devices and carriers of the users. This will enable better results if the messages delivered are device or carrier specific too. For example, if a certain ad is designed for iPhone users then only they will be receiving that ad while, android phone users will not get it on their phones. This is achieved by optimizing the landing pages for specific devices and carriers. 

Google has announced an exciting fun quiz for webmasters, which can be taken anytime till 5PM PST, 27th January, 2010.

The webmaster quiz is based on the issues and the information that come up in the Webmaster Help Forum. It has been designed by Google together with the Bionic Posters. The questions are objective with multiple choices, aimed at testing the knowledge and skills about Google's interaction with the webmasters' sites.