Less than 24 hours are left for Google to announce the next version of Android OS, and the successor to the Nexus S. Here is how you can watch the event live right from your home!

Google is experimenting with new extra wide ad formats which will mimic the look and feel of newspaper circulars. You have probably seen those extra large ad blocks on deeper pages of a Sunday newspaper and Google calls this “Probably the best ads are just answers”. Google is in talks with advertisers such as Best Buy and Macy’s Inc; the newer circular ad format is most likely to be rolled out for a selected group of advertisers in coming weeks.

Starting October, Google will integrate the plus one button over Adsense advertisements and other display ads that are delivered from Google Display ad network. The +1 button will begin to appear on AdSense for content and AdSense for mobile display ad formats, which includes image, animated gif and Flash ads.

Samsung is planning to make Bada an open source platform in 2012, in a bid to make it more popular among developers.

Google is testing algorithmic changes for scraper sites (especially blog scrapers) by asking for examples, and may use data you submit to test and improve our algorithms

New self-rooting malware targeting Android 2.3 Gingerbread found and dissected.

When you visit a website, Google related scans the content of the current page and offers contextually related content in the Google related toolbar. A thin bar will appear at the bottom of the browser, suggesting news, images, YouTube videos, blogs and other useful content that Google thinks might interest you

Some good news for Gmail has introduced a new preview pane feature which lets you split your inbox into a 3 way pane. This feature is now available in Gmail labs and after you activate the preview pane Gmail labs feature from Gmail > Settings > Labs.

Google has recently redesigned their web spam report page and have added new features and different forms for reporting duplicate content, paid links, phishing sites.

Google is testing a single column search layout for tablet devices e.g iPad. The left and right columns have been dropped and the search options are neatly arranged between the search box and search results.

Here’s the first major screwup by Google in its roll-out of Google+. Google still doesn’t a clear policy on whether or not brand pages are allowed on Google+, which has every confused. And very angry.

Hubpages has seen a significant improvement in site traffic by offloading content of authors to subdomains.Hubpages saw a huge dip in traffic on April 11, 2011, when Google rolled out the second wave for Panda

Google recently unveiled a new version of the Android Market which allows you to purchase books as well as rent movies on the go. The new revamped Android Market make it easier, faster and more fun to discover great apps, movies and books.

Google Plus enhancer is a simple Greasemonkey script which shows unread count of Gmail mails and unread count of Google Reader items on Google’s navigation menu bar.

Regardless of whether you have a Google Plus account or not, your Google profile will automatically become public after July 31st. If your Google profile is set to “Private”, you would have to change it’s visibility to “Public” before July 31st