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The Google Roundup - big week

Many of these announcements have been sort of under the radar, but overall, Google has had quite the week:

1. GooglePoint: Google pulled the powerpoint trigger, completing the bulk of their anti-microsoft suite with the purchase of java-tool-maker Tonic.
2. Google Vs. StumbleUpon: After eBay’s questionable purchase of StumbleUpon, a pouty sounding Google fired back by adding dice to the Google toolbar - a button that apparently taps similar functionality as StumbleUpon’s.
3. Froogle is Getting Some Attention: Google Product Search. About time. Froogle was one of Google’s earliest branches out from core search, and has languished more or less since launch, getting demoted of the front page, and generally wasting away.
4. Charts: Google fleshed out the Sheets document type with charting - finally. EDIT: Zoli does charts.
5. RSS API: Google’s added an RSS/Atom handler to their search API. I haven’t really had a chance to dig into this, but its sounds a lot like the server-side functionality provided by MagpieRSS will now be available in JS.

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