For more information; you can check the announcement about this mobile search tool in Google Mobile Blog.

It has a section named Performance Overview where the tool shows a chart showing your pages load speeds per day and month plus a statistical information regarding your websites average speed rate among all the websites that Google logs.

There is also a Page Speed Suggestions section which gives you ways on how to improve your website loading speed with a list of urls that can be optimized. Tips include enabling gzip compression, combining external JavaScripts, minimizing DNS lookups and combining external CSS files where possible.

For example, if you are searching a specific product or an event, the search results that fit your criteria will have an additional field of the product or the event with an image/video of the search term located right above the search result. This field may include featured variaties of the product listed with prizes, or the map of the shops that has that product or a trailer of a movie you are looking for.

There is also an option to hide these additional informations if you prefer having the results in the way it was before.

Google have already services like Google Talk which uses VOIP technology to link phone numbers and Google Voice as an online communication service; and acquisition of Gizmo5 will definately add a lot value in the competition.

You can reach the original announcement of Google here.

You can reach your own dashboard by http://www.google.com/dashboard/ and can check the services you are using with brief informations and statistics. You can also run those services by simply clicking on them.

For your info; Gmail, Reader, Talk, Docs, Calendar, Blogger, Account & Profile, Web history, iGoogle, Latitude, Health, Orkut, Friend Connect, Tasks, Picasa, Shopping List, Mobile Sync, Contacts, YouTube, Alerts, Finance, Custom search engines and Voice are included in Google Dashboard service with a 17 language support.

What would be the benefits ?

Well, this  in the first place will let non-Latin based users use their own language in the domain names. That sounds good in human rights wise. It will also increase the resources and add more to the expansion of the internet. Users number would probably increase in non-Latin languaged countries, too.

What would be the disadvantages ?

Actually, the main question here would be “How a Latin language and keyboard based user will type a non-Latin character to reach such non-Latin domain names?” Well, this would be a problem. There are downloadable non-Latin characters for keyboards but still it would make it hard for a Latin based user to understand and type the correct character with a non-Latin keyboard.

Bottom line is, this looks like a good step for the expansion part, and time will help us to see if it is also a good one for the usability.

“We recently launched a feature that uses RSS and Atom feeds for the discovery of new webpages.”

…says the Google

This exactly means that Google search engine will be using rss and atoms to discover new webpages even if they are not listed or submitted to search engines.

“In order for us to use your RSS/Atom feeds for discovery, it’s important that crawling these files is not disallowed by your robots.txt”

…added by Google which means you need to allow robot.txt to crawl these files.

This is indeed a good news especially for bloggers.

This feature will indeed answer most of the needs in music searching. It will also help users to reach licenced sources of music in the first place.

There is one thing though, this feature will be available to U.S region only, for now.

It is kind of sad those websites will not be available to reach, well yea there is still archieve.org for that kind of nostalgia, but the fact that no more active websites sound a bit sad.

Who knows, may be Geocities could have been in a lot better situation if it did evolve in the right way, under good hands. Seems it will be remembered like an old film that we never get tired of mentioning.