Google your business

There are a number of developments at Google that are relevant to businesses, especially small businesses.
A good place to start to check them all out is subscribe to the RSS (see below for explanation of atoms, etc)
Google RSS feed is:
http://www.google.com/googleblog/atom.xml

New approach to a News site

CThings is a news site where users submit articles and the readers choose which stories make the headlines.
cthings.com

Putting it all together

For years we have been saying "if you don't hurry up it will get easier".
NOW it is easy (and cheaper than you think).

Talk to us about making a website that allows you to:
* Update the website with your news items (using a simple web page interface)
* Syndicate these news items to anyone interested
* Connect with Google AdWords to put in place an income stream.

Google Ads - see what happens

To the right of this page is a list of advertisments that are randomly selected by Google based on the keywords on this page.
When you run a business blog that means that competitors often end up there.
Also some products appear there that you may not endorse. One example for me is WhitePage (note not White Pages as in the phone book). They provide blogs and are some connection to Namescout Corp (with a registered office in Bridgetown, Barbados).
So I will comment this blog item with comments on the various things that appear in the Google ad list.