It seems that there are a few new designs and layout changes, on Google, that have not yet been made available to the public, but they look good! Find out more on "How Google's Interface Might Change".

Have you noticed Google +1's on all advertisements within their search results. This is another step in being able to provide users with better Google Adwords ads. Find out more on the Google +1 for Ads and Google +1 Ad Innovations.

Google seems to be indexing images much faster then it has before. You get get more information from here: Google Indexes Images a Lot Faster.

Google has improved their WebSpam reporting form, making it easier for you to report Spam within their search results. Two of the new features of this WebSpam form are: The ability to report various issues and an easier form to use.

Google has been creating videos over the past few years, set to answer Webmasters questions and provide Webmasters with information and tutorials. To find out more about these new videos you can follow this link: Google Webmaster Videos.

All you Samsung Galaxy S owners have probably noticed the “navigation” icon and tried to run it. Unfortunately Google have only released working versions of this app in certain Countries around the world.

Instant Pages on the new Google Chrome 13 is proving to be a very useful new feature, but you wouldn’t know to what extent. Behind the scenes Chrome will begin to load the first page result whilst you conduct a Google search. Before you’ve even clicked the search button, the majority of the page results will have already been loaded, effectively making search functions much quicker.

Amidst a handful of conflicting reports is a growing interest in the popularity of Google’s recently released social project, Google+. According to comScore, Google+ has reached 25 million visits across the globe since its launch on 28 June 2011 with the majority based in the United States. Both Hitwise and Chitika have reported that the new platform has seen a considerable decline towards the latter portion of July, as has Google Buzz. In the meantime Google+ continues to evolve and refine its features.

Released a week later than originally planned, Google has officially unveiled the first stable Chrome 13 build with print preview for Windows and Linux, page prerendering and partial URL matching in the address bar. Print previews make use of the built-in PDF viewer, whilst prerendering will load web pages and all associated resources (images, scripts and CSS files) at the same time as running any active content.Chrome 13 will also support partial URL matches making it much easier for users to revisit pages on the web.

Search engine giant, Google is set to host an online marketing challenge which is due to run between January and June 2012. The campaign will serve as a valuable exercise for undergraduate or graduate students in classes such as advertising, ecommerce, integrated marketing communication, management information systems, and marketing or new media technologies. Final reports will be due by June 2012 and winners of the challenge will be announced late July next year.