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Looks like another country is hot on the tail of Google service blockage.

This latest place is Myanmar, otherwise known as the Union of Burma in Southeast Asia, bordered by Tibet, Peoples Republic of China, and Laos.

Burma is a country tightly controlled by its military Government, and has been by 1992. Thus is probably why they have blocked Google.com and Gmail services. The largest ISP in the area has stated that users are prompted with Access Denied when trying to access these services. 

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Original post by Chris Gilmer

Google has uploaded a nice diagram and document explaining their whole process for Account Authentication Proxy for Web-Based Applications.

They also have a document explaining the Account Authentication for Installed Applications.

The Google Account is a secured account that ties in all of Google’s services protected by Google authentications.

The authentication diagram illustrates the process that the user, and Google goes through to access Account information, and the particular Google service the user is accessing.  It walks through the Google Account authentication method for web based applications. 

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Original post by Chris Gilmer

Sightings are starting to grow with this new Google phenomenon. Google AdWords with Pictures placed above text.

Research and studies have previously been shown, and suggest, that Google AdWords tend to be more effective, and visitors are more likely to click or look at text ads when there are images around the ads. Well, looks like Google is doing some studies on its own.

The example that has been showing up most frequently is a 120×600 format, with a 90px x 100px image placed on the top of the text column.

So keep your eyes open for these appearing on your site, or your favorite sites, and keep track of your click through stats for improvements.

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Original post by Chris Gilmer

Louis Vuitton put the purse to Google’s head in a recent trademark ruling. LV placed a trademark counterfeiting and unfair competition and advertising book on Google, stating that Google allowed merchants who sold counterfeit items to bid on the Louis Vuitton keywords in Google AdWords.

A court in Paris ruled that damages from the case be 300,000 euros, and placed another 60,000 euros for LV’s legal expenses.

So not only does Google have to pay 360,000 euros to LVMH, they are also required to publish details of the sentence in four news magazines that are currently unnamed.

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Original post by Chris Gilmer