Google Imagesis a pretty great tool when you need to creatively find or re-use images from the Internet. But what if you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for? Say, you want an image of that beautiful park in Paris on the river, but can’t remember the name Seine. To make it easier for you to find these images,Google introduced“Subject Sorting” today. Here’s how it works:While it’s not yet active on my own account, Google has provided us with a preview of what it will look like....

Google has just acquiredSayNow, a tiny Silicon Valley company according to ablog-postwritten by SayNow co-founders Nikhyl Singhal and Ujjwal Singh. We are thrilled to announce that we have been acquired by Google. Since 2005, we’ve explored fun and entertaining ways for people to talk with each other. Through the web, smartphones, and even land lines, our products brought communities together through the power of voice. And as Google has some of the best voice products in the world, we believe combining forces with the Google Voice team will let us innovate in new and unexplored areas....

Over the past few months we’ve seen Google push location reviews pretty hard. ItsHotpotfeature has been developing quickly and today the company hasaddedsomething pretty significant – Twitter integration for place reviews in the Android Maps app. With today’s update, when you leave a review for a location you’ll have the option to tweet out a link to it right from the app. While that might seem like not that much of an exciting feature, Google is clearly putting a lot of effort into making Hotpot a success....

If you’ve ever had a problem with your AdWords account, then you know what a glorious pain in the tail it can be to get help. Sure, you can post things into the forums, but the chances of being seen are small. The chances of finding the right answer are smaller. Today, Googlehas announcedthat it is adding free telephone support for AdWords members. We’re adding phone support for a simple reason: you asked for it!...

Google has resolved an outstanding legal dispute with French publishing house La Martiniere Groupe andagreed a dealto start scanning the company’s copyright protected out-of-print works, signing one more in a number of major deals with a French publishers this year. Google will now allow La Martiniere to sell books using Google’s eBook platform, sharing revenues from sales between the two companies that is set to benefit writers and readers in the country....