Aiming to tap into China’s huge number of group-buying clones, Google has launched a new aggregator service calledGoogle Shihuithat collates and catalogs deals, also signalling a return to operations in the country after it directed Chinese searches to its Hong Kong portal more than twelve months ago. The IDG News Service reportsthat the deals site launched on Tuesday and is available to Chinese users via the search giant’s Google.cn website. With more than 4,000 group-buying website operating in the country, Google hopes to work with partners to help drive traffic to the sites and identify the best offers for users:...

The British Libraryis one of the world’s largest libraries, and is home to some 150m individual items covering virtually every country and language. And its vast collection of texts is to be made available on the Internet for the first time,reportsthe BBC. The UK’s national library has clinched a deal with Google to include texts dating back to the 18th Century. The library’s collection includes around 14m books – second only to the USA’s Library of Congress – and it holds some 920,000 journal and newspaper titles....

Google has teamed up with the Citizens Advice Bureau in the UK to launch a new initiative that will see the search giant and the independent charity launch a adverts in newspapers, on public transport and online to promote safer Internet use and help users adopt safer practices when online,The Telegraph reports. The campaign is the first of its kind for Google, which sees the company promote something other than one of its products, but will concentrate on safe password adoption, logging out of web browsing sessions on public computers and increasing only safety by incorporating more elaborate ways to sign-in to an account, to ward of potential attackers....

Google’sBloggeris one of the grand old daddies of blog platforms and while remaining widely used, there’s no doubt that the interface itself is looking a bit tired these days. It looks like that’s set to change this year as Google has todayteased uswith a glimpse at a radical overhaul. At first look, we’d say WordPress has been an influence on the design of the new dashboard. Google says it’s been built using itsWeb Toolkitfor creating high performance Ajax-based UIs....

Google is testing out infinite scrolling on its search page, making it possible for every search result to be on your first page. The new pagination method has been spotted by a few people including Simply Zesty’sNiall Harbison. The new method allows you to simply click a ‘show more’ button at the bottom of the search results to get an infinitely scrolling list of results. You can see the new method demonstrated in this video from French blogWaebo:...