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This covers some of the tools and services under development and how to use them. While it is a little bit behind the curve, it covers search blogger, newsgroups, and other tools. It also list sites for Google employee blogging and sites that speculate what Google's next big thing will be.

A great Google portal overview that will satisfy all your needs for a class presentation. Covers all the basic tools and products.

There is as much misinformation as information, and social websites are the perfect supporting tools

Week3  Using the Electronic Library and Finding Information on the Web The First Step, Readings: Read the 3rd Week of 91-113 Using the Electronic Library Searching for Material on the Web Hacking Google Searchs The Second Step Advanced Google Hacking Readings: The concept of Google hacking is to use Google's advanced search tools and data to find data in the "deep web".

This is more for reference and is a little dated. However, the basic approaches and techniques are still relevant and the diagrams are also useful. The approach is mostly UNIX,

Like other technology and communications companies, Google regularly receives requests from government agencies and federal courts around the world to remove content from our services and hand over user data. Our Government Requests tool discloses the number of requests we receive from each government in six-month periods with certain limitations.

Google has hit out at state attempts to clamp down on the internet by revealing governments' requests to remove data from the web and get information about users. Tonight it released a web page with a map showing country by country where it has had government requests or court orders to remove content from the YouTube video service or its search results, or to provide details about users of its services.

The US Department of Justice this week released slides from a presentation deck titled Obtaining and Using Evidence from Social Networking Sites. The document was released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The DoJ presentation describes Facebook as much more co-operative with law enforcement requests for user information than Twitter and MySpace are. Update: Facebook's Barry Schnitt contests this interpretation of the document, says the company is resistant to illegitimate government requests for user information and offers one example of that resistance in a comment posted below. The document also explains to officers what the advantages of going undercover on social networking sites are. The EFF posted IRS training documents for using various internet tools as well, including Google Street View, but those were much tamer than the Justice file.