By: Loren Baker | Source: searchenginejournal.com

The seemingly successful Google Tips prompts that have been appearing at the top of organic search results will be retiring for the time being. While Google has not officially acknowledged these actions, the fact they are no longer appearing speaks for itself.

The controversial Google Tips seem to have been pulled after stirring up a bunch of bad press about Google’s use of its search result landscape. Google was suggesting its blog, calendar and photo offerings over better and more qualified products.

the choice to remove these self-promoting prompts probably stemmed from the large amount of negative feedback Google’s been receiving. Focus on these reactions increased across the blogosphere when Blake Ross, a Firefox developer, expressed his displeasure with Google Tips.

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By: Thomas McMahon | Source: webpronews.com

A few days ago, 901am.com got the scoop that Blogsmith was going to be released to the public early in 2007.

All the details are not yet known, But Blogsmith would be hosted application much like Blogger or TypePad. You have the option to have your own domain, but you won’t get the option to download the code like you can with Wordpress.

So at this point, Blogsmith’s effect is to early to speculate. There is no official word on the details, if it’s free or what the backend looks like. However, it could be a big player in the blog software area in 2007.

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