What appears to be a negative?
Google Drops More Than 160 Points
“Since its peak back in the Fall at nearly 750, Google has dropped to 584 currently, a 166 point drop (it’s dropped more in after hours, all the way down to 568). It’s on a steep decline in the past few days, perhaps due to the new search stats from Nielsen, as well as jitters about the economy at large.”
No, I really don’t think Google is making anything big of it. They have other things on their mind;

Certainly image recognition software is only the beginning of the story…
Today’s BBC News offers us more on the mobile topic;
Intel Predicts The Personal Net
“Mobile devices will deliver a more personal internet within five years, using chips with the power of today’s desktop PCs, Intel’s head has said.”
Paul Otellini told BBC News: “Intel, as a leader, has to advance the silicon technology every generation.
Our business model is one of very high risk: We dig a very big hole in the ground, spend three billion dollars to build a factory in it, which takes three years, to produce technology we haven’t invented …read more

“You can start monetizing your mobile site by accessing a growing number of our mobile advertisers.”
Good for you, bad for others? Interesting…
“If you have a mobile-compliant website that complies with our program policies, you’re welcome to participate in AdSense for mobile.”
Well, of course Darren would somehow be the first to let us know about Adsense for Mobile, followed by soooo many others including Duncan. Its the comments that have piqued my interest. Consider;
Kat: “For those of us on pay-by-the-byte services, it’s expensive enough to download a regular page, even with images turned off.”
Andrey: “Another issue is that screens of mobile …read more