A spot-on insight by Sash.  Including Google+ circle results in search makes Google a great place to look for answers and insights from the people you trust.  It’s an amazing transformation for Google.

Love how CNN is visualizing the conversation in it’s Politics section.  The color blocks on the right represent different broad conversation topics and their popularity.  When you hover over a conversation block, it highlights the stories that are related to the topic.  Very cool and very useful.

http://www.aviary.com/creation?fguid=cbb73878-2ca3-11e1-b65f-12313b101135

This made me laugh - its like Google Adwords IRL. Did you mean Boss the show or Hugo Boss? I’ll bet Andy Sandberg was off frame somewhere

Not FTA but still, my quote about G+ Pages in a nutshell:

“It’’s a baby step but a step in the right direction.  I think we’ll see quickly that the integration of Pages with Google Search can make for a powerful combination… one that will bring users into the network.  But the real question is, even if the users are there - what does G+ have that will make them stay?”

The new “Standout” metadata tag is intended to describe articles that are important to a publisher and to help Google News discern the credible sources of a piece of work.  Hopefully will help strengthens the curation of content into the aggregator service.