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Google may have busted the "duplicate content myth" a while back, saying that you don't technically get "penalized" for it, but that doesn't mean it is a good thing. Shari Thurow of Omni Marketing Interactive says you should care about it so that your better pages are available to rank.

Google has started including Place Pages in Google Earth. Place Pages are the pages that Google sets up for places and businesses that have been accessible via Google Maps for a little while. They incorporate photos, videos, reviews and other content about that particular business or place, into one spot.

U.S. advertising spending in the first nine months of 2009 fell by 14.7 percent compared to the same period in 2008, according to a new report by TNS Media Intelligence. Ad spending during the third quarter of 2009 was down 15.3 percent compared to last year, marking the sixth consecutive quarter of year-over-year declines.

A little less than a month ago, we reported that a beta version of Chrome for Mac might be released in December, and sure enough, it's arrived.  Something "[f]or Mac OS X 10.5 or later, Intel only" became available today. Considering that Chrome was introduced in September of 2008, this development was a long time coming.  Google likely hurt the adoption rate of Chrome by ignoring a market segment that's known for preferring unusual tech and trying stuff out early in its lifecycle.

Officials in the UK have announced plans to require children beginning at age 5 to be taught about online safety starting in 2011. The new initiative called "Click Clever Click Safe" was created by the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS).

Dell seems to have achieved a very good understanding of Twitter and social media in general.  This morning, a representative shared some statistics regarding the hardware manufacturer's achievements, and by most standards, they're extremely impressive.

Gmail's offline feature has graduated from Gmail Labs, and is now a full-blown feature of Google's email service. The feature emerged as a lab experiment nearly a year ago, but it has now been deemed ready for primetime.

Google has introduced a very cool new feature for android devices, called Google Goggles. The feature is just a "labs" experiment at this point, but it can already do some very interesting things, and has the potential to do much more. The official description is as follows: