New tool by webddr is available in Free internet tools. The new tool is Longitude Latitude Geographical Coordinates with Google Map. The tool uses the Google Maps API to find out accurate geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) for any place on Earth.

It provides two ways to search, either by moving around the map and zooming in, or by typing an address if the place is unknown. (more)

The Chinese government Tuesday criticized Google for being “totally wrong” by stopping censoring its Chinese-language search results, while reaffirming that the foreign investment environment will not be affected in China, a ready made reaction after two months of tension sparked by the search engine’s pullout threat.

Surveys showed that the majority of China’s Web users is not much affected by Google’s decision to reroute searches to its Hong Kong-based site. (more)

Washington – Google’s decision to withdraw its main Chinese website from the mainland and relocate to Hong Kong was a business decision that did not involve the US government, the US State Department said Tuesday.

“This was a business decision by Google,  as to the issue of Internet freedom and the flow of information around the world,” spokesman PJ Crowley said. (more)

Imitation Web sites of both Google and YouTube have emerged in China as the country faces off against the real Google over its local operations.

YouTubecn.com offers videos from the real YouTube, which is owned by Google and blocked in China. The Google imitation is called Goojje and includes a plea for the U.S.-based company not to leave China, after it threatened this month to do so in a dispute over Web censorship and cyberattacks. (more)

Internet giant Google has said it may end its operations in China following a “sophisticated and targeted” cyber attack originating from the country. It did not accuse Beijing directly, but said it was no longer willing to censor its Chinese search engine – google.cn. This could result in closing the site, and its Chinese offices, Google said. (more)

Google Inc. has publicly stated that it is considering pulling out of the fast-growing Chinese market. The statement was made as a result of an investigation over several weeks into China’s Internet censorship system that revealed a systematic and targeted hacking into Google’s corporate infrastructure. (more)

SEO are always be a hot topic in the internet today, since online marketing trough a website floating the online world. Let’s face it, compiling a list of this type is always subjective. Trying to figure out what to include and what to leave off can have you second-guessing yourself, more than a few times. (more)