Froogle UK is now officially launched.

Karen Padham (Froogle Product Manager) gives information in Google's blog:

Just in time to find a decent pair of wellies for the winter, we've launched Froogle UK. More Britons than ever are shopping online, so we wanted to offer the broadest possible shopping selection with merchants large and small who sell throughout the U.K. With unbiased price comparisons and free listings for all participating merchants, now Froogle can assist with retail therapy on both sides of the pond.

Abakus thinks Google will launch a german version soon.

Nathan Weinberg gives great news details about Sergey Brin and Larry Page visit to Google's India Research and Development Center:

The Hyderabad office, Google's new Bangalore facility, which they visited, will be devoted to research into new products to expand Google's portfolio. Seventy percent of the facility is dedicated to search, 20% to Gmail, and the rest in other areas, giving you an idea what a huge priority Gmail is to Google. The new Hyderabad office will be a support center for AdWords, and be home to engineering, human resources, online sales and services. Staying true to its famous slogan, Google's India offices will not be "evil" and operate on United States time, keeping employees at work while their families and countrymen sleep, but will run a normal India workday.

Google wants to create other such centers in Asia: China, Japan, etc.

Jeremy Zawodny, a Yahoo! employee blogger, used to work on Yahoo Finance for about three years and in the Platform Engineering group to do MySQL stuff. He already worked for the Search Team where he returns now.

I'm going back to the Search Team but in a very different role this time. Instead of hacking away on software bits, I'm going to be working to:

** make sure our products kick the necessary amount of ass
** better communicate what we're thinking about and building
** incorporate outside feedback and ideas into what we're doing
** recruit more smart people
** And other stuff as it comes up, I'm sure.

I've been a Yahoo nearly five years now and this will be my fourth role. It has been in the works for a few months now. The first evidence of that was the launch of the Yahoo Search blog and then our attendance at and sponsorship of Gnomedex 4 recently.