You may be excused for not noticing the latest additions to Google Places - I don't often visit my Places page but each time I do recently I've noticed additional features popping in without much song and dance!

So just a few moments ago, Google announced that they were opening up Google+ pages for businesses - one might say a direct competitor for Facebook Pages.

Google's search engine is a fantastic tool, and there still seem to be no effective competitors. Unfortunately, however, Google have been making quite a few changes which have hugely affected the relevance of results, and often leads to needing to enter a second search.

This post details some of the tips users can use to try and reduce this, including minor changes you can make to Chrome/Chromium and Firefox to allow searching through the inbuilt search bars to be less irritating!

Today I came across something interesting when I was checking out how our Google Places entry was performing (Google Places, for those who aren't aware, is how companies appear in Google Maps and can be accessed at google.co.uk/places) and noticed a new feature - Adwords Express - had appeared on my toolbar.