Briefs; Google, Google and Google

Don Day July 31st, 2008

• Google’s going to open a new venture capital unit to help seed smaller start-up companies, according to the Wall Street Journal.
• The search engine giant is starting to reveal when search results are custom-tailored. A new “Search results customized for…” tag-line will start to appear on results, according to the NYT. This will give end-users a better idea of how the results are customized to them.
• File this one under ironic: CEO Eric Schmidt says he’s worried about declining investigative journalism, something that’s been slumping along with the newspaper industry. AdAge has the video interview.