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A lot of desktop word processing and text editing apps feature templates you can use to jazz up your documents — or make them look terrible, depending on your opinion. Now Google Docs gives you the same option, with a new template gallery. There are over 300 templates, featuring everything from resumés to cards to calendars.

The selection of different templates is impressively versatile. Expense reports, presentations, invitations — it’s all there. Styles range from minimal (basic blue bars) to ostentatious (robots!). Something that immediately struck us as clever is…

Now that Yahoo! has finally decided things are really over with Microsoft, the company has found room in its heart for a new love: Google. The two companies today announced an advertising partnership that will basically place Google AdSense advertisements alongside Yahoo! search results.

The deal isn’t exactly comprehensive. It covers “some of” Yahoo!’s web properties, and the ads will only be displayed in the US and Canada. The agreement is non-exclusive, which means that Yahoo! may display its own ads or ads from other parties as well.

In a…

It’s been almost a year since Google acquired RSS service Feedburner or $100 million. But in that year, we’ve seen very little integration of Google services into Feedburner, or vice versa. Sure, it’s now easier to redirect your Blogspot feed to Feedburner, but that’s about it.

Now, according to the official Feedburner blog, the company is getting ready to roll out the thing we’d all kind of been expecting: Google AdSense integration. What that means is you’re probably going to start seeing much more advertising in your RSS reader.

While there are already…