Google's New Secret Service?

...to start rumors and drive the stock up so the insiders can all sell while we're staring at the presentation and get hosed, that's all.

Considering the nerd herd that will be present perhaps it's going be something aimed at webmasters, can't fathom it would just be a run of the mill consumer oriented service.

They have been making a lot of noise about Wifi lately, who knows.

Yes I assume if they are announcing it at WMW, it must be SEO or webmaster related. Hard to guess what they have up their sleeves.
Maybe Nick can do a contest for the winning answer - a TW t-shirt, 3 pints or something fun. Any other guesses?

is Google Base.

Why didnt the rest of get an invite just like you?

You have to be signed up for PubCon in Vegas to get the invite.

For roughtly $500 you too can be special :)

>guess

Google Whine™
A never ending update thread hosted by Google. Special people can whine about their rankings to "Googleguy", who among other duties will periodically point out the vitues of the Whine Report™, a form for webmasters to poor their sorrows into while, uniquely, red-flagging thier niche for a hand-inspection.

Genius...

Google's probably going to let people sign up for some new REFERRAL program as referenced in the new changes to the AdSense Terms and Conditions today.

See Jenstar's site for more info:
http://jensense.com/

incrediBILL, you took the words out of my mouth.

However, I was hoping they'd make some big announcement about smart pricing.

http://xalerts.google.com/ seems to be registered, but it doesn't respond. And no idea what kind of service that would be. Although I've noticed quite many referrals from a similar URL to my blog.

Darren comments over at BlogHerald that those referral buttons Jen mentions are for an AdWords referral program paying out $20. Sounds like he knows, but maybe it's only speculation, not sure.

» Google to launch Adsense referral program? The Blog Herald: more blog news more often

Hang on though, haven't Adsense had a referal program for months now?

It was only by special invitation.

This could be wide release, I know, big whoop.

Now showing as a new button on Adsense accounts - $100 per new referral once they earn $100 themselves

Yep was just coming to post. I found it at DigitalPoint.
https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=27406

"With our new referrals feature, you can increase your revenue while increasing your users' awareness of useful products and services. By adding a referral button to your site, you can direct users to sign up for AdSense and monetize their web content, or to download Firefox with Google Toolbar and improve their web browsing experience.

While your users learn more, you can earn more -- US $100 for every new AdSense publisher who earns $100 and up to $1 for every new Firefox user."

Plus Nick just posted stever's find in a new blog. So that's probably not what they will announce at WMW. Must be something else.

Ah well, it was worth a shot based on all empirical evidence from information gleaned late at night using the best vodka algorithms available at the time.

I'm glad to see that they offer a Firefox bounty as well.

Hey, maybe they're going to announce that they're fixing it.

I say