In our What we want from Google this Christmas article we asked for a more useful “more…” button on the Google home page.

“Nowadays when we do a regular search we can’t transfer that search to Google Blog Search,” we wrote under wish No. 2. “Instead we have to find the Blog Search Home page and enter the search query again.”

Matt Cutts of Google was kind enough to take note of our post, and replied — in essence — that they would consider several of our proposals.

Now we are glad to announce that wish No. 2 has been granted by Google!

The more link now brings up a small pop-up menu with several new options. Blogs, Books, Froogle, Groups and the new Patents search engine is now included. This is not a big thing, but it matters. Thank you Google!

More transparency SEO wise

We won’t take the credit for this one, but Google is also in the process of granting another of our wishes. In wish No. 13. “Continue to help webmasters”, we said that:

We are glad you put so much effort into helping webmasters as well as search engine marketers, and we appreciate the fact that you try to communicate clearly what you consider unhelpful behavior search engine optimization wise.

Still, there remains some work to be done as regards transparency in this area, especially as regards the underlying logic about what is kosher (white hat) and what is not.

Adam Lasnik recently posted a message in this spirit on the Google Webmaster Central blog, discussing the problem of duplicate content. Excellent!

Blogger help

We also mentioned a problem one of our friend has regarding the use of Blogger (wish No. 3. Make Blogger work). We got a frantic phone call from him the day after: “Google has sent me a mail regarding my blog! What am I to do???”

Anyway, he is getting help, and we’ll report back later on the solution to his problem.

Season’s greetings

We wish Google, all the other search engines and our readers a great holiday celebration!

We will be out traveling next week, celebrating Christmas in Barcelona. Hence we may not be able to update our news service throughout the week. We are sure you’ll cope!