Advertising their visual wares

Google have made a number of changes over the past few days in order to publicise some services that may not be as well known as they would like.

On the one hand they have juggled the entries on the search home page, so that Froogle is dropped in favour of Video.  (This has only happened on the google.com domain - other countries still have their own set of entries in place).

They have also added a link labeled "Photos" to the list of services along the top of the Gmail page (referred to as the CornerBookmarks by Google).  This one links through to Picasa Web Albums, opening this in a new page (or tab, dependent on what browser you use).  Like all actions in Gmail, its internally tracked, so Google can see how effective the link is.  Once at Picasa Web Albums, there is currently no link back to Gmail.