We all have been seeing the smiling faces of our friends in the SERPs for some time when they +1 things and previously when they would tweet things. You know those tiny, tiny smiling faces below the search listing… can barely make that guy out, thank God there name is right there!

Anyways, I am seeing something new with larger smiling faces coming back at me and wanted to see if anyone else was getting this?
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Very early this morning on Google’s Code blog they made an announcement of a new service they will begin to offer called Page Speed Service.
Google says, “Page Speed Service is an online service that automatically speeds up loading of your web pages… Page Speed Service fetches content from your servers, rewrites your pages by applying web performance best practices, and serves them to end users via Google’s servers across the globe.”
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Two days ago I wrote about the extinction of PR10 sites and specifically talked about the Google downgrade from PR10 to PR9. I said that Google was unable to keep pace with social networking site Facebook because Google does not give websites a reason to link to them.
Well, yesterday Google launched Google Plus and this is exactly what Google needs to compete with Facebook.
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