Google is advertising for an interactive TV product manager at Mountain View. They also want software engineers with experience of “emerging TV standards” and “deploying robust, high-volume applications for consumer devices” in the U.S. and London offices.

The first post is for identifying “projects that enable using Google’s search and advertising technologies to enhance users’ television viewing experience.”

It seems that Google, like Apple, Sony and Microsoft, are aiming at moving into the IPTV field which would allow person-specific advertising based on its contextual model, Adsense.

We’ve been writing about a host of stuff going wrong at Google lately, so it’s par for the course to report that the G-Guys have just deleted their own official Blogger blog … by mistake.

Many bloggers will howl, having done the same thing themselves. Yes, yours truly once deleted his Blogger Blogspot blog in error, simply because the “delete” button was next another often-used one, and in the heat of the moment …

Search Engine Watch tells how an enterprising blogger in Austin, Texas, spotted the PR9 domain was no more and promptly registered it.

Google quickly claimed the domain back and restored their site. But is this the sort of thing a major corporation should be doing, even in error?

Maybe it shows that Google really is the nice bunch of kids we always took them to be. Ahhhh.

We’ve heard it bandied around all over the place … but what is Google Lighthouse?

Here are a couple of guesses:

Richard McManus opines: “[It’s] a next-generation file search solution that ’shines a light’ inside documents on your desktop”.

Squash comments: “With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including: emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc). We already have efforts in this direction in terms of GDrive, GDS, … but all of them face bandwidth and storage constraints today.”

And: “Another important implication of this theme is that storing 100% of a user’s data makes each piece of data more valuable because it can be access across applications. For example: a user’s Orkut profile has more value when it’s accessible from Gmail (as addressbook), Lighthouse (as access list), etc.”

One thing’s for sure, it’s an ambitious project which will truly make the Web the platform. At last.

Matt Cutts, a Googler covering SEO, blogs that the BigDaddy switchover is nearly complete:

“We’re down to just 1-2 data centers left in the switchover to Bigdaddy. It’s possible that the Bigdaddy switchover will be complete in the next week or two. Just as a reminder, Bigdaddy is a software upgrade to Google’s infrastructure that provides the framework for a lot of improvements to core search quality in the coming months (smarter redirect handling, improved canonicalization, etc.). A team of dedicated people has worked very hard on this change; props to them for the code, sweat, and hours they’ve put into it. ”

Well, that’s good news. With GoDaddy gone to Microsoft, BigDaddy on the way, whatever happened to SugarDaddy? Maybe Big will be the daddy of them all.