...would up the combined companies' share of the all-important search advertising market to 27 percent against Google's 65 percent. It would also narrow the gap in overall online ads with Google to just 13 percent.

"Google Finance is one of the rather rare Google apps which makes use of Flash. I’m curious, at Google what considerations go into deciding whether to go for Flash or DHTML/ Ajax/ browser vector languages like SVG?"

"This extension allows Sunbird and Lightning to read and write events to a Google Calendar." FINALLY !

"What do you think "Google Life Search" could be?" / anyway it looks google.cn only, so far... / and is it related to Niniane Wang's project in the social application space ?

"With the AJAX Feed API, you can download any public Atom or RSS feed using only JavaScript, so you can easily mash up feeds with your content and other APIs like the Google Maps API."

= youtube labs

"Google has published a rather interesting paper (PDF) regarding the failure rates of hard drives. The report examined 100,000 commercial hard drives, ranging from 80GB to 400GB in capacity, used at Google since 2001."

"Now, remember I said 'No human being in their right mind' would try to program in assembly? Engineers are not in their 'right minds' and therefore quite literally drool over assembly - and with good reason."

they say "2007", but it's, so far, rather a map of 2006 trends

fake google results page

google patents search engine : a great source of weird pictures ;)

By V.C. Vickers, 1913

billboard by a presbyterian church

"Neven Vision comes to Google with deep technology and expertise around automatically extracting information from a photo. It could be as simple as detecting whether or not a photo contains a person, or, one day, as complex as recognizing people, places,

the short film that inspired honda's cog ad

Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator.

To come up with this series of pictures, Meggan Gould overlayed the first 100 images of a Google search result for specific keywords.

google search activity map

from Google Blogoscoped

"Without doubt, Google is the most useful website on the Internet. This is scary, considering that Google is a company and that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It would be far preferable if some kind of open source search engine sol

Use Google talk by entering three or four words below. The system will search for this sentence at Google, find the next word and print that. Than it will remove the first word of the search string, add the found word and repeat. The result seems to be me

what will it be ?

These bookmarklets are based on the Google search "?intitle:index.of? [filetype] [query]",which will find open directories for you.