Some new Easter Eggs

Over at ZDNet is a leprechaun who follows you around in Google Maps.

And Blogoscoped has found a disturbing cross between Google's logo and "Clippy" the weird little fellow from Microsoft Office that was universally hated.

Search within search within search...

A new experiment from Google has site search boxes within the search results. This example make great sense:





Because many/most folk who visit Amazon, the first thing they do is search for a product. Google has saved them making that extra step. The only downside is they miss out on seeing whatever Amazon are promoting on their home page.

All Your Budget Is Ours

Adwords will be rolling out a "feature" in which all an advertisers unused budget will be spent on keywords of Google's choosing. This might be ok for some, but there are others who bid $10 but pay 5c, and those people often necessarily have budgets way higher than they are comfortable with.

Google say it is opt out, but I really hope they see commonsense and make it opt in before they launch it! More...