Google Like It's 1999!

2001 actually. Google is letting us go back in time and do a search exactly how it would have been in 2001. If you had a #1 ranking back then, here's your chance to prove it. For everyone else, look up something modern (like the iPhone) and see how it magically didn't exist back then, or perhaps meant something different that today.

http://www.google.com/search2001.html

No More Drunken Emails

The geniuses at Google have come up with an optional feature for Gmail - tell it when you are most likely to be drunk (ie Saturday night), and you will need to pass a sobriety test of sorts before you can send an email.

I can imagine some folk getting very upset if they write a long email only to find they can't send it - perhaps have an option of quizzing you before you write it all... But then again, the autosaved draft might be good for a laugh the next day.

Google's Sea Nation

The news said:

"The company is considering deploying the supercomputers necessary to operate its Internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles offshore."

An alert person has picked up on the possibility of Google forming their own off-shore micronation:

It's true! This is smart, using the ocean to cool their "supercomputers" and stuff. But! Hmm! Just seven miles offshore, you say? Now, most nations' territorial waters end at 12 nautical miles from shore. Their "exclusive economic zone" extends much further—but does not forbid "loitering," even "belligerent" loitering, in that zone. IS GOOGLE STARTING A MICRONATION????