Google's New Image Satellite

This is the first image from Google's brand new satellite, which promises to provide Google Maps with the highest resolution they can legally show us (higher resolutions will be sold to government agencies).

The A to Z of Google Results

Search for a single letter in Google, and these sites come up first. The interesting results are in bold:

a = Links in HTML documents from www.w3.org.
b = Physical Review B from aps.org.
c = C (programming language from wikipedia.org.
d = Physical Review D from aps.org.
e = E! Entertainment Online
f = Ford Motor Company Stock from Yahoo! Finance.
g = Gmail from Google.
h = Hydrogen from wikipedia.org.
i = Apple: iPod + iTunes from apple.com.
j = The Letter J from wikipedia.org.
k = The Letter K from wikipedia.org.
l = The LaTeX project from latex-project.org.
m = M (1931) from imdb.com.
n = Nitrogen from wikipedia.org.
o = Cirque du Soleil - O - Las Vegas from cirquedusoleil.com.
p = Phosphorus from wikipedia.org.
q = The Letter Q from wikipedia.org.
r = The R Project for Statistical Computing from r-project.org.
s = Craigslist.com.
t = Massachussetts Boston Transit Authority from mbta.com.
u = The Letter U from wikipedia.org.
v = V Magazine from vmagazine.com.
w = W. (2008) from imdb.com.
x = X.Org Wiki from x.org.
y = Yahoo.com.
z = The Letter Z from wikipedia.org.

Farewell to Six Google Products

Google has been doing this since the end of Google Answers - removing products that either lack popularity, didn't get to be fully developed, or lose money. Obviously this is a trade-off between pissing off the people that use it, and keeping their credibility intact, and pleasing shareholders.

This week it was announced that these products are being discontinued, or no longer supported:

* Google Video
* Google Catalog Search
* Google Notebook
* Dodgeball
* Jaiku
* Google Mashup Editor

More details here

Google Free Hosting Spam in Gmail

Watch out for this one, it ended up in my Gmail account, and I almost fell for it. As usual poor grammer is the giveaway. These phishers will have all you Google accounts if you sign in after following the link:

Hello,
Dear Gmail customer
After our free email services we offer you to sing up for our free hosting services.
This service currently is in beta test.
And we choose you to test this services and report us any bug you may find.We give you unlimited webspace on your own domain name you must only change your dns services to ns1.google.com and ns2.google.com and enter your domain name in our special control panel.
Our servers are linux based and we support PHP, SSL (Secure Shell),FTP,Stats,CGI,Perl,Unlimited email address and finaly 500 MySQL Database.

Notice :
Dont sell this invitation code in auction website that may cause we disable your account in the future.

Your invitation code :
http://google-promotions.com/Acvw2p99ah7dtV1bFJyacSHUQcdROroysWeaIkkATEXaZUJ7n6wwXjzlyFVEYfJyB74Y66qln8VSP1Njjbp4zWS/

New Favicon for Google

You've undoubtedly already noticed it, but do you like it? I don't and I didn't like the last one either... but maybe it will grow on me.

The original, and the last one:


The new one:


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