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Jun. 17, 2008 at 8:38am by Barry Schwartz
License, Insurance, Registration & Google ID: Cop Tickets Google StreetView Car
Valleywag reported that the driver of a Google StreetView car was captured on Flickr being ticketed by a police officer. The picture was taken in San Francisco by Damian Spain. I just can't stop laughing about the "privacy" violation here. StreetView has come under fire for capturing images that some...
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Feb. 13, 2008 at 9:22am by Barry Schwartz
Google On Centerfold Of Marie Claire
Nathan Weinberg reports Google has made it big in fashion, by being the centerfold of the Marie Claire magazine. The 12 page piece was named Fashion for Work at the Google Headquarters and highlighted model Britni Standwood throughout the Googleplex. You can scan these pictures of Standwood on Google's roof,...
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Jan. 22, 2008 at 8:53am by Barry Schwartz
Google Walks Down Fashion Avenue: The Oogle Sari
Saptarshi Roy Chaudhury wrote about a design in Satya Paul's latest collection named "Oogle sari." As you can see above, it looks like a sari made up of the Google web search results....
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Nov. 23, 2007 at 8:05am by Barry Schwartz
Wife Googles Husband, Discovers He Kept Lottery Win A Secret
Miami woman sues missing husband for share of lottery win from the AP reports a husband was keeping a huge secret from his wife. The secret? He won $19 million in the Florida lottery jackpot! Donna Campbell is now suing her husband for half of his winnings, which turned out...
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Jul. 10, 2007 at 8:04am by Barry Schwartz
Stumped By Safe, Burglars Google For Help, Steal $12,000
Via John Battelle, Bumbling Bigg City burglars got $12K from the Colorado Springs Gazette covers how two burglars turned to Google to crack a safe....
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Jul. 3, 2007 at 12:20pm by Danny Sullivan
If Search Engines Were Frat Houses From Movies
I love search engines. I love comedy movies. So let's have fun putting the two together. Which search engines are most like some famous movie fraternities? Yes, there is an Animal House of search! Google: Lambda Lambda Lambda (Revenge Of The Nerds) As I pondered how to match search engines...
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Apr. 25, 2007 at 8:22am by Barry Schwartz
Marge Simpson "Googles Herself" & Uses Google Maps
YouTube has a clip from the popular TV cartoon The Simpsons showing Marge "googling" herself: Here's the clip itself:...
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Apr. 1, 2007 at 1:01pm by Danny Sullivan
TiSP: Google Flushes Free Wireless Broadband For All
Now posted on the Google Blog, news of the new Google TiSP service offering free wireless to homes via their, ahem, plumbing systems. Sir Thomas Crapper would be proud. See discussion at Techmeme. Google's latest feature will better connect you with previous Google products that have been rolled out...
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Mar. 31, 2007 at 10:55pm by Danny Sullivan
The Matt Cutts Blog Gets Hacked
The Dark SEO Team has had a bit of a beef with Google's Matt Cutts from back in 2005 over URL hijacking. Looks like they've pulled a prank on him today. Matt's blog is down, hacked -- and archives wiped out as well. Matt has posted previously to this...
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Mar. 20, 2007 at 9:56am by Danny Sullivan
Toilet Humor From Google AdWords CAPTCHA
We descend now into Beavis and Butthead territory, but a reader sent this in, and it gave me a chuckle for the same reason it did him. When signing up for AdWords, he was presented with a CAPTCHA code -- an image of letters that you enter to prove...
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Mar. 8, 2007 at 1:56pm by Danny Sullivan
5 Shiny Reasons Google Should Take Over Ford's Twin Cities Auto Plant
Ed Kohler makes a pitch for Google to come to St. Paul, Minnesota -- and it's both a fun and compelling one. He points out that Ford is abandoning its Twin Cities Assembly Plant that comes complete with its own hydro-electric power station, handy for power-hungry (that's electric power I'm...
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Feb. 27, 2007 at 8:37am by Barry Schwartz
Google Ink Sends Ask.com New Google Pen
First Ask.com had some fun with Google earlier this month, joking about how their Google pen "flatlined" and ran out of ink during a crucial meeting. Now Google gets in on the joke in good spirit, sending Ask a new pen along with a letter discussing the Google Pen's "redundant"...
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Feb. 20, 2007 at 8:52am by Barry Schwartz
Let Google Drive Your Car For You
Google wants to take over car driving at the Inquirer completely takes Larry Page's quote out of context to write a hilarious article. Larry Page, Google co-founder, said "40,000 people die annually in US car crashes." Page then "proposed giving computers control over cars" so that there will be fewer...
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Feb. 6, 2007 at 9:36am by Barry Schwartz
Google's Pen Flatlines For Ask, Parody Of Recent Capacity Problems
The Ask.com Blog made me laugh with their The Latest Google Flatline post. In that entry, Ask.com writes about the recent Google capacity issues reported at Techcrunch and describes how it is so true. In fact, they say that when they were using a Google pen, and it "ran out...
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Jan. 29, 2007 at 9:33am by Barry Schwartz
Google TV Rumors Not Legit
Over the weekend two YouTube videos were released, the first named How to Sign Up for GoogleTV Beta and then a follow up named UPDATE: GoogleTV Beta. Both are attempts by the video author to prove that Google TV is a real thing. But so far, everyone reporting this knocks...
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Jan. 12, 2007 at 1:23pm by Chris Sherman
If Google *Really* Copied Yahoo...
About a month ago, Yahoo's Jeremy Zawodny and Google's Matt Cutts traded a number of sharp barbs over design similarities in Yahoo and Google. Google copied Yahoo! No, Yahoo copied Google! Danny described the tiff in Google Copies Yahoo's IE7 Page; Originality War Breaks Out!, writing "If I had time...
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Dec. 12, 2006 at 10:42am by Phil Bradley
What Google Can't Do
There's an amusing item over at the Google Operating System (Unofficial news and tips about Google) weblog on What Google Can't Do, and screenshots are included. The things that Google can't do include translation, mail, blogs, news, ads and a few other things as well. It's a very tongue in...
