A new Dilbert cartoon makes fun of the Google employee 20% time to work on whatever they want. As many of you know, Google has a policy to let their engineers spend 20% of their time work on anything they want. Products like AdSense came from it. But is the 20% time really all that great? The Dilbert cartoon pokes fun that although Googlers do have 20% time, they also on average work 60-plus hours per week. This is not the first time Google was featured in Dilbert, here are some of the other times: Dilbert Cartoon: Caught For Paid Links On Google Dilbert Cartoon Says “No†[...]

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The web is buzzing about how you can use Google Translate to make a neat beatbox. This came via Reddit and all you need to do is go to Google Translate, set the settings to translate from German and to German. Then copy and paste the following text and hit "listen." pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch Here is a video demo of the beatbox in action: eekosystem noted that HackerNews documented a rudiment/instrument notation guide for Google Translate. Here it is: zk = suspended cymbal bschk = snare pv = brush bk = bass tk = flam1 [...]

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Last night, The Colbert Report featured Stephen Colbert interviewing Google's CEO Eric Schmidt. Colbert got in some expected digs (four years to decide they didn't like Chinese laws?), jokingly asks when the computer algorithm will take over and touches on some serious issues, such as how much Google remembers. Schmidt, I'd say, held his own pretty well and dodges a question on whether there's anything about him that he wouldn't want found on Google. A transcript of the interview is below, with the video of the exchange after that. Colbert: My guest tonight is the CEO of Google. At [...]

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Deadline New York reports Google might make it to the movie screen. Deadline said Groundswell Productions and producer John Morris are attempting to acquire movie rights to the book "Googled: The End of the World As We Know it." The film will be about Google's co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, rise to riches and fame. London's Groundswell Productions said: It's about these two young guys who created a company that changed the world, and how the world in turn changed them. The heart of the movie is their wonderful edict, don't be evil. At a certain point in the evolution of a c [...]

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Google Analytics announced a new and powerful feature today, leveraging the company's investment in the recently released Google Intelligence analysis and alert system.  The new function is called "Please God, tell me what to do" (PGTMWTD), and allows users single-click access to a report showing web site owners exactly what to do on their web site to double their revenue. PGTMWTD also releases another groundbreaking feature in Google's paid analytics software, Urchin.  In this paid version, you can click each tactic to see wireframes and comps of completed pages, showing you exactly how [...]

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