Monday’s can be rough for many people, so I thought I share with you a funny video named “Googling with Bing.” It basically is a Bing commercial, but they replace the word “search” with “Google.”

Hat tip to TechCrunch for spotting this.

I thought I share with you a video from Appappeal.com, named “Just Google.” The song was created by Lex Friedman and Seth Brown.

Here is the video/song:

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 feel invade privacy. Heck, there’s even an image on Google StreetView of someone getting a traffic ticket. Now someone captures a StreetView car getting ticketed. Wouldn’t it be even funnier if a different StreetView car captured this and placed it on Google Maps?

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, in a Google sleep pod, on a Google scooter, in the Google swimming pool, and more over here. Plus there is a piece on The Women of Google, featuring:

• Megan Smith, vice president of new business development
• Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Google’s vice president of Asia-Pacific & Latin America operations
• Francoise Brougher, vice president of business operations
• Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search products
• Shona L Brown, senior vice president of business operations
• Susan Wojcicki, vice president of product management

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.

I don’t know much about clothing design, but when Google makes it to a designer’s line, I think maybe we have become too obsessed with Google!

If you look closely at the design, the URL in the browser address field is http://shop.satyapaul.com, for the Satya Paul online store. I went over to try and find the Oogle Sari for sale, but I couldn’t find it listed.

I tried a few site-specific searches for "oogle sari" and "oogle", and then google when Google itself suggested that term. Still no Oogle Sari, but it did bring up this reciprocal link page listing Cialis suppliers!

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 to be $600,000 after he had to split his winning with the group he bought the ticket with, who opted for the lump-sum payment of $10.2 million.

Donna Campbell became suspicious when her husband was insistent on keeping the television off at all times. Reportedly, her husband was an avid TV viewer. But when she received a postcard in the mail, congratulating him for the purchase of a new house, she finally decided to do some research.

She Googled her husband to learn about his winnings. Now, she is suing him for half – $300,000. After she gets her money, she plans on filing for a divorce.

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.

After breaking into a Colorado Springs amusement center, the burglars spent over an hour working the safe. Finally, they used a computer in the next room and searched for “how to open a safe” and “how to crack a safe” on Google

Success! They opened the safe and stole $12,000. So far, they haven’t been caught.

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 to movie fraternities, this one was easy. How could Google not be like the nerds that joined Lambda Lambda Lambda in Revenge Of The Nerds. Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin literally shopped their technology around to all the other search engines back in the late 90s, only to get rejected. So they went out on their own, and the nerds won the show. "Those nerds are a thread to our way of life!"

That’s Larry & Sergey up top, by the way — with Bill Gates, Terry Semel and Jim Lanzone down below, in that order (don’t worry, Jim — you get your own back further below).

Yahoo: Lambda Epsilon Omega (Old School)

With Yahoo, the right match-up eventually came to me: Lambda Epsilon Omega from Old School. That’s the fraternity started-up by three friends who decide it would be cool to party again like they did in their college days. Yahoo was the rocking search fraternity of the past, until Google came along and stole the thunder. So why not go back to the good old days? Heck, one of Yahoo’s founders Jerry Yang is even back at the helm!

Pictured is Susan Decker, then Jerry Yang and search czar Jeffrey Weiner (who was recently interviewed here, by the way)

Microsoft: ROTC

I struggled and struggled to find the right movie fraternity to match Microsoft. I even discovered that Wikipedia maintains a list of fictional movie fraternities and sororities and scanned that for ideas. In the end, I decided that Microsoft has been most like ROTC, the college-based military officer training program.

In both Animal House and Revenge Of The Nerds, you see those in ROTC somewhat interacting with the fraternities. It’s like they’re sort of a fraternity but not quite there. Microsoft, of course, has embarked on a journey to be the leading search destination on the web. But it remains new to the challenge, saddled with still trying to find its own identity (Microsoft MSN Windows Live Search) and so like ROTC, isn’t quite the same as the search engines (IE fraternities) that it’s going up against.

You got a better match-up for Microsoft? Let me know in the comments below!

Ask.com: Delta Tau Chi (Animal House)

The match-up for Ask.com was easy. Indeed, Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone is a former fraternity member who inspired this entire post. Jim’s a fun guy who enjoys a good prank and treats Ask not just as a job but almost like a fraternity itself, where he looks out for his other members, the fraternity’s reputation and wants to attract new members.

Ask generally has the tiniest share of any of the major search engines, in terms of search traffic — yet it is substantial enough for Ask to still be counted among the majors. And when many have assumed over the years that Ask should be squeezed out by the fight between Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, you can almost picture Jim — like John Belushi in Animal House — rallying his Delta brothers and sisters that "nothing is over until we decide it is!"

Yes, Ask is the Animal House of search — and Ask3D is like Jim Lanzone driving the Deathmobile through the parade of the other search engines.

Oh, that’s Jim in the main picture, with Apostolos Gerasoulis in the O and some dude that used to work for Ask when it was Ask Jeeves in the M.

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YouTube has a clip from the popular TV cartoon The Simpsons showing Marge "googling" herself:

Here’s the clip itself:

"629,000 results. Wow, and all this time I thought ‘googling’ yourself meant the other thing," exclaims Marge.

She then appears to click into Google Maps to see her house, where husband Homer is sunbathing naked on a hammock in their backyard.

The clip apparently comes from the most recent episode to air in the US, called "Marge Gamer." More about that episode here and here.

Hat tip to Valleywag.

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 on the first of April: Google Romance in 2006, Google Gulp drinks in 2005, Gmail in 2004 (hey, that was real!) and PigeonRank in 2002. What happened in 2003? Google was very serious in 2003 and unable to release any new products.

TechCrunch (soon to merge with F*kedCompany), also notes that Google’s Gmail service is now pushing Gmail Paper.