TRACKING SANTA

If you have Google Earth installed, then clicking on this link will allow you to track Santa Claus as he delivers presents around the world. at 3:00pm PST, he’s travelling from city to city in India. Click here:...

GOOGLE ZEITGEIST 2005

Google Zeitgeist studies the aggregation of search queries for the year and comes up with some interesting lists – top news searches, top gainers in 2005, top shopping searches. Then it adds a visual look at searches for everything from significant events in...

GOOGLE BUYS STAKE IN AOL, SELLS SOUL

Google’s agreement to purchase a five percent stake in AOL was widely reported, but I missed the important detail: as part of the deal, Google agreed to start putting AOL-sponsored search results on its main search results page. Here’s Paul...

GOOGLE BLOG SEARCH

Google has set up a separate page specifically for searching blog posts. Google will attempt to index blogs much more quickly than other types of pages that change less frequently – virtually in real time, according to Google’s product manager for blog...

GOOGLE PURGE

The hard-working reporters at The Onion bring us news of the latest step in Google’s expansion effort.Google has announced Google Purge, a far-reaching plan to destroy all the information it can’t index. “As a part of Purge’s first phase,...

GOOGLE TALK

Google has unveiled Google Talk, its own instant messenger program. There’s no surprises in it. Here’s an article summarizing the new service.If you have a microphone on your computer, you can talk to the person on the other end, but there’s no other...