Xooglers

Some great stories by an ex-Google employee about Google's early days, with more to come. More

Google Thinks Small

Forbes published an interesting article on how Google works on the inside, it's management style, hiring practices, and overall culture. A very good account: Quote: "[Google] pursues a rapid-fire food-fight strategy that throws out ideas as fast as possible, to see what sticks." More

Google is watching you

AS WE SEARCH AWAY, WEB FIRMS GATHER DATA ON OUR HABITS
Put together the bread crumbs we leave as we navigate the Web with the mountain of personal information we've posted there, and add to that the e-mails we send and receive, and you have an enormous storehouse of data available to the search companies. More

Article written by the author of The Search:

Wal-Mart Views Google as Threat

The New York Times has a story by Steve Lohr about how upstart Google is disrupting many traditional business sectors.
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Google Relaunches Personal Search

Google's personalized search reorders search results based on your history of past searches, giving more weight to topics that interest you. More

Google's personalized search link

Your Google Searches May Be Used Against You In A Court Of Law

While there appears a ton of other evidence (digital and otherwise), one of the pieces of evidence in the murder trial of a man accused of killing his wife was that he searched for "neck snap break" on Google soon before he allegedly killed her. It sounds like prosecutors figured this out just from looking at his computer, rather than by getting the info from Google.
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The End Of TV (As You Know It)

Google Inc. is the company, more than any other, that frightens the media Establishment. The company's ad revenues were $6 billion last year and are expected to be $10 billion this year. What disturbs programmers and distributors at the big networks is that the company hasn't even scratched the surface of what its search technology might be able to do. It probably won't be too long before Google gets good at helping Web surfers find and organize all the available online video related to their hobbies. That pile of alternatives is likely to "eat into traditional TV time...>

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Google Maps Tells Time

GChart is a cool new tool that lets you quickly find out the exact time for any location in the world. Just click anywhere on the map and it will give you the local time of the closest major city to that point. You can also search by city name... Try it

Google Maps + Real Estate

CribSeek.com is a new Google Maps powered real estate search tool that serves 3 U.S. states... More

Google is Building Yahoo 2.0

Tristan Louis compares various product offerings from Google against those of the "big three" (AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo!) and concludes... More

Yahoo techie Jeremy Zawodny also has some interesting thoughts of the story as well... More

Google Ads Coming To A Chicago Paper

Google Ads Coming To A Chicago Paper
It hasn't been confirmed which Chicago newspaper will be the one displaying Google print ads, but the company did confirm a test is being evaluated.