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I just finished reading David Pogue's review of Google Desktop when I noticed a video box on the sidebar. Video supplement and The New York Times? Interesting. David Pogue compares Windows XP's built-in search to Google desktop complete with a picture of a girl plugging her nose and David dancing to Who Let the Dogs Out by Baha Men….
Google Labs released Google Desktop Search beta this morning. Google Desktop Search allows users Windows 2000 and Windows XP to search their e-mail, AOL instant message sessions, Internet Explorer browser history, as well as text and Microsoft Office documents. Google Desktop Search uses your Web browser as its management interface. Connect to 127.0.0.1:4664 and you are greeted by a familiar Google search layout with a Desktop addition. I am able to access the Web interface using Intenet Explorer and Firefox but I am greeted with an incompatible browser message when using Opera. You have the option of including secure…
Evan Williams is leaving Google. Evan is the founder of Pyra Labs and creator of Blogger, which was sold to Google in 2003. Whatever Evan ends up doing it should be interesting. Good luck! I have enjoyed your pictures lately and I intend to stay tuned in many formats….
NY Post: "Based on the half-dozen hires in recent weeks, Google appears to be planning to launch its own Web browser and other software products to challenge Microsoft."…
Google now offers shuttle service from San Francisco to Mountain View every day. The shuttle averages 155 employees a day and has wireless Internet access onboard. Sweet! Makes all the city folk want work at Google even more than before….
Google is looking to hire persons as an Executive Protection Specialist. Trained in protective driving and knowledge of surveillance, counter-surveillance and technical surveillance countermeasures. I am sure this is common practice among Fortune 500 companies but the times are changing for Google….
The September 2004 issue of Playboy features a seven-page interview with Larry Lage and Sergey Brin. The interview occurred on April 22-a week before Google filed its registration statement. The interview may violate Google's quiet period and result in a cooling off period imposed by the SEC….
Google's IPO site is now live. You can access the prospectus, watch the management presentation (27 minutes 6 seconds), and request a bidder ID….
Google filed a S1/A with the SEC this morning. Among the changes are a list of subsidiaries (exhibit 21.01). Applied Semantics, Kaltix, Neotonic, and Orkut are listed as subsidiaries….
Google updated their Gmail program policies as of June 28, 2004. Users may not "sell, trade, resell or otherwise exploit for any unauthorized commercial purpose or transfer any Gmail account."…
Randall Stross of The New York Times takes a look at the hiring practices of Microsoft and Google, specifically focusing on their approach to PhDs. Working in Google's favor is its practice of putting new Ph.D.'s to work immediately in the exact areas where they have been trained – in systems, architecture and artificial intelligence. Google, the company, may falter, but Google, the human resources experiment, is unlikely to be the cause. Microsoft has yet to disavow old templates for hiring. Its chief college recruiter, Ms. Roby, says that among computer science Ph.D.'s, "it's less likely to find someone with…
Google is reportedly preparing to release desktop search software: project Puffin. CNET News.com analyzes Google's move to the desktop, similar attempts by other companies past and present, and why Google needs to make this move well before Longhorn ships….
John Markoff of The New York Times writes about Puffin, Google's consumer local search application expected any day now. Will it be ad free?…
A search for Gmail on eBay shows there are currently 47 auctions selling free e-mail accounts for Google's new mail service currently in beta testing. News.com reports $61 bids on some of these listings. Nelson Minar was kind enough to hook me up with a Gmail account a few weeks ago, but I have not been a heavy user. I have two invitations available, probably the same for these eBay users. There is nothing in the Gmail terms of use or Gmail program policies against selling these invitations. If this practice bothers you, the only e-mail address listed for feedback…
Google filed with the SEC today for an initial public offering. Some quotes from the Letter from the Founders, apparently written by Larry Page: "Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one." "We encourage our employees, in addition to their regular projects, to spend 20% of their time working on what they think will most benefit Google." "As a public company, we believe a dual class voting structure will enable us to retain many of the positive aspects of being private." "We provide many unusual benefits for our employees, including meals free of charge, doctors…
News.com reports Google has launched a test of its new mail service, Gmail, and invited 1000 guests to participate. Hotmail presently offers 2MB of free e-mail storage. Yahoo offers 4MB. Gmail will dwarf those offerings with a 1GB storage limit. Update: Gmail has an About Gmail page, including a form field for signups….
Robert Scoble would like to be the top result for Microsoft tech blogger. Don Park is a phishing researcher. I have not given it much thought, but I will set up a Feedster ego feed now….
How would you redo the Google interface? Artists Joshua Davis, Jenny Holzer, Shepard Fairey, and Ideo all gave Wired Magazine their thoughts and drawings. I like Fairey's the best….
Steven Johnson writes in this month's Wired Magazine about the battle over content spam in weblogs. "[S]pammers weren't trying to win the attention of the bloggers or their readerships. They were trying to win the attention of Google, like the high school bully beating up the class nerd to impress the homecoming queen. The nerd feels violated, but the truth is that it isn't really about him at all."…
Google's Search By Location service provides a quick way to find WiFi access points near your zip code. Yes, there are more comprehensive lists out there, but a quick Google search is a good way to find more authoritative lists for your specific area….
Datawhorehouse put together an Orkut Member density map by crawling Orkut's member database. Map of the Bay Area is pretty interesting….
Google released its Zeitgeist for 2003….
Orkut Buyukkokten, a UI designer at Google, quietly put online today a social networking site named Orkut.com. According to News.com this social software was Orkut's personal project at Google, one day a week, but remains the property of Google. Membership is currently invite only….
Tom McNichol of The NY Times covers the growing practice of Google bombing: engineering search results to your whim….
Google is building its own searchable book library with pointers to publisher maintained sites instead of an internal source like Amazon's solution….