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Help Google Deliver Email In a Gmail Video

When you send an email through Gmail, hundreds of Google engineers leap from their chairs to help deliver the message. It’s like P2P, but with bikes. They are doing a video all about it, and you can contribute to it if you hurry: Google is asking you to add to their video, where people take…

Google Couture

If you live in Turkey not only do you have the best kebabs in the World, but you also have the finest geek boutique to have graced our watery planet. Even though the owner of the store has the intricate Google logo down to the correct spelling and colour, we are still confident in calling…

Google Phone Prototypes, Software, Project Costing Hundreds of Millions of Dollars

Valleywag realizes that Google will not likely do phone hardware themselves. Whatever. As long as it supports the software, hopefully some shiny Mobile Google OS, we’re interested. Either way, this is what the WSJ and Reuters said today: •”Now it is drafting specifications for phones that can display all of Google’s mobile applications at their…

Google Streetview Camera Car Invasion, a Call for More Photos

Send in your photos of Google Streetview camera cars to [email protected], and this Friday we’ll have another gallery of your sightings across the USA. This time, in addition to the gallery, we’ll place a marker on a United States map for each sighting, tracking the Google camera car invasion from coast to coast. Be sure…

Google Streetview Cars Rocking Ladybug2 Spherical Camera

Click to viewWe’ve noticed small red cameras up on the top of those Chevy Cobalt camera cars gathering pictures from coast to coast for Google Streetview, and now an astute tipster has shown us which cameras those are: the Ladybug2 by Point Grey Research. It’s a spherical digital camera, and a tantalizing tidbit of information…

Google News Cushion is Enlightening, Embarrassing

The Google News Cushion is a standard couch pillow that’s been printed with the top Google News stories of the year. It’s a microcosm, in plush, pillow form, of the collective human experience on planet Earth. For instance, what news did we search most in 2003? Kobe Bryant, Brittany Spears, Shakira, and 50 Cent. 2005…

YouTube to Auto Block Content by Fall

While YouTube has already been running fingerprint technology in beta for companies like Disney, a Google lawyer said Friday that video filters should be in place by September, and if not then by fall. Automated technology is, of course, the only way to police vast amounts of uploaded material. But it’s disheartening to see Google…

Google Streetview Camera Vehicles Spotted All Over US

Click to viewGoogle has its eye on us with its fleet of camera vehicles shooting pictures for its Streetview mapping service, so we decided to turn the tables and put our eyes on Google. Responding to our request for pictures of the Google camera cars and vans, eagle-eyed Giz readers have been spotting the Chevy…

Readers, Send In Your Google Camera Car Pics

Google has its eye on you? We’re putting a few eyes right back on Google! After our tipster spotted that fleet of Google Streetview camera cars a couple of weeks ago, readers are starting to notice the cars cruising far and wide. In fact, reader Matt sent us the photo you see above that looks…

Google To Enter Wireless Biz, Wants To Make It Less Evil

Though there’s no official talk of a Google Phone just yet, the superpower has decided to ante up $4.6 billion to bid on wireless spectrum. Google did say it would only do this on one condition, however. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-google-phone-being-outed-tomorrow-258600 That whoever won the spectrum would be bound by law to offer at least some access to…

Ask.com Brings Anonymous Searching With AskEraser

Ask.com isn’t quite getting the traction it needs to overpower Google in the search arena with the weird algorithm ads, so it’s besting Google in another arena: privacy. By providing a tool called AskEraser, Ask will allow users to perform internet searches—googling, if you will—without storing any of the search information server side. This is…

Google Odur Will Search for Soulmates

Trouble with the ladies? Well it’s not for your lack of trying, I’m quite certain. Women who aren’t interested in World of Warcraft can’t be worth your time anyway. Still, if the constant pang of rejection is starting to takes its toll and you need a hand, look no further, Google Eau de Toilette will…

Google TV Might Watch You, According to Patent

A patent recently filed by Google for an interactive TV service is chock full of new details, but the most interesting is this one: “an image capture device (e.g., digital camera, video recorder, etc.) can be used to measure how many viewers are watching or listening to a broadcast.” According to the patent, the main…

Google Street is using OCR (Optical Character Recognition, like when you scan stuff) to match up storefront signs with businesses in Google Local. [BlogStorm.]

The goog’s acquiring beloved universal number cellphone managing service Grand Central. [TechCrunch]

Is This the LG…Google Phone?

Right. Europe got this Google infused LG KU580 yesterday, loaded with utilities like GMail, Google Maps, and search. Outlets like The Register are calling this The Google Phone, perhaps in jesting reference to the previous rumors. We doubt a phone preloaded with apps you can download free is The One. But the subtext, if there…

Google.org Getting Into the Plug-In Hybrid Market

Is there anything that Google doesn’t have it’s grubby little hands on these days? Up until today we thought that cars were off of their radar, but we were wrong. Their philanthropic division, Google.org, is moving into the plug-in hybrid market. What is that you ask? Basically they are full on electric cars that you…

Google’s Eric Schmidt: “Excuse Me While I Whip This (iPhone) Out”

He said it himself: Having an iPhone is one of the privileges of being an Apple board member. (Being Google’s boss isn’t so shabby either.) The video of Eric Schmidt flashing his iPiece at the World Economic Forum was on Scobleizer a few days ago, but this here is the Cliffs Notes, the money shot,…

YouTube Mobile Goes Live

Somehow unnoticed by the press until now, Youtube’s Mobile site at m.youtube.com has gone pretty damn live. That’s Youtube in 3gp file format, streaming to phones. Just like we wanted. Combined with the h.264 conversions for Apple TV and this, it looks like YouTube is branching out from Flash-Only support. And this pretty much clinches…

Unconfirmed, The iPhone’s 12th App Is YouTube

The 12th Wonder of the iPhone will be YouTube. YouTube has been going crazy converting all their video to the H.264 codec. The iPhone supports H.264, as do iPods. That’s why our theory has been, since Steve Jobs announced YouTube support for AppleTV at the D conference, that iPhones will get it as well. Another…