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Google is offering up to $30 million prize money for the first private company to land a rover on the moon and beam back a gigabyte of pics and video.
Google has partnered with the X Prize Foundation for this lunar challenge, they are the guys who put up the prize for the first manned private [...]

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Google updated Google Earth a couple of weeks ago to include Google Sky which consists of about one hundred million stars and two hundred million galaxies to explore from your desktop. This is not the only thing Google updated however, the geeks at Google also included a fully working flight simulator with the latest update!

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Google has decided that it’s cookies will automatically delete themselves after two years of inactivity. The cookies, which are used to save preference data, such as language, layout and search queries are currently set to delete after 2038.
So if a user visits a Google website, a cookie will be stored on their computer and will [...]

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This giant pink bunny is another of the countless bizarre oddities visible using Google Earth/Maps, it is in Prata Nevoso, Italy and it’s a whopping 200 feet long.

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Google have just released Google Desktop for Linux. Search your email, files, music, photos, and everything else on your linux box just like searching the web with google.
For those of you looking for an open source alternative to Google Desktop give Beagle a try. In my opinion though Beagle is a bit of a resource [...]

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Google have doubled the maximum attachment size for Gmail from 10MB to 20MB.
Good job, I’m happy :)
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Google is now the #1 brand in the world, relegating Microsoft to 3rd place according to market research firm Millward Brown. It’s a remarkable jump which highlights the pervasiveness of the internet considering Google was in seventh place just 12 months ago, but I can’t say that I am surprised. Oh yeah, in case you [...]

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Now this is pretty embarrassing for YouTube. A 15 year old kid pretended to be a representative from an Australian television network and persuaded YouTube to remove hundreds of clips that users had uploaded. ROFL!
The lad wrote a letter to Google’s amateur video tentacle saying he represented ABC and would it mind removing clips of [...]

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Google maps is great but don’t rely on it if you are not strong swimmer. If you ask for directions from the USA to Europe, Google suggests that you swim across the Atlantic Ocean :)
Here is an example (New York to Paris).

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The Web Worker Daily blog has a good post on how to get the most out of the extremely useful google calendar web app. One handy tip is how to configure the calendar so that you receive reminders about upcoming important events.
Receive event reminders and other notifications. GCal provides reminders by email, SMS, or pop-ups [...]

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I’m sure many people wondered if Google will release a presentation tool, after building Google Docs&Spreadsheets. Well, the answer is yes, and the code-name of the tool is Presently (a play on Writely, the name of the online word processor bought by Google).
It looks like you will be able create and view presentations full screen. [...]

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