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In Pictures: The Strangest Sights in Google Earth

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:47:43 GMT

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In Pictures: The Strangest Sights in Google Earth

With its detailed satellite photos, Google's interactive map lets everyone be a virtual globetrotter. And some of the things we've found in our travels are downright bizarre.

Only From the Sky

Dubbed The Badlands Guardian by locals, this geological marvel (Google Earth coordinates 50.010083,-110.113006) in Alberta, Canada, bears an uncanny resemblance to a human head wearing a full Native American headdress--and earphones, to boot. Of course, The Guardian was produced naturally. For a more synthetic wonder that can be truly appreciated only from above, check out the giant man-shaped lake (-21.805149,-49.089977) near Bauru, Brazil.

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Patent Room

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:39:31 GMT

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Clip Source: www.patentroom.com

Patent Room

Mono-wing airplane: 1959

Sun, 08/26/2007 - 18:48 — ken

William A. Wolleat was awarded a patent in 1959 for this mono-wing airplane design.
View patent: USPTO | Google

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Airplane Design: 1967

Thu, 08/23/2007 - 12:31 — ken

Robert E. Foote was awarded a patent for this aircraft design in 1967.
View patent: USPTO | Google.

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A Design for a Service Station Booth

Sat, 08/18/2007 - 02:26 — ken

Charles J. Beckwith was awarded a design patent for this service station booth in 1929.
View patent: USPTO | Google

1920s

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Find and Add Happy Hours accross the World with Google UNTHIRSTY

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:01:30 GMT

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awarded August 9, 2007
visit Unthirsty

Find and add Happy Hours across the world on this Google Maps mashup. For each happy hour hot spot, Unthirsty displays user ratings and searchable attributes like Wifi and non-smoking.

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have a look at your personal web history

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:19:58 GMT

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Clip Source: www.google.com

Welcome to Web History

Web History: All the web sites you visit, at your fingertips.

View your web activity.

Search the full text of pages you've visited.

Get personalized search results and more.

Google Toolbar: Take the power of Google with you anywhere on the web.

Search smarter with instant suggestions.

Access your bookmarks from any computer.

Add custom buttons to search your favorite sites.

You should know: To include the web pages you visit in your web history, you need to install Toolbar with PageRank enabled. PageRank will send information about these pages to Google and associate it with your Google Account. See our Web History and Toolbar Privacy Policies. Learn more.

Tags: google, gadget, history, personal

Is Google Evil? of course, it is!

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:44:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If you are a Gmail user, Google stashes copies of every email you send and receive...excerpts..

Clip Source: www.motherjones.com

Is Google Evil?

News: Internet privacy? Google already knows more about you than the National Security Agency ever will. And don’t assume for a minute it can keep a secret. YouTube fans--and everybody else--beware.

Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two former Stanford geeks who founded the company that has become synonymous with Internet searching, and you’ll find more than a million entries each. But amid the inevitable dump of press clippings, corporate bios, and conference appearances, there’s very little about Page’s and Brin’s personal lives; it’s as if the pair had known all along that Google would change the way we acquire information, and had carefully insulated their lives—putting their homes under other people’s names, choosing unlisted numbers, abstaining from posting anything personal on web pages.

That obsession with privacy may explain Google’s puzzling reaction last year, when Elinor Mills, a reporter with the tech news service cnet, ran a search on Google ceo Eric Schmidt and published the results: Schmidt lived with his wife in Atherton, California, was worth about $1.5 billion, had dumped about $140 million in Google shares that year, was an amateur pilot, and had been to the Burning Man festival. Google threw a fit, claimed that the information was a security threat, and announced it was blacklisting cnet’s reporters for a year. (The company eventually backed down.) It was a peculiar response, especially given that the information Mills published was far less intimate than the details easily found online on every one of us. But then, this is something of a pattern with Google: When it comes to information, it knows what’s best.

So can you trust Google only as far as you can trust the Bush administration? “I don’t know,” Wong replied. “I’ve never been asked that question before.”

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