Watch this funny video about Google maps. This video is pretty cool showing the upcoming features of Google Maps. j/k

http://www.break.com/index/google-maps-is-evi.html

Ever since Google first let people scour the planet from the comfort of their computers through the Google Earth software program, fans have been on a virtual scavenger hunt from the North Pole to the South Pole looking for anything interesting, unusual, or unexplained.

http://me-king.110mb.com/readarticle.php?article_id=15

Google currently processes over 20 petabytes of data per day through an average of 100,000 MapReduce jobs spread across its massive computing clusters. The average MapReduce job ran across approximately 400 machines in September 2007, crunching approximately 11,000 machine years in a single month.

http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/01/google-mapreduce-stats.html

"Google Operating System points out something interesting in Google’s algorithm recently: a preference in favoring recent content."

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/01/the-google-algorithm-is-changing/

Section targeting allows you to suggest sections of your text and HTML content that you'd like us to emphasize or downplay when matching ads to your site's content. By providing us with your suggestions, you can assist us in improving your ad targeting. We recommend that only those familiar with HTML attempt to implement section targeting.

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=23168&ctx=en:se...

When we were all children in school we were told not to do bad things because they would follow us around on our permanent record. In reality usually by the time we reached high school we figured out there really was no such thing as a permanent record, and it was just some bogey man used to scare us into compliance. However in the digital age of vanishing privacy there is a permanent record...

http://www.wolf-howl.com/ideas/lane-hartwell-richter-scales/