When Ron )of Totlol.com ( searched Google.ca for iphone recently, he hit upon what looks like an experimental video onebox result. Instead of the usual thumbnailed videos displayed in list format, this box was showing two videos results side by side below the headline "Video results for iphone". Both in this search as well as in a search for love , all videos part of that onebox were from Google-owned YouTube. In 2006,

When you enter obama08.com into your address bar, you'll end up on a Google search for [Barack Obama]. This isn't any browser fallback for a non-existing domain or something... http://obama08.com actually has a temporary HTTP redirect towards that Google search URL. )Anyone could set this up, but I'm curious who did this and why - I can't seem to find any good info in a Whois query or on the Wayback Machine.( [Thanks Andreas Schneider!

Google just announced they will start to roll out Google Suggest as a default feature for the Google.com homepage over the next week. For instance, when you enter "presid" with Suggest, below the search box choices like "presidential polls, "presidential election" and more will pop up, to be selected and then searched for using e.g. the arrow and return keys. Already, besides the Google Labs experiment which started in 2004 ,

I asked a couple of people to draw the Google homepage with their eyes closed during the whole drawing process. Here are the results: Brinke Guthrie's minimalist approach. Pascal of the German GoogleWatchBlog created this one. He says that "...schland" ended up on the table. Google's Matt Cutts created this one with eyes closed... ... and this one with eyes opened, but from memory. To my defense,

Google has a new direct result showing translations, triggered for certain queries. Here are some examples: [ translate Hello into French ] - Google offers the translation "allô, bonjour". [ translate Einkommensteuer ] - "Einkommensteuer" is a German word meaning "income tax". As the target language was omitted, Google translates to English.

Christopher Finke's Firefox extension YouTube Comment Snob hides all YouTube video comments which meet certain criterias like comments without capital letters, comments with excessive punctuation, comments with over 2 spelling mistakes and so on. Google has another way to deal with comments at YouTube, at least if you look at their authors at Google series : they disable them altogether. LOL!!!

Many web forms are broken, usability-wise. Knowing these problems can make you avoid them when you design your own web forms, so here are some recurring usability pitfalls. 1. The risky reset button. In most instances, the form reset button is not needed, though it can almost always do harm if users accidentally click it - because it will empty the form without any confirmation box )in popular browsers and popular form implementations, anyway(.

This video is from last week's annual Google Dance event, which allows Google and non-Google employees to meet up after the Search Engine Strategies. The robot shown in the video costs around $1000, depending on the version. As for the digital caricature drawings that were made, I'm not sure which tool they used but the Cintiq is available from around $1000-2000. For comparison,

[Thanks Haochi for the result !] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Calculator )Pic( | Comments ] [Advertisement] Google books at eBay : background info on Google, AdWords, AdSense, Blogger and more.

Google provides a neat new way for you to grab the user's location information via JavaScript. It's the ClientLocation property of their Ajax API . All you need is a free API key, and then you can load their JavaScript file in your HTML, and access the properties city, country, country code, region, and latitude/ longitude )where available, that is - the values may not always be found by Google, and Google disclaims they are only "approximate"(.

You can enter any subject into Addictomatic - like "google" or "comic book" or everything else - to view a customizable instant news overview page on it. The news bits are presented as little widget boxes and pulled from all over the web; some by APIs, but most by RSS, as creator Dave Pell says. )Addictomatic - or Addict-o-matic, as the logo says - was programmed by Crowd Favorite and designed by Bryan Bell .( Try the page on the topic "Google" ,

Marina writes, "yes, I've a cat called Google, I've named it so because 'google' has a musical sound, and because I'm a great Google-user too !!" [Pics courtesy of Marina . Via Ionut at Friendfeed .] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: A Cat Named Google | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to advertise here? Your ad will show in the blog and feed.

Hittery.com presents you with a whole bunch of specialized search engines as widgets, and you can customize the dashboard by moving, removing, or adding specific search engines. It's a bit like iGoogle but for search engine widgets only, and taking the opposite approach to "universal search" approach by Google, which aims to deliver all necessary results from the same single search engine.

The Wall Street Journal writes: <<Google Inc. will help set up a two-story, 8,000 square-foot headquarters for hundreds of bloggers descending on the Democratic convention in Denver next week, and it will offer similar services at the Republican convention in September, as new media gain influence in politics. )...( Not only will bloggers have Internet access, workspaces and couches for napping in the "Big Tent" headquarters, they will be provided food and beverages,

Google now offers webmasters a JavaScript-based gadget to include into their 404 )page not found( pages. Depending on where the user went and what other pages are available on the server, this widget will show suggestions of where to go, and offer a search box )sometimes with a suggested query in it as well(. To get the widget, log-in to your Google Webmaster Tools and pick Tools -> "Enhance 404 pages" from the navigation.

Peter Gasser noticed that when you search Google Germany for google rss feed , the top result will point to the German Google Reader service... with a title that can be roughly translated to "RSS reader of data-harvesting octopus Google" )"RSS-Reader der Datenkrake Google" - the word "Krake" is typically used negatively in contexts like these to express that a company has its arms in every sector, with potential privacy implications(. What's happening?

According to scientists : New data could help Canada stake claim to a highly disputed area of the Arctic seabed People can see the future An octopus has only six arms Ugly Betty will never come out on top Dogs pick up yawning from their owners Neanderthals and modern humans shared an ancient ancestor who lived about 660,

The Unwrap Mosaics approach by Microsoft Research/ Weizmann Institute was presented at the recent Siggraph conference . In this project a flat surface is algorithmically produced and allows the artist to paint over it, like by adding a moustache to a face; the painted parts then appear in the video and adjust to the camera movements. [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Unwrap Mosaics, a Form of Video Editing | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to advertise here?

)If you're using the Google Docs document editor, that is.( [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: What Was the Last Google Docs Document You Ed ... | Comments ] [Advertisement] Google books at eBay : background info on Google, AdWords, AdSense, Blogger and more.

If you're using Google Feedburner feeds for your blog or other site )or you're willing to switch to using them(, you can now include AdSense ads into it . The service had been tested with some publishers before but now it's apparently live for more. As feeds grow in features, the lines between normal HTML and the feed format may become more blurred... and the original reason why people switched to feeds - easy uncluttered updates, and perhaps ad-free content,