The Google OS blog reports that Google added a couple of new languages to their translator : "Catalan, Filipino, Hebrew, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian and Vietnamese". Ionut Alex. Chitu notes, "In most cases, Google uses English as an intermediary language, so when you translate a text from Indonesian to Vietnamese, Google translates the text to English and then it translates the result to Vietnamese.

A Car's Life is an interactive Arcade-style game using YouTube. To make it through a given level, all you need to do is click a button which appears. The video makes use of YouTube annotations, which can be linked to other YouTube videos. It's a bit like the 1980s Dragon's Lair in some respects: it has animations and somewhat stretches the limits of its medium, but it also has rather low playability.

In 2007, Hubert Chang in a YouTube video claimed Google was designed by Larry Page, Sergey Brin and him in February 1997... but that he didn't want to put his name on a paper to be submitted for a conference, because he wanted to do his PhD, a wish of his father. Years later after finishing the PhD, when Hubert contacted Google again the responses apparently weren't too fruitful, according to Hubert. "It's been 10 years, and I think this information needs to be known,

Google released a tool called Moderator , a Google App Engine hosted program which accepts questions directed at certain persons, and then lets others vote on the quality of the question. Google's Matt Cutts explains that this tool was called Dory internally, and is used by Google employees during "tech talks or company-wide meetings". Within Google Moderator, anyone can create a specific topic for questions to be asked in.

Chromium is the name of the open source code base of Google Chrome, meaning everyone with the right skills can tinker with the code and produce new browser offsprings. The German Iron is one such offspring. According to German Golem )one of the most popular tech news here after Heise.de( as well as the software's maker SRWare, this browser removes different kinds of Chrome features which raised privacy concerns with some people.

Google's webmaster blog on the subject of dynamic vs static URLs , in bold and italic, writes: <<"avoid reformatting a dynamic URL to make it look static">> Here's the full quote: <<We can crawl dynamic URLs and interpret the different parameters. We might have problems crawling and ranking your dynamic URLs if you try to make your urls look static and in the process hide parameters which offer the Googlebot valuable information.

Take a look at what Google, the company behind the Chrome browser, )still( has to say on their Google Firefox homepage )this message box currently alternates on reload(: Wouter, who pointed this out, says "Just a bit strange". [Thanks Wouter Schut !] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Firefox Homepage: Firefox Is Safest Br ... | Comments ] [Advertisement] Google books at eBay : background info on Google, AdWords, AdSense, Blogger and more.

Google added a new service to their Labs called Google In Quotes . This site lets you enter a keyword and then shows you what some politicians - from Canada, India, UK and USA, like Gordon Brown or George W. Bush - said about this topic. Quotes are shown side-by-side for comparison. In the top right, you can switch to another country edition. Already, Google has a quote finder in Google News , and Google In Quotes is also linked to Google News.

Be careful when you want to share your Gmail email address but not your name. If you signed up for Google's mail app with your real name, people knowing certain privacy holes in Google's applications will be able to find out your first and last name as you provided them. E.g. if your email address is "ExampleElven2000@gmail.com" and you pass it on, someone could take this address, apply the trick, and end up with the full name "Jane Doe".

As part of their 10 year anniversary - in 1998, Andy Bechtolsheim made out a $100,000 check to Google Inc. - Google released an interactive time line of the company history . Danny Sullivan's 1998 look at Google , linked from the time line, is worth a read.* Google also starts off something called Project 10 100 , a contest in which you should submit your idea of how to help the most people in the world. You need to assign a category to your idea, like community, energy,

It looks like Nintendo teamed up with YouTube for a special commercial . Watch the full video to find out what happens. [Via Andy !] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Wario Land Game With Special YouTube Ad | Comments ] [Advertisement] Find the right keywords for your campaigns at KeywordDiscovery.

T-Mobile's G1 phone was officially announced today. It's going to be the first mobile phone based on Android , the Google-and-partners powered )and supposedly soon to be open source released( mobile operating system. T-Mobile says the phone has a touch screen, a keyboard, and includes different Google apps , like Google Maps or Gmail, with data synchronization features to Google's tools. The HTC-built G1 comes with a 3-megapixel camera and is wi-fi enabled.

Google now offers a book search API which allows other sites to embed book previews, query for certain book information, or just link to books at Book Search )the former Google Print(. In Google's blog post announcing this, Google mentions they already partnered with several online book sites who use their widget-style preview functionality - like this BooksaMillion.com page which shows a "Google preview" button.

Ever Since 2007, Google hosts stories by some news agencies like Associated Press as part of Google News. While many other news sites )e.g. CNN( carry stories by news agencies too, linking to Google News hosted stories seemed like a good idea if you like to point readers to an uncluttered version of the report. However, as Digital Inspiration points out and as Google explains in their help ,

[ Dan Hanna says these are "17 years worth of taking 2 photos a day as my head rotates in sync with the Earth around the Sun." Via Andy .] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: A Photo a Day for 17 Years )Video( | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to advertise here? Your ad will show in the blog and feed.

Entering site:hrw.org into Google China for a long time resulted in a censorship notice instead of a link to the Human Rights Watch organization )Google went live with a self-censored Google.cn in January 2006(. Now when I enter that query into Google.cn, at least here from Germany, I get the real site and no censorship notice anymore. I don't know when this happened, and why; perhaps Google received an updated blacklist from the Chinese government,

Google's Franz Och and Alfred Spector add their thoughts to Google's series of musings on the future of the internet and Google over the next 10 years: <<In coming years, computer processing, storage, and networking capabilities will continue up the steeply exponential curve they have followed for the past few decades. By 2019, parallel-processing computer clusters will be 50 to 100 times more powerful in most respects. )...( Thus,

Google has a couple of playful language variations of their homepage )like Klingon or Elmer Fudd(. Now they released a new lingo - Pirate, as today is Talk Like a Pirate Day . Save the settings page and you'll see a new Google homepage interface. Here are some of the translations used... Google Search Google Searrrch I'm Feeling Lucky I Be Feelin' Lucky Advanced Search Use Me Better Spyglass Preferences Me Likes An' Dislikes Also see Google 1407 . [Thanks Dave Shaw !

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has started a blog called Too . The blog uses a simple light on black template. Sergey says, "Welcome to my personal blog. While Google is a play on googol, too is a play on the much smaller number - two. It also means 'in addition', as this blog reflects my life outside of work." In his first longer post , Sergey writes about his mother's Parkinson's Disease,

Yahoo now lets you playback songs for some artists right from the search results page. Search for nada surf , for instance, and you'll see an artist box on top, listing a couple of songs along with play buttons. Hitting play opens a little Flash-based player )called "FoxyPlayer" by Yahoo( at the bottom of the page . You can listen to the full song, in partnership with music service Rhapsody,