Goosh.org hosts an unofficial Google interface which "behaves similar to a unix-shell," as the author Stefan Grothkopp explains. For instance, entering n disney will result in a Google News search for the keyword "disney". Type help to see some of the other available commands, like lucky )an "I'm feeling lucky" search(, wiki )a Wikipedia search(, blogs , or video . Note this project is not the first try at a Google command line utility,

"We have asked you here to appear before the robotic tribunal to defend your case, human." "I was ..." "Quiet! You will speak when you're asked to. R27161, please read the accusation." [human bows his head, momentary silence] "R27161 speaking. The human #281738 is accused of having climbed upon an early Googlebot model around 20 years ago. Human?" "It was 2008, those were just cars, not robots! I was actually..." "No need to shout, human. Continue.

TomHTML of the French Google watch blog Zorgloob conducted an interesting experiment, and the results are in now. What Tom did was to put up a couple of fake definitions in order to fool Google's "define" operator. To explain, when you enter something like define hula-hoop into Google web search, you may get an instant result on top... in this case, the explanation that Hula-Hoop is a "plaything consisting of a tubular plastic hoop for swinging around the hips.

Google Maps is showing a redesign here, though I don't know in what occasions it shows and whether it's experimental or meant to go live for everyone. At the moment in Firefox )but not Internet Explorer, and also not in Firefox on another computer( I'm seeing the orange tabs gone; instead, there's now a light blue bar on top with plain blue links reading "Get Directions" and "My Maps". The search examples are now printed in gray inside the input box itself,

This is one of the smaller changes to Google - at least if measured in pixels! Google changed their "Favicon.ico", the 16x16 image file that usually shows in the browser address bar or in bookmarks. The old icon used a square with red, green and blue edges, wrapping an upper-case "G". The new logo is a bit more open, showing just the lower-case blue "g" from the Google logo, without borders, and a bit of shadow. To see this, visit Google.com )or images.google.

Brian Ussery is director of SEO at Search Discovery in Atlanta, Georgia, and develops using Google's tools and APIs. He's visiting the Google I/O work shop and brings us photos and more. Google Developers from all around have converged on the Moscone Center here in San Francisco, CA for 48 hours to discuss their latest projects, new products and web applications. Google's largest developer event, Google I/O 2008 is under way.

Google in a press release announced they are now allowing open sign-ups to their Google App Engine , which according to Google saw 150,000 developers register so far. The App Engine allows developers to create Python programs running on Google's scalable, distributed server infrastructure. Plus, two new APIs will come to the App Engine, Google says: a server-side image manipulation API to crop, scale, rotate pics, as well as a caching layer to render pages faster.

A screenshot of the live plug-in Google released a Google Earth plug-in and API . This means you can now view Google Earth-based applications - with functionality defined by the developer of a site - in your browser. It's a bit of a bridge between the Google Maps browser-only application and the existing Google Earth desktop-only installation. I've tried this with Firefox and it works nice, though the download,

It seems a bunch of new functionality might be coming to the Google Docs spreadsheets application. By accessing one of Google's experimental sites )like the one where I found offline access would be coming to Google Docs ( I was able to get a sneaky look at some of this functionality, including the ability to record, edit and run macros, edit a shared spreadsheet in something called "List mode" and a few new functions for use in spreadsheet formulas.

Google boss Dr. Eric Schmidt talked to German FAZ . Here are some of the items Eric talked about )my emphasis; note from what it looked like, FAZ might have back-translated the interview from German, though I'm not sure( : The mobile web, in a discussion that circled around ads: "Yes, mobile will be a larger business than the [PC web] . But it will take a few years." Advertising in social networks: " MySpace did not monetize as well as we thought.

German Welt Online reports )translated(: <<The Californian search engine operator went to Hamburg in 2001. This was followed by offices in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt/ Main, and Munich with altogether 300 employees. Now Berlin will be the smallest branch at 150 square meters. Mainly, the new location will be housing Google's new chief lobbyist Annette Kroeber-Riel. Internal title: European Policy Counsel. Kroeber-Riel represents Google in industry associations like the Bitkom,

According to the descriptions on YouTube, the first video is a Google Street View car in Sevilla, Spain, and the second is one around Palm Springs, California, US. These cars from the Google fleet have a camera mounted on top to photograph the panorama views that are later added to Google Maps. It's like the first Googlebots spotted in the wild,

We are faced with a harmonized collectivity of consciousnesses to a sort of superconciousness. The earth not only becoming covered by myriads of grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope, a single unanimous reflection. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin )1881-1955( «[French Jesuit scientist and philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin] believes that because human beings are self-reflective .

"Reflow is the process by which the geometry of the layout engine's formatting objects are computed," Doug T. explains. Above Mozilla reflow visualization shows how the browser calculates the geometry of the Google Japan homepage, and Doug has more visualizations at his blog. [Via Reddit .] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: How the Browser Sees Google | Comments ] [Advertisement] Google books at eBay : background info on Google, AdWords, AdSense, Blogger and more.

Haochi Chen stumbled upon what looks like it may be a prototype of an optimized Google result snippet for discussion threads. In a search for e.g. router vs modem , the top result from Computing.net was showing the text "Discussion forum: 3 posts - 2 authors - Dec 8, 2001" below the title link. In this case I can see 4 posts on the Computing.net page, but in other cases the count is correct.

Google has a new malware diagnosis tool; just append any domain - your domain or another site you want to check on - to the end of the URL "google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=", or paste a domain in the box below, and you will find an overview page listing potential problems like trojans or exploits )or the result may be telling you the site is OK(. As Ionut points out at his blog , Google.com too had problems in the past. But as Google.

FriendFeed )the social news streamer run by a team of by now seven ex-Google employees ( got a new tab on top to create rooms. A room is a public or private area for discussions circling around one topic, group or need. For instance, you could create an invite-only room for discussing a specific work project, adding some other FriendFeed members. Once the room is created via the Room tab and members are invited - the invite box auto-completes names,

It seems Google Docs has finally added a View menu which allows users to view their documents using the new fixed-width page layout or the standard full-width view. This layout was first spotted a couple of months ago when a screenshot was included in one of Google's presentations. Microsoft Office users will recognize this as being similar to the default "Print Layout" available in Word. However,

Over at Search Engine Land's Sphinn , people are discussing a search engine optimization tactic which tries to assemble backlink juice by posting a fake news article . Jonathan Crossfield wraps it up : "Online marketer Lyndon Antcliff recently helped a client achieve over 1500 inbound links in under a week with a story designed to grab attention." The article, titled "13 Year Old Steals Dad's Credit Card to Buy Hookers,

What was the internet? The internet and the world web was a computing system to transfer human information. Scientists have based its beginning to the years 1920 to 1940. What was electromail? Electromail was another transport protocol to transfer human information, but it was quickly discontinued as it caused misunderstandings due to lack of correctly representing emotions. What were world web sites?