Google Pages You've Never Seen

Google Moms
A tribute to Googlers' moms.
Google AdSense for domains
AdSense for domains allows domain name registrars to fill the otherwise blank pages with AdSense ads.
Google Sets
Google Sets is the oldest Google product that never graduated Google Labs. Using Google Sets, you can create sets of items from a few examples.
Google Dance 2004
Also Google Dance 2005.
Get stock with Google
Google provides stock and mutual fund information since 2001.
Google doesn't sell search results
Google talks about the integrity of its results and answers this tricky question: "In a world where everything seems to be for sale, why can't advertisers buy better position in our search results?"
Google WiFi
Google provides free WiFi in Mountain View through Google Secure Access, a client that makes the WiFi connection more secure.
Google Newsletter
You knew Google has a blog, but you didn't know they have a newsletter called Google Friends. You can read the full archive.
Chad's journey to Jersey
One bike. One Googler. One really long ride.
Google Easter Eggs
A Java game with an Easter bunny.

Explore Google World from 2003."Work is hard and you need a break. A sun-soaked vacation is just the ticket, but where to begin? With Google there's a world of helpful, time-saving features right at your fingertips."
How to build a better query - useful tips.
Valentine's Day 2001
A Java applet that shows a heart and writes "I love you" in more languages. That was before designing logos for holidays and special events.
20 years of Usenet - including first mentions of Microsoft, Sun, Cisco, Madonna, Britney Spears, Mac OSX and Google.
Statistics about html elements' usage. An average web page uses 19 tags.
In 2003 Google searched 3 billion documents. Now Google has more than 24 billion documents in the index. Also see why size isn't important.
Google ranks #1 in NPD search & portal scorecard measuring loyalty and satisfaction (in 2000).
Google Voice Search - search on Google by voice with a simple telephone call.
Google Keyboard Shortcuts - navigate search results without using your mouse.
Google Compute - put your computer to work advancing scientific knowledge when it's not helping you.
Site-flavored search - Enter the URL of a site, and Google will try to infer a profile for the site based on its content.
AdSense for Paper - Google has placed targeted ads in two magazines on behalf of AdWords advertisers.
Dilbert and the Google Doodle. The first and last Dilbert cartoon on Google.
Britney Spears spelling corrections. The data shows some of the misspellings detected by Google's spelling correction system for the query [ britney spears ], and how many different users spelled her name that way. The most common misspelling is "brittany spears".
Google searches related to 9/11. Also Google's condolences.
Google can help your business make more money: promo for AdSense, AdWords and Froogle.
AdWords 2004 - a presentation about AdWords with nice greyscale pictures from Googleplex.
Librarian Center - a newsletter with search tips for librarians.
This page used to be displayed when searching for "jew" because the first results were anti-jew sites and people were disturbed.
Looking for Picasa? What about Urchin?

 

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Mozilla Thunderbird, Integrated with Gmail

The latest version of Thunderbird, Mozilla's email client, lets you add a Gmail account without entering any other detail than your email address. The account wizard's poor wording might mislead people into thinking that Gmail is not a mail service, and it also forgets you to tell you how to enable POP3 in Gmail.
Among other new features, Thunderbird 2.0 adds message tagging, saved searches, more descriptive alerts that include email snippets. Even if you like Gmail's web interface, a mail client is still useful to backup your email and for reading your messages offline. If you use multiple email clients, your Gmail messages are available only to the first client that requests them. To change that, replace name@gmail.com with recent:name@gmail.com in your client's settings.

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This Month's Wired Magazine Features GEEK-O-PEDIA

Create your own Wired Magazine Covers ! This awesome Wired cover generator supports Wired Logos in various colors, text captions and background pictures that can be placed anywhere on the page using drag-n-drop.The custom Wired cover page can be printed, or share it with friends over email. Enjoy your new-found celebrity status.  The latest edition of Wired Magazine is here :

Super Clean GMail

Super Clean user script beautifies and customizes Gmail's interface. Heavy on the white and light blue fades, this user script really makes Gmail gorgeous.

 

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Internet TV with Joost

One of the loudest buzzing apps of late is Joost, a TV-over-the-internet program (Windows and Mac) promising to bring a full-fledged, high quality television experience to your computer without the need for a capture card or any other hardware. All you need is an internet connection and a copy of Joost. 

 

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Best Help Menu Ever

Screenshot from the application iSquint for OS X. The best use of the help menu.

Most Useful Greasemonkey Scripts.

Lifehacker posted the list of 10 most useful Greasemonkey scripts. For the uninitiated, Greasemonkey assigns user-created scripts to run on certain web pages automatically, scripts that enhance and customize the way those pages look or behave. Also, Userscripts.org is a constantly-updating repository of great Greasemonkey scripts.

Lifehacker's list included a few goodies like : Profanity Filter, TextArea Resize, GMail Macros and ruined the fun with their own script : Nested Comments (Lifehacker/Consumerist).



BloggerWhale did not agree with them and listed some more scripts. Most of these are duds except for Blogger- Enlarge Template Editor.





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Open source software bonanza

A giant list of the best free open source software for all operating systems. All of these are either freeware or shareware or GPL, and there are brief descriptions of the best features of each pick. [Dark Artistry via etc]

 

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Quickly embed an image without hotlinking

Lifehacker shows a wonderful way to embed an image to your site/blog without actually hotlinking. Web site ImgRed (Image Redirection) lets you quickly embed an image from another web site and embed it elsewhere without leeching bandwidth from the source. Just grab the URL of the image and append it to http://imgred.com/

(e.g., http://imgred.com/http://example.com/pic.jpg). The site copies the image to their server the first time it's requested, then serves it up permanently.

Its a pain to save the image from a site locally, upload somewhere and then use that image. This alternative not only very smart but extremely time-saving. As we all know that its not a good idea to hotlink an image from someone's site and steal their bandwidth.

 

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Yahoo Alpha is here

Yahoo!7 is about to release version 1.0 of Yahoo! Alpha beta - a new service that allows users to create personalized search engine homepage using an intuitive drag-n-drop interface.    

The thing I liked about this is a very clean interface and plenty of options to create customized search engine. This is still a beta and needs some refinements like RSS search feeds, etc. but seems quite promising.

 

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Make your brain learn faster

Make your brain absorb information more fully with this list of 77 (!) learning hacks from the Online Education Database. Good thing about these hacks is that they are not vague and talk about very specific things.





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All the Google Pranks at one place

After Toilet Broadband, check this 404 page. The page is not found due to : some random fluctuation in the space-time continuum might have produced a shatteringly brief but nonetheless real electromagnetic discombobulation which caused this error page to appear...and some cool pranks from Google : Google Romance (BETA), Google Gulp(BETA), Google Lunar JobGoogle Pigeon Rank , and finally my personal favorite Google Mental Plex.

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Another April Fool's Joke from Google.


Yeah after invading our toilets, Google "introduces" another cutting-edge product. Google Paper delivers the printed copies of your GMail at your doorstep. This extremely useful services is entirely free of cost. The cost of postage is offset with the help of relevant, targeted, unobtrusive advertisements. Photo attachments are printed on high-quality, glossy photo paper, and secured to your Gmail Paper with a paper clip. MP3 and WAV files will not be printed.
You can make us print one, one thousand, or one hundred thousand of your emails. Gmail Paper is made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum, and thus, actually helps the environment.

Google wireless broadband announced - straight from your toilet.


Google announces TiSP. A new FREE in-home wireless broadband service on 1st of April. The press release says (this is hilarious) ...a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users' plumbing systems. The Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP) project is a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system.

"We've got that whole organizing-the-world's-information thing more or less under control," said Google Co-founder and President Larry Page, a longtime supporter of so-called "dark porcelain" research and development. "What's interesting, though, is how many different modalities there are for actually getting that information to you - not to mention from you....There's actually a thriving little underground community that's been studying this exact solution for a long time," says Page. "And today our Toilet ISP team is pleased to be leading the way through the sewers, up out of your toilet and - splat - right onto your PC...I couldn't be more excited about, and am only slightly grossed out by, this remarkable new product," said Marissa Mayer, Google's Vice President of Search Products and User Experience. "I firmly believe TiSP will be a breakthrough product, particularly for those users who, like Larry himself, do much of their best thinking in the bathroom....

Checkout the hilarious installation guide too.

Happy Fool's Day !