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Googleholic for August 29th, 2006
- Google has too much money
- Webmaster Central blog
- The Google Tower
- How Google Profits from Spam
- Google's look into hydropowered electricity
- Google's next online applications
- Google Maps Red Light Camera detection
- NYC parking locator
Google has too much money.
According to SEC rules, Google has too much money, now its facing a mutual fund classification.
Google Webmaster Central blog
Google changed Sitemaps to Webmaster tools and now they have a fresh shiney new blog to talk about crawling and indexing.
The Google Tower
Google looks like it might take over a 20 story, 430,000 square foot office building in Bellevue, a.k.a. Microsoft's backyard.
How Google Profits from Spam
Google's look into hydropowered electricity
Google uses a lot of electricity powering its data centers, and they could be on the way to developing some hydropowered electricity.
Google's next online applications
Could they target Quickbooks and MS Money?
Google Maps Red Light Camera detectionTrack red light cameras in your area, care of a Google Maps mashup. The pinpointed locations also show the penalty for running through the lights!
[via GoogleMapsMania]
NYC parking locator
This little mashup helps New York City parkers find a spot. You can even calculate rates!
[via GoogleMapsMania]
The past week in Google News
- Calgoo lets you take Google Calendar offline
- Google announces Webmaster Central
- eBay to display Google Ads
- Google announces office suite
If you have any tips, tricks, or anything Google, you can always drop us a line!
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
