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Google's sekrit plans revealed
Google Blogoscoped has published a summary of an apparently-leaked internal Google memo that outlines the Big G's secret plans to breed evil radioactive mutant rats, er, take over the world, er, make a ton of money this year. To summarize the summary, this year Google planned to:
- Improve infrastructure and make engineers more productive with uber-search tools
- Build 10MW of green power toward its goal of becoming carbon-neutral
- Become the best in search (duh), which includes building the world's top AI lab, eliminating spam, and launching products with UIs that "that people love"
- Sell lots of ads, with a goal of $1 billion in new business this year
- Expand communities and content, in particular video
- Push Google Pack deployment
- "Increase the scale of innovation"
- Test a "radically improved" Google News prototype in Q4
There's lots more in Google Blogscoped's report, so if you're a Googleholic like us I don't recommend missing it.
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, ...
