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• Google SearchWiki lets you customize results
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• LIFE Magazine's photo archive comes online
• GrandCentral App comes to Mac
• Google plans to work with OEMs to pre-install Chrome
• Access Google Docs within Gmail

If you have friends who live across town from you, it can be a constant tussle over who is going to drive to whose neighborhood. Sometimes the best answer is to find an agreeable place to meet in the middle, and now you can do that quickly and easily on a site called Meet InBetween Us. It uses the power of Google Maps to suggest places to meet, and then gives you the driving directions.

Using Meet InBetween Us only involves a few steps. First, put in the starting locations of everyone who's meeting, and then adjust the "middle ground" according to your needs. The halfway point between a friend and me was in the middle of a river, for example, so I moved it onto land. Potential meeting places are divided into categories, to make sure you don't get a bar when you want a coffee shop. Once you find one you want, just click "meet here," and it will come up on the map and show you driving directions. If popular restaurant recommendation sites like Yelp and Urbanspoon added this as a feature, it would be phenomenally useful.

Welcome to Googleholic, your weekly fix of everything Google!

In this edition:

• Find your polling place with Google Maps
• My Location comes to Wi-Fi
• Gmail gets emoticons and canned responses
• Create a neighborhood Trick-or-Treat map with Google Maps
• Androidaholic round-up

In this edition:

• Docs spreadsheet is getting a facelift
• More admin controls for Google Apps Gmail
• Project 10^100
• Map Maker launches in 17 more countries
• Google and perpetual beta
• Google Grab-Bag

If you've ever wanted to drive the Autobahn in Germany, tool around London in an 18-wheeler or do doughnuts in the Googleplex parking lot, the Geoquake 2D driving simulator will help you out. The simulator uses Google Maps for its driving courses.

You can choose to drive through Tokyo Station, London, Las Vegas and several other locations. You don't even have to be a very good driver, since the 2D format allows you to just drive all over everything - quite handy when you keep forgetting which side of the road you should be on in London.

I had the best luck in Tokyo Station. In other locations I had frequent instances of driving over a plain gray screen as the frames per second weren't keeping up. That could be from my old computer or slow internet connection though, and not an issue for those of you with better connections.

It's certainly not a slick video game by any means but it is kind of cool to see what is possible in the future. Grand Theft Auto in your own neighborhood perhaps?

[Via CNET]

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In this, yes, we're alive edition:

• Google tests automatic Blogger support for Google Reader
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• CalDAV support comes to Google Calendar
• Multilingual Google
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• Gmail fights PayPal and eBay phishers
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Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix for everything Google!

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• Google Finance gets more real-time quotes
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• Customize Google forms
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In this, day late, dollar short edition:

• Inside the Google favicon redesign
• Get transit schedules from Google Maps for mobile
• Explore the Magic Kingdom in 3D
• Location-aware Applications now available to 3rd party developers
• Round-up of other Google stories we covered this week

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OK, here's the situation, my parents went away on a week's vacation...oops, scratch that. Here's the real situation: you and your friend want to meet up for lunch, coffee, etc...but the only restaurants you know are right near you, and the only restaurants they know are right near them. The solution to this quandary? Mezzoman.

With Mezzoman, you enter in your address, your friend's address, select the search critera (e.g. Pizzeria, American food, coffee shop, Chinese food), hit Go, and you will be given a list of results near the midpoint of the two locations.

What new devilry is this?

No devilry, just Google. The site uses Google Maps along with local business directories to find the two locations, calculate the midpoint, and provide you with a few dining options in that area.

One obvious disadvantage: Mezzoman plots the midpoint geographically, or "as the crow flies." In other words, it doesn't take into account traffic, construction, or any related difficulties one party might have getting to the suggested location. But at the very least, Mezzoman gives you a good starting point for your hangout hunt.

[via AppScout]