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The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire on Google Streetview

Google street view leads to all kinds of interesting pictures from everyday life.  Sometimes they're amusing, sometimes they're UFO filled and sometimes they're kinda sad, like this poor house.  The roof is seriously on fire, as is most of the rest of the residence.

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Google Announces Indexing Appliance for Enterprises

Imagine fully indexing every document ever written for your business - up to 10 million - with the help of just one little box. That's exactly what Google aims to do with its latest invention. Read more about it in Google's Official Blog.

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Cuil (Pronounced “Cool”) Search Engine is Anything But.

On Monday, July 28, 2008, a new search engine known as Cuil (pronounced "cool") went online amidst a flurry of press coverage.  The expecations were understandably high.  Cuil is led by CEO Tom Costello, who has formerly developed search engines for Stanford and IBM.  Also on the team are his wife Anna Paterson (a former employee of internet giant Google), and two other former Google employees, Russel Power and Louis Monier.  Armed with the technical experience gained at Google and $33 million in venture capital, the Cuil team set the lofty goal of attempting to overthrow Google as the most popular search engine in the world.

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Get Google Gadgets up and running on your Ubuntu install

Not to long ago Google released their gadgets for Linux.  Those fine folks at GetDeb.net have compiled an easy to use .deb file for us Debian based Linux folk to use.  It’s quite simple - here’s what you do. First, download this .deb file (or this one if you’re on a 64 bit Ubuntu install). Once you’ve [...]

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