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   Google Earth

   Recently, Google added a feature that allow users to monitor traffic speeds at loops located every 200 yards in real-time. ... Indeed, a Google Earth co-founder claimed that Google Earth was modeled after Snow Crash, while another co-founder said it was inspired by Powers of Ten.
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   Google

   As an interesting motivation technique (usually called Innovation Time Off), all Google engineers are encouraged to spend 20% of their work time (one day per week) on projects that interest them. ... In 2007, Google announced two joke products.
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   Google's hoaxes

   Google announces gDay in Australia ( ... Clicking any of the three links at the bottom of the page brought the user to a page stating that Gmail Custom time was, in fact, their April Fool's day joke.
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   Adscape

   Google commented on the acquisition by saying in a press release, "As more and more people spend time playing video games, we think we can create opportunities for advertisers to reach their target audiences while maintaining a high quality, engaging user experience."
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   Censorship by Google

   Google states on its help pages that it does not censor content, but it does block pages as demanded for in certain jurisdictions, such as DMCA requests in the United States. ... In April 2008, Google refused to run ads for a UK Christian group opposed to abortion, explaining that "At this time, Google policy does not permit the advertisement of websites that contain 'abortion and religion-related content.'"
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   Google Talk

   Google plans to add support for chat and call encryption in a future release. ... A Google engineer confirmed they have been using it internally for some time on March 2nd, 2008.
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   Gmail

   Google presently says it will keep increasing storage by the second as long as it has enough space on its servers. ... The hoax stated that by bending spacetime on the Google servers, the e-mails are actually routed through the 4th dimension of time itself prior to reaching their intended recipient.
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   Google Video

   Besides GVI and Flash Video, Google provided its content through downloadable Audio Video Interleave (.avi) and MPEG-4 (.mp4) video files. ... The reports page stopped working at some time in 2008, and Google has only remarked "we're currently aware of the issue and are working on it."
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   Office Open XML

   Google alleges that this length is unnecessary, saying that the OpenDocument specification is 867 pages in length and achieves the same goals. That coupled with the fast track standardization process, Google claims, reduces the review time per page ratio.
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    PageRank

    Google representative Matt Cutts has publicly indicated that the Toolbar PageRank values are republished about once every three months, indicating that the Toolbar PageRank values are historical rather than real-time values. ... Google advises webmasters to use the nofollow HTML attribute value on sponsored links.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Google Earth,
• Google,
• Google's hoaxes,
• Adscape,
• Censorship by Google,
• Google Talk,
• Gmail,
• Google Video,
• Office Open XML,
• PageRank