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Google Analytics were released a few weeks ago and they have been proving to be VERY good. Another good job by Google.

Since I felt I needed a place to report everything about Google, I started up a site dedicated to Google news, rumors, and updates. Definitely go over and check it out to see what’s going on with Google. Lots of good things happening!

So yeah, I haven’t really posted here in a while, but I thought this would be a good one to post.

Google teamed up with Firefox and are now spreading the word together. I personally have been using Firefox for almost 2 years now, it’s the wave of the future.

Posted today on Google is the Apollo landing sites, but if you look carefully….you’ll notice something else. Visit the link below and then zoom all the way in, surprise surprise…you find out what the moon is really made of since none of us have actually gotten there (so some would say).

Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites

As I was browsing the web I stumbled upon an article talking about A9 image integration with maps.google.com on this page: a9 Image+Google maps.

I think this concept is very interesting because I’m seeing more and more open source developers integrating different services together. I believe maps.google.com has a good future ahead of itself and that I see a9.com being a successful search engine as well. A9.com is, of course, powered by Amazon.com so it has a good team of coders behind it. I look forward to seeing what a9.com and google.com has in their future.

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I recently read about the release of Google and their own music store. They are creating an ‘iTunes clone’ type site, such as Rhapsody or Napster.com, all to sell music. Google has the following now: Google Video, Google Maps, Google News, Google Search, Google E-Mail (Gmail), Google Images, Google Price Matcher (Froogle.com), Google Groups, Google Directory, Google Scholar (for education searches), Google Movie Listing, and there are plenty more sites about google being added everyday. It is extremely insane how far Google has come and where they still have to go.
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Google has recently announced that they are sponsoring an Open Source code ‘fest’ for the summer. Each applicant (must be a student) will apply to each project designated by Google and then a team member of each project will track the success and progress of each student along the way.

You ask why Google is doing this? Simple, to bring out the developers of the Open Source world. What’s the catch? No catch, just some Open Source experience and $4500 in your pocket.

Read more about it here.

Personal Opinion: I think it’s a great idea and I’m really happy for Google that they are able to sponsor such an event. It’s about time the Open Source world got some publicity. Go Summer Code 2005! Summer Code! Summer Code! GO GO GO!

Recent activities, within the past 10 to 15 minutes, google.com has had most of their site down. The cause of it is unknown right now and everyone is going to be awaiting an answer from google for the cause.

GMail is down, Google News, etc etc, most of Google is down except www.google.com

Keep posted for updates.

Update: As of last night, it seems as if Google is back online. (Good)