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Google recently announced on their blog that they’ve been working with the U.S. Geological Survey, NASA and TIME to release compilations of Earth images taken from space for the interactive Timelapse project. These compiled images include Lake Urmia drying up, Las Vegas’ urban growth, Dubai’s coastal expansion with its Palm Islands, Alaska’s Columbia Glacier retreat [...]
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Yep, we here at Lost At E Minor said years ago that mega-repository of all knowledge in the world, Google, was surely becoming our collective brain. Now the documentary Google and the World Brain is out, and it looks at Google’s ambitious plan in 2002 to scan every single book in the world. The trailer [...]
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Google Earth has taken things to new heights. Now mere earthlings can view a 3D Google Moon and Google Mars. Thanks to old photos and satellite shots, we can explore 360 degree views of these strange landscapes from the comfort of home. And the best part? You can get a tour with narration by Bill Nye the Science [...]
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Philosophers ask lots of questions. The Internet offers a mammoth amount (and then some) of knowledge. In this series, I pop Unanswerable Questions of Life into Google Maps and take a Streetview screenshot of the destination Google directs me to. Discover the meaning of life, see where we go after death and find out if [...]
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Oh, the insecurities that plague humanity. In his video Life through Google’s eyes, Barcelona-based Marius Budin captured the hang-ups that people have about themselves, as revealed by Google searches. It’s a fascinating if slightly depressing look at how some insecurities never go away whether you’re a ten-year-old or an 85-year-old.
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It’s everywhere. We’ve all seen it before. It’s absolutely infuriating if we’re being completely honest. That stupid “broken image” icon always pops up when my Internet is too weak to load a full page from Google. Hey, but what if Google helped give the iconic image a more positive connotation? What if it were used everywhere? [...]
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Dang, Google has done it again with their latest Chrome experiment. The World Wide Maze basically lets anyone transform their favorite website into a 3D maze on a computer or mobile device — and then play with it. It gets pretty laggy, but it’s also pretty darn cool.
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How do these offices even qualify as offices? At what point is it ok to just call them “work resorts” or “luxurious working vacations”. Seriously. Between the Googleplex in Mountain View, California, the Google Tel Aviv Headquarters, and my personal favorite, the Google London Headquarters, Google has created the ultimate work-hard-play-hard atmospheres. Who wouldn’t appreciate [...]
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This elegant, dark wood conference table is a grown up’s playground. Who needs to fight during conference meetings when you can settle the dispute with a friendly game of table tennis? The dual-use table was invented by Google Creative Lead Ryan Vanderbilt as a solution to the merging worlds of play, work, and home life. One minute [...]
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We, humans, are always looking for answers. It makes sense that we are now looking towards search engines for answers to everything. SEOLOL, which combines the two acronyms for ‘search engine optimization’ and ‘laugh out loud’, showcases real search queries from us all. Unfortunately the site hasn’t been updated for over a year, though it’s [...]
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Excuse us while we get completely geeky about this. A side-project by the duo leading Google’s Big Picture visualization research group, Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas, Wind Map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US’ by visually mapping out the land in real time according to the strength of the wind [...]
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Know ‘people who find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than google it for themselves’? When you enter the query on their behalf at the Let Me Google That For You site, it generates a video tutorial showing the obvious instructions to search that query on Google, then lets you share [...]
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If you’re looking for something weird and wonderful but can’t be bothered to leave your seat we may have found the thing for you. Artist Jon Rafman has been scouring the amazing world of Google Street View and has found more then a few oddly funny situations; including everything from cars on fire to scary men in masks. Getting captured by a Google photographer seems like a task in itself, even more so when you’re hiding behind a bin.
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As a pre-pubertarian kid, I had a strong passion for urbanism. I used to draw detailed city maps, sometimes including subway systems and contour lines. And when the original SimCity came out, I was in heaven. More than 20 years later and living in one of the most poorly designed urban centers in the world, [...]
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Google have opened their doors for the first time today to give the world photographic access to their massive data centres scattered around the world. The 8 centres in the US, Finland and Belgium are the heart of Google, responsible for delivering your search results, emails and most importantly, all of those hilarious cat videos on Youtube straight to your computer.
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