Google spiders crawl publicly available web information
and our index of historic, cached web content. Using a mashup of
numerous factors such as recurrence plots, fuzzy measure analysis,
online betting odds and the weather forecast from the iGoogle weather
gadget, we can create a sophisticated model of what the internet will
look like 24 hours from now.

We can use this technique to predict almost anything on the web –
tomorrow’s share price movements, sports results or news events. Plus,
using language regression analysis, Google can even predict the actual
wording of blogs and newspaper columns, 24 hours before they’re written!

To rank these future pages in order of relevance, gDay™ uses a
statistical extrapolation of a page’s future PageRank, called SageRank.

Google Maps, Wiki-Style

Google is getting more comfortable with its inner wiki. It is now allowing anyone in the U.S., Australia, or New Zealand to improve Google Maps by editing places for everyone else to see.

Google Launches Non-Profit Portal

Google has launched a dedicated portal of Google services for non-profit organizations.

Google for Non-Profits offers “a one-stop shop for tools to help advance your organization’s mission in a smart, cost-efficient way.” This site includes ideas and tutorials on ways Google tools can be used to promote non-profits, raise money and operate more efficiently.

CO2Stats Basic is a free tool that makes your website environmentally friendly. Whenever
people view your web site or blog, they use electrically-powered computers and servers. To create
electricity, power companies must burn fuels that emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and cause
global warming. CO2Stats monitors how much electricity is being used to power your site, and then
it “offsets” the emissions by investing in renewable energy projects that help to counteract
global warming. Our offsets are funded by advertising sponsors who
are committed to making the Internet more environmentally friendly.

The CO2Stats Project – Make your website environmentally friendly

AP reporta que el Pentágono le ordenó a Google remover los mapas de las bases militares en Estados Unidos.

Larry Yu, a spokesman for Google said that the filming was a mistake. “It is against our policy to request access to military bases for the purpose of capturing imagery in Street View,”
he said. The imagery that was causing trouble for the US military
apparently showed the location of the guards and other intricate
details that shouldn’t be public; according to Google, it was promptly
removed from the site. Are you sure, guys? I can still virtually drive
around that base quite comfortably.

Google anunció hoy que va a ofrecer servicio de voicemail (osea un número de teléfono con un contestador) de por vida a los homeless de San Francisco.

Aquellos que lo acepten van a poder levantar sus mensajes desde cualquier teléfono público o de línea, y lo que es mas importante, les va a permitir aplicar para trabajos, o poder ir al hospital, lugares en los cuales sin teléfono no te atienden.

Estan aquellos que dicen que todo esto es simplemente para promocionar GrandCentral, un servicio de Google que permitiría a todo el mundo hacer justamente eso. Tener números de teléfono gratis con contestadores.

“Don’t be evil”