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Up-And-Coming Airline Gets Google Maps

Virgin America is a new airline that hopes to have some planes in the sky before September.  When this occurs, the planes will be loaded with special software - each seatback will come adorned with a Google Maps display.

Google Seen As Perfect Employer In Europe

Well, it’s (more or less) official: should Google ever decide to take over the world, most of us will be willing to aid it.  The results of a new study confirm that, in certain European circles, the search engine giant is regarded as an ideal employer.

Universal Search Not Universally Good For Google

To some people, the launch of Google Universal Search meant nothing - it’s a good bet that the release went unnoticed by many.  Yet to others, it was a big deal, and bits and pieces of Google itself seem to have been affected in major, traffic-related ways.

Wazap Arrives In America

A new games search engine is here - sort of - and its name is Wazap!  Already popular in Europe and Asia, Wazap! promises to provide “extensive and accurate results” for all things game-related.  And, on a side note, your humble author promises to stop putting exclamation marks after the word “Wazap.”

Macmillan CEO Lifts Google Laptops

Richard Charkin is the CEO of Macmillan Publishers, and he recently got into a bit of a tiff with Google.  This didn’t involve angry letters or frivolous lawsuits (entertaining as those are); instead, Charkin stole a pair of Google laptops.  And blogged about it.

Build Your Own Amazon.com

My friend Scott Beale is taking a little heat over at his blog Laughing Squid for promoting Amazon's latest offering to let bloggers and others build online stores where they can promote the products and artists that they support.

Google, VW Become Partners In Crime

Google and Volkswagen have been pals for over a year, but that once-pure relationship appears to have recently devolved into a criminal partnership.  It turns out that the Volkswagen home page - which is powered by a Google Search Appliance, and was also recently featured in the Google Enterprise Blog - contains some hidden text.

Happenings in the Industry

A few quick links of worthy happenings in the industry: More MSM foolishness and incomplete reporting at Forbes, “Condemned to Google Hell“. Yeah, that’s right. On this one I am drinking the Google kool aid.

Google Earth To Showcase Beautiful Buildings

Architecture is one of those subjects that appeals, on some level, to just about everybody; from your basic suburban house to St. Basil’s Cathedral, it’s just too entwined in our lives to go unnoticed.  Now architecture is being noticed by Google Earth - The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has helped design two new 3D layers for the software.

Yahoo! Releases Upcoming.org 2.0

Great News for all you Upcoming.org fans, today the Yahoo Search Blog announced the release of Upcoming.org 2.0 which includes some additional changes and upgrades to Upcoming, including the integration of Flickr and the transition of Upcoming.org onto the Signle Sign in Yahoo! Local platform. And this time Yahoo! seems to have sweeten the deal with a free offer of a T-shirt. However its only available to America and Canada.