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Just randomly by accident, I typed in a search in Google, and accidentally put an apostrophe in front of the word. On the results, I noticed something was wacked, the top search bar was missing. I tried this for multiple keywords. Not sure if this always happened or if it is just a little bug.
try [...]

Yes, it is true. Google Maps sucks. Twice now, I have looked something up, only to be led on a wild goose chase around town. On top of the that, they have less features (in my opinion) than Microsoft Live Maps. Let’s take a look at the debacles:
 
1) Fire on the Mountain
Fire on the Mountain [...]

ok, for the seriously hardcore geeks out there. Track my flight in Google Earth!
First, if you don’t have it installed, go to http://earth.google.com and install Google Earth.
Then, hit this link
http://www.fboweb.com/antest/ge/geOFNF.aspx?pp=51902740
you will see an live tracking of my flight when it takes off (around 4:10 PM CST)
It will update once a minute. Pretty dang cool [...]

There are basically the big three companies, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft. You can install a bunch of applications from each to create an experience on your computer.
Yahoo:

Yahoo Messenger
Yahoo Toolbar
Yahoo Widgets
Yahoo Mail (with the premium you can use Outlook/Thunderbird etc)
Yahoo Desktop Search
Yahoo Maps
Flickr (photos)
Yahoo 360 (blogging)
Yahoo Video
Yahoo Music

Microsoft:

Windows Live Messenger
Windows Live Toolbar
Windows Sidebar (Vista) with Gadgets
Windows Live Mail [...]

This evening, I hooked up my Pharos Bluetooth adapter with my Microsoft GPS and synced it to my T-Mobile Dash. I hopped in my Vibe and cruised around town, so I could test out the GPS capabilities. In the past, I have used Pocket Streets and Trips (I don’t think newer versions of Streets and Trips [...]

Agile 2006 - Google Night
Originally uploaded by ScaleOvenStove.
Glimpse of Google Night at Agile 2006. Google threw a huge bash, and all I got was a lousy tee shirt. But it was still cool. Thought maybe there would be more Google stuff, or a presentation, but they just put on the party.

What does your Google search history tell about you? (if you have it turned on). Over the last year, here are my top sites. Pretty intresting.
Top sites
1. msdn.microsoft.com
2. www.codeproject.com
3. www.microsoft.com
4. blogs.msdn.com
5. www.codeguru.com
6. [...]

Took a look at my referrer logs tonight. Wow, MSN Search is kicking some major a$$! It seems that Google and Yahoo direct people to my archive pages, while MSN directs them right to the actual link page of the post, way better.
For something posts, MSN is the first hit, others I dont even see [...]

Looks like gmail is open for business, you can sign up from the google website

Goole came out with this cool new thing last week, querying www.google.com with sms. You can send a query and they will send you back results, totally cool
if you send an SMS (not a shortmail or email) to GOOGL or 46645, like
Pizza 56387
It will return to you the top 3 results for pizza in Waite [...]