Details about how it works in the link.

The product that drove webmasters crazy was back...for a moment, at least.

You could also buy equipment to extend it into your house. (proposal)

A free version of Urchin, a company Google bought. (official blog post)

(sample map) It uses your zip code to figure out where to place you on the map.

Google is buying the leftover ad space in the _Chicago Sun-Times_ and filling it with AdWords ads related to the rest of the content. I wonder how they're going to charge advertisers. The domains posted are the real domains, so it can't exactly be pay-per-click.

Some great stories about Google's early days, with more to come.

(official blog entry)

The Search Engine Experiment gives you the results from Yahoo, MSN, and Google without saying which is which. Currently, 41% of those who have taken the test picked Google (33% Yahoo, 26% MSN).

In a long New York Times piece, top Googlers speculate about the future of advertising, including Google selling TV ads, using more personalized information, and links to store inventory information.

(Google blog post)

James Yu has a screenshot of a new design Google has been testing lately.

Tagging has been all over the place recently and apparently Google couldn't resist. Now you can tag sites in your search history for later retrieval.

See exactly where the available hotels are on a Google Map.

Sergey Brin is telling employees to stop making old products and start improving new ones. "For example, said Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, Google plans to combine its spreadsheet, calendar and word-processing programs into one suite of Web-based applications."

Google joins the already crowded RSS aggregator space with their new ajax RSS reader, done in the style of Gmail. Blogger project manager Jason Shellen led the project.

(screenshots) An official statement from Google says the site was designed to "provide content owners an easy way to give us access to their content". (more screenshots)

Google has released a new program that gives users 100MB of web space to make simple HTML pages in.

Now when you search for restaurants on Google Local (formerly Google Maps), you get details about the restaurant (location, food, reviews) along with its location. (example)

Google now lets you do searches -- including regular expression searches -- across public source code.

Satellites, drag and drop, and more.

(screenshot)

There sure are a lot -- everything from ZipCars to urinals.

The Google advanced search page now lets you limit your search to CC-licensed results.