Don’t have much time for a full post, so a small roundup:
Man sues Yahoo and Google for taking their names from the tribes he has descended from.
A man currently being detained by immigration in Houston, TX has filed a lawsuit claiming Yahoo and Google stole their names from Tanzanian tribes. As luck would have it, the man is a descendant of both tribes – what are the odds?
The lawsuit states that Google was taken from the Gogo tribe, and Yahoo from the Yao tribe. The claim is asking for $10,000 be paid to each tribe member for the past three generations.
Yeah right!
Read MoreWell, call me a Google fanboy all you will, but this has to be one of its kind examples of admitting the “we messed up.” Keep rockin’ guys!!
The only other example I can recall is of Johnathan Schwartz when he apologized publicly on his blog to Matt Mullenweg (the brilliant WordPress guys).
Read MoreIt is first April and after the success of the pigeons, lunar office and yes Google Gulp, Google is now offering Google TiSP.
“Want WiFi around? Just flush it down.”
Do you want a free WiFi network? Order online now and have the team of Plumbing Hardware Dispatchers (PHDs) get your connection up and running. Or should I say down!!
Happy Fool’s Day!
Read MoreOne Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them
Ever wished life was as simple and you could answer your calls on any number all from one place? GrandCentral promises to be an answer. All calls to all your number will get transferred to all your phones, or the one you decide, and you can decide which one to answer from.
Awesome features include:
Waiting for the service to arrive to India!!
Read MoreFirst trial of the Google Docs . Seems to be working perfectly. Only if they allowed a document to be edited in the print layout format. That would allow more control over the formatting and see exactly what the final print would look like, right when you are working on the document.
Overall I think that the product is a sure shot winner. I am very pleased with the final product. Google, keep rocking guys!! Oh, by the way, this post was composed directly from within Google Docs and from my home. One oddity however, when I posted it from Google Docs (Writely) it was posted on my blog with a time stamp of tomorrow (Jan 08) and after 4 hours of posting it.
Following this wishlist from Pandia fellows, I came up with one of my own. So what do I want from Google in 2007. Here you go:
And did I forget the Google India Blog??
Read MoreThe inevitable has happened. Google has finally launched a patent search engine. You can check it out at http://www.google.com/patents
For long I had wished that Google gives a better patent search option, and it has finally happened. Complete with advanced search options including assignee, inventor, IPC classes, and date limitations it is gonna be one heck of a tool for prior art search. I hope it does normal language search more effectively than concept search on PatentCafe.
Though the jurisdiction coverage is currently limited to granted US patents only, I am sure it would not be long before it adds other major Patent Offices like EPO and WIPO to it and published applications/pre-grant publications.
I sure see some competition for us in the future and also for IP service providers like Thomson Scientific.
What I now want to see is a mashup which combines Google Patent Search and Google Spreadsheets & Docs. That would be so much fun!!
PS: The official post is at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/now-you-can-search-for-us-patents.html.
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