Somebody else owns the gmail trademark in Germany. And he’s not selling. So they offer GoogleMail.com as a German alternative.

Source: This article while searching for more about that baby name thing.

So the title of this post was supposed to be “Google Flu – not a computer virus” but I decided to make it be a warning for Kalena to not read this post because I’d rather she didn’t spend 24 hours a day seeing if MN’s flu risk has changed… so, baby, go read LOLCats instead, please.

So Google has developed a site tracking nation wide flu trends. They claim to be 2 weeks ahead of the CDC. Basically, they are just tracking search terms that tend to indicate people have the flu and then are compiling the data. It’s really quite genius, though Lemm and I agree, now that they have made the information public, it could suffer from Heisenberg principle.

At the moment, Virginia and Kentucky are at moderate risk, and the rest of the nation is at low or lower.

Source – Lemm and Google-flu

There are over 2 trillion words indexed in Google’s data centers.

If you had $1 for each word, you’d almost have enough to bail out our economy.

Source: Fortune Magazine

Called Google Scholar. (http://scholar.google.com)

What is Google Scholar? I thought you’d never ask.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.

So take that ASU Library. You’re not so indispensable after all.

Some time in the last hour or so.

If you use iGoogle, you probably know this already.

I can’t decide if I like the new gmail interface or not.

Update: If anyone knows how to move the tabs back to the top, let me know. Also, it looks like they integrated Google Reader into the iGoogle Home page. So if you had RSS feeds on the home page, you can click on the gadget title in the menu and see the actual articles.

Update 2: You can remove the article summaries in your RSS gadgets by going into the Settings page.

Ever since I moved the ad block to the top of the page I’ve been treated to some newer, flashier Google ads.

One in particular that catches my eye is in some other language. I’m not supposed to click on the ads (since I would theoretically get paid if anyone ever clicked on one) but I just had to figure out what this was all about.

It turns out it’s an ad for the New Honda Accord Tourer – from Honda Portugal.

I always get a kick out of what ads are displayed since the topics on this site are so random. Usually I can understand where they come from – for instance I saw a bunch of bank ads after I wrote about banking a few days ago. But I have no idea why Google thinks I care about the new Accord in Portugal. The closest thing is the list of Countries That I Didn’t Know Existed, but I didn’t include Portugal on that list.

If I were Honda Portugal I think I’d ask for my $0.0002 back.

Novo Honda Accord Tourer. Eleva a segurança a outro nível. (Raises the security to another level)

www.cuil.com (pronounced cool)

Made by 4 former Google engineers. They (of course) claim they are better.

I haven’t done any side-by-side comparisons or anything, but I do like how their results page looks. I guess we’ll see what happens.

For your iGoogle home page. Find it here. Pretty cool. 23 languages. What will they think of next?

Source: Google, as I was looking for the translation of “salad”. Peggy Hill is the only other person who knows less Spanish than I do. And she’s a cartoon.