Google

Google's official blog is a must read. Period. I say that Google is on its way to becoming the most important software company on the planet. Even if they turn out not to win every fight, they're setting the terms of the fight. Making every game a home game tilts the odds in your favor. So if you want to see what's coming, here's where you look.

I'm SURE I read that headline somewhere else, but I can't for the life of me remember where. Anyway, this is a very cool Google service that Nora pointed me to. They've just launched in beta form what I think is their very coolest search tool yet: Google Translate.

... at least for this project.

To all my fellow MAC user buddies out there, if you haven't heard Google has released the first version of their Google Desktop software for the MAC. I installed it last night and it has a pretty slick interface and is supposed to be a replacement (or competitor) for Apple's own Spotlight (which I admit to using less and less of since I started using Quicksilver).

If Amazon has a rocket and PayPal has a rocket, then Google's Larry Page wants to outdo them both. He's hiring for his new lunar lab but hurry, the hiring is one day only, today.

http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html

Best,

Ron Lindeboom

Kaltix? Ganji? Neven Vision KK? Endoxon Ltd.? Any of these ringing any bells? These are among the 24 companies that Google has bought recently. Have any idea what they do? Thomas Shmitz of SEOCritique lets you test your knowledge by matching two lists: the names of the companies and what they do. I'm telling you now, you're going to flunk this test. By a long shot.

Two of the 24 are gimmes for most of us: YouTube and Picasa.

I don't see everything coming. Not even close. But I saw this one. Google's Picasa has been offering online image editing for a while. It even supports .psd. So Adobe responds with free Photoshop on the web. Really? Yeah, really.