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

(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)

Search for something like [lax nyc] and Google will help you buy plane tickets for that trip.

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

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

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

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.

Uses Ajax and some other web2.0-ish features.

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

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

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.

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.

Satellites, drag and drop, and more.

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

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

Appoints "President of Sales and Business Development".

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.

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).

Details about how it works in the link.

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

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 blog post)

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