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Story of Send on Google Green

Take a journey through Google’s data centers by following an email along its path.
Follow an email on its journey to see what happens when you send a message. Along the way, find out how we minimize our impact on the environment. http://www.google.com/green/storyofsend
Cube – A game about Google Maps

Play your way through a cubic Google Maps world. Travel through New York, Tokyo and many other cities and learn all about the great features of Google Maps.
Play the Game here.
Go Google: Google Drive

Introducing the all-new Google Drive. Now access your files, even the big ones, from wherever you are. Share them with whomever you want, and edit them together in real time.
Learn more at http://drive.google.com/start
Google Doodle: Gideon Sundback, zip’s inventor

Google‘s latest doodle, a giant zipper running down the centre of the search engine’s homepage, marks the birthday of Gideon Sundback, the Swedish-American electrical engineer most commonly associated with the development of the fastening device that revolutionised the clothing industry.
Before Sundback’s intervention, the idea for a fastener based on interlocking teeth had circulated among engineers for more than 20 years but no one had perfected it.
Google+: There’s more to explore

Google+ gives you new ways to share the right things with the right people. Take a tour of our latest improvements. http://google.com/+/learnmore
Song: “World in Front of Me” from the album Stairwells
Artist: Kina Grannis http://www.kinagrannis.com/
Follow Kina on Google+: goo.gl/7N89s
YouTube Channel: goo.gl/jwZhx
Publisher: BMG Platinum Songs US
Label: One Haven Music LLC
Google Maps 8-bit for NES

Google Maps is now available for 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment Systems (NES). Availability in Google Store is TBD but you can try it on your browser by going to http://maps.google.com and clicking “Quest” in the upper right hand corner of the map. Also…
Happy April Fools 2012!
TomTom makes babies laugh

On the 1st April 2012, we will announce the results of months of meticulous research in our NavLab. Our experts have found a solution to stop babies crying in the backseat. For a safe and stress-free journey, let Darth Vader entertain your baby in the backseat. A TomTom navigation voice, guaranteed to make your baby happy!
To download the voice, visit http://www.tomtom.com/voices.
Google+: Tom
Valentine’s Day Google Doodle

A seventy-second animated short featuring on Google’s home page for Valentine’s Day features a gay couple among an unusual collection of romantic pairings.
As a man tries to win over a skipping woman with increasing exasperation and non-traditional gifts, it is only when he begins skipping too that she rushes over to kiss him.
A diverse montage of couples then fills the miniature screen above Google’s search term box.
A gay couple features alongside a cat and a dog, a princess and a frog, an elderly couple, a cookie embracing a carton of milk and an astronaut and an alien.
via Pink News
“Cold, Cold Heart” performed by Tony Bennett. Courtesy of Columbia Records and Sony/ATV.











