Google changes its Veterans Day Logo!!

Just noticed the change. Letter "l" has changed.

Morning: 2008-11-11




Evening: 2008-11-11

Google knows when you might catch the "Flu Bug"

Google launches "Flu Trends", which will provide up-to-date flu-related activity estimate for all 50 states in the U.S. Quoting from Google Blog

Our team found that certain aggregated search queries tend to be very common during flu season each year. We compared these aggregated queries against data provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and we found that there's a very close relationship between the frequency of these search queries and the number of people who are experiencing flu-like symptoms each week. As a result, if we tally each day's flu-related search queries, we can estimate how many people have a flu-like illness

(Information first found at: http://bit.ly/XTyX)

Google's Logo on Election Day 2008

Krispy Kreme bacon cheddar cheeseburgers

This whopper of a artery buster meal (Krispy Kreme bacon cheddar cheesburgers) was served at Latitude: 40.7417 and Longitude: -74.0038. I wonder if it came with ZOCOR!! at the side. (Source: Flickr). The description at Flickr states

This was lunch at Google NYC's cafeteria to celebrate the birthday of the head of the cafe staff...

Google Hell bent to solve Energy crisis.

Google has thrown itself into the energy debate. Instead of looking offshore for energy, Google is looking deep underneath your feet. This from FORBES

Deep underneath your feet is a hellish stone soup, kept hot by a torrent of radiation from poisonous isotopes of uranium, thorium and potassium in the earth's superheated mantle. This is the heat that helps cause volcanoes, geysers and hot springs. And it is the heat that powers a modest number of electricity generators around the world, from Iceland to Indonesia.

This from Google.org

Today, as part of our Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal initiative, Google.org announced more than $10 million in investments and grants in Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) technology. EGS expands the potential of traditional geothermal energy by orders of magnitude. The traditional geothermal approach relies on finding naturally occurring pockets of steam or hot water. The EGS process, by comparison, replicates these conditions by fracturing hot rock, circulating water through the system, and using the resulting steam to produce electricity in a conventional turbine.

Check out the massive US Geothermal resource in Google Earth, Google Maps

Here's a Google Maps View of West Ford Flat Power Plant which is one of the 21 power plants located at Geysers. The Geysers, a geothermal power field located 72 miles (116 km) north of San Francisco, California, is the largest geothermal development in the world (source wikipedia).