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The image you see above is purportedly traces of the ruins of the Lost City of Atlantis, found on Google Earth. Let’s weigh the evidence for and against, and see what we can conclude.

[via Gizmodo]

The biggest thing on Google right now is a mysterious thing. You Have To Burn The Rope is a tiny flash game with a questionable purpose. The objective is pretty self-explanatory and the ending theme is great! Go burn that rope!

[via You Have To Burn The Rope]

Busy week, sorry… So, there we are. Back in the world of gadgets, videos, gossip, music, sex, toys, and strange fusions out of all of the latter. How great, that some people still focus on good design: Mike and Maaike, two guys from San Francisco, do just that. They are the creative duo behind the Google G1, fabulous furniture and the XBox 360. All three categories highly – and most honorably – qualify them to be a squeeq essential.

Thanks Max

It has been ten years today, since Larry and Sergey founded what is today the most influential and powerful search engine and multiservice provider on earth.

We say congratulations and to another ten years. Here, have some pie!

See what happened the last 10 years »

Earth Album is a simpler, slicker Flickr mash-up that allows you to explore some of the most stunning photos in the world courtesy of Google maps and Flickr. To begin your journey, just click somewhere on the map, e.g. “India”. Note– since the top Flickr images are used, the images change every few weeks; bookmark this site and check back for a different experience in a month!

[via Earth Album]

Google always seeks cutting-edge technologies and innovation for their portfolio of software and web-based utilities and services. From A like AdSense to Y like YouTube, there are niches for everything. Now, let’s roll back to the letter B – for browser!

This minute, Google introduced Chrome, their first browser. At the moment, it is only available as a beta for Windows users, but there will be versions for other platforms, soon, eventually.

For more information and videos of Google Chrome visit Google Chrome.

AskMen.com, a website for all men-related troubleshooting, knowledge exchange and other interesting discussions and information, issued an article about five little facts commonly unknown to us Google users. Here’s what they came up with:

1. Google spends $72 million a year on employee meals
2. Google was originally called BackRub
3. Google loses $110 million a year through “I’m Feeling Lucky”
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