From here:

Google is planning to launch an experiment that we hope will make Internet access better and faster for everyone. We plan to test ultra-high speed broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the country. Our networks will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today over 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We’ll offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.

From now until March 26th, we’re asking interested municipalities to provide us with information about their communities through a Request for information (RFI), which we’ll use to determine where to build our network.

You know what would make for a perfect test community?

This video totally reminds me of one of my favorite people in the world, Rob.

<3Rob

Everyone knew that the new Android 2.1 powered Nexus One phone by Google was coming to T-mobile. What was still being speculated was whether or not it would be jumping to additional carriers. There are no longer any doubts, as Google has just officially announced that the Nexus One will be headed to Verizon Wireless and Vodaphone. Pics or it didn’t happen you say? I gotcha covered my friends.

Picture taken from Engadget’s live blog of the currently ongoing Google Android Press Release at CES 2010 in Vegas.

I saw this today and thought some Juicers might be interested in it.  I haven’t had time to really dig into it, but it looks cool.  I like that Google really strives to make information accessable to the masses.

Check it out.

I can’t get over how corny this is and how many times it was used in the show. This made me laugh for no good reason, but I’m glad it did.

Somebody did a study to see how people search (google) for this phrase. The results are hilarious.

4chan recently put the popular Twitter service out of commission after flooding them with the hashtag #Gorillapenis.

Via The Denver Post:

Has anyone heard anything / have an invite for Google Voice? An old co-worker of mine just got it and says its pretty sweet. Let me know ! I’ve just requested to be invited but don’t know if I will be invited or not!

As many of you know, you can refine your google searches by using quotations, addition signs, etc. You can also do things such as inurl:login.php, which will force the search results to be pages that are named login.php. I know several of these from past experience, but I just now decided to find a definitive list. Here is a great list of all the google search operators. I suggest bookmarking this for the future, it may come in handy one day!

From lifehacker.

1. Center Google maps on the place you’d like info for (right click > center map here).
2. Paste the following into your browser bar:
   javascript:void(prompt(”,gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));
3. Press ‘Enter’

Voila.  Provides 14 decimal places, in case you’re sending warheads.

After looking at some website activity, Choof noticed that Juice the Blog gets a majority of its activity from CincoPhones.

CincoPhones? Yes. Thanks to Fil’s post on CincoPhones, Juice the blog is the authority on Cinco phone activity. In fact, when searching google for CincoPhones, JTB is the first hit.

Not only that, but CincoPhone is also a google suggestion

It’s not all that interesting … I am just burning time between working. Back to work!

Google is one step closer to controlling the world. They have introduced their new service Google Latitude, a way to track your exact location in real-time. It’s very cool & very creepy at the same time. I wonder if it was just a coincidence that they released this AFTER Bush left office? Lemme know if anyone adds this to their phone, you know, so I can stalk you.

Try and find the deer running out into the middle of the road. Continue moving forward to find out what happens next!

Update: Looks like it’s experiencing a large amount of traffic (the page, not the deer). Google has taken it down, hopefully only temporarily.

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Until a few minutes ago, I never knew that sending a regular old URL to a youtube video in gmail chat would produce anything other than a clickable (is that a word?) link. It shows you a preview in the window and when clicked, actually plays the video right above your chat node.

Well played Google, well played.

Fellow Juicers,

I had an interesting Google experience the other day, and you guys are the only ones who will care.

The other day at work I was trying to find a reasonable approach for calculating the forces generated in a “bump” as a wheel of a vehicle rolls over it.  It was a cute little problem, and I delight in researching little things during the day.  I had been having success with Google Books lately, looking up what filler alloy to use when welding 6061-T6 aluminum with the intent of post-weld artificial aging.  More on that later.  Anyway I decided to look up verhicle dynamics for trains, because the first thing I thought of about my bump problem was a train wheel driving over the discontinuity between different rails.  The frustrating thing about Google Books is that you’ll find what you’re looking for, and you’ll be reading along, and then the page that has what you really want is intentionally left out.  Bullshit!  Luckily that just makes the game of finding the information more fun.  I should note here that one’s definition of the word “game” changes drastically at work.

A solution to my bump problem came in the form of a letter to the editor by a what appears to be a particularly thorough, and mildly douche-y, professor at MIT in a 1912 issue of “Railway Age Gazette.” My resulting awe and excitement- about the internet and information and the kind of cool things that Google is scanning into searchable text- was mostly lost on my colleagues.  I have thusly been compelled to blog.

This is absolutely fascinating.  To think that every day more and more printed information is being transcribed to searchable text and made universally availablet has the capacity to double the effectiveness of the internet.  I love it.  How cool is it to get to skim through a journal about railroad engineering from the industrial revolution?  Badass!  I have also been teased by enough books about welding aluminum lately that I would buy them in digital form if I could!  I want a digital engineering library!

The first few pages of my issue of Railway Age Gazette kind of show the machinery that the book is being fed into.  Also cool.  I picture a machine that looks something like a combination between a big copy machine and a wood chipper, with an intern on a stepladder dumping books in a funnel at the top.  Its yellow, and google-looking.  Its probably something more like this:

I am glad that Mr. MIT from 1912 with a waxed mustache was able to help me out, or at least point me in the right direction.  I am also glad that I know to use 4643 Filler Allow for welding 6061-T6 if I’m planning on artificially aging it after (if you want to know why, I can tell you that too).  I am even more glad that I have access to such an interesting array of knowledge on Google Books.  Thank you intern on the stepladder!  I am reading!