Good thing their motto is "Don't be evil"

Kottke writes about GooOS, the Google Operating System:

They have this huge map of the Web and are aware of how people move around in the virtual space it represents. They have the perfect place to store this map (one of the world's largest computers that's all but incapable of crashing). And they are clever at reading this map. Google knows what people write about, what they search for, what they shop for, they know who wants to advertise and how effective those advertisements are, and they're about to know how we communicate with friends and loved ones. What can they do with all that? Just about anything that collection of Ph.Ds can dream up.

With 100,000 computers networked with all this information, and the theoretical goal of indexing all the information of the human race, it's a good thing the guys that run Google have a motto of "Don't be evil." My question is, how long until Google itself wakes up.

Hat tip to Newmark's Door.

Google Instant Messenger?

LOL What? gives us what may or may not be a preview of "the long anticipated Google Instant Messenger".

Dear Mr. Google

This is an older post I just ran across about And All That Malarkey's problems with Google's Adsense. Some of the problems have been solved since, but the letter is amusing and I know that I'm not the only one with a crush on Google.

I wish that you could hear me weeping. I wish that you would wipe away the tears. Please Mr. Google, hear my pleas, and don't make my love in vain.

All my love dearest Mr. Google,

Malarkey