Three Google-bits I haven't seen in the press.
- Google Base is live in the UK - check out this neat London product search
- Google Base is live in DE - check out this neat Berlin product search (memory stick for your xbox or a crib - interesting selection!)
- Interesting speculative zdnet blog article on Google Checkout.
I have a box of free ChannelAdvisor goodies to the first blog reader that emails me and can correctly guess why the checkout price in this article is $3.14.
To add to that, maybe something about Google coming "full circle"?
Mordy
Posted by: Mordechai Eisenberg | June 01, 2006 at 09:58 AM
Sure - its Pi. But why is it in the article?
Because Google has a history of hiding mathmatical puzzles in their public-facing activities. Two examples:
- The recruiting billboard along 101 that hid a URL inside a math puzzle
- The stock issue where the number of shares issues was determined by the value of "e"
How bout them goodies, Scot?
Posted by: Alan Lewis | May 31, 2006 at 08:37 AM
Sorry. 3.14 = Pi.
Posted by: New York | May 31, 2006 at 06:56 AM
3.14 = pie.
Posted by: New York | May 31, 2006 at 06:55 AM