Three Google-bits I haven't seen in the press.

1. Google Base is live in the UK - check out this neat London product search
2. Google Base is live in DE - check out this neat Berlin product search (memory stick for your xbox or a crib - interesting selection!)
3. 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.

Comments

[Mordechai Eisenberg]

To add to that, maybe something about Google coming "full circle"?

Mordy

[Alan Lewis]

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?

[New York]

Sorry. 3.14 = Pi.

[New York]

3.14 = pie.