Google's Home Page Imagines a World Without War

Sure the headline is a bit servicey but wouldn't you like to imagine a world at peace. Of course you do you denizen of the interwebz. So go over to Google's homepage click on the doodle for today (10/8/2010) and enjoy Imagine by John Lennon.

In case you're too busy to imagine all the people being as one then check the video after the jump.

Starting the Week: The Hard Questions Edition

The second and last search queries make you wonder if we Google waaaaay too much.

Nexus One... Now what?

Yesterday Google officially made the Nexus One aka the Google Phone official; now what? After all but promising that the Nexus One will cure cancer, Google announced the latest (and currently greatest) handset running the Android OS. The much hyped news bouncing around the interwebs was that Google will change the way people buy cellphones and "change the mobile industry." If that was their intention they fell short of doing so.

To mark the occasion Google created a new way to buy the phone - direct from Google. Once you make the appropriate button clicks you're ready to make your purchase of a brand new unlocked Nexus One for $530 or a T-Mobile subsidized handset for $180 with a 2-year agreement.

As I mentioned earlier, spec wise the phone is a beast. Aesthetically it IS the prettiest phone to come out of HTC - whatever that means I'll leave up to you; and pricing isn't horrible for an unlocked phone. But I repeat: This. Will. Not. Change. The. Mobile. Industry.

All Your Tweets Are Belong to Bing!

Not to be out done by Google, Microsoft's Bing has sealed a deal with Twitter and Facebook allowing them to search your tweets and status updates in real-time.

Here's how it works:
"The 'tweets' will be integrated universal-search style, ranked alongside the other [different types of] results, and you'll be able to click on those results and go to a page that shows only 'tweets' and real-time updates," said Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience, in an interview after her appearance on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit to announce the news. Users will also be able to restrict results to Twitter posts from the get-go using the engine's filtering controls."

It is worth mentioning there is no exclusivity to this deal and Google has also made an agreement with Twitter to search and offer them up to their searchers as well.

The War of the Search is here. Bing is definitely trying (really hard) to eat Google's lunch.

Bing Lands Deals with Twitter and Facebook via PC World

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