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Apparently the satellites imagery which Google Maps uses has captured photographic evidence that giant earwigs are attacking the German countryside.  Run from the earwig German farmers!  Seriously, I don’t know why there is an image of an earwig on Google Maps but one theory I heard was that one got on a scanner that Google was using to digitize satellite photos.

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I think this is a slippery slope.  Today they buy a house in Menlo Park. Tomorrow, they buy the moon! (Insert evil laugh here.)

Internet search leader Google Inc. has added a landmark to its rapidly expanding empire — the Silicon Valley home where co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented a garage eight years ago as they set out to change the world.

The Mountain View-based company bought the 1,900-square-foot home in nearby Menlo Park from one of its own employees, Susan Wojcicki, who had agreed to lease her garage for $1,700 per month because she wanted some help paying the mortgage.

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David Hasselhoff fears he may be the Antichrist after reading conspiracy theories about himself on the internet.

He says, “I Google myself. This morning it said, ‘References to David Hasselhoff: seven million, three hundred and thirty-three thousand, six hundred. Everything from me being a God to being the Antichrist.

“I actually read it and believed it. I started thinking, ‘Maybe I am the Antichrist? Maybe why that’s why all this weird s**t that has started happening to me and women yell at me on the street.”

Why bother yourself with annoying content when all you really care about is the ads?

Google Inc., the search engine company, said yesterday that it would disclose to advertisers the number of clicks on ads that it deems are invalid in a bid to assuage concerns over “click fraud.”

A Google business product manager, Shuman Ghosemajumder, said advertisers could now see how many clicks on ads are excluded from their bills.