In August,  was served with a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice demanding disclosure of two full months’ worth of search queries that Google received from its users, as well as all the URLs in Google’s index. Today, Google officially refused to this subpoena by submitting a  to the Court.

Good luck, Google! I stand by you.

I must say that I don’t know Measure Map until last 10 minutes I read Jeffrey Veen, Google Measure Map Team,  about this promising service. In short, it is a kind of Google Analytics but mainly focus on blog sites. So the point is how blogs are different to other kind of sites. Blog in the view of Google is a site that let you express your thought and readers to leave comments or even quote your post in their blogs. This is the way blogs work.

If you are IM addicted, you might find emoticons is a cool thing on this earth. Anyway, I don’t like emoticons at all because it always changes my code into funny and unreadable text. In Google Talk, emoticons are not available! I guess that the main reason is that all Windows components produced by Google is now relying on text-based widget. If you notice on the Google Sidebar, you will only see text, list of text and similar text fields. Google Talk is another good example. Its user interface is very look like . In other words, they seems to be a kind of HTML with AJAX. That’s why I say Google loves text in the title.

Eventually, after waiting for a week since  announced the tightly merging of  and . It is very cool! However, I fell inconvenience due to overlaps of chat window and . Both of them appear at the left of the bottom on the main window. I can’t move them.

I have just noticed a few entries in referrers log at howforge.com. They seems to be a kind of search engine. There are only 3 identical entries from AOL, IOL, and MyWebSearch. Let me explain more detail about them.

1. AOL has a very unique URL pattern which I don’t think other search engine will never have something like this. Actually, it contains the word "aolcom".
2. IOL, instead, uses CGI standard and it doesn’t utilize feature of aliasing like Google do. In contrast, IOL add "/cgi-bin" to the URL.

Stephanie Hannon, Gmail Product Manager,  the deployment of  for San José City College (SJCC), says . It currently serves all 10,000 students. In other words,  will have new 10,000 users. This hosting service offers 2 GB of storage for each account and a Control Panel for managing user accounts, aliases, and mailing lists efficiently. Note that you don’t have to prepare hardwares or install any softwares to use this service.