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What if instead of going online to find a map of your city, you could look directly under your feet? Artist and designer David Hanauer has created a series of rugs that takes Google Maps' satellite pictures of cityscapes and manipulates them into hypnotic prints.

Google turned 13 Tuesday, and the search engine celebrated its big day the same way it has every year since 2002 -- with a special anniversary doodle. This year's effort, a staid, retro birthday party scene, doesn't quite seem befitting of a newly-minted teenager...

To commemorate what would have been Queen singer Freddie Mercury's 65th birthday this weekend, Google published a Mercury-ized doodle on their homepage, along with an accompanying animated video. The clip imagines the late star (who passed away in 1991 due to AIDS complications), cavorting through a heavenscape packed with 8-bit objects and some of his most iconic outfits.

Google is a good listener. A really good listener. A creepily good listener. So says YouTuber Comediva in the highly-amusing video short, 'G-Male.'

If you're not on Google+ yet, you probably know it's a social network but not much more. What are these circles everyone's talking about? How about hangouts? And isn't this the same thing as Google Buzz? Though this LOL-inducing Google+ song from Break (sung to the tune of Queen's 'Another One Bites the Dust') might not answer all your burning questions about the new social service, it'll defin

As Gmail users know, the Google webmail service tracks every word you type and read, and then uses the information they gather in targeted advertisements -- making for sometimes useful and sometimes eerie invasions of privacy. The folks at Microsoft had some fun with their rival's snooping in this video spoof about  a "Gmail Man" -- a flesh-and-blood mailman who opens and reads your lett