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There are hundreds of thousands of uninhabited islands on our planet. The South Pacific island of Sandy isn't one of them...

Find yourself wishing the holidays were over already? Well, thanks to a bug in the latest version of Google's mobile operating system, the month of December has been canceled altogether. Is Google the new Grinch?

We're sure Apple fanboys will have something to say about this. In a head-to-head contest between Siri and Google Voice Search, it looks like Siri is the loser.

In one of the most unfortunate internet quirks we've ever seen, a Google Images search using the term "completely wrong" currently yields photo after photo of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Ouch! This won't help with his poll numbers for sure.

Google is known to be a pretty great place to work -- the search engine giant offers free gourmet meals, on-site massages and even skeeball. But it's still work, and to further help employees blow off steam Google's internal itranet has a feature called Memegen which allows users to make fun of their bosses and/or the whole internet game.

Good news, bad news. The bad news is that Google has been monitoring all your online activity and is using it for their own personal gain. The good news is at least it's fun to see if they guessed your age, gender and interests correctly. That's pretty good news ... right?

Google Street View is on a mission to map every road on Planet Earth, and you can't just travel the entire world without coming across some pretty crazy stuff. Artist Jon Rafman sorted through Google Street View blogs and came up with 12 pages of fascinating finds. (And also a lot of people flipping off the camera.)

Google Maps' Street View can take you to just about every corner of the globe you want to see without having to leave the comfort of your living room or put on pants. Now it can even take you to a place you'd probably rather not go, especially in the middle of the summer.

In April, Google announced to the world Project Glass, augmented reality goggles that use Google maps, GPS technology, gyroscopes, powerful mini-processors and voice recognition software to keep the wearer connected to the internet completely hands-free. Now this science fiction-like technology is available to buy. Sort of.

As a way to create a simulation of the human brain, a group of researchers at Google constructed a neural network made up of 16,000 computer processors. Then, they turned their creation loose on the internet where it immediately developed a taste for cat videos. This thing is so human it's scary!

If you're already impressed with the level of detail on Google Maps and Google Earth, wait until you take a look at Google's new 3D mapping technology, which was announced this week.

Thanks to the rising cost of real estate, the advent of color TV, video rentals and other factors, drive-in movie theaters are few and far between these days. But Google is honoring the 79th anniversary of drive-ins with a cool doodle that evokes their heyday in the 1950s.

We thought we'd seen it all with Google's interactive zipper doodle a few weeks back, but now comes a doodle honoring the 78th birthday of electronic music pioneer Robert Moog that's the coolest ever.

While Google Translate will sometimes spit out pretty hysterical results, it's generally effective in navigating the internet's tower of babble. But did you know the translation service can also beatbox on demand?

While Google Drive sounds like it has something to do with the search company's much buzzed about driverless car project, it's actually a completely different direction in Google's quest for world domination. The 5GB cloud-storage service, which launched this week, allows users to access information from any of their computing devices. It also includes the functionality of Google docs, which means