Now, you can read Google News in Tamil.

GTAC 2007

These are videos from the Google Test Automation Conference 2007 held at Newyork. If you are interested in participating in the related mailing list, you can subscribe here.

Google Local for India

In case you haven't checked this out yet, try Google Local for India. For example, this search for restaurants near Banjara Hills, Hyderabad or restaurants near Lavelle Road in Bangalore gives me a list of results for restaurants along with their contact info.

The Official Google Testing Blog.

India map data

In case you haven't noticed yet, Google maps now has road data for a lot of Indian cities/towns. Most of the cities have information on important landmarks as well. For example, here are the map links for Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Trivandrum etc. Most of the national highways are covered as well. Let me know in case you find any issues with the maps.

A 2 GB USB Flash drive goes for $27.62 at Buy.com. Now if you use Google checkout for the purchase, you can get it at $7.62. Amazing deal, i should say!

Now, Google it on Airtel phones

Google: Doing Good in India

Goggles Flight Sim - A nice game using Google Maps.

Bram Moolenaar, the creator of Vim, is joining Google.

Google Finance is live today. It has a few pretty nice features. Give it a try.

And now, GoogleIdol! :)

Google India Code Jam 2006 has been announced. Registration starts today. Being a Google Employee iam not eligible to participate :(

listid operator

Just noticed today that gmail supports an operator called listid which can be used to filter mails belonging to any specific mailing list. Just key in "listid:<listname>" to filter all mails sent to or recieved from that mailing list. (Of course, replace <listname> with your mailing list name)

Google Pages

Just made a page for myself at GooglePages.

Time has a photo essay on life in the Googleplex

Guido sums up his role at Google in his blogpost.

And did I mention that I get to spend 50% of my time on Python? No strings attached. Of course I get to spend the other 50% on Python too, but that's in a corporate setting. Fortunately it's easy to separate the two. If it uses two-space indents, it's corporate code; if it uses four-space indents, it's open source. (If it uses tabs, I didn't write it! :-)

Google Bangalore

How Google Searches -- For Talent A look at why Google is finding it tougher to staff up their Bangalore Office.