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This was an expected move by Google, who currently leases about 2 or 3 of the floors of the massive building. The building is well known, previously the home of the Port Authority, with space of about 2.9 million square feet. It fills an entire city block, from Eighth and Ninth avenues from 15th and 16th streets. It has several addresses, commonly 76 Ninth Avenue or 111 Eighth Ave and is one of the largest buildings in New York City.

Google moved into this building as part of their expansion plans in the big Apple back in early 2006. Google currently leases about 500,000 square feet of this building.

The Wall Street Journal said this is “the biggest [deal] for a single building in the U.S. this year.”

Google Logo - Tetris

This logo, for example, ran in June to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the video game Tetris. While game enthusiasts might have been amused, lots of people were probably just puzzled.

Google Logo - Walter Groupius

On May 18, 2008, Google celebrated the 125th birthday of Walter Gropius, a renowned architect known for incorporating modern technology into his building designs.

Google Logo - Braille

Google written in Braille appeared on the home page on Jan. 4, 2006. A nice tribute to Louis Braille, who created a reading system for the visually impaired, perhaps, but the color-coded signage is useless to anyone for whom Braille is actually intended.

Google Logo - Lasers

Google paid tribute to the invention of the first laser on May 16, 2008, with this illuminating display.

Google Logo - Persian New Year

Google celebrated the Persian New Year on March 20, 2006, with a capital G followed by traditional symbols of the holiday. This is among a handful of logos that upset some people who complained that Google did not alter the logo for some important U.S. holidays, while recognizing other countries’ special days.

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The search company said Wednesday that its fiber-optic broadband networks will deliver speeds of 1 gigabit per second to as many as 500,000 Americans. Google Inc. says those systems will be more than 100 times faster than the networks that most Americans have access to today.

Google says it will seek input from communities that might be interested in getting one of the tested networks. [ Associated Press ]

And some national days Google logos:

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Google is hoping to transform cellphones the way it did the Web, beginning with its first Android phone, the new T-Mobile G1. But if Google really wants to dominate the mobile market, it will have to prove that it can out-do (or get third parties like HTC to out-do) Apple’s iPhone, the market leader when it comes to functionality and usability. And while many of the G1′s features are direct responses to iPhone shortcomings, there are still many departments in which the iPhone will remain dominant. Here are five ways Android and the G1 beat the iPhone, and five ways they don’t (at least not yet).

5 Ways the G1 is Better Than the iPhone

1. Keyboard

As proficient as we’ve become with the iPhone’s virtual keypad, tapping touchscreen keys (especially ones without haptic feedback) has its limits. Physical keyboards, like those on BlackBerrys and Treos, are much easier to use. The G1′s little keyboard will become especially important as smartphone manufacturers increasingly market their devices as pocket-based PCs, and may give the G1 a clear edge when it comes to gaming.

2. Expandable and Removable Parts

The iPhone’s sealed battery is more of a metaphoric problem than a functional one. Sure, it’s a pain not being able to swap in a new battery for long jaunts off the grid (thankfully, plenty of accessories are designed to fix this problem), and nobody likes having to ship his phone back to Apple if his battery begins to lose its charge. But this problem has drawn as much fire as it has because it is symbolic of the closed, unmodifiable nature of Apple products—a criticism to which Android seems a direct response. Not only can you swap the G1′s battery for a fresh one at will (a feature it shares with virtually every other phone on the market), but you can also add extra memory for songs and programs using its micro-SD slot. Good thing too, since the phone’s built-in memory is pretty paltry (more on that below.)

3. Integrated Compass

Not only does the G1 have GPS, it has an integrated compass that can determine which way you’re facing and give you Google Maps StreetView images of the buildings around you. It’s not that useful on its own; after all, you could just look up to see what’s around you, but we’re interested in seeing what third-party developers can do with this functionality. Maybe Garmin or another company could put together a program that turns the G1 into a fully featured hiking GPS? Even if that doesn’t happen, carrying a compass around can’t hurt when you find yourself in unfamiliar territory.

4. Offline Integration with Google Apps

You can access mobile versions of most Google applications on an iPhone, but with a few exceptions (such as the Google Maps application) you’ll need to do it through the Web. The Android phone’s calendar is an offline version of the much-loved Google Calendar online application. Enter dates into your phone, and they automatically show up on your online calendar. And while you can easily set an iPhone to sync up with calendars such as Google’s there is a beautiful simplicity with the way Android replicates the online programs you are used to offline, in areas where you don’t have service.

5. Multitasking and Copy and Pasting

The iPhone can do a lot, but it can’t do a lot at once. With the exception of the iPod music-playing program, which can run in the background while you do just about anything, the iPhone is a multitasking weakling (somewhat ironic, considering the fact that Apple’s Macintosh computers were desktop multitasking pioneers). With Android, you can easily swipe between programs. However, it must be noted that it is still to be seen what sort of effect this will have on the phone’s memory and performance. The perils of mobile multitasking are among the chief problems with Windows Mobile, where you can certainly load up a ton of applications simultaneously, it will just take forever for them to do anything. It must be noted that we really do appreciate that Android allows you to copy and paste text. Perhaps it will motivate Apple to finally bring that feature to the iPhone.

5 Reason’s the iPhone’s Still Number One

1. The G1′s Not a Real Media Player … Yet

The iPhone doesn’t just play back video – it’s one of the best (and best-looking) portable media players on the market. While we’ll certainly see developers making video playback programs for the G1, there are none built into it. But Apple beware: If there’s one thing the open-source development community loves, it is support for a wide range of video formats and codecs. All it will take is one robust mobile playback program (mobile VLC, perchance?) to make users remember just how much they hate converting videos into MP4 so they’ll play on an iPhone.

2. The iPhone is Thinner

The G1′s slide-out keyboard may be useful, but it comes at a price: The G1 takes us back to the pocket-bulging smartphones of yesteryear, while the iPhone is svelte enough to fit in the front pocket of your Levis.

3. No Multitouch

The G1 uses a capacitive touchscreen. This is the same highly sensitive type of screen found on the iPhone (most touchscreen phones use mostly inferior resistive touchscreens), and should allow the G1 to compete when it comes to touch sensitivity. But the G1 does not have the iPhone’s multitouch capability. While the G1 attempts to make up for it by utilizing "long-touches" to bring up deep menus, it loses out on the huge amount of functionality (and coolness) that comes from the iPhone’s ability to sense two fingers at once.

4. Terrible Headphone Jack

The iPhone proved that people were willing to listen to music on their cellphones. Still, most manufacturers are reluctant to put a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack on their phones, forcing customers instead to use bulky adaptors or subpar bundled headphones. The 3G iPhone bucked that trend (the original had an annoying recessed headphone jack that could only take specially made headphones), but the G1 relies on an irritating proprietary plug. To make things work, early indications are that adaptors won’t even be available when the phone first hits shelves, making the bundled headphones the only choice. 

5. Internal Memory

The iPhone currently comes in 8 GB and 16 GB varieties, and we’ll likely see a 32 GB version before long. The G1 has just 192 MB of onboard memory, and comes with a 1 GB micro-SD card. That’s not really enough memory for a phone that’s supposed to be full of music and downloaded applications. If you want an 8 GB G1, you’ll have to purchase an 8 GB micro-SD card, which will push the price of the phone from $179 above the iPhone’s $199 price tag. If T-Mobile, Google and HTC really expect us to use the G1 as a mobile computer, they’ll need to give us more memory.