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Google Calendar Gallery
Just like the gallery for iGoogle gadgets, Google has made a gallery for public calendars in Google Calendar.

Related: Visit Gallery | Official Google Blog

Buy 'Green' Products in Google Store
The Official Google Store is going green! Now most of the things you can buy from the Google Store are environmental friendly. Every time you see these green icons on the items, you know they are eco-friendly.
[Via Googlified]

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CIC Joins Google's Library Project
Committee on Institutional Collaboration (CIC) agrees to let Google digitize select collections across all its libraries, up to 10 million volumes. As part of the agreement, CIC libraries will create a shared digital repository allowing any scholar regardless of geographic location to access out-of-copyright books.

Related: Press Release | Inside Google Book Search

Google Offers Book Search to Publishers

Google is making its controversial Book Search engine available to publishers interested in putting it on their Web sites. This is the first time this service has been available outside of its main site in the Google.com domain. According to Google, publishers can tailor the index of their search engine so that only books published by them show up in the query results. A few publishers' website has included Book Search.

Google Book Search Results Generated in No Time

Google Operating System reports that Google Book Search generates search results (every search term) in 0.00 seconds. This might be because Google generated results less than 0.004 seconds or Google just thinks it is too fast to be calculated.