That long headline lets you know Google has purchased a three-letter domain name, g.cn, which is as short as a domain name can possibly be. The reason Google purchased it was to make a short and memorable route for Chinese users to find their Chinese search site, available at google.cn. Google.cn still works, and is the real site, but if you’re Chinese and want a quick path to Google, g.cn is the way to go.
(via The Raw Feed > Digg)
Google Web History, which tracks all your past searches so you can re-find something you already searched for, has now added Google Blogsearch, bringing the total number of services they cover to ten:
The history for Blog Search doesn’t go back far, if at all, since I have no indexed Blog queries among all my 18,000+ searches that Web History has saved.
I was looking at my personal search Trends in Web History, and take a look at the bar graphs:
Can you believe that? I’m working just as much at 2 am as I am the entire rest of the day! And half the time, I get four or five hours of sleep? And my only real break comes around 9pm, probably when me favorite shows are on?
Oy. I wonder what everyone else’s personal trends are like. If you want, link to screenshots of them in the comments or email them to me, and we can compare them here.
UPDATE: Two readers have sent in their Web Trends. Take a look:
Looks like Haochi does a huge amount of surfacing in the late afternoons and gets a healthy amount of sleep, and Robert gets less sleep then me most nights!
FeedBurner added a little bit of integration with Google AdSense (makes sense, considering Google bought them months ago). You can now link your AdSense and FeedBurner account, and put together AdSense ad units to use on your website (though still not in your RSS feeds), with FeedBurner having all the AdSense ad units, custom channel and color schemes you like to use. Read more about it at Problogger.
Google may be trying to get Facebook application developers to use OpenSocial, but they’re also trying to get those who keep using Facebook to use AdWords to drive users to their applications. They’ve been emailing Facebook app devs, inviting them to sign up for AdWords Pay-Per-Action ads in order to get more users. PPA ads only charge if the user completes an action, like installing the application, so it’s perfect for their purposes.
So what if it drives more traffic to Facebook? 
If you’re me (you’re not), you may find the idea of the gOS pretty interesting. As far as I can tell, it’s a lightweight Linux distribution, based on the excellent Ubuntu, that strips everything down to the essentials for the family, with a clean, easy to undertand interface that just does what the hell you need, and nothing else.
The best part? You don’t need the gPC to get it, and you don’t need to wait. Nelson Minar, a former Googler whose blog I read, was chastising the online media for dropping the ball and poorly reporting the gPC/gOS story (especially TechCrunch, which still hasn’t issued a correction), when he gave the details behind the gOS: gOS is a project of Dave Liu, and the official website is thinkgos.com.
The official website doesn’t have the OS for download right now, but fans are uploading it to torrent sites, including LinuxTracker, which has the 728 megabyte ISO available as a torrent. If you want to try gOS and see if it’s the right operating system for your family, download it right now. There are already 11 seeders and 83 leechers, so expect a brisk download.
If you are running gOS, which isn’t a Google operating system, let me know how well it works for you.
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