Google offers

Re-affirming the fact their three Generals are in for world domination , Google has added one more service to their arsenal : Google offers. I am not sure if this has been live for a while. But I saw this as an ad in gmail :

Currently the service is in beta and so there is nothing for Columbus,Ohio and so I am waiting for this to replace the Groupons.

Google-ing too much ?

From the office network , Google seems to think I am bot or some other crawler or something which is abusing Google.com. 


From the captcha page : 

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Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot. Why did this happen?

This page appears when Google automatically detects requests coming from your computer network which appear to be in violation of the Terms of Service. The block will expire shortly after those requests stop. In the meantime, solving the above CAPTCHA will let you continue to use our services.

This traffic may have been sent by malicious software, a browser plug-in, or a script that sends automated requests. If you share your network connection, ask your administrator for help — a different computer using the same IP address may be responsible. Learn more

Sometimes you may be asked to solve the CAPTCHA if you are using advanced terms that robots are known to use, or sending requests very quickly.

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URL: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=rss+feed+for+Quality+Center+updates&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=m-sD1&aql=&oq=

Gmail : Preview pane

Google blogs revealed the latest addition to Gmail's features : Preview pane , like you have in Outlook. The latest updates on tablets for Gmail had the three pane view and it was a no-brainer that we would see this very soon for desktop users.

Details here .