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Charlie Chaplin Google Doodle

The Google Doodle team stars in an homage to the silent film era’s greatest star’s 122nd birthday.

Full disclosure: none of the mustaches in the video are real.

More info here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/lights-camera-doodle.html

The Data Viz Challenge

Visualize your U.S. income taxes at: http://datavizchallenge.org

The Data Viz Challenge was created by Google and Eyebeam to challenge developers across the country to visualize how are our tax dollars are spent. We received dozens of unique, creative submissions that help make our taxes easier to understand and, hopefully, less boring. That’s the power of data visualization.

The data was provided by WhatWePayFor.com. The submission period ran from February 22 to March 27, 2011 and the winner was announced on Tax Day (April 18, 2011).

Being a Google Autocompleter

We’re hiring autocompleters for Google Search! Are you passionate about helping people? Are you intuitive? Do you often feel like you know what your friends and family are thinking and can finish their thoughts before they can? Are you an incredibly fast Google searcher? Like, so fast that you can do 20 searches before your mom does 1?

Google Fiber: Ultra High Speed Broadband coming to Kansas City, KS

As part of our overall goal to make the web better for users, last year we announced a new project: to provide a community with Internet access more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have today. After a careful review, we’re very happy to announce that we will build our ultra high-speed network in Kansas City, Kansas. We’ve signed a development agreement with the city, and we’ll be working closely with local organizations, businesses and universities to bring a next-generation web experience to the community.

Thank you to every community and individual that submitted a response, joined a rally, starred in a YouTube video or otherwise participated.