It’s not an emote. It’s not a command, it’s nothing other than that other person changing their away message.

Okay first of all, I know I’m a bit of a moron. I’m posting this so that the next person will find it right away. I almost made a complete fool of myself by posting this as a question in Something Awful with the promise of a free account upgrade. Anyways, if you ever see this light gray, text in Google Talk:

It’s the other guy/girl changing their away message.

I don’t generally use IE, but I opened it for some reason, oh to do go to a microsoft site and this is what it looked like after I installed windows, Google Pack, Yahoo Messenger, and Windows Messenger Live:

, has a new feature. At least I think it’s new: forward and next buttons. With it you can create a mighty powerful browsing experience. The thing I’ve always loved about Google’s toolbar is how you can seamlessly integrate it with the rest of the browser’s customization. You don’t need to use the extra horizontal bar, you can turn it off and the drag the buttons to a bar you already have open, and thus save valuable vertical screen space:

And now with the ‘forward and next button’ along with the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ button you can find the results you want from search without having to stare at line after line of mind-numbing plain text results.
Here’s my secret:
Customize the Google Tool bar so that you have the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ and the ‘forward and next’ buttons visible. Click a term search such as ‘‘ in the search box. First, this important, click the regular ol’ Google button (the G). Don’t look at the results, now click ‘I’m feeling lucky’, now just click forward and next to browse the different search results! If you searched for ‘Color Tool’ you’ll come to my Color Tool with just a few clicks of the ‘next’ button! Note, you have to click that G first for some reason, or else it wont work.

Check out the . There you can find transcripts and web-casts of speeches and other talks by Google executives.

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has collaborated with the National Records Archive to digitize their video. Google Video has for viewing. The account of Orson Wells reading of H.G. Well’s was fascinating. The Apollo 11 moon landing mission is a good watch as well.

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Search Engine Round Table warns Googlers to be wary of porn spam on Froogle. The writer was looking for a keyboard wrist rest and a search result let him to a porn spam site. is Google’s comparative shopping search service. Spam and page rank manipulation have long been a thorn in Google’s side. As long as they’re on top, it will be a never ending fight.

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