Google X was just added to the Google Labs site. Nothing really
different except that you get a very cool Mac OS X style magnified icon for each Google service when you mouse over.
Google X was created by a Keyhole employee (the hi-res mapping company Google recently acquired). Fun stuff.
UPDATE. GoogleX was pulled offline last night. Google refuses to comment. Internal divisions at the company? Pressure from Apple?
2. I also receive that error, as do others I've talked to. It could be that the error page is being cached somewhere along the way, or maybe it hasn't yet been updated on all of Google's servers.
Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by David Hammond
3. It was up earlier today and was great!! Then about noon it seems to have been taken offline. Hmmm, what ashame, it was great!
Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Brent Yager
4. Google has been having big problems all day. I've been locked out of Gmail and other Google services until just a few minutes ago. It all seems to be working now. Give it another try.
Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Marc Orchant
5. Google has removed the page now.
Probably Apple got to them - See my post below:
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/03/google-plays-hide-n-seek.html
Amit
Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Amit Agarwal
9. Cloners beware - Google is out to get you. Someone got a letter from their counsel.
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/03/google-plays-hide-n-seek.html
Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by the Indian Blogger
10. Marc-
Saw this over on the Google Blog, too, and tried it out, but I get a "the requested page was not found on this server" error when I try to visit.
Any idea what's up? I'm a sucker for trying out the newest toy from Google Labs. :-)
Thanks,
Josh Bancroft
http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com
http://www.geekblog.org
http://www.gadgetfamily.org
Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Josh Bancroft
11. I also receive that error, as do others I've talked to. It could be that the error page is being cached somewhere along the way, or maybe it hasn't yet been updated on all of Google's servers.
Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by David Hammond
12. It was up earlier today and was great!! Then about noon it seems to have been taken offline. Hmmm, what ashame, it was great!
Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Brent Yager
13. Google has been having big problems all day. I've been locked out of Gmail and other Google services until just a few minutes ago. It all seems to be working now. Give it another try.
Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Marc Orchant
14. Google has removed the page now.
Probably Apple got to them - See my post below:
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/03/google-plays-hide-n-seek.html
Amit
Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Amit Agarwal
15. I did a flash animation before the site went down, the link is posted here: http://mitch.contla.net/archives/000134.html
If you didn't get to see the page before it was pulled, there you go. There's also a link to a "live" version hosted at another blog.
18. Cloners beware - Google is out to get you. Someone got a letter from their counsel.
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/03/google-plays-hide-n-seek.html
Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by the Indian Blogger
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1. Marc-
Saw this over on the Google Blog, too, and tried it out, but I get a "the requested page was not found on this server" error when I try to visit.
Any idea what's up? I'm a sucker for trying out the newest toy from Google Labs. :-)
Thanks,
Josh Bancroft
http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com
http://www.geekblog.org
http://www.gadgetfamily.org
Posted at 6:20AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Josh Bancroft