THE BEST Google

Not to be outdone by their colleagues at Google Maps, the Gmail team has their own old-new technology: Morse Code on Android. We didn’t know LL Cool J worked at Google.

It’s not yet April 1st, but we suspect the guys at Google released one of their pranks early, with the new Google Maps for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Click “Quest” in the upper right to try it.

Jon Rafman’s Nine Eyes of Google Street View website is a offbeat, ongoing project that publishes the strange scenes that the nine automated Google Street View car cameras capture. (Thanks Max!)

(Briefly NSFW) Sebastian Schmieg took a single image and fed it into Google Image Search, then picked its top “similar image” over and over, gradually morphing through over 2950 images.

Think Google is going to let all those awesome Doodles go to waste? At the Google Doodle store, you can order the doodles as prints, on T-shirts, mugs and even stamps and skateboard decks.

Google looks back at the year’s most popular searches, which – by virtue of the company’s ubiquity – might as well be the year’s biggest issues. Song is Sooner or Later by Mat Kearney.

…aka “The Evolution of Google.” The company takes a look at the past, present and future of search, promising faster, more natural and more accurate results. Learn more here.

A lonely toy takes a journey through the great outdoors, thanks to a little help from his friends, his owner’s iMac, Google Street View, and a sense of imagination from The Theory.

Aaron Hobson scoured through countless images collected by Google Street View cameras, and found some real gems, including these beautifully composed and artful still photographs.

You won’t find Google’s Halloween doodle online, because the search giant decided to get with tradition and carve its logo out of real – and huge – pumpkins, a process that took over 8 hours.

Today would have been the 65th birthday of Queen frontman and vocal genius Freddie Mercury. Google pays tribute to his artistry and showmanship with this awesome animated Google Doodle tribute.

David Hanauer’s WorldWide Carpets are made out of repeating patterns of the bird’s eye view screenshots from Google Earth. Size and patterns can be customized. Price available upon request.

Google continues to evolve the core of its search engine, this time offering the ability to search by starting with an existing image on the web, or uploading one from your computer.

The Google map of Liberty City at fan site GTA4Net is already impressive, but their recent addition is plain mind-blowing: a Street View – of a fictional city! – made from nearly 80,000 screenshots.

On display at this weekend’s Maker Faire 2011, Gary and Danny Aden’s zoetrope features 60 Android mascots spinning rapidly in front of a strobe light to give the impression of movement.

Google and Rovio have teamed up to bring the popular physics game to your browser. Although still in beta, it does have exclusive unlockable Chrome levels. What are you waiting for?

The Series 5 Chromebook runs Google’s Chrome OS. Has a 12.1in screen, dual-core 1.66GHz Intel N570 CPU, and 16GB SSD. Drops 06/15/11, $429 for the WiFi only, $499 for WiFi+3G.

A framework that transforms Android devices into home automation controllers. Skip to about 43:00 in the video to see the presentation, including a very promising use of NFC technology.

Google beats Apple to the punch with their cloud music service, letting you upload your tunes to the Internet, playing them from all your computers and Android-based gadgets. Request a beta invite here.

We’re not sure what’s taken so long, but here it is. The Android Market finally gets a web store. It has a neat feature that will have iOS users green with envy: apps are automagically installed wirelessly.

We’ve been able to explore the Earth, our streets and even our bodies all for free, thanks to Google. Their most recent project lets us visit museums and view works of art with just a few clicks.

We’ve thrown all our Sudoku puzzles out of sheer frustration. Too bad we didn’t have this Google tech in our hands. It can grab an image of a puzzle and solve it faster than a human Sudoku champ.

Honeycomb features lots of apps and widgets. An ever present status bar with virtual buttons helps with navigation. Apps include Google eBooks, a tablet-optimized GMail app and Google Maps 5.0.

Google’s world domination has made its way into space. They recently launched Android figurines, Nexus S phones, and GoPro HD cameras to 100,000 feet to capture data (and this cool video).

After enabling us to explore the Earth, the sea and the streets, Google is thinking smaller. From the company’s Labs comes the Body Browser, which is basically Google Earth for the human body.