Google seems to have discontinued its Zeitgeist monthly summary of queries. It hasn't been updated since April and isn't linked any more from their all about page. That's too bad, I really enjoyed Zeitgeist. In place of that link, Google has a new answers service to match people with questions up with people with answers, for a fee.

My last tidbit of Google news is that the winner of their 2002 programmer contents was a friend of mine when we both lived in Seattle. His project is really cool (I wouldn't expect anything less from Dan) but it doesn't seem to be available to use. I would so love to be able to search for Web sites geographically!