Yes, just type in those three magical words when you visit Google and you’ll be treated to a new Easter egg. Not only that, the screen will start misting up too. You can even write in it by dragging the cursor, just like wiping your finger over a misted-up car window.

All you have to do is make your way to Google.com in either their Web or Image search engine to see it snow.

To Let It Snow go to Google.com and

1. Type: Let It Snow
2. Watch as snow flakes fall in a flurry
3. Use your mouse to clean off the screen
4. Scroll to the top and DEFROST your screen
5. Watch snow continue to fall

You can actually experience this on different Google search engines. We tested this on Google.com Web Search and Google.com Image search. There might be more Google products that you can use this in as well.

WARNING: I noticed that if you leave open your browser window for too long with ‘let it snow’ searched in Google, it tends to slow down your browsing ability as the browser can start taking as much as 50% CPU. A simple solution is to close the browser window/tab that has the Google page open and things should be back to normal.

And in case, you missed to notice, this is by far the coolest Google search trick since “do a barrel roll,” which produces a vintage video-game effect.

Other Easter Eggs to try in Google Search are these phrases (without quotes) to activate the hidden Google Easter Egg: tilt, askew, do a barrel roll, zz, rr, anagram, ascii art, recursion and let it snow. There are over 56 known Google Search Engine Easter Eggs and that list is growing every day.

This seems like it’s a great way for Google to get social media outreach and people to make it known that Google products like Google Chrome, Google Docs & Google Instant are the place to be.

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It’s all part of an initiative to “digitally archive” the aftermath of this year’s earthquake and tsunami, with Street View images captured across some 44,000 kilometers of Northeastern Japan.

Interactive Graphic: Before and After the Japan Tsunami

In case, you haven’t noticed, Earlier in 2007, the search engine giant Google launched its Street View Service as an experimental project (like Google Earth), which enables a panoramic view from various positions in Google maps and can explore places through 360-degree street-level imagery.

Google says they took 360 degree panoramic photos of nearly 350 square miles of the affected regions, now available through Street View in Google Maps.

The panoramic, 360-degree photos cover both inland and coastal regions, allowing users to retroactively trace the path of destruction across Fukushima and other areas, while placing them at ground level amidst a graveyard of battered homes and abandoned buildings.

Watch How Google Street View Works [Video]

Google began recording panoramic imagery of the damage in areas of Japan affected by the tsunami back in July. Monday, it made its record of the disaster available through the Street View feature in Google Maps.

Piles of debris, gutted and flattened buildings and overturned boats are among the images that reflect the extent of the destruction caused by the natural disaster, which claimed close to 20,000 lives.

Shocking Photo Tour of Tsunami Japan:

Devastation: The massive project to document the rebuilding effort aims to provide the world with an accurate picture of the damage

House of the dead: Google announced in July that it was trying to map the 44,000km of affected roads following the natural disaster in March

Debris: Google Street View has digitally archived vast areas of the north-eastern disaster zone

The Great Wall: The massive project to document the damage and rebuilding effort is aimed at providing the world with an accurate picture of the devastation caused by the natural disaster

Nature’s Force: Google also hopes that the street-level imagery will ensure memories of the disaster remain relevant and tangible for future generations.

We had earlier compiled a list of awesome Google Search tricks and we had discovered how to Convert Google Translate Into a Beatbox Machine. We also saw that searching for the phrase “do a barrel roll” became a viral sensation last week, when users found about it and posted tweets and blog posts. Hence, if you liked “do a barrel roll” Easter egg, then I’m sure you would love these top 10 best hidden Google Easater Eggs as well.

Beyond Do a Barrel Roll: 10 Hidden Google Easter Eggs and Tricks

1. Do a Barrel Roll:

Google users were delighted recently by the discovery of a new Search trick, “do a barrel roll“. Just go to Google.com, type in “do a barrel roll” (or “z or r twice”), and your whole screen will spin around. The phrase is associated with the Nintendo 64 game “Star Fox”—one of the game’s characters, Peppy Hare, would tell the player to “Do a barrel roll” with an on screen text display (to press z or r buttons twice!). According to Urban Dictionary, “do a barrel roll” is what you say when someone asks you for important advice in their life. [Also Read - 35 Interesting But Lesser Known Facts about Google, ‘The Search Engine King’]

2. Askew/Tilt:

Type the word “askew” in Google’s search box and voila! This is more like a command which tilts your search results slightly towards the right. It’s pointless, but it’s all fun. Typing ‘tilt‘ into Google Search box also results in similar results.

3. Answer to the Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything:

Ask Google the answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything and, in a tribute to “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” you’ll get the number 42.

4. Steve Irwin Wrestling With a Crocodile (or is that an Alligator)?

If you spin round to the waterfront side of the Sydney Opera House in Australia in Google 3D Warehouse, you’ll find a model of the late wildlife expert and adventurer Steve Irwin wrestling a crocodile.

5. Google Gravity:

Tired of Google being so weightless all the time? The Google Gravity chrome experiment by Mr. Doob is amusing–especially since the search page still works, with new search results piling up.  Bring Google down to Earth by entering “Google gravity” and clicking “I’m Feeling Lucky“. Once the search bar, buttons and logo have collapsed into a heap at the bottom of the page, you can toss them around the page by clicking, dragging and releasing them.

The CEO felt the features were “grand theft” and declared “I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong.“

So much so, at one point, Jobs reportedly said, “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product,” and “I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”

Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs details how tension ran so high between Jobs and then-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Schmidt was forced to resign from Apple’s board in 2009.

Since then, Apple has indirectly gone after Android and has filed lawsuits alleging infringement of intellectual properties against Google’s partners, such as HTC, Motorola, and Samsung.

Several android products have been banned from being released internationally because copyrights judges felt Steve was right.

As a result, Google had announced its intentions to acquire Motorola Mobility and the company’s trove of patents to strengthen Android’s patent portfolio, which can then be used to protect Android licensees.

Eric Schmidt had tried to intervene on behalf of Google to settle the dispute, but Jobs was not interested in a monetary settlement, Isaacson reveals in the book.

The meeting that Schmidt had with Jobs in a cafe in Palo Alto, California did nothing to resolve the matter, with Jobs saying, “I don’t want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won’t want it. I’ve got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that’s all I want“

The biography also reveals that Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs refused potentially life-saving cancer surgery for nine months, shrugging off his family’s protests and opting instead for alternative medicine.

Steve Jobs Biographer Says Exec Regretted Putting Off Cancer Surgery. Isaacson’s biography hits stores on Oct. 24, and will be features on CBS News’ 60 Minutes, which will feature details on how Jobs regretted refusing surgery for pancreatic cancer to instead focus on homeopathic cures.

“He said, ‘I didn’t want my body to be opened … I didn’t want to be violated in that way.’ He’s regretful about it,” Isaacson said. “I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you don’t want something to exist, you can have magical thinking … We talked about this a lot.”

The book, published by Simon & Schuster, will go on sale Monday for a list price of $35. The book is expected to paint an unprecedented, no-holds-barred portrait of a man who famously guarded his privacy fiercely but whose death ignited a global outpouring of grief and tribute.

We think this is yet another great innovative step after Google introduced 3D Trees, Closer Street View Integration in Google Earth 6 last year. This new helicopter view offers an aerial view (courtesy of Google Earth) of your route — a bit like taking a helicopter ride instead of your car.

How to Use Helicopter View in Google Maps?

You will first need the Google Earth plug-in for the function to work.  To see the 3D button – which shows up next to ‘driving directions’ in the left hand bar – you first have to click the ‘Earth’ mapping option, which shows up when you hover over ‘Map’ in the upper right hand corner.  You will then be prompted to download the plug-in.

The smoothness of your experience is somewhat dependent on your internet connection speed and your computer’s processing power.

Start by entering your starting point, destination, and mode of transport like any directions.  Then, click on the ’3D’ play button. The map will switch to Earth view and automatically start flying you along your recommended route.

You can pause the flight by clicking anywhere in the 3D view or on the pause button in the lower left of the map. While the flight is paused, you can explore the surrounding area in 3D by clicking and dragging the map.

In fact, You can get back to 2D mode by clicking on the ’2D’ button in the left panel at any time.

You could even take a break from your helicopter ride and click on photos, YouTube videos or Wikipedia pages that are geo-linked to locations along your route.

However, it doesn’t seem like the 3D preview features works much outside of popular, well-known routes (like the California coast drive featured in the Google Blog post).

3D route previews, on first glance, appear to combine the Google Earth and Google Maps experiences quite nicely. But we wonder when it will be available for Indian routes, especially after Bangalore suspended Google’s Street View Service.

The rollout of Google Wallet means owners of Nexus S 4G phones from Sprint can download an app that will allow them to pay for purchases by waving your phone at properly equipped cash registers. But, is the search giant really paving the way for a revolution in how we pay for our purchases using technology or is it just another app that will be forgotten?

ext versions of the wallet would accommodate Visa, Discover and American Express cards, in addition to MasterCard, which is the sole brand the first iteration of the mobile payments app supports. Here are top five ways Google Wallet can change the way consumers pay for their purchases today:

1. Payment via Google Wallet is Convenient

It only be a few seconds faster in terms of the amount of time it takes to tap your phone compared to inserting a card and entering a PIN but it is ten time more convenient.

These days everyone has their phone to hand so simply pulling out your handset and tapping it saves digging around the bottom of your handbag or shopping to find your wallet, then struggling to get the card out of bulging wallet, to insert it into the reader.

2. Less Clutter and Easy to Pay

The bulging wallet brings us to another important point, Google Wallet uses e-receipts so you no longer have to wait around for the scrap of paper to simply stash it in your wallet.

Apple and a few other companies starting using digital receipts a few years ago but not everyone is satisfied to walk out of stores without a hard copy.

For Google Wallet it again makes it more convenient as you are guaranteed to not lose the receipt, and it makes finding it when you need it for warranty much easier. The other obvious point to make about having less clutter is that you won’t need credit or debit cards, and maybe not even a wallet in the future.

3. Automatically Searches Vouchers and Discounts Coupons

Yes, that’s right – Google Wallet automatically searches for voucher codes and coupons and applies them to your purchases without you having to do anything.

If you’re all for an app that can save the pennies, Google Wallet will definitely be a bonus.

4. It Provides Instant Information About The Product You’re Buying

Before you have made your purchases you can waft your smartphone over the product you intend to buy to receive more information on your phone’s screen. This could cut down on the number of impulse purchases you make, and save you even more money.

5. Makes You Look Cool

Ok, so this might not be a real reason to you, but at the moment only a few people have access to Google Wallet so what could make you look cooler than paying for something by wafting your smartphone?

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The Big G just reiterated plans to restore its social networking search function, based on Google+ and “other sources,” but it made no mention of its former sweetheart – Twitter!

Google’s specialized Realtime search engine allowed users to get information from social networks, and most notably Twitter, as soon as it happened. Realtime also imported a stream of data for standard searches related to major world events, ranging from the Royal Wedding to Japanese tsunami. It made Google‘s search engine more relevant during major world events.

Google had rolled out the Real-Time Search in Dec 2009 to compete with Microsoft’s search engine – Bing, which also has the similar feature, which showed results from Twitter and Facebook.

However, after about an year and half of running, Realtime Search was taken down in July after Google failed to come to an agreement with Twitter for continued access to Twitter’s firehouse of data.

But now when Google is talking about integrating Google+ streams to revive their Real Time Search, they are obviously forgetting something! Twitter has a familiarity to the general public, and it’s open to them. Google+ isn’t even open to the general public without invitation, and they’re already talking about using it to power the realtime search features, which was mainly powered by Twitter?

Even once (if) Google+ becomes heavily trafficked, it’s likely that the postings will resemble those you find on Facebook. Google already admitted, that Facebook wasn’t very effective as a real-time news source, so how is Google+ supposed to be going to be any better?

If you want to see up to the second results from around the world on what people are saying about any given topic, where do you go? Google+ or Twitter?

If Google really wants to organize the world’s information, maybe it needs to fork out enough money to get that fire-hose back. At least for a while. The early days are promising, but it’s still entirely possible that Google+ could turn into another Google Buzz or worse yet, another Google Wave.

Anyway, soon you can start seeing  streams from Google+ on your search result page through revamped Real Time service. But, will it be as effective and as popular like the earlier Twitter streams? Only time will tell…

Google redirect virus is a browser hijacker that causes redirection to infected websites while you are simply browsing the Internet. Basically, after you type in a specific word or phrase into Google search engine and click Enter, you get redirected to some advertisements, p0rn-related websites, etc.

It can also completely block certain websites. This activity is not only annoying but it can also infect your system with some spyware infections which later on may reveal your private information, including passwords or credit card details.

If you are an experienced computer user you may fix this problem by entering the registry. However, if you are not sure which files to remove or change do not mess with it. These files can have random names so it is difficult to track them.

The easiest way to fix Google redirect virus is by scanning your system with a reliable antispyware program. if it doesn’t work, you can try these easy steps:

1. Check your hosts files for malicious entries. If you see more IPs, you should delete them.

2. Go to Control Panel -> Network Connections, right-click on your Local Area Connection icon and choose Properties. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties. Select “Obtain an IP address automatically” and “Obtain DNS server address automatically”. Save the changes.

3. Check you proxy settings on Internet Explorer. Launch it and go to Tools -> Internet options, Connections tab and click LAN Settings. Unselect all checkboxes and click OK.

4. If you use Mozilla Firefox, check you proxy settings there too. Go to Tools -> Options, click Advanced and open Network tab. Go to Settings, select “No proxy” and click OK.

5. Check Internet Explorer add-ons. Go to Tools -> Add-ons. Disable all add-ons that you cannot verify. You can reinstall good ones later.

If nothing works, it’s very likely that it’s a tdss rootkit. In this case and generally, the easiest way to fix Google redirect virus is by using a reliable antispyware program: Malwarebytes, Spyware Doctor, Superantispyware, Hitman Pro, etc. And here is a list of top 6 Best Antivirus Protection Program of 2011.

Guest Author: This is a guest article by Renata who is blogging for 2-viruses.com covering the main security issues there and writing tutorials on how to remove newest malware infections. Renata follows the latest news of computer security industry and alerts visitors of 2-viruses.com about latest vulnerabilities and parasites.

However, on the brighter side, Google indicated that many of the products and technology from Google Labs would be integrated into some of the company’s other existing as well as experimental products, which range from the world’s No. 1 search engine to its popular Android smartphone operating system.

Many Labs products that are in the Android Market can still be downloaded to phones powered by Google’s Android mobile software.

Google Labs was an online playground where people could dabble with early versions of new Google services or products being worked on by engineers at the Internet powerhouse.

“While we’ve learned a huge amount by launching very early prototypes in Labs, we believe that greater focus is crucial if we’re to make the most of the extraordinary opportunities ahead,” Bill Coughran, senior vice president for research and systems infrastructure, wrote in a blog post.

Pulling the plug on Labs is part of a strategy by Google chief executive Larry Page to “put more wood in fewer arrows” by prioritizing projects at the California-based company.

During the company’s most recent earnings conference call, co-founder Larry Page, who took over as CEO in April, said that the company was in the midst of trimming its broad palette of products and services, eliminating those that haven’t proven popular and successful.

Google recently killed off a couple of other projects that were not gaining traction. Last month it pulled the plug on Google Health, a personal health records service, and turned off the lights on Google PowerMeter, a service for monitoring Web-based home energy use.

However, product-specific Labs sites, like Gmail Labs, Google Maps Labs and Search Experiments, aren’t affected by the decision to close down Google Labs, a company spokesman said via e-mail.

Also, the closing of Google Labs doesn’t affect the company’s policy to encourage employees to devote 20 percent of their work time to projects of their own invention, the spokesman said.

“We’re going to keep experimenting and innovating, but we want to do it at a larger scale — so instead of dispersing our efforts across lots of isolated individual products, we’re re-focusing our efforts on projects with global impact, and making even bigger bets there. Our goal is to innovate faster than ever, and with greater impact,” he said.

The Google spokesperson said the company did not have any specific timing for the end of Google Labs, but said it would provide updates on the Google Labs website.

The new user interface should make it easier for users to find relevant content with more lists of available Android apps, games, movies and books that are country-specific — such as new releases, top paid, top free, top grossing and other options in sorting what’s for sale.

Revamped Android Market for Mobile Adds Movies, E-Books

The new Market client is designed to better showcase top apps and games, engage users with an improved UI, and provide a quicker path to downloading or purchasing your products. For developers, the new Android Market client means more opportunities for your products to be merchandised and purchased.

“With the Videos app, available in Android Market, there’s no more waiting for downloads, syncing, or worrying about storage space,” Google said in a blog post. “Simply sign into Android Market with your Google account, and you can rent movies from anywhere—the web, or your Android phone or tablet—and start watching instantly.“

To view different lists, all a user has to do in any section of the Android Market is flick a finger left or right, making navigation easy and fairly intuitive.

For users who are ready to buy, the click-to-purchase flow has now been streamlined so that users can complete a purchase in two clicks from the app details page. During the purchase, users can also see a list of your other apps, to help you cross-sell your other products.

The page will also feature a thumbnail to a product video for apps or other content that offer such a preview.

In case you do not own an Android phone yet but you want a closer look at the new version of Android Market, then check out thi promo video:

Available for smartphones running at least Android 2.2 (Froyo) and higher (all the way up to Android 3.0 Honeycomb), the new version of Android Market will be rolling out worldwide in the coming weeks.

Google is part way through a massive makeover of all its product and service user interfaces, which kicked off with the introduction of Google+ two weeks ago.