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You should watch the video :-D - Maitani

Fancy. They put a lot of work into that video. - Paul Buchheit

They say that Thom Yorke inspired Google to invent Gmail Motion, what do you think Tom? - Özkan Altuner

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D - Sinan İŞLER

I'm sure this says "April Fools Day" on there somewhere, but I can't find it. - scott willeke

Yeah Scott it does when you click try gmail motion - testbeta

i was taken in by that job autocompleter :P - testbeta

@Ozkan: Ha! I'm sure those moves would come naturally to a lot of lead singers. - Tom Stocky

Great presentation style for showing the tsunami's impact. - Kevin Fox

The Kashima in Minamisoma changes are crazy: it's like it created a new bay. - Mark Trapp

Actually, most African-Americans that are descended from slaves would have surnames that derived from their ancestors' European-American owners' surnames. And some of those names are on this map (Jackson, Robinson). As far as recent immigrants from Africa, their names wouldn't show up on this list due to them not being among the most common names in the US. My surname is one of the most... more... - Spidra Webster

From the blog post that goes with this graphic (http://blogs.ngm.com/blog_ce...): "Slaves often took their owners' names, so about one in five Americans now named Smith are African American. In addition, many newcomers' names were anglicized to ease assimilation. The map's scale matters too. 'If we did a map of New York like this,' says project member... more... - Tom Stocky

It's amazing how few "others" there are: Patel (Indian), Cohen (Hebrew?), Kim (Korean), and Nguyen (Vietnamese). Are really only 4 top-25 surnames in the US that didn't originate in those 10 locations? - Gabe

faster than I can type? But I want it faster than that! - Andrew C (✓)

Looks like they broke the "results per page" setting, though... it's stuck on 10 now for me whether I turn instant on or off. - Andrew C (✓)

... ah, turning Instant to on silently sets search results to ten per page, and turning Instant to off doesn't reset it back to your previously chosen value; you need to manually change that. - Andrew C (✓)

Thanks for reporting that, Andrew -- will look into it and let the team know ... - Tom Stocky

Cool, thanks. - Andrew C (✓) from Android

So what's the next step? I think it'd be instant-messaging you with stuff you're about to search for. - Andrew C (✓)

I'm still not sure I like this 100%. What determines what "the most likely completion" is? When I type "Grymala" into the search box, for instance, rather than Google Instant showing me results for "Grymala" by default, it shows me results for "Lorraine Grymala" (which is obviously not a logical completion, since I started with "G", not "L"). Since "Lorraine Grymala" is the third result... more... - Curdy G

The autocomplete algorithms are, of course, not perfect -- but the good thing is you can just continue typing as normal if the autocompletions are wrong. Other than perhaps being a bit distracted, you shouldn't lose any time in those cases. Also, if you enable Web History then autocomplete may start including predicted queries based on searches you've done in the past. Here's more info on how autocomplete works: http://www.google.com/support... - Tom Stocky

And as with many things by Google, it doesn't work in #Opera unless you make it pretend to be Firefox. Fail. - Oblomov

Electron elliptical orbits are so passe compared to probability clouds... - Andrew C (✓)

My quibbles about the diagram aside, this is definitely cool news. - Andrew C (✓)

Andrew, you're misreading the logo. That guy in the middle is actually a powerful psychokinetic that is moving those objects very quickly with his mind. Google's new superhero mascot, Caffeine. 8^D - Chieze Okoye