Baidu the biggest Chinese search engine has added a caricature of Barack Obama on their logo for one day, and that logo links to Obama’s profile.

Obama is the sixth individual and the only U.S. presidential candidate ever featured on the Baidu logo.

Baidu rarely dedicate its home page to an individual, and is certain that Hillary Clinton and John McCain will never be featured on the Baidu logo.

Chris Clark the owner of the Pizza.com has sold the domain for the sum of $2.6 million.

Chris registered the domain in 1994, for $20 for it and kept paying the annual fee until recently when he found out that the Vodka.com domain was sold for $3 million.

The first bid was of $100 and one week later the auction ended with the $2.6 million offer. Clark said: “It’s crazy, it’s just crazy. That amount of money is significant”, “It will make a significant difference in my life, for sure.”

After the leak of the Norwegian movie “Lange Flate Ballær II” onto several BitTorrent sites the movie director Harald Zwart said that it’s an honor that someone took the effort to record it in a movie theater.

The movie was posted on Norway’s largest BitTorrent sites early Sunday morning. In a couple of hours, hundreds of people had already downloaded the movie.

Zwart told Nettavisen.no: “I think it’s perfectly fine that some people choose to post the movie online. It shows that people are interested in it”, “In the IT society of today it’s naive to think that this wouldn’t happen. We consider it a huge compliment. After all, what has happened is that someone has smuggled a camera into a theater and then recorded the whole movie”.

Zwart doesn’t hold a grudge against the people who share his movie online though, but he made some negative comments about the quality of the recording, “The movie was filmed using a video camera in a local cinema somewhere. The quality is bad, and the movie definitely is better in theaters”.

It is a video from a bikini contest that got more that 4616 diggs. And in just 12 minutes the video was made popular by 400 diggs.

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TagCow is a new service that automatically tags photos. They said that users can upload thousands of photos that can be tagged and in a few minutes.

And it turns out that the service is powered by humans. At Amazon’s Mechanical Turk you can apply for a job that pays 4 cents for five tagged photos. Amazon Mechanical Turk is a service where people are paid to do things that are to complex for computers to do.

Amazon launched Amazon TextBuyIt, a service that allows Amazon users to buy stuff through mobile phone text message.

User’s text the name of a product, the description, or the UPC or ISBN number to Amazon 262966 and if Amazon has the item, the users will get the two results sent to them.

If the user wants to make a purchase, he replies with 1 or 2 and is asked for his email address and zip code. Then he is called back by the system to complete the checkout process via an automated voice system.

This is a free service, but if you use TextBuyIt you can’t take advantage of “Deal of the Day” items or “Gold Box Discount”.

Google didn’t stop after the Virgle hoax and delivered more hoaxes.

Google China launches “A tiger, n-Wu” a social search engine

Use meat search ways of interpreting human search “A tiger, n-Wu”, which is on the distant quiz on the “human search,” explained one Googler. Today would like to come back to this project, the most interesting is the different “types” Googler to warm to what they see as “human search,” Yansigefeng the engineers, the pursuit of perfect love UI designers and the write poems Googler.”

Google Korea launches SATURI a translation service.

“Instead of utilizing technology to provide a service that Google Korea’s R & D center is a combination of metrics for dialect translation systems developed by its current service through the Google translation. For example, if you want to translate the dialect Jeolla Province was put into sentences, sentences that the document search and translated into various dialects, dialect retrieved documents are converted back Jeolla Province will be provided to the user, Google lets you translate the dialect of the local dialect to another did not even know you can retrieve all the documents without any inconvenience.”

Google Japan launched a special Universal Search result for Dajare.

Google is “to organize the world’s information to people around the world that can be used to access” in order to fulfill its mission and started PigeonRank night working on the development of the technology. In particular, the R & D Center in Tokyo, the early “laughter” especially “DAJARE” highly communicative function with a focus on the research and development done’m here.

Google Australia launched gDay, a new service that lets you search today the web pages published tomorrow.

“Using MATE’s™ machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques developed in Google’s Sydney offices, we can construct elements of the future. Google spiders crawl publicly available web information and our index of historic, cached web content. Using a mashup of numerous factors such as recurrence plots, fuzzy measure analysis, online betting odds and the weather forecast from the iGoogle weather gadget, we can create a sophisticated model of what the internet will look like 24 hours from now.”

Did you notice the gDay logo?

Also from Google Australia the Gmail Custom Time service.

“Just click Set custom time from the Compose view. Any email you send to the past appears in the proper chronological order in your recipient’s inbox.”

Google Book Search launched a new feature they capture the smell of books.

“Today I’m pleased to let you know that we’ve made some headway with one type of volume we’ve struggled with in the past: books employing scratch-and-sniff technology. Using special equipment and tricky JavaScript, we’re now able to capture some of the smells during the scanning process and then embed them in your web browser when you preview these titles in Google Book Search.”

This are just a few hoaxes and there are many more.

Google and Virgin have created a joint venture Virgle Inc., with the purpose of colonizing Mars. The spacecrafts should be ready to send people and materials to Mars in 2014, the crafts will be manufactured by Virgin and Google will finance project.

Also Virgin created a 100 years plan for the development of the Mars Settlement and Google already started to sell ads on Mars.

Don’t take this too seriously like my, this is Google’s April Fool’s day of 2008.

For more information read the Google blog.

After the launch of MySpace Mobile, MySpace has expanded the text message alert program with five new carriers Alltel Wireless, Verizon Wireless, Virgin Mobile USA, T-Mobile USA and US Cellular through a partnership with mBlox.

Users can receive notifications of friend requests, profile comments and new messages through SMS message. Until now three carriers supported the service AT&T, Helio and Sprint.