Collective Consciousness and Street View
Google releases their annual Zeitgeist results which to me are a bit like tapping into our collective consciousness – http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist2006.html On a smaller scale, I regularly use their Google Trends tool to reverse engineer SEO results.
Google also announced a new tool for maps called Street View. Having been making panoramic images, I can’t say I didn’t see this one coming.