Googlified

As reported on Google Blogoscoped last month, Google’s partnering with Universal Studios to promote “The Bourne Ultimatum“, the third of the Bourne series.

How do you find someone who doesn’t want to be found? Track Jason Bourne across three continents in the ultimate mission. With Google tools at your fingertips, you will be well equipped. You may also have a chance to win amazing prizes.

The prizes include iPhone, a Volkswagen Touareg 2, and trips to Paris, London, NYC, and Tangier.

Google partnered with Sony Pictures last year to promote the Da Vinci Code. It was fun to play, too bad I didn’t get to the final somehow. :(

Hopefully this time I will! (and win the grand prize) :D

At the beginning of the year, Google announced the “Build Your Campus” competition that’s opened for college students in North America to build their own campus. Google’s LatLong Blog today announced the winners of this contest.

• University of Minnesota - Department of Architecture
  
• Purdue University - Departments of Computer Graphics Technology and Education
  
• Concordia University, Loyola Campus - Department of Civil Engineering
  
• Stanford University - Department of Architectural Design
  
• Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) - Departments of Engineering and Computer Science
  
• Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering - Department of Engineering
  
• Dartmouth College - Departments of Computer Science and Digital Art

The winning prize is a free 3-day visit to Googleplex. :)

Google’s holding an iGoogle Gadget Contest in Japan from July 4 to October 1. It’s opened to Japanese residents of all ages. However, minors are required to “submit the letter of consent” from a guardian. Some of the prizes of the contest are MacBook Pro, Google Earth Pro, and SpaceNavigator.

uGoogle = Infinite? That’s cool. :)

There was a puzzle hunt (Googol Conglomerate) at Googleplex over the weekend where teams of Googlers get together and try to solve puzzles. Although the puzzle hunt happens to be in Google campus with Googlers participating, Google itself is not sponsoring the game, making each team to pay $150 registration fee.

The Googol Conglomerate mission: We will increase the value of our company and our interplanetary portfolio of diversified brands by exceeding customers’ expectations and achieving market leadership and operating excellence in every segment of our company.

You can learn more about the puzzle hunt on their official website Gooooogol.com.

[photo by Matthew Bensley, used under a CC-license]

Last year, Google teamed up with Sony to promote the controversial film The Da Vinci Code. This year, they team up again to bring America’s favorite game show, Jeopardy, to iGoogle, and you can get a chance to win the $25,000 Grand Prize during June 4 to July 13.

The Jeopardy! Google Daily Challenge Sweepstakes features an extra clue from one of the categories in that day’s Jeopardy! TV broadcast. Watch Jeopardy! and then visit Jeopardy.com each weekday from June 4th to July 13th, to play a new clue and you’ll have a chance to win one of the daily $100 giveaways. By entering every weekday, you’ll increase your chances of winning $5,000, $10,000, or the $25,000 Grand Prize!

The contest is only opened to U.S. residents age 18 or older as of May 28, 2007. To play the game, just add this gadget to your iGoogle page, register, and just wait till June 4th.

Hmm, when was the last time I watched Jeopardy? (probably two weeks ago)

[via Google Operating System]

Google Japan is giving away a 4GB iPod nano (with a Google logo) away! Well, you don’t just get it, you will have to compete with hundreds. Not sure if you need to be living in Japan, but I am sure that you will need to know Japanese to answer their questions.

Interested? Give it a try.

related: Want an Video iPod? - they are addicted to giving away iPods

YouTube has announced the winners of the YouTube 2007 Video Award. The winners of the Awards were chosen in a democratic way - by the YouTube users (I can’t guarantee that no one cheated). And the award goes to:

• Most Creative - Here It Goes Again by OKGo
• Best Comedy - Smosh Short 2: Stranded by Smosh
• Best Commentary - Hotness Prevails by thewinekone
• Best Series - Ask A Ninja by digitalfilmmaker
• Best Music Video - Say It’s Possible by TerraNaomi
• Most Inspirational - Free Hugs Campaign by PeaceOnEarth123
• Most Adorable - Kiwi! by Madyeti47

Congratulation to all the winners and those who were nominated. I am curious how the trophy would look like… With the YouTube logo upside down? :)

Come on, you know you have heard of the Wii, and you are probably saving money to buy one! Now, Google is holding the first annual Google Client Bracket Competition and include a Wii in the prizes.

Oh, no, hold on. Google says that “It’s our ‘Client Bracket Challenge‘ so of course you need to be one of our clients to join.” How does Google define “client” in this case? I don’t know.

Whatever the way Google defines “client” is, you will still have the chance to win a piece of the $5,000 from CBS, and I didn’t bother to sign up. :)

[photo by J.Star, used under a Creative Commons license]

UPDATE: Looks like “clients” means people that have purchased Google Search Appliance or Google Mini.

Today, the Da Vinci Code Quest for the Google Personalized Homepage has started. In the first game, you need to drag symbols onto a grid in such a way that “the symbols in each row are all distinc, the symbols in each column are all distinct, and the symbols in each shaded region are all distinct. If you solved this please post your solution image in the forum! There seems to be a distinct puzzle almost everytime.

(From Google Blogoscoped)

Luckily, I am able to solve this! Kinda like the Sudoku games.

Add this molecule to you Google Personalized Homepage and start the Da Vinci Adventure!(and win some prize!-Read the rules first)