Chapter 5. Add-Ons

Hacks 59-70

Google is of the Web, but that doesn’t mean that it’s trapped in your browser. Google has become so much a part of the fabric of our everyday lives that it shows up just about everywhere. Google via email [Hack #64] , through instant messaging [Hack #65] , from a chat room [Hack #66] , on your mobile phone [Hack #67] ; you can even take it out for a night on the town in the form of a groovy belt buckle [Hack #70] .

This chapter is a tour of some of the more interesting ways in which Google has leapt out of the pages of cyberspace and into what hackers affectionately call meat space: everyday life, to you and me.

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