Johns Hopkins: “The Johns Hopkins University Libraries have become the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in what is considered an ‘extraordinary’ digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form.”

State of Texas: on-demand driver records are now available online.

Is Google shutting down GOOG-411 evil?

Bing has released new artist pages.

Considering the state of YouTube comments, I don’t know why you’d want to do this, but you can link directly to YouTube comments if you wish.

A new version of Google Earth is out. I’ll try to have a writeup later this week.

Rumors rumors rumors rumors: is Google going to buy Groupon?

Interesting. … I’ve also got to hope that Google’s PR professionals — who don’t change their policies and procedures on a daily basis — will also take time today to review whether it was wise for a company spokesman to sidestep the question of ‘whether utterly noxious retail could yield profits.’.

This has been all over the Internet, but in case you haven’t seen it yet: Google Beatbox. Good morning, Internet…