It's pretty fair to say at this point that the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili has dampened the "Olympic mood" around the world, especially because track officials are blaming him. Some info-hoarding search monoliths didn't exactly get the message.

This tech news story's commenters are all demanding to be let into their Facebook accounts and complaining about Facebook's "redesign." Why? They asked Google for "Facebook Login," and the top hit was that article. No wonder they're easy scammer prey.

Will finding humorous moments on Google Street View ever get old? No. Never. Here is a most perplexing image of men dressed in scuba gear, chasing Google Street View with ad hoc weapons. [Google via Reddit]

Google Buzz is like Facebook, except built in to Google's GMail and automatically hooked up to your best email and chat buddies. You can share links, videos, photos and opinions. What could possibly go wrong? (Pic via)

And doesn't it seem like a better version of what Google Wave was supposed to be? This informational video attempts to explain it all. Has anyone had the chance to try it yet?

Google engineer and San Francisco partyboy Orkut Büyükkökten's wild housewarming may have been packed with internet billionaires like Sergey Brin last Saturday, but online pictures were reportedly forbidden. And yet here are snapshots of strippers and nude sculpture.

We couldn't persuade Orkut Büyükkökten to invite us to his opulent birthday-and-housewarmingparty Saturday, but we won't hold it against him. After all, Google's ambassador to the gay party scene had to fit several billionaires between his new dance poles.

Slow clap for Slate V, who put together the following theoretical Google "commercial" that's ostensibly—at the least—just a concept, and at best, a successful meme. Truth be told, though, Google should consider buying it.

Tesla wants to go public. But the electric car company, loved by California celebrities and nerds alike, had to first bare all to the SEC. So now we know Tesla is funded by a mysterious front company linked to Google.

If Steve Jobs keeps this up, he may yet set off the biggest corporate flamefest in Silicon Valley: Googlers past and present are pushing back against the Apple CEO's trashing of their corporate motto.

Wired's Epicenter blog posted last night on an employees only post-iPad conference at Apple HQ with Steve Jobs, where the iJefe got feisty on matters regarding Google's iPhone battle, and the failings of Adobe. In other words: REAL TALK.

It's official: Google's co-founders will relinquish their voting control of the company over the next five years via stock sales, netting $6 billion in the process. Which begs the question: Are they getting bored?

The government, via an anonymous spokesperson, has just released a statement on their website according to Reuters.

Google, and then Hillary Clinton, called on China to stop censoring the web and open a transparent investigation into all the hacking that's been emanating from the country. They responded this morning, in a way that was not entirely warm.

[When Google owns everything (including your soul) the world will look just like this google googling a google umbrella as it googles across the google to Google HQ. Image via Googleetty]

First Google refused to continue censoring its Chinese search engine. Now the company is helping a Congressman rebuke China's authoritarian regime for human rights violations. It all just confirms that Sergey Brin is by far our favorite top Googler.

At least two foreign reporters in China, including an AP television reporter, discovered that their GMail accounts have been hacked (by the government??). Oh, ChinaGuy69@aol.com was just not "professional" enough, right? You had to switch to Gmail. Fools. [NYT]

Gates and co have admitted that a weakness in Internet Explorer allowed the Chinese government (allegedly) to attack the Gmail accounts of human rights activists, prompting Google to leave the country. And potentially causing a diplomatic incident.

Google wants everyone talking about its unique defiance of China's authoritarian rulers. But Silicon Valley gossips increasingly see that spin as a cover-up for the real story: A humiliating security breach exposed cloud computing's dangers and imperils Google's growth.

It was unsettling enough that Google named its Nexus One after bio-mechanical humanoids from the dystopian future. Now it's rumored to be issuing the smartphone to secretive genetic scientists inside its office. Chalk up another cozy, kooky 23AndMe deal.