Gmail is moving, fingers are fitter, YouTube goes centennial

With the help of Gmail Motion, we’ve been working faster than ever this week to build new products and celebrate a few existing ones. Here’s a roundup of our most recent efforts:

• Chromercise helps you increase your hands’ strength and dexterity while browsing the web
• YouTube celebrates its 100th anniversary with a flashback to its original homepage and a blog post by President Taft
• Body Browser lets you explore new anatomical terrain
• Look who’s going Google!
• Google Maps now features strange sightings around the world
• Docs Motion follows Gmail Motion into new gestural terrain
• Meow Me Now helps you find kittens near you
• We announce an exciting acquisition
• Seriously great typists may apply to be autocompleters
• gBlimps: the inevitable new ad platform
• New sessions added to Google I/O
• Fans of Mail Goggles should like the Voice-alyzer function in Google Voice
• New display advertising formats take marketers back to the good old days
• It was only a matter of time before Voice Search became available in this language
• ChromeLite is an even faster version of our browser you know and love
• After extensive user testing, we’ll soon be making Comic Sans the default font for all Google properties—get a preview on the search results page
• Travel through time and space to discover things from “then and now” with Google Teleport Search (in Chinese only)
• Tired of life on Earth? Learn more about a Moon loan
• Use Earkut to receive notifications when someone visits your Orkut profile
• A new look for our webmaster team members

It’s been a busy—and frankly, odd—day at Google, but with our finger sweatbands in place and our savvy email-writing moves, we’ll work faster than ever on new and exciting projects.

Update 4:06PM: Updated with additional announcements. - Ed.

Posted by Michael Krantz, Project Manager, Google Creative Lab

Project Teaspoon

Posted by Michael Krantz and Marissa Mayer, TiSP Product Team

That's what we call it here at Google, anyway. What you'll call it is a godsend: free wireless broadband throughout your home, a host of optional breakthrough applications -- all with just one quick, easy self-install. Learn more about Google TiSP (beta) today.

Cupid's algorithms

Posted by Michael Krantz, Product Manager, Google Romance

Ever been on a date and wondered "What on Earth am I doing with this person?" Or perhaps you wished there was a way that you could instantly find your perfect match, and then go on a date during which everything just went right?

Wish no more: Google Romance, a beta product currently incubating in Google Labs, uses cutting-edge personal search algorithms to help you find your soulmate, then sponsors your first Contextual Date with said soulmate-to-be in exchange for showing you highly relevant advertising that just might help Cupid's arrow find its mark. Does it really work? Ask our internal beta testers -- if you can find them, that is. Not a single one has shown up for work in days.

So why not give it a try yourself? You've got true love to gain, and only your faith in psychographic and contextual advertising software to lose.

Drink up

Posted by the Google Gulp team

Granted, for an online search company a beverage line constitutes a bit of a departure. But at Google we try never to lose our focus on the user, and this year we got to thinking that the one thing missing from the perfect web-surfing experience was a cool, refreshing smart drink.

Cheers!