Google Newsbites 3/08/06

Screenshots of CL2: Google Calendar, apparently far from public release (thank you TechCrunch)

Google retracts mistaken financial info from website

John Battelle (of The Search) discusses his publisher's opposition to including the title in Google Book Search

New Microsoft Live Search available, verdict: the scroll mechanism is possessed

Brits discover they use the Internet more than their TVs (though 2 hours online time per day is hardly an addiction...)

Possible new Google patent points to intelligent browser helper that "infers" user's next action, via Google Blogoscoped

Trisha Weir wins Valleywag's "utterly shallow and prizeless" Girls of Google faceoff

Pico to be the world's smallest search engine. Wait... what?

Google News Israel is just what it says

"10 reasons why YouTube is better than Google Video"

Official Google Blog announces a caboodle of new 'plex videos

P2P sales on Google Video coming soon?

Teacher's lesson plan on "mashups" uses research through Google and Wikipedia--at once behind and ahead of the times, but this is excellent effort toward modernizing education

Mozilla confirms it gets millions from Google, fuzzy on the numbers