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Lots of New Secret Google Services Uncovered
ruscoe.net — Accounts created from within sandbox.google.com are not "real" Google Accounts - the subdomain and associated accounts are used for testing new or experimental Google services. I managed to find and add the following services to my "sandbox" Google Account - all of which aren ’t currently available to add to your "real" Google Account.
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- ludwik, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21Google Blogoscoped has a screenshot - http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-07-28-n84.html
- arunforce, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18I think Google has shut it down services (or renamed them), It's not working anymore.
- punkrockxtian, on 10/12/2007, -8/+7http://blog.outer-court.com/files/tonys-list-of-services.png
- Philipp_Lenssen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Yes, Google shut it down. The services I registered before aren't showing anymore.
- affanjam, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2i got the cool new google accounts page
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No Diggle yet.
- tonyruscoe, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12My original post also has screenshots of the sandbox 'My Account' page in the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese and Welsh- Philipp_Lenssen, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Google might shut this down very soon, screenshots are valuable now :)
- verucasalt, on 10/12/2007, -22/+4so what?
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Ebay and paypal both have "sandbox" servers as well. It's only natural that google payments would too. You've gotta test any software that interacts with their API, and it's a lot better to test it with play money than with real money.
http://www.sandbox.ebay.com/
https://developer.paypal.com/ - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/developer/index.html#integration_overview
Getting Started with Google Checkout
This section describes how to become a Google Checkout merchant and begin to integrate your online store.
1. If you haven't already done so, sign up as a Google Checkout merchant at http://checkout.google.com/sell/signup .
2. Set up accounts on the Sandbox service at https://sandbox.google.com/sell/signup .
This is really boring, standard API developer stuff. Google won't shut it down. Google Checkout merchants have to use this to develop their applications.
- Kanundra, on 10/12/2007, -47/+5I know I'll get dugg down, but Digg is predicting on what stuff will make the front page, but alas I can't stay away.
If the title says Google or Ubuntu it will be Dugg.....- EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21Imagine that. Topics that are popular with readers will frequently show up on a democratically controlled site. By definition posts that appear on the front page are interesting or useful to Digg readers. If a story doesn't interest you move on--either to another story or another web site.
- olddirtycr, on 10/12/2007, -54/+2I am Tom Smith and i work for google. I find it very mean that you released these unreleased sand boxes. Please desist.
- MAdaXe42, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30You made Tom cry you nasty people. Delete the internets, or just tie off the tubes.
- lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -13/+8Nice. Because we all know a cease and desist is best delivered via the digg comments section of a story about another website. What a doosh (dusch?).
- texpundit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18"or just tie off the tubes."
Internet contraception? Is that what you call "safe surfing"? Having your "tubes" tied?
>.> - texpundit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13"What a doosh (dusch?)."
Actually, it's "douche". In fact if you google your original spelling, it shows you the correct version. ;)
http://www.google.com/search?q=doosh - scooterMX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5ahh the irony...
- hadak, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1i KNOW tom smith, and he does NOT work for google.
- geek42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Google Guess == StumbleUpon.com ?
- lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That's an interesting theory.
My guess is that it will take your previous searches and scan current news and guess stories you will probably be interested in. - CarbonFree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Or maybe it was a code name for Google Suggest?
- lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That's an interesting theory.
- god4twenty, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Funny, I created an account on the sandbox...and it works on the standard account sign in too.
- TheG2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Did you...perchance use the same account name and password?
- ThatsUnpossible, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Google Events =~ evite.com competitor that ties into Google Calendar?
- naggarwal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I am going to go with google events as a "http://eventful.com/" like website. I do like the idea of being able to search for an event in your area then add it to your google calendar.
Google, indexing your world, on-line and off.
- naggarwal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I am going to go with google events as a "http://eventful.com/" like website. I do like the idea of being able to search for an event in your area then add it to your google calendar.
- marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3GoogleBrowser?
- PixelCloud, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4That was.. Very informative...
*cue mindless speculation* - boblarimer, on 10/12/2007, -10/+0This is very interesting, but I am concerned about the prudence of giving the owner of sandbox.google.com my userid / password for my real google account, in addition to the front page at sandbox.google.com indicating that you could use a credit card inside the site... Is this a reputable company that I can trust with my credit card #? I don't know so I won't be using it at this time...
- diggboy101, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Oops sorry, saw your new post!
- boblarimer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Or better yet, maybe I should have read the article instead of skimming it...
Oops... - NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Makes you wonder what 10 years from now will be like.
everythingyoucouldeverwant.google.com
Google for president!- SteveMax, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Google would be a better president than most of the current options ;-)
- cicomputing, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0sandbox.google.com is not a subdomain. It's a hostname. xyz.domain.com is not automatically a subdomain unless name service is delegated. Otherwise, it's just a hostname.
- iXam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well. Google has a lot of hosts ;)
http://www.dnsdigger.com/?host=sandbox.google.com - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Microsoft has a litterbox instead of a sandbox.
- farksucks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0You do realize that all of this speculating and gushing about something google MAY do in the future is no different than teenage girls reading People/US weekly/Cosmo magazine and speculating on who's going to date who, or who's going to get pregnant, or who broke up with who.
The fact that you guys can't recognize that being a fanboi is pathetic no matter what your gender or topic of the sycophantism, just reinforces your patheticness. - Leo55, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1awww man.
i pity google...NOT.
I wonder if their intentions is to keep it hidden or not.
To google : Just use another server and domain name that totally give no relations to google if uou dun wish to have diggers to basically own you. - dcmax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Let's face it. All the major companies involved in search are desperately trying to catch up with Google. Maybe, just maybe, Google has intentionally added a few random "code names" to this list to try to foil the competion and have them waste resources trying to decipher these purported new services under development, adding real services such as Writely to add apparent legitimacy to the list. (It would be a fairly agressive move, but Google is rather aggressive -- to its credit.)
Google had to have known this info. was easily discoverable through DNS diggers given the huge magnitude of people who scrutizie its every move. The quick "removal" may have been Google's just playing along to strengthen the notion this was (partly) new info. not previously disclosed. - speckz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wonder how many other services we don't know about?
- mydave, 12 hr 41 min ago, -0/+0Yes of course the subdomain and associated accounts are used for testing new or experimental Google services. Because every new service needs testing.
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