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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.

Who dugg this? Made popular Jul 28, 2006

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  • MAdaXe42, on 10/12/2007, -4/+31You made Tom cry you nasty people. Delete the internets, or just tie off the tubes.
  • ludwik, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22Google Blogoscoped has a screenshot - http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-07-28-n84.html
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19"or just tie off the tubes."

    Internet contraception? Is that what you call "safe surfing"? Having your "tubes" tied?

    >.>
  • arunforce, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19I think Google has shut it down services (or renamed them), It's not working anymore.
  • EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -6/+22Imagine 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.
  • merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Ebay 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/
  • MAdaXe42, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Sandbox accounts != real accounts.

    If they did, according to Paypal i'm a multi-trillionaire. Huzzah!
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14"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
  • diggboy101, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18Hmm... Read the article!!
  • geek42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Google Guess == StumbleUpon.com ?
  • merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11http://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.
  • tonyruscoe, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13My 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
  • TheG2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Did you...perchance use the same account name and password?
  • Philipp_Lenssen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Yes, Google shut it down. The services I registered before aren't showing anymore.
  • ThatsUnpossible, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Google Events =~ evite.com competitor that ties into Google Calendar?
  • OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4No Diggle yet.
  • kg4gyt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Thats how its supposed to be, the article explains
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6ahh the irony...
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Or maybe it was a code name for Google Suggest?
  • lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That'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.
  • iXam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well. Google has a lot of hosts ;)
    http://www.dnsdigger.com/?host=sandbox.google.com
  • god4twenty, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Funny, I created an account on the sandbox...and it works on the standard account sign in too.
  • Philipp_Lenssen, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Google might shut this down very soon, screenshots are valuable now :)
  • speckz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wonder how many other services we don't know about?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5That was.. Very informative...



    *cue mindless speculation*
  • naggarwal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+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.
  • dcmax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Let'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.
  • Lucid00, on 08/18/2009, -0/+1I know this is old, but it's funny to see how much this got dugg down.
  • diggboy101, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Oops sorry, saw your new post!
  • NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Makes you wonder what 10 years from now will be like.

    everythingyoucouldeverwant.google.com

    Google for president!
  • 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.
  • punkrockxtian, on 10/12/2007, -8/+8http://blog.outer-court.com/files/tonys-list-of-services.png
  • OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Microsoft has a litterbox instead of a sandbox.
  • mydave, on 07/26/2008, -1/+0Yes of course the subdomain and associated accounts are used for testing new or experimental Google services. Because every new service needs testing.

    http://www.chasr.org/
    http://www.danielrhodes.com
    www.toyotaemployeepricing.com

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  • SteveMax, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Google would be a better president than most of the current options ;-)
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+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.
  • boblarimer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Or better yet, maybe I should have read the article instead of skimming it...

    Oops...
  • cicomputing, on 10/12/2007, -4/+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.
  • hadak, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1i KNOW tom smith, and he does NOT work for google.
  • marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4GoogleBrowser?
  • affanjam, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2i got the cool new google accounts page
  • lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -14/+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?).
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -16/+7"Hmm... Read the article!!"

    No no no. This is Digg. That should read:

    "ZOMG!! RTFA!!!111!one!"
  • boblarimer, on 10/12/2007, -11/+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...
  • verucasalt, on 10/12/2007, -23/+4so what?
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