Thanks to Elinor Mills at CNET for finding this: an entomologist who discovered a new species of ant has named it after Google, an expression of thanks after search help he received from the Google Earth staff. The ant is ferocious looking ... perhaps the name is apt for that reason as well.
1. I'm a very loyal and grateful reader of this blog and you do a good job. i'm confused as to how you could miss this. Google blogged this on their official blog in september.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/ants-unearthed-with-google-earth.html
i really do say this b/c i admire this blog and want it to continue to be a great resource. peace and keep writing,
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by gray b.