You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

a. Acquired visual shopping site Like.comb. Experimented with "streaming" search resultsc. Announced plans to build phone booths in U.S. airportsd. Launched its "Google Me" Facebook killer

The destiny predicted

Late last week Google fulfilled the destiny predicted by TechCrunch, purchasing visual shopping site Like.com for a reported $100 million. As first noted by SEO blogger Rob Ousbey, Google began experimenting with real-time search results that change as users type inside the search box. And yes, it really did announce plans to build phone booths in airports and colleges -- part of an effort to promote its new Google Voice phone service, which lets users make free phone calls from within their Gmail accounts (or one of those flashy red booths). But there's still no sign of that rumored Google social network. Mark Zuckerberg can sleep soundly for at least another few days.

The Aero was labeled an "embarrassment" (JR Raphael, PC World), a "death-wish" (Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post), and already "obsolete" (Anders Bylund, Motley Fool) thanks to the fact it shipped with the 16-month-old Android 1.5, which makes it a dinosaur in the fast-moving world of smartphone platforms (where Android is now up to Version 2.2). We understand Dell is also planning to reintroduce a line of PCs running Windows 98.

After being called out by right-wing bloggers for bedding down with "radical" orgs like MoveOn and ACORN, the GOA publicly opted out of the bipartisan Save the Internet coalition (the other three conservative groups listed here were still members at press time). Maybe they just wanted to keep getting invites to all those rockin' Tea Parties.

In Europe, at least -- prompting immediate speculation that Apple was planning to introduce an iPad-like home computer that runs the iPhone OS. Because that's what the world truly needs -- another platform for running fart apps. We expect to see that patent on filing patents any day now.

Devine, who is accused of accepting more than $2 million in bribes from some of Apple's Asian suppliers, apparently had more than $150,000 stashed in shoe boxes in his San Jose home. Cheapo Gmail users placed approximately 1 million free calls in the first 24 hours Google's VoIP service was available, according to Google. According to numerous reports, Apple will soon offer TV shows for rent at 99 cents apiece (but let's round up to an even buck for easier math). So 150K + 1M / 1 = 1,150,000. Given the state of the U.S. banking industry, a shoebox isn't necessarily a bad call. Come back next week for another sole-searching quiz.