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Google's new toys

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the they-are-excellent! dept.

Google labs just released for your pleasure, some new toys to play with. The first is Google's Viewer, just type a few words to see a fully working preview of the web site. Another new idea: Google's Webquotes, View search results with quotes about them from other sites, and the last one is Google's Froogle, which aims to be the world's largest catalog.

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  1. Prelim results by gowen · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've been playing with these since they appeared on The Register a few days ago. I can't say I'm massively impressed. The slideshow is lovely eye candy, but, sadly, the top bit of each web page it shows is all too often just a banner ad and a navbar, which isn't always a lot of use. Froogle is US-centric, and no good for me, but it is the best name I've seen in a long time.

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    1. Re:Prelim results by Ed+Avis · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Heh, perhaps the Google slideshow will encourage sites to put useful information at the top of pages rather than junk.

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  2. Google contest ideas? by Christopher+Doopov · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Are these new features based on ideas from the Google contest, which took place some time ago? If so, what are the other ideas, which are not yet implemented, but which may be used in the future?

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  3. Other interesting articles by nich37ways · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Ars technica also has review up of froogle along with a funny review of google's plan for world domination

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  4. Re:The mandatory pr0n reference by leoboiko · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It would be even better if they made an equivalent viewer for images.google.com.

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  5. Googlisms by SPeW · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hey have any of you checked out this site , not directly related to google.com but it does use their search results to return some pretty intereting stuff. check it out ... some funny stuff comes up for slashdot and Bill Gates

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  6. Re:What about the other ones? by Galvatron · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No, I think beta testing means exactly what it implies, the software is not release quality yet. At the moment, they probably don't feel like the sorting algorithm they use is "fair," and so they're still finetuning it. Clearly, this can be a lengthy process, which is why they let people use it while they're still working on it. All they're saying by "beta" is that it's not good enough to stake their reputation on, so if you use it, be aware that they think it's not up to the same standard as the rest of their work yet.

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  7. Re:In case the site is slashdotted... by nolife · · Score: 5, Interesting

    To clarify the phrase..

    Slashdotted

    Yet another interesting Google function.

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