Google Calendar Coming Soon?

mcpastore writes "Blogs have recently been buzzing over the possibility of seeing a Google Calendar popping up soon. Dave bases his prediction on the fact that one of his sites has been getting a tremendous amount of hits from GoogleBot ever since he added the iCal calendar. It makes perfect sense Google would try to go after the calendar market as it is their last big missing piece of the portal puzzle."

Comments

It's about time

[Anonymous Coward]

I hear Google plans to add a day to the weekend, and add two months to the year. It's about time someone with a plan rewrote the calendar.

Greetings

[Anonymous Coward]

Hello, I'm Googlebot.

I recently discovered your post criticizing Google on Slashdot, and I am here to help you. You are now banned from the internet. Thank you for your past usage, and we hope to welcome you back in the future when you've accepted Google into your life.

Google on the brain

[Icarus1919]

I love Google as much as the next person; I use it almost exclusively to search for pages. However, it seems to me some fanboys won't be happy until we're eating Google brand noodles out of Googlebrand dishware wearing Google brand clothing and then we buy Google brand detergent to get the Googdles stain off of my new Google shirt.

Re:Google on the brain

[technos]

some fanboys won't be happy until we're eating Google brand noodles

With the general education level of the folks that work at Google, I'm guessing they have like 8000 man years experience in Ramen. Google Brand Instant Ramen(R) would own the market once they get it to that $0.10/package price point most college students base their food budget on.

Re:Google on the brain

[StikyPad]

If they were smart, they'd make Google beer at $.10 a can so college students can afford food.

Re:Google on the brain

[Cedric C. Girouard]

I love Google as much as the next person; I use it almost exclusively to search for pages. However, it seems to me some fanboys won't be happy until we're eating Google brand noodles out of Googlebrand dishware wearing Google brand clothing and then we buy Google brand detergent to get the Googdles stain off of my new Google shirt.

I would just _love_ to be able to purchase Google shirts...

Shirt with a "Search" button printed in front, and a pair of pants with the "I feel lucky" one.

Marketing opportunity here...

Re:Google on the brain

[boingyzain]

and then we buy Google brand detergent to get the Googdles stain off of my new Google shirt.

Oh god, you got stains on your Google shirt? I'm so sorry :(

Re:Too much Google?

[derrith]

Too Much Google? When I googled google on the state of the google in google, I found that google is googling googlers about the emergence of google as a new paradigm in google's google of googles. This googles google on the google of google, by google. for google, with googles googling googles googled.

Interesting, but... why?

[mblase]

Assuming Google is developing a kind of search tool to index and organize all the public internet calendars in the world, who would want to use it?

I mean, say I load it up and search for "March 3, 2005". I'll probably get a couple of obscure religious and national holidays, then a few zillion pages of entries like "Math class @ 10:00 AM" and "Meeting with union 3-4PM" and "Don't forget the recycling bin!"

Well, that was useful. Nice to know how many people with calendaring software have math classes this morning; I'd never have found it if it weren't for you, Google!

mnb Re:Doesn't add up to anything

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn man, you are on a posting ROLL today!
Take a little to much Adderall 'tis morning? :)

Re:Ads

[pedantic bore]

... you might see more gift-related ads?

Sort of... I think you accidently left a "might" in there. And I'm not sure about the "gift-related" part either.

Re:Too much Google?

[Spoing]

1. Too Much Google? When I googled google on the state of the google in google, I found that google is googling googlers about the emergence of google as a new paradigm in google's google of googles. This googles google on the google of google, by google. for google, with googles googling googles googled.

Say smurf and I'll smack you.

Coming soon...

[Snommis]

...the Google CLOCK! WAY better than a standard clock. Skinnable hands and face, choose analog or digital interface, tells the time anywhere in the world (even where you are). Integrates smoothly into your Google calendar and toolbar.

Oh, the possibilities!

[SilentJ_PDX]

Imagine the targeted links they'll put on calendar entries for your mother's birthday, your quarterly performance review and a blind date...

I can't wait.

Re:Doesn't add up to anything

[croddy]

A google calendar would be nice but I don't know if this guys predictions amounts to anything more then just hearsay.

Well, the writeup does say it was "blogs" referring to this. It's obviously not even worth considering.

Re:What about the weather?

[trentfoley]

Google doing weather the Google way? I can see it now...

It is a cold, dreary, Midwest morning. I'm driving to a client site through refrozen snow slush. I realize that my thermostat is set way too low and numbly turn it up to 80F. Suddenly, my car navigation system starts giving me strange directions, which of course, I obey. Ten hours later I realize I'm in Florida. ...I could live with that.

Yay for criminals!

[Duncan3]

It's about time someome did this so the whole world can see when I'm out of town and my stuff is just sitting around waiting to be stolen ;)

Err....

ZigZag or RIzla

[rs79]

I thought it said "Google Cannibis".

Woah.

Google's been hitting a section of my site too!

[Cyn]

I've noticed a huge increase in GoogleBot hits to my underage beastial gay midget porn section of my site. This leads me to believe that Google will soon be offering underage beastial gay midget porn. They'll probably call it Goopsyourarrested.com or something.

[ Disclaimer: No. Just... No. You sicko. Jeez. How2ReadAJoke ]