Google Weather Service And GMail Improvements

Philipp Lenssen writes "Google has added US-only weather forecasts to their web search. Type e.g. "weather palo alto, ca" (zip codes work too) and you get a small illustrated weather forecast on top of the search result. (Yahoo has been providing a similar service for quite a while.) You can also send your query as SMS to 46645 (GOOGL), as the official Google blog reports." Relatedly, Shachaf writes "Looking at my GMail account, I see that Google has added two new features: integration with Picasa and plain HTML support. Now you can 'Log in to Gmail directly from Picasa and send the photos from your Gmail account', and view your email from any web-browser."

Comments

Re:what?

[erlenic]

Sooner or later, if you like it or not, the US will be metric country as well.

No we won't. It's not that there's anything wrong with metric, it's just that Carter tried to do it. If a useful president had tried, we'd be done by now.

Re:Looks nice

[recursiv]

What is so scientific about checking the weather forecast? Even if your dubious claims the Celsius was inherently better suited to scientific use had any merit, what bearing does that have on me checking the weather forecast? That's not exactly a very rigorous scientific pursuit. Furthermore, with integer degrees, Fahrenheit gives more precision. Put that in your pedantic pipe and smoke it.