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Google Weather Service And GMail Improvements

Posted by Zonk on from the good-money-after-good dept.

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."

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  1. You misunderstand Google Weather by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google isn't forecasting the weather, they're controlling it.

    1. Re:You misunderstand Google Weather by game+kid · · Score: 5, Funny

      I wouldn't mind that, as long as they have a cache of good weather during storms. Or at least alert GMail users.

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  2. Microsoft also have one in beta test... by sandstorming · · Score: 5, Funny

    My area is currently blue in the satellite photo... with a combo box error shaped cloud passing over me.

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  3. Here's a cache by imag0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just in case you need it...

    Clickie!

  4. Yahoo copying Google again! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yahoo has been providing a similar service for quite a while.)

    Here we go again, Google innovating and everybody else copying them and claiming to be innovative. As usual.

  5. lazy cuss that I am... by jpellino · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just sent a suggestion that they make "wx" interchangeable with "weather" as in "wx 02134" or "wx boston, ma"

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  6. Re:Looks nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm a Canadian born and raised and even I understand Fahrenheit. I learned it just from watching TV. You must be a real dumbass.

  7. Is it just me... by Chess_the_cat · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...or is Google becoming a jack-of-all-trades and master of none? Remember when Google focused on their search engine? Yeah, me neither.

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  8. Re:what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    technically just because everyone is supposed to speak english in the united states doesnt mean they have to. congress never signed into law that English is the official language. oops!

    but i also agree it should display both F/C. Sooner or later, if you like it or not, the US will be metric country as well.

  9. google omniscience by Ragica · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's uncanny. It's like google can read all of our minds and somehow, by some magical insight beyond merely mortal, knows what we want... it's like they have some sort of vast complex engine that we can only just barely begin to imagine which is able to tell them everything before anyone else. It's astonishing, unsettling, and and inexplicable... unless... no, it can't be. But what other explanation could there be?

    Is God working for google now?

  10. Re:Gmail beta forever by generic-man · · Score: 2, Funny

    Google now provides financial information*, weather, news*, mail, product reviews*, movie reviews*, photo-hosting services, maps, directions, instant messaging, and discussion groups. They are rumored to be planning tons of new services, based on highly coagular reports from numerous blogs.

    I hear they're trying a new home page design. It's in beta now. You can find it here.

    * By "provides" I mean "links to others' content about."

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  11. Re:Looks nice by DrSkwid · · Score: 2, Funny

    What are liters, are they like litres ?

    =)

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  12. Re:Looks nice by spike2131 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not everyone in the US knows how to interpret this horrible abomination that is the Fahrenheit scale...

    What, did you skip that day in the third grade?

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  13. Re:Poor HTML coding by eyeye · · Score: 2, Funny

    i would have thought Google would have better HTML than that.. "" i got 40 errors with the W3 Validator.

    Tip:
    when you are critisizing some sites lack of HTML validator compliance first ensure your own piss poor (validation wise i mean) site is actually correct!
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  14. How revolutionary! by duffbeer703 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Prodigy did this back in like 1989. Google rocks

    Next Google will rollout the next revolution: "keywords"

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  15. Re:Looks nice by MMMDI · · Score: 3, Funny

    0F = It's freezing cold outside. Good think you're sitting on your computer with the heater cranked up.

    50F = It's quite nice outside (though you may want to wear a light jacket), but you don't know such since you're sitting on the computer reading /..

    100F = You could fry an egg on the sidewalk. Thankfully, you're inside on the computer with the A/C cranked up.

    There, we now have a foolproof conversion chart.