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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. Re:Looks nice by I+Be+Hatin' · · Score: 0, Troll
    Fahrenheit is an arbitrary scale, for pretty much all scientific uses Celsius is the scale.

    ...and Celsius isn't arbitrary?

    OBTW: ever heard of the Kelvin scale? Or does that not have "scientific uses"?

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  2. Re:Looks nice by I+Be+Hatin' · · Score: 1, Troll
    Isn't that a more stupid and complex measurement, not particularly useful for any kind of scientific reference, than just using pure water?

    I fail to see how the phase changes of water being calibrated to (32,212) degrees is any better or worse than having them at (0,100). They're just arbitrary values in either case (unless you're trying to ascribe some numerological significance to them...).

    Now, if there was a ubiquitous formula that was made simpler by the fact that water freezes at 0 instead of 32 (e.g. you can drop a constant term), then I would buy that Celsius is better for scientific research. But until you can show me one...

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