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New Google Services Announced

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-won't-they-think-of dept.

Tryllekunstner writes "The guys at the Google Press Center presented upcoming Google technologies at a press conference. Google Co-op beta is a community where users can contribute their knowledge and expertise to improve Google search for everyone. Google Trends builds on the Google Zeitgeist to help users find facts and trends related to Google usage around the world. Google Notebook is a simple way for users to save and organize their thoughts when conducting research online. This personal browser tool permits users to clip text, images, and links from the pages they're browsing, save them to an online 'notebook' that is accessible from any computer, and share them with others. Also, Google Desktop 4 is also mentioned." Googleblog has an outline of the new services.

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  1. Bigger then Jesus? by Gedalia · · Score: 3, Funny

    What would John say: http://google.com/trends?q=jesus%2C+beatles

  2. Far more importantly by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why is "Chuck Norris" the #1 search term in Poland?

    Seriously. What the hell?

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    1. Re:Far more importantly by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why is "Chuck Norris" the #1 search term in Poland?

      The relevance of this does not become obvious until you note the absence of searching for Jessica Alba, Hillary Duff or Britney Spears.

      KFG

  3. Re:A good tool. by Colonel+Angus · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...and the only people who give a shit about Canada are Canadians.

  4. Another failed google-app.... by flyweight_of_fury · · Score: 2, Funny

    A search for common sense results in the top city being Washington!? Yeah... sure...

    1. Re:Another failed google-app.... by zerosix · · Score: 2, Funny

      That sounds about right...when you lack common sense you search for it!

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  5. Re:A good tool. by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    > For instance, British appear to be tit [google.com] men, whereas Americans are ass [google.com] men.

    This is true. Whenever I travel, folks take one look at me and say, "You're an ass, man!"

  6. Re:A good tool. by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    You'll find it rather interesting ... talk about Apple stealing users from Linux - just look at those lines converging!

    You're right - and you see that ipods are enroaching on linux's territory too

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  7. Re:Google Trends by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    How could a country like Pakistan with about 1.7 million internet users have more searches for "Sex" than the US with over 200 million internet users?

    That's because the Pakistanis are amateurs. No one in the West searches for "sex" anymore. They've moved on to more specific, advanced searches, such as, "lesbian midget interracial anal bukkake." See?

  8. Re:Sex query by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 2, Funny
    What I liked better is that the London suburb of Brentford has more people searching for porn than Delhi.

    What I liked even more than that was that Brentford rates as number 3 in the world, falling just behind .... Birmingham and Manchester. We Brits are a horny lot!