New Google Services Announced

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.

Comments

Re:No Thanks

[w.p.richardson]

Think of it as an employment application. I am sure that if you provided something meritorious that either Google or someone else would provide you with a chance for something gainful. Not bad if you are a student with a bit of time on your hands...

Re:Whats the point?

[.com b4 .storm]

Accessibility from anywhere, and the possibilities of collaboration - those are the key draws to something like this. I'm a university student, and I organize pretty much all of my work online using Backpack, and write most of my short papers with Writely. There's computers all over campus, and at work, so no matter where I am, I have my projects with me. Plus both of those sites allow for collaboration with people when I need it.

Sure, I could carry stuff around on a USB drive (and for critical things where I can't rely on there being net access, I do so). Then you've got the issue of whether a given program is installed, or whether I'm allowed to use the drive (some public terminals on campus do not allow you to use USB drives, since they're strictly for checking e-mail and the like).

For 'mobile' people, having your data online and manageable on there is very attractive. With the exception of very elaborate work like research papers and such, pretty much everything I do for my classes is kept online somewhere.