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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.
The google trends is pretty fun to play with - and like all good tools, it can be used for good or bad.
For instance, British appear to be tit men, whereas Americans are ass men. People from all over the place are searching for osama, but its only people from terrorist cities (like Lahore, Stockholm & San Franscisco) who are searching for usama
A slightly more interesting search is bsd - the top cities searching for BSD are interesting (and the same holds true for linux - where the top city is the converting-to-linux munich)
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
Googledot... an online community that allows technology users to comment on recent technology and political news. Also, a place to announce new Google beta tools.
I like Google and all... but can they please focus on creating something useful like a payment system rather than sites that offer fancy copy-and-paste functionality?
Self-referential Sigs are cool on /. these days...
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Look for it soon in a Theater near you! And what is wrong with this picture...Google Desktop only runs on Windows? What about Linux??
Most of these are things I'd never use, with the exception of Notebook.
I'm looking forward to that app, as I'm constantly scribbling notes when doing research on the web. As long as the implementation is decent then it's something I'll use nearly every day. It's probably the only app that most people would find any use for. The others are cool in a geeky kind of way, but nothing I'd probably ever even look at.
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NSFWThat's funny, it doesn't let me compare searches for "falun gong" or "dalai lama" between, say google.co.uk and google.cn.
Must be a bug of some sort, after all, censorship is evil, right? Right?
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Holy smokes...a search for NASA shows that the US isn't even in the top 10 regions for the search. I guess interest in the space program in the US has fallen to almost nothing.
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I'll probably be modded down for this...
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. I'm getting the impression that Google is gonna have to go through some heavy flak to get this one off the ground. They've already been in the spotlight for caching copyrighted images and such.
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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...
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It would be nice if they would maintain some of the products they already spewed out or at least issued the occasional bug fix. Picasa2 is a real nice little tool (great for quick fixes and for organizing photos), but it has alot of annoying little bugs that don't seem to have workarounds yet and they have been very slow about releasing updates for it.
What would John say: http://google.com/trends?q=jesus%2C+beatles
Any thoughts from users of Tinderbox or DEVONThink? I'm actually trying to set up a system to organize my rather scattered writing/research efforts, and as I'm looking over the options, this announcement occurs.
My hope is that Notebook is the result of a bunch of PhDs at Google using these other products and thinking, "Hey, we should offer something like that!" Then we might expect some sort of interoperability, or at least import/export -- it would be nice to do stuff in a campus lab and then dump the results to my laptop for later work (unless Notebook is so great I never need advanced functionality from other products). Google Calendar can work with Apple's iCal because they both use the same standard, but there's no such standard AFAIK for the things Notebook would do. (other than plain old text files)
Why is "Chuck Norris" the #1 search term in Poland?
Seriously. What the hell?
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" Google Notebook is a simple way for users to save and organize their thoughts when conducting research online."
I dont see the need for an online text editor. Why not use on your own machine? Its faster, and your thoughts are (mostly) private.
...that next week there will be an article on Slashdot to the effect that Google has announced new services.
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Considering they have many millions of users they only need a tiny portion of them to still have thousands of people help them out. I'm sure they'll get them.
Developers: We can use your help.
Google Co-op beta is a community where users can contribute their knowledge and expertise to improve Google search for everyone.
So they're going to start eliminating blatant spam when it's reported? Kewl!
I'm with Necrotica!
Anyone else notice that the language that searched for 'Sex' the most is Arabic? There's a joke there somewhere, but I'm not doing it..
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http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex&ctab=3&date=al
A search for common sense results in the top city being Washington!? Yeah... sure...
Google Blogoscoped had excellent coverage of the Press Day ... and today posted a very informative step-by-step of how to use Google Co-op.
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Google Desktop 4? and it's still beta???
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http://www.google.com/trends?q=digg%2C+slashdot
Life is like a web application. Sometime you need cookies just to get by.
In USA vs. UK, the UK wins out in search, but trails in news (though the news trend for the two follow each other, interestingly). Check out the regions graph.
Oddly enough, a lot of people use Google to search for Yahoo. (And for some reason, those Turks are absolutely reliant on Google for locating MSN.)
+ msn%2C+aol&ctab=1&date=all&geo=all
http://www.google.com/trends?q=google%2C+yahoo%2C
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I believe they reward contributors by giving them free access to a really good Internet search engine.
Google also announce a sponsor deal with the hit music group, ggg G Unit!
Yeah google trends seems pretty cool, but 2 things spring to mind.
1)There must be some kind of scaling going on with the numbers, no? 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? Similar sitatuation for uncommon languages. Is the data done as a percentage of total searches from that region or in that language?
2)Is the city thing actually accurate? At university, google maps used to figure out I was in Vancouver no problem, but now I'm in Calgary and it doesn't even center on Canada. Wouldn't maps and trends try and figure out my location in the same manner (I would guess by the location of my ISP)
The UK is the most confused, The Norwegians are lost, people from Mexico City are searching for the internet, Seattleites are wondering what Bill Gates is up to, people in Kansas City are cheating at Where's Waldo, Hungarians are hungry for warez, Iranians spell it Googel, the Polish seek the www, and the Japanese are the only ones searching for "/.".
UK holds the Top three cities searching for porn.... Way to go Manchester!
this sounds very similar to wiki... too bad they didn't integrate with them instead.
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"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."
for example, if you are a chinese journalist, your files could be shared with the authorities.
i don't trust google anymore i'm afraid.
Yeah, there are some unexpected results here and there, such as the one you mention, or girls, where Pakistan (leading by far), India, Australia, NZ all come before the UK or US, and yet there is not a single Pakistani city in the top 10 list...
At the bottom, there is the disclaimer: Google Trends aims to provide insights into broad search patterns. It is based upon just a portion of our searches, and several approximations are used when computing your results. Please keep this in mind when using it.
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perl language, python language, ruby language. Witness how the rise of ruby in 2005 coincides with the ruby on rails graph.
Prescriptive grammar:linguistics
One service they're not offering.
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But never fear:
http://lastgoogle.blogspot.com/2006/04/google-las
Innovation makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old regime... -- Machiavelli
Way back when they started, what was Google's killer insight? That there was information out there on the Web (the link structure) that could be used to improve search results. What's the premise of Google co-op? That people will feed information to Google that can be used to improve search results. See the big difference? In the first case, the information is public, and generated as a side-effect of making the Web more useful generally (by creating helpful links); in the second, the information is owned by Google, and only Google can make use of it directly.
It doesn't have to be this way: Google could have told people how to publish this information themselves, on their web pages. It certainly has the ability to scrounge data from myriad sites. This way, more uses could be made of the information: browsers could display it, other search engines could build it into their results, and anyone could build a novel application (you could imagine this being what makes the semantic web take off). I would argue that not only is Google being selfish with their design, but ultimately making the wrong choice for themselves, because the more useful information is, the more of it people will generate.
The same criticism holds for Google Base.
The evaluation of an action as 'practical' . . . depends on what it is that one wishes to practice.
Washington is obsessed with 'terrorism' (is this the extent of the U.S. intelligence effort?):
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http://www.google.com/trends?q=terrorism&ctab=0&d
While the Arab world is far more preoccupied with something else entirely:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex&ctab=0&date=al
I did that search too and was surprised by the result...
Any reason why this trend http://www.google.com/trends?q=sms&ctab=0&date=all &geo=all
Striving to be common...
It's more interesting if you compare a bunch of search terms.
For example, see how Ubuntu took just a year to become top distro. (And also note how popular Suse is with the Germans compared to everyone else.)
For another upstart, how about Slashdot v. Digg?
I can see this becoming the new Googlefight...
This way you can even even use the same scale and appreciate the real proportion:l anguage%2C+python+language%2C+ruby+on+rails
http://google.com/trends?q=perl+language%2C+ruby+
I wrote a plugin for Google Desktop last year, and I got an offer to intern with the Desktop group. Last month I wrote another plugin for Google Calendar, they now use that code (with credit) in the newly-released Google Desktop, and I'm going back there for another internship.
Though the purpose of writing the plugin was never that, it did work out favorably for me.
In other news, Google Suggest has just emerged from BETA! So, jump on over to http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en and start using it.
I still have a few problems with it though, the main one being the following: When typing in a multiple-word query and wanting to delete just the first word of that query, doing so using keyboard shortcuts (home, ctrl + shift + RightArrow) to select just the first word, selects the entire query and deletes it. Of course, doing this with a mouse is not a problem, but it's annoying as hell when doing it with a keyboard. This is also true with middle words if you select them from the left.
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Love their midget porn!
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I'm still waiting for something exciting to be released. Updates to Google Desktop isn't all that exciting. The last Google release I found interesting was the Google Maps that allowed use of API for personal development.
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That australia is pretty high on the cia search rank, higher than the US even...
Har?
of all the news links to the right of the graphs, why are all the microsoft links bad press, and the remaining apple links all good?
:-)
I wonder if MS *knows* nobody likes them?
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Look what else the Brits have been searching for -- are you listening Mr. Blair???
It is an interesting tool, but I have one question about it.
Why is it that for pretty much everything, the search volume has decreased over time? Is this because there is less accurate or different data for older searches, or perhaps Google isn't quite as popular today as it was a couple of years ago? I mean, one would think that for most things the search volume should increase over time since more and more people are getting onto the internet and using search engines...
Hmm. I see what you mean. Maybe they could do something, like, oh, I dunno, make their products free for people to use over the web. Or something like that.
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http://www.google.com/trends?q=american+idol&ctab= 0&date=all&geo=all
Nice how it's dead while the show's off the air, then builds to a peak at the end of each season.
Plus, apparently they love them some Idol in the South Pacific...
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What's up with this? The linux, unix, bsd search has the United States nowhere in the top ten searching countries. Everybody in the States already has their sites bookmarked I guess?
As always, all IMO. Insert "I think" everywhere grammatically possible.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=imap+gmail&ctab=0&d ate=all&geo=all
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No wonder Billy boy is offering to "keep Google honest"
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Just imagine a GoogleBeowulf cluster of those things!
OTOH, in Canada they have Jessica Alba (2), Hilary Duff (4), Paris Hilton (6), Pamela Anderson (9), Jessica Simpson (11), and Britney Spears (13).
Scene of a typical Canadian family when the guy tells his parents he's engaged to marry someone:
-"So, what's her family name?"
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"Google Notebook is an interactive scratch pad for every website a user visits, offering a single online location to collect web findings without having to leave the browser window. For example, if a user were planning a vacation, she could clip the most relevant materials on the pages she visits and add personal notes to help organize all of her research."
This is something I'd really like. A way to pack up papers online without messing around with gdrive software.
E tu, Google?
... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
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We'll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network has been infected, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your systems are free of viruses and other spurious software.
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The sad thing is I was on Linux and looking up Windows...
to see what trends people are looking up and where...that could be even more interesting...or just nonsensical wastes of time at work...either way works for me.
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http://www.google.com/trends?q=linux%2C+gnu%2Flinu x&ctab=1&date=all&geo=all
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Blame Canada.
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Doesn't look good; http://www.google.com/trends?q=slashdot%2Cdigg&cta b=1&date=all&geo=all :P
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Just thought it was interesting.
Has been for months. There's a fairly intense price war going on between budget airlines RyanAir and EasyJet, which means you can frequently fly to places like Paris or Rome for about 20UKP return. Needless to say, people are taking advantage of this, and going on weekend trips left, right and centre.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.