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

A good tool.

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

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)

Re:A good tool.

[Tackhead]

> 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!"

The World According to Google!

[53cur!ty]

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??

Tibet

[BenBenBen]

That'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?

Let the "fair use" lawsuits begin

[Mayhem178]

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.

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...

Fix bugs in Picasa2 !?!?

[cpuh0g]

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.

Far more importantly

[gowen]

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

Seriously. What the hell?

Re:Far more importantly

[kfg]

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

Sex query

[ebob9]

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..

http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex&ctab=3&date=all &geo=all

Google Trends

[TastyCakes]

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)

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.