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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. A good tool. by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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)

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    1. 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!"

  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. Google Trends by TastyCakes · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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)