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Google Products You Forgot All About
Googling Yourself writes "Lifehacker has an interesting blog post on the 'Top 10 Google Products You Forgot All About' that includes stalwarts like Google Trends and Google Alerts and a few others that may not be quite so familiar like Google Personals, Google's WYSIWYG web site creation tool, and Flight Simulator for Google Earth."
Guess everyone's busy trying out the "new" flight simulator!
The best is called Google Google. It's by Google. It's a search engine, which searches Google, to find all the various products and services which have been released as beta (of course, Google Google is still in beta).
I remembered and used them all from time to time
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Google "Personals" isn't really Google Personals, it's just a feature of Google Base that links to personals on outside websites
This article is over two months old. I read it in November. Geez. Just because it's New Years eve, we can put any top 10 list from the year on?
Put identity in the browser.
best is google SMS. it gives you many smart phone / web phone like features on any SMS capable phone text queries such as "weather [zip code]" "pizza [zipcode]" "define catemite" "price someBrand someModel ionizer filter replacement" (yes i used that one in a thrift store once to see if the ionizer they were selling for $5 still had filters available and for a reasonable price, turns out the filters only run $12 so i got the ionizer) to 466453 (google)
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
Actually I didn't forget any of those. Instead:
* I didn't know about 5 of them.
* I haven't needed to use 4 of them.
* I've stopped using the one I did need and know about (Notebook) due to Google's habit of changing their functionality which can infringe on someone's privacy that they didn't want.
I doubt very many people thought those were fantastic features, and then simply forgot about them.
I certainly didn't forget about this. This and Koders are very handy!
I liked GoogleFight.
Google should really do a driving simulator based on Google Earth, similar to the flight simulator. You could drive around any city virtually, which would be pretty useful if you wanted to learn the streets of a city you were visiting. I'm sure there are a ton of other possibilities too, which I'll refrain from spelling out in detail since I've played a few too many hours of Grand Theft Auto.
"Luck is the residue of design" -- Branch Rickey
It's how data gets into Google Product Search.
Don't know if they thought it was not forgotten about but Picasa is the best photo organizer I've found and it's free.
Sunny
Be my Friend
Actually no it really is Auto suggest!
Parent is a myminicity. Do not click or whatever.
All your base are belong to Wii.
If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet. So please, no one try it, even for a joke.
Do you know of a way to use Google to find other pages, which may not be created by Google /deleted/?
There, fixed that for you.
Just -1, Troll talking to another.
crush all drug users. Drive them to the wall and burn them to death. The War on Drugs has lasted for too long already. Remove the disease (stoners etc) and the drug supply will die.
Victory
Google don't forget you, you have no right !
smokers are jokers
this one will open your mind:
http://tools.google.com/gapminder/
Actually, the best google product that no one has heard about is their airplane business. I hear that you can have really cool parties on it.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
It was late and its kind of stale, so its not possible to enjoy. jufailit.
I don't think that's right.
I guess the one that may be very useful (at least for me) is Google Alert ...
Remember : you just type a web search phrase and Google send you an Email each time there is something new on the web for this research.
Yes, it doesn't really work in realtime as we may want to, but it's still a killer feature for the web imho.
And other "forgotten" apps are quite crappy. I hope Google will still develop Google Alerts : it deserve it.
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It's something they bought, but my God is it easy to model things in 3D once you learn the tools.
Seriously, Apple should have bought it first and called it iCAD. It's *that* fricken sweet.
Do not attribute to malice that which can be easily explained by incompetence.
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The managers of each of these projects are rolling in the dough. How sick is that?
I get it!
*can't wait for the DVD to come out...*
Google is pretty cool, and they have a lot of smart people working there. They are churning out a lot of stuff and it's pretty chaotic. It's like they are using a sort of an open source model where lots of people are throwing stuff at the board to see what sticks. In most companies, there is an orchestrated attempt to strive for a goal. That's not apparent at Google. It will be interesting to see if Google can grow their business from all these little gadgets or if it just turns out to be a big waste of time, effort and money.
RM
I almost forgot about the 2038 cookie 'product'!
You haven't lived 'til you've done google earth with a Space Mouse (or whatever they're called these days - I've got one of those old fashioned ones).
No sig today...
This wasn't even news 2 months ago when it was originally published.
Now someone just needs to convince Google to publish the API for the flight simulator so that mod authors can go in and add support for entirely different types of aircraft. Sopwith Camels, P-51 Mustangs, Protoss carriers, Colonial Vipers, Sovereign class starships and Firefly class transports.
Because you *KNOW* it would happen.
Google's newly acquired phone service, GrandCentral.com, was mentioned in the comments. I had not heard of it, but it sounds pretty amazing. It certainly explains Google Android and their bid for RF spectrum!
I am a little concerned about your privacy policies. Could you please reassure me that my personal search info will not be used to Google my brain .Otherwise I may change my home page ,that has been Google for years, to yahoo,msn,ask ,etc......uh, do any of them keep my info private?
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...is not forgotten. There are plenty of models in the 3D warehouse. Oh, wait... That's forgotten too.
By the way, it's easy to export from Sketchup free. Export to kmz, and then import the KMZ from Blender. Tada, export to anything you want.
To quote the late Mitch Hedberg:
"Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having."
The same can be said for all people suffering from addiction. Have some compassion and perhaps try helping your fellow humans.
If you Google Google, you'll break the Internet.
I have it set for my name, my company's name, and few friends.
I think most people would agree with me that most of Google's apps were discovered via "tribal knowledge". That's how I discovered Google to at the start. To me, until recently, I never heard of most of the applications Google offered. This is one the areas that I think Google really dropped the ball. Maybe this "word of mouth" tradition is what they really want. Who knows. If that is Google's intention, it's good to see that it has backfired on them somewhat.
Of course I had to try it.
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Here are the results...
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,500,000,000 for Google. (0.02 seconds)
Now that wasn't too bad, was it?
It's not a laughing matter! You CAN BREAK THE INTERNET.
I worked at a place once where the IT Director wanted to schedule downtime for the mainframe.
I said that the suggested date was not a good idea, because I was planning to backup the Internet that day.
I found out a couple days later that the Director went to my boss and wanted to know how long that was supposed to take, and could I do it on another day.
When politicians are involved, everyone loses.
As a matter of fact it runs using Wine in Linux.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
But that's exactly the problem - I don't have enough volume in my pests or breanis to satisfy my horde of lovers and wanabees.
We demand more and better spam!
See - the Nigerians are working!
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