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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."

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  1. No replies? by Coldness · · Score: 4, Funny

    Guess everyone's busy trying out the "new" flight simulator!

  2. Google Google by flyingsquid · · Score: 5, Funny

    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).

  3. Re:I thought this looked familiar by niceone · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just because it's New Years eve, we can put any top 10 list from the year on?

    Not any top 10 list - just the top 10 top 10 lists.

  4. Wired did it so much better. by ascendant · · Score: 4, Funny
    I'm pretty sure this is from Wired's Alt Predictions for 2007, and it was a lot more funny there.
    • After another round of acquisitions, including MySpace, Flickr, Yelp and Barry's Totally Awesome Whitesnake Tribute Page, Google runs out of websites to buy. It decides accordingly to acquire itself for an unprecedented $10.4 billion in stock. "Google is the leader in search and a strong competitor in several other online venues," says a Google spokesman. "It's only natural that Google would want to partner with such an internet powerhouse. That's why we're proud to announce Google Google, which will be in beta for the next 15 years."
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