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Google Products You Forgot All About

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hiding-in-plain-sight dept.

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. Google personals is not Google Personals by Paktu · · Score: 2, Informative

    Google "Personals" isn't really Google Personals, it's just a feature of Google Base that links to personals on outside websites

    1. Re:Google personals is not Google Personals by DrEldarion · · Score: 1, Informative

      It grays out depending on the location you search in. Try searching in San Francisco, for instance.

      If the people submitting data for that location didn't include the sexual orientation information, then there's nothing to narrow down by, and therefore that drop-down box is useless, so it's grayed out.

    2. Re:Google personals is not Google Personals by zcat_NZ · · Score: 5, Informative

      WRONG.

      It greys out until you select male or female... This seems pretty logical, how can Google search for a partner the same gender as yourself if you haven't yet told them what gender that is?

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  2. google SMS 466453 by Lehk228 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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)

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    1. Re:google SMS 466453 by SeaFox · · Score: 2, Informative

      I use Google-SMS. It's cheaper than paying for web access on my cell phone.

      BTW, it's 46645, you don't need the 3.

  3. Code Search by katterjohn · · Score: 2, Informative

    I certainly didn't forget about this. This and Koders are very handy!

  4. Sketchup! by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.