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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 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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  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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