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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. Didn't forget. by aussie_a · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  2. Driving Simulator by dze · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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