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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).
Google "Personals" isn't really Google Personals, it's just a feature of Google Base that links to personals on outside websites
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!
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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Actually no it really is Auto suggest!
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.
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If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet. So please, no one try it, even for a joke.
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.
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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).
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They are not "chaotic" stuff, all or at least most share the same general direction, under the surface the goal is the main one of google, to do a better search, giving tools around it or helping people to move content to a better (? at least they control it) searchable environment. And maybe more important, there are some increasing interaction between the "chaotic" google products. Things that maybe are less used now may evolve into something more integrated with the rest in a future.
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