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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[Coldness]

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

Google Google

[flyingsquid]

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 SMS 466453

[Lehk228]

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)

Didn't forget.

[aussie_a]

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.

Driving Simulator

[dze]

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.

Re:Google personals is not Google Personals

[zcat_NZ]

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?

Wired did it so much better.

[ascendant]

I'm pretty sure this is from Wired's Alt Predictions for 2007, and it was a lot more funny there.

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