Google now provides financial information*, weather, news*, mail, product reviews*, movie reviews*, photo-hosting services, maps, directions, instant messaging, and discussion groups. They are rumored to be planning tons of new services, based on highly coagular reports from numerous blogs.
I hear they're trying a new home page design. It's in beta now. You can find it here.
* By "provides" I mean "links to others' content about."
Well, I'll be damned. I just searched again and "Mac OS X" wasn't highlighted. I swear that it was when I searched earlier in the day.
That's the weird thing about new unannounced Google features; they must deploy them to only a few machines out of a cluster at first, so users don't see them evenly.
That's true, but the page itself cannot be customized at all. For example, I would like to customize Google News BETA's sports section to include only those teams that I'm interested in. Some of our more elitist Slashdot readers may want to exclude sports entirely and add more tech news to their page. Google has effectively sat on its news site for years now, whereas Yahoo!'s news page has been much more customizable for the same period of time.
Some people claim that Google News is BETA because it can't have any ads. I prefer to think of it as BETA because Google hasn't done jack shit to improve it in years.
More and more of Google is benefiting from registration. Google Answers requires that you register to create a question or answer one. Google Groups BETA lets you add groups to My Groups and post. GMail BETA, of course, requires a login to use. Froogle BETA lets you add products to "My Shopping List."
About the only product Google has that doesn't benefit from registration (but should) is Google News BETA. I would use it a lot more often if I could customize the types of stories I want to see more or less frequently -- like Yahoo News lets me do.
Portals are not a bad thing. My Yahoo is my home page and it works great for everything I use it for: news, stock quotes, weather, sports, and a few RSS feeds from other sites including Slashdot.
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Ah, the joys of PowerPoint's "export as HTML" feature.
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PowerPoint. Here's how to install it:
apt-get college-degree apt-get job make money apt-get windows-pc || apt-get mac || apt-get wine # Good luck with this last one
If three of those commands fail, add ftp://compusa.com to your sources.list.
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There are the following two "standards."
Does it render in Internet Explorer? Does it render in Mozilla?
His site passes both.
Did you buy your shoes from an ISO 9000 certified shoe manufacturer? Good thing you did, or you'd be barefoot.
That last paragraph makes about as much sense as your argument.
Yeah, but Half-Life 2 doesn't have any educational value. Sure, Oregon Trail let you pwn bison all day, but it was educational because it taught you that no man can carry more than 100 pounds of meat (or approximately 0.12 bison) back to the wagon in a day.
To carry out the instructions in the EULA, each patron would have to uninstall the game once the rental period is up. If the next patron were unable to install it due to the CD Key already being in use, the library would have to impose a late penalty on the first patron.
Some games (Worlds of Warcraft, for example) require you to go through customer service channels if you want to use a CD Key that someone has used once before. Blizzard could license out a program that would do the rights management at the library level, but Blizzard in the past hasn't been very open about letting certain validation tasks go outside its walls (see bnetd).
Now charges should be filed, in the opinion of the Moscow police.
The best part is that allofmp3.com has so much money from gullible Americans that they can pay off the Russian police quite handsomely now. That way they can remain in business and message-board posters such as yourself can remain smug.
CDs cost closer to $10-12 the first week they're in stores. After that, the price tends to stay the same. If you want true CD quality and don't want to send the RIAA any money, just buy your CDs used from places like Half.com. Most discs go for $8 or less used, they're totally legal, and the quality is as good as you're going to get.
As media personalities go, Jon Stewart holds about as much weight as a lifelong Usenet poster. He's self-deprecating, sarcastic, and likes to call people names when they mock him. Yet after all is said and done, people wish they could be like him.
Oops, spoke too soon. Upon further review, the reviews referenced by Froogle are just aggregated from other review sites like BizRate and PriceGrabber. Google's not creating or managing any of its content... yet.
Remember when Deja.com, formerly DejaNews, tried to re-establish itself as a portal for product reviews? That didn't pan out too well, and the company was eventually swallowed up by Google. Fortunately, Google has their hugely-profitable ad business to fall back on.
If you have $400 to spend on a handheld that runs Doom a little bit better, try a Pocket PC. (That link is way out of date; I think there are newer versions for newer devices.)
You can even load Linux on some Pocket PCs, though you still have to pay a Microsoft Tax on any one you buy brand-new.
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Except that Yahoo! supported the "weather city-name" interface for MONTHS before Google rolled it out.
Google has a guide to their services in much the same way as Yahoo! has a simplified page that solely does search.
If you'd like more information, please contact me at genericman@corp.yahoo.com.
Sincerely,
G. Man
Yahoo! Customer Relations
Google now provides financial information*, weather, news*, mail, product reviews*, movie reviews*, photo-hosting services, maps, directions, instant messaging, and discussion groups. They are rumored to be planning tons of new services, based on highly coagular reports from numerous blogs.
I hear they're trying a new home page design. It's in beta now. You can find it here.
* By "provides" I mean "links to others' content about."
Well, I'll be damned. I just searched again and "Mac OS X" wasn't highlighted. I swear that it was when I searched earlier in the day.
That's the weird thing about new unannounced Google features; they must deploy them to only a few machines out of a cluster at first, so users don't see them evenly.
They will, once the patches are out of beta.
Try doing a search for a Macintosh software product. Even though "Mac OS X" was not one of your search terms, Google boldfaces it as though it were!
I can't reproduce this with another term. I wonder whether this was a manual fix by Google programmers.
You want to DDOS Google with birds?
Wrong animal. Bubba was the 23-pound lobster found in Pittsburgh, who died while being transported to a zoo for treatment. Truly an American icon.
That's true, but the page itself cannot be customized at all. For example, I would like to customize Google News BETA's sports section to include only those teams that I'm interested in. Some of our more elitist Slashdot readers may want to exclude sports entirely and add more tech news to their page. Google has effectively sat on its news site for years now, whereas Yahoo!'s news page has been much more customizable for the same period of time.
Some people claim that Google News is BETA because it can't have any ads. I prefer to think of it as BETA because Google hasn't done jack shit to improve it in years.
More and more of Google is benefiting from registration. Google Answers requires that you register to create a question or answer one. Google Groups BETA lets you add groups to My Groups and post. GMail BETA, of course, requires a login to use. Froogle BETA lets you add products to "My Shopping List."
About the only product Google has that doesn't benefit from registration (but should) is Google News BETA. I would use it a lot more often if I could customize the types of stories I want to see more or less frequently -- like Yahoo News lets me do.
Portals are not a bad thing. My Yahoo is my home page and it works great for everything I use it for: news, stock quotes, weather, sports, and a few RSS feeds from other sites including Slashdot.
Ah, the joys of PowerPoint's "export as HTML" feature.
There are the following two "standards."
Does it render in Internet Explorer?
Does it render in Mozilla?
His site passes both.
Did you buy your shoes from an ISO 9000 certified shoe manufacturer? Good thing you did, or you'd be barefoot.
That last paragraph makes about as much sense as your argument.
Yeah, but Half-Life 2 doesn't have any educational value. Sure, Oregon Trail let you pwn bison all day, but it was educational because it taught you that no man can carry more than 100 pounds of meat (or approximately 0.12 bison) back to the wagon in a day.
To carry out the instructions in the EULA, each patron would have to uninstall the game once the rental period is up. If the next patron were unable to install it due to the CD Key already being in use, the library would have to impose a late penalty on the first patron.
Some games (Worlds of Warcraft, for example) require you to go through customer service channels if you want to use a CD Key that someone has used once before. Blizzard could license out a program that would do the rights management at the library level, but Blizzard in the past hasn't been very open about letting certain validation tasks go outside its walls (see bnetd).
Now charges should be filed, in the opinion of the Moscow police.
The best part is that allofmp3.com has so much money from gullible Americans that they can pay off the Russian police quite handsomely now. That way they can remain in business and message-board posters such as yourself can remain smug.
In finance terms, MM is more like "M times M," or 1000 times 1000.
By the way, I'm a little scared that my "Roman emperor Maximus who was known for having thousands" explanation was called "Insightful." I must be new here.
CDs cost closer to $10-12 the first week they're in stores. After that, the price tends to stay the same. If you want true CD quality and don't want to send the RIAA any money, just buy your CDs used from places like Half.com. Most discs go for $8 or less used, they're totally legal, and the quality is as good as you're going to get.
AllOfMP3 is under investigation by the Russian police. They were charged with (get this) criminal copyright infringement.
But hey, you enjoy your cheap downloads and pretend like they're legal. AllOfMP3 is exactly as legit as KaZaA Plus or MP3 Download HQ.
MM is for "million" because M is for "mthousand." It comes from the Roman Emperor Maximus who was known for having thousands.
HOLY SHIT
-- The Onion
As media personalities go, Jon Stewart holds about as much weight as a lifelong Usenet poster. He's self-deprecating, sarcastic, and likes to call people names when they mock him. Yet after all is said and done, people wish they could be like him.
So what you're saying is that Google should spider RateItAll instead of Epinions, then?
But does it run Windows Mobile Edition 2005 Service Pack 1?
Oops, spoke too soon. Upon further review, the reviews referenced by Froogle are just aggregated from other review sites like BizRate and PriceGrabber. Google's not creating or managing any of its content... yet.
Remember when Deja.com, formerly DejaNews, tried to re-establish itself as a portal for product reviews? That didn't pan out too well, and the company was eventually swallowed up by Google. Fortunately, Google has their hugely-profitable ad business to fall back on.
If you have $400 to spend on a handheld that runs Doom a little bit better, try a Pocket PC. (That link is way out of date; I think there are newer versions for newer devices.)
You can even load Linux on some Pocket PCs, though you still have to pay a Microsoft Tax on any one you buy brand-new.