Google Gadgets Come to You

An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo is reporting the release of "Google Gadgets", 1,220 dynamic applications for use on your web pages, without needing to connect to Google. 'Google Gadgets range from a miniature look-up for Google Maps or Google Calendar to independent applications ranging from financial information to sports to communication tools and jokes, horoscopes or geometric puzzle game Tetris.'"

Re:Sorry, but..

[crayz]

Try Reuters. The submitter got it wrong

Some thoughts on Google Gadgets

[quokkapox]

The deal with these things is, they work with Google Desktop Search, and they pop up when you hit SHIFT-SHIFT.

Some of them are pretty cool, and some are a pain in the ass. Several I've tried are downright buggy, and I have some serious questions about security.

You really don't know what you're getting into when you download and allow random code to freely run on your PC. I would assume the gadgets run with the same privileges as GDS itself. Or are they sandboxed?

Anyway, it sure is handy to know I've made 219,430 keystrokes and 26,690 mouse clicks since Thursday. Oh, and that it's warm and sunny outside. And that my battery is charged. Well, the scratch pad is nice. It always auto-saves.

Not so, my man.

[Anonymous Coward]

FTFA: "Google Gadgets, which have previously been available for users to add to a Web user's personalized Google homepage or their own computers via Google Desktop software, are now available for Web page owners to add to their own sites."

Re:Sorry, but..

[jwest]

See how the first words of the article are "SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)" ? The story comes from the Reuters wire service. Yahoo is just passing it along... .

This submission should have read "Reuters is reporting the release of 'Google Gadgets'".

But no working link.

[kcbnac]

But they didn't put in a working link. Here it is: http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open/ [google.com]

Where's the news?

[GoNINzo]

Er, these have been around for awhile as part of the personalized home page stuff. I know because I've been using them for like 3 months or so. I should search back through slashdot, but this is such a dupe. http://www.google.com/ig [google.com] is the real page, which would have been nice to link to. Just click in the upper left corner to add more clutter to your home page.

I just wish a few of them were more customizable.

Re:Google promoting Spyware?

[gosand]

Good job not explaining the difference; educating anyone who might read your post.

Eh, sorry.

QA = Quality Assurance

QC = Quality Control

SQA = Software Quality Assurance

I am sure you can look these terms up, but in a nutshell....

QA is ensuring the quality of a product from many different aspects, and in pure form does not involve testing. QC is testing. SQA is (from a CMM perspective anyway) [you'll have to look that one up too] the process of monitoring and auditing the software development processes and products to ensure that they conform to established standards.

In general, a lot of the industry calls testing 'QA'. I have kind of come to accept that, but still try to use standard terms. At one company I was at, they used the term 'QA' as a verb - i.e. to QA something. Very annoying, and it showed their lack of knowledge on the subject. (which became painfully obvious the longer I was there)

Re:Belgium vs. Google exemplified

[Anonymous Coward]

You may have just mistyped yourself, but the Belgian government has positively nothing to do with google not being able to display belgian news. That was a case between a belgian news publisher and google.

Re:Belgium vs. Google exemplified

[E IS mC(Square)]

But there is huge difference between Yahoo News and Google News.

Google News only reports the synposis of the news, pointing to the original website itself which served the the news. Yahoo News syndicates the news from other syndicating services and displays the news on their own freaking website.

Stop comparing oranges and apple just to prove your non-existant point.