New Google Services Announced 197
Tryllekunstner writes "The guys at the Google Press Center presented upcoming Google technologies at a press conference. Google Co-op beta is a community where users can contribute their knowledge and expertise to improve Google search for everyone. Google Trends builds on the Google Zeitgeist to help users find facts and trends related to Google usage around the world. Google Notebook is a simple way for users to save and organize their thoughts when conducting research online. This personal browser tool permits users to clip text, images, and links from the pages they're browsing, save them to an online 'notebook' that is accessible from any computer, and share them with others. Also, Google Desktop 4 is also mentioned." Googleblog has an outline of the new services.
A good tool. (Score:5, Interesting)
For instance, British appear to be tit [google.com] men, whereas Americans are ass [google.com] men. People from all over the place are searching for osama [google.com], but its only people from terrorist cities (like Lahore, Stockholm & San Franscisco) who are searching for usama [google.com]
A slightly more interesting search is bsd [google.com] - the top cities searching for BSD are interesting (and the same holds true for linux [google.com] - where the top city is the converting-to-linux munich)
Re:A good tool. (Score:2)
Re:A good tool. (Score:2, Interesting)
Interesting how much less publicity the NSA gets compared to the FBI and CIA.
Re:A good tool. (Score:1)
-Grey [wellingtongrey.net]
Re:A good tool. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:A good tool. (Score:2)
Windows is the clear winner, with linux coming in second & BSD & OS X barely registering
Re:A good tool. (Score:4, Interesting)
You'll find it rather interesting
Re:A good tool. (Score:3, Funny)
You're right - and you see that ipods are enroaching on linux's territory too [google.com]
Re:A good tool. (Score:2)
*grin*
Incidentally, has anyone found a search scoring higher than "yahoo"? It beats "google" and "windows", and is even better than "sex"
Re:A good tool. (Score:3, Insightful)
Given that, Linux very high relative to the size of it's installed base. Which makese sense because idiots like me can't get anything done in Linux without 1000 google searches.
Re:A good tool. (Score:2)
Uh-oh - let's hope you're not correct in that theory, because it would mean that mac's are getting harder to use & linux easier [google.com]
Re:A good tool. (Score:2)
Anyways, compare free * [google.com]; BSD omitted for hopefully obvious reasons.
Or download * [google.com]. It'd seem that they're roughly scaled to number of users
or some such metric.
Re:A good tool. (Score:2)
Does anyone actually use that anyway? (I mean besides just a couple times for fun)
Re:A good tool. (Score:2, Insightful)
I immediately searched for "sex", what else. And voila!
The leading countries are nearly all islamic, strict & ultraconservative.
They know what they need over there..
Re:A good tool. (Score:5, Funny)
This is true. Whenever I travel, folks take one look at me and say, "You're an ass, man!"
Re:A good tool. (Score:2)
How true. They have even created a number of web sites on the topic, such as this great tits [rspb.org.uk] field-guide reference page, complete with a nice image of a great tit.
Unfortunately, great-tits.org disappeared a year of so back. But others have taken its place to tell us all we want to know about tits in the UK.
Re:A good tool. (Score:1)
USA vs. UK trends (Score:1)
more global trends (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:more global trends (Score:2)
I can't even figure out how to do that.
Google vs. competitors (Score:2)
http://www.google.com/trends?q=google%2C+yahoo%2C
Re:A good tool. (Score:2)
Interestingly, this tool confirms the old "BSD is popular in Japan" meme. Tokyo, Chiyoda and Osaka all figure in the top 10, Japan is number 4 and Japanese number 3.
Battle of the Distros (Score:2, Interesting)
It's more interesting if you compare a bunch of search terms.
For example, see how Ubuntu took just a year [google.com] to become top distro. (And also note how popular Suse is with the Germans compared to everyone else.)
For another upstart, how about Slashdot v. Digg [google.com]?
I can see this becoming the new Googlefight [googlefight.com]...
Question... (Score:3, Interesting)
Why is it that for pretty much everything, the search volume has decreased over time? Is this because there is less accurate or different data for older searches, or perhaps Google isn't quite as popular today as it was a couple of years ago? I mean, one would think that for most things the search volume should increase over time since more and more people are getting onto the internet and using search engines...
Re:A good tool. (Score:2)
That's because there are lots of birdwatchers in Britain.
For example, check out this pair of great tits [davidfinney.co.uk].
Worrying trend (Score:2)
Re:A good tool. (Score:2)
Friedmud
And Americans! (Score:2)
All I can say (Score:1, Redundant)
Next up... (Score:2, Insightful)
Googledot... an online community that allows technology users to comment on recent technology and political news. Also, a place to announce new Google beta tools.
I like Google and all... but can they please focus on creating something useful like a payment system rather than sites that offer fancy copy-and-paste functionality?
Re:Next up... (Score:2)
The World According to Google! (Score:4, Interesting)
What about Linux?? (Score:2)
Re:The World According to Google! (Score:2)
I'm sure the Google engineers would be happy to make a Linux version, but this is not about cool new technology, it is about corporate warfare. Google have to target Windows with these things to establish a bulwark against Vista. Then there is also Yahoo! to keep an eye on, who are also waging war on the Windows battleground.
No, you won't see anything but Windows supported anytime in the near future. It'll take th
Not useful (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm looking forward to that app, as I'm constantly scribbling notes when doing research on the web. As long as the implementation is decent then it's something I'll use nearly every day. It's probably the only app that most people would find any use for. The others are cool in a geeky kind of way, but nothing I'd probably ever even look at.
Re:Not useful (Score:1)
When I first started using blogger a couple years ago (before even Google acquired it), I started using it as a virtual notebook of sorts. It required a bit of imagination, but made for a handy sort of makeshift user-friendly-ish remote fileserver that I could access easily from both home and campus. While doing that, this was the sort of app that I envisioned.
Now what about G-drive? Is this the first step?
Tom
Re:Not useful (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.mystickies.com/ [mystickies.com]
Tibet (Score:5, Interesting)
Must be a bug of some sort, after all, censorship is evil, right? Right?
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Search for NASA (Score:1)
Todd
Re:Search for NASA (Score:1)
KFG
Re:Search for NASA (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Search for NASA (Score:1)
-Grey [wellingtongrey.net]
Let the "fair use" lawsuits begin (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Let the "fair use" lawsuits begin (Score:2)
Fix bugs in Picasa2 !?!? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Fix bugs in Picasa2 !?!? (Score:2)
Re:Fix bugs in Picasa2 !?!? (Score:2)
Bigger then Jesus? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Bigger then Jesus? (Score:2)
so much was lost in that fire...
Re:Bigger then Jesus? (Score:2)
Google Notebook competitors? (Score:3, Interesting)
My hope is that Notebook is the result of a bunch of PhDs at Google using these other products and thinking, "Hey, we should offer something like that!" Then we might expect some sort of interoperability, or at least import/export -- it would be nice to do stuff in a campus lab and then dump the results to my laptop for later work (unless Notebook is so great I never need advanced functionality from other products). Google Calendar can work with Apple's iCal because they both use the same standard, but there's no such standard AFAIK for the things Notebook would do. (other than plain old text files)
Far more importantly (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously. What the hell?
Re:Far more importantly (Score:1)
Because Chuck Norris has already roundhouse kicked all the people in the important countries and the Poles know they're next.
-Grey [wellingtongrey.net]
Re:Far more importantly (Score:5, Funny)
The relevance of this does not become obvious until you note the absence of searching for Jessica Alba, Hillary Duff or Britney Spears.
KFG
Re:Far more importantly (Score:2)
No, I am not going to use Google to find out. I must protect my nation score..
Canada x Poland (Score:2)
OTOH, in Canada they have Jessica Alba (2), Hilary Duff (4), Paris Hilton (6), Pamela Anderson (9), Jessica Simpson (11), and Britney Spears (13).
Scene of a typical Canadian family when the guy tells his parents he's engaged to marry someone:
-"So, what's her family name?"
-".jpg"
Whats the point? (Score:4, Insightful)
I dont see the need for an online text editor. Why not use on your own machine? Its faster, and your thoughts are (mostly) private.
Re:Whats the point? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Whats the point? (Score:5, Insightful)
Sure, I could carry stuff around on a USB drive (and for critical things where I can't rely on there being net access, I do so). Then you've got the issue of whether a given program is installed, or whether I'm allowed to use the drive (some public terminals on campus do not allow you to use USB drives, since they're strictly for checking e-mail and the like).
For 'mobile' people, having your data online and manageable on there is very attractive. With the exception of very elaborate work like research papers and such, pretty much everything I do for my classes is kept online somewhere.
Re:Whats the point? (Score:2)
As far as a similar service, I recommend Zoho Writer [zohowriter.com]. It's very similar to Writely, and rather nice to use. Development on it seems rather slow, though, and there are still a few key features missing (for me, the deal breaker is the lack of double-spacing on documents - crucial for a col
Re:Whats the point? (Score:2)
Because social networking and group collaboration are all the rage these days. Google buying up Dodgeball, using group accessable/editable calendars, and adding yet another piece to the Google All-Online OS puzzle.
Personally, I use the Google Calendars in a group setting for both the Minnesota Geocaching Association [mngca.org] to offer people an easy way to have our events listed on their
Re:Whats the point? (Score:2)
Why not use on your own machine?
Because I want to be able to use it from anywhere.
Its [sic] faster, and your thoughts are (mostly) private
When I am collaborating with others, I don't want my thoughrs to be private - I want to share them. Or maybe I just want to share them anyway in case someone finds them interesting or useful. And maybe someone else will have something to add.
I really hope that Google Notebook has bibliographic features built in to it. I'm using a pilot implementation of WIKI [sourceforge.net]
I predict... (Score:2, Troll)
Kewl (Score:2, Insightful)
So they're going to start eliminating blatant spam when it's reported? Kewl!
Re:Kewl (Score:1)
Can I report blatant misspellings as well?
-Grey [wellingtongrey.net]
Re:Kewl (Score:2)
Sex query (Score:4, Interesting)
http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex&ctab=3&date=al
Re:Sex query (Score:1)
What is secret is exciting. In islamic, conservative, strict countries people really are searching for "sex" more than anywhere else.
They can't see too many naked female bodies in Saudi-Arabia or Pakistan. They should really appreciate the west a bit for exporting that imagery straight to their homes!
Re:Sex query (Score:3, Funny)
What I liked even more than that was that Brentford rates as number 3 in the world, falling just behind .... Birmingham and Manchester. We Brits are a horny lot!
Re:Sex query (Score:2)
What I liked even more than that was that Brentford rates as number 3 in the world, falling just behind
Or you're just the worst at using the most generic search terms.
Another failed google-app.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Another failed google-app.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Another failed google-app.... (Score:1)
Re:Another failed google-app.... (Score:2)
Re:Another failed google-app.... (Score:2)
Detailed summary and how to use Google Co-op (Score:3, Informative)
Wait.... (Score:1)
Digg vs. Slashdot (Score:2)
Slashdot, digg (Score:1, Redundant)
http://www.google.com/trends?q=slashdot%2C+digg [google.com]
In related news.. .. (Score:1)
Google Trends (Score:5, Interesting)
1)There must be some kind of scaling going on with the numbers, no? How could a country like Pakistan with about 1.7 million internet users have more searches for "Sex" than the US with over 200 million internet users? Similar sitatuation for uncommon languages. Is the data done as a percentage of total searches from that region or in that language?
2)Is the city thing actually accurate? At university, google maps used to figure out I was in Vancouver no problem, but now I'm in Calgary and it doesn't even center on Canada. Wouldn't maps and trends try and figure out my location in the same manner (I would guess by the location of my ISP)
odd results (Score:1)
At the bottom, there is the disclaimer: Google Trends aims to provide insights into broad search patterns. It is based upon just a portion of our searches, and several approximations are used when computing your results. Please keep this in mind when using it.
Re:Google Trends (Score:2)
UK is #1 for porn (Score:1)
Re:UK is #1 for porn (Score:2)
wiki (Score:1)
issue of trust (Score:1)
for example, if you are a chinese journalist, your files could be shared with the authorities.
i don't trust google anymore i'm afraid.
What I don't like about Google Co-op (Score:3, Insightful)
It doesn't have to be this way: Google could have told people how to publish this information themselves, on their web pages. It certainly has the ability to scrounge data from myriad sites. This way, more uses could be made of the information: browsers could display it, other search engines could build it into their results, and anyone could build a novel application (you could imagine this being what makes the semantic web take off). I would argue that not only is Google being selfish with their design, but ultimately making the wrong choice for themselves, because the more useful information is, the more of it people will generate.
The same criticism holds for Google Base.
Funniest trend results (Score:2)
http://www.google.com/trends?q=terrorism&ctab=0&da te=all&geo=all [google.com]
While the Arab world is far more preoccupied with something else entirely:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex&ctab=0&date=all &geo=all [google.com]
In other news: Google Suggest Emerges from Beta (Score:2)
I still have a few problems with it though, the main one being the following: When typing in a multiple-word query and wanting to delete just the first word of that query, doing so using keyboard shortcuts (home, ctrl + shift + RightArrow) to select just the first word, selects the entire query and deletes it. Of course, doing this with a mouse is not a problem
'American Idol' stats are interesting (Score:2)
Nice how it's dead while the show's off the air, then builds to a peak at the end of each season.
Plus, apparently they love them some Idol in the South Pacific...
Trends top searchers for linux,unix,bsd (Score:2)
What's up with this? The linux, unix, bsd search has the United States nowhere in the top ten searching countries. Everybody in the States already has their sites bookmarked I guess?
Re:No Thanks (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:No Thanks (Score:2)
Hmm. I see what you mean. Maybe they could do something, like, oh, I dunno, make their products free for people to use over the web. Or something like that.
Re:java c# perl c++ c (Score:3, Interesting)