As the author, Gina Trapani says, we know all about Gmail and Calendar and Reader as Google products, but what about others?
10. Google Code Search – Mostly of interest only to programmers.
9. Google Base – Easily publish and find recipes, classifieds, vacation rentals and job listings at Google Base, a no-web site way to get data online and into Google’s search results. It offers data type-specific search operators.
8. Google Trends – Compare the “world’s interest” in certain words and topics at Google Trends, which charts the number of times a word or phrase appeared on the web over time.
7. Google Alerts – Make your web search results come to you with Google Alerts.
(This one I use constantly. – Lynn)
6. Google Book Search – Get your books online at Google Book Search, whose book-scanning elves add to the digital library all the time.
5. Google Page Creator – A totally web-based, WYSIWYG web site creation tool that hosts up to 100MB of files for free.
4. Google Notebook – A powerful way to save things you find all over the net.
3. Flight Simulator in Google Earth – In Google Earth 4.2 to enter flight sim mode, hit Ctrl+Alt+A (Mac users: Cmd+Opt+A), choose your plane, airport and runway.
2. Keyboard Shortcuts Experimental Web Search – Takes your mouse out of web search entirely. On
1. SketchUp – Free 3-D modeling program for free, for Mac or PC.
She admits to leaving Patent Search, Google Moon, and Google Mars off the list as well as Grand Central or Google SMS.
While I use Grand Central (Now Google Voice), I don’t even know what Google SMS is.
Read the full article with links here.
I noticed that there wasn’t even a mention of Google Docs.
