Okay, Google is always come up with cool stuff, way beyond their search engine. Here are some cool things that maybe everyone doesn't know:
- Email, a very new way to look at email (Google calls it GMail). The first to bring us gigabytes of email storage for free!
- 411. For those of you who are text happy, send a text message to Google (46643) with information like Pizza Hut 97007, this would find all Pizza Huts near my home zip code of 97007, instead of zip, you can do city and state. For more handy tips and tricks, such as movie times, flight info, etc. go to sms.google.com
- 411 for the non texters. Call 1-800-Goog-411. That's right, call google toll free and they will give you what you need to know. No more paying 1.25 for 411, google will give it to you for free!
- Google Reader: For those of us who enjoy reading the news and blogs, sign up for Google reader. This will put all of your favorite news and blog sites in to one easy to read, convienent website.
- Google Docs and Spreadsheets: This is like Word and Excel, but it works over the Internet and it works really well. If you have a GMail, you have access to this.
These are some of the cool tools I use from Google, and hopefully you find something good here too.
2 comments:
Hey and don't forget Blackle....the new energy efficient google page =)~
Actually, Blackle is not owned by Google, they are using the google search engine to power their black page. I admire their thoughts on the absence of color should save some energy. However, I am not sure I would use them because they are ripping off google a little. I also question if the energy saved by a black page is not re-acquired and then more used by passing the search term to Googles search engines and then all the way back. Those routers take a lot of energy. Also, you are using two front end systems (Blackle's and Google's) to power a search.
So, no black pixels, but this site is on the East coast, and those packets have to pass over electricity.
Hmmm..... An interesting thought.
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