At its second annual press conference today, Google announced 4 amazing new features to help and improve the Google search experience.
Google Co-op
Lets people and organizations label web pages and create specialized links related to their unique expertise. Whether it's information about a hobby, a profession, or an unusual interest, everyone can contribute to making Google search more relevant and useful for the entire community.
Google Desktop 4
Google Dekstop gives you another way to improve search, by personalizing your desktop. New "Google Gadgets" deliver an array of information--ranging from games and media players to weather updates and news--straight to your desktop.
Google Notebook (launching next week)
Is a personal browser tool that lets you clip text, images, and links from the pages you're searching, save clippings to an online notebook, and then share notebooks with others.
Google Trends
Google Trends builds on the idea behind the Google Zeitgeist, allowing you to sort through several years of Google search queries from around the world to get a general idea of everything from user preferences on ice-cream flavors to the relative popularity of politicians in their respective cities or countries.
View: Google Press Day Webcast Video
News source: Google Blog
Google Co-op
Lets people and organizations label web pages and create specialized links related to their unique expertise. Whether it's information about a hobby, a profession, or an unusual interest, everyone can contribute to making Google search more relevant and useful for the entire community.
Google Desktop 4
Google Dekstop gives you another way to improve search, by personalizing your desktop. New "Google Gadgets" deliver an array of information--ranging from games and media players to weather updates and news--straight to your desktop.
Google Notebook (launching next week)
Is a personal browser tool that lets you clip text, images, and links from the pages you're searching, save clippings to an online notebook, and then share notebooks with others.
Google Trends
Google Trends builds on the idea behind the Google Zeitgeist, allowing you to sort through several years of Google search queries from around the world to get a general idea of everything from user preferences on ice-cream flavors to the relative popularity of politicians in their respective cities or countries.
View: Google Press Day Webcast Video News source: Google Blog
I love google and there searching, i wish they would stick to that or come out with one large project at a time instead of a sleu of smaller ones
I killed the installer program, because I don't like it when I can't control what's happening. But it was already too late: several processes started, GoogleDesktopIndex.exe, GoogleDesktopSearch.exe, etc. When I closed a process it was restarted, I hate it when it does that.
There is no uninstall.exe, just a warning message that you have to remove it via Software, or run the installer with parameter -uninstall. Now I wasn't so lucky: I must shutdown the same programs mentioned earlier, or the deinstallation wouldn't continue. It just kills the processes in stead of closing them in a friendly way.
After the deinstallation, it opened a page where I could give comments "why did you uninstall?" I entered a rant just like here, only a bit worse. And in Dutch (as the page was in Dutch too)
My overall opinion: Google Desktop sucks. I've banned GoogleSyndication.com using the hosts-file, the internet looks a lot more friendly now
I've been using Windows Live Search a lot lately, I won't even use Google anymore. I just hate it when companies make programs like this, if they remove the 'Download'-button and would use some IE vulnerabilities, it would be spyware. Genuine Spyware. Time for anti-spyware-programs to add Google Desktop to their signature-files.
It completely sucks IMHO and is nothing more than a rip-off of the original Windows Sidebar in the Longhorn builds
Google Desktop is just another good example of why Google should stay out of the client-software business.
If the latter, I'd be curious as to why you'd say that.
No more memory-hog (really, you dont even remember that the app is running), very beautiful gadgets, very useful too, even with a lot running (including mp3 player, battery indicator, google calendar integration, weather, orkut birthday, file shredder and a useless plant) its almost ram-invisible (all google desktop process sums something like 18 mbs of ram here, with 100% of my 100gb hard drive indexed)... rate: 1000!
sorry for my typos (or my full english), i'm not a north american
oh... and by the way, i dont love google... lol... but now i'm back with google desktop and very happy
Nice tool for the fanboys outhere .... :lol:
Interesting
http://www.google.com/trends?q=slashdot%2C...ate=all&geo=all
This will be a kinda fun tool. Not terribly useful in real life, but 10 times better than zeitgeist.
I think this is a little more accurate and includes Opera and Netscape just to be fair http://www.google.com/trends?q=firefox+bro...ate=all&geo=all
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