If you think Google’s herds of engineers are just banking their options head on over to Google Labs and play around.
Here are a couple of favorites:
Google SMS. Short messages for your phone. Answers to questions like: local movie listings, movie times, the weather, stock quotes.
Google Transit. The future of transit information…. Now in Portland only.
Google Ride Finder. Need a cab in Palo Alto or Tucson or New York?
Personalized Search. A bit Big Brotherish but it’s a search based on your past search experience.
Google Page Creator lets anyone regardless of smarts build an instant website using a WYSIWYG html interface. This site was so busy at launch Google had to shut it down.
And while your at it check out Google Video where they just put up the National Archives videos.
March 1st, 2006 at 1:58 pm
With all the wild machinations of Google’s stock and everyone wondering if they have a real business, all this new stuff is a recognition that our entire days and lives are part of search. There’s hardly a minute you aren’t searching for an object, information, or doing something that you’d like to do quicker. That’s where they’re headed, it’s not about just searching web pages for a phrase, but to offer a simplification of almost everything you do.
March 6th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
4INFO (shortcode 44636) has a similar mobile search text message offering, but provides several additional services that Google does not: sports scores (”lakers” “duke”), fantasy stats (”kobe bryant” “jaromir jagr”), flight times (”swa san jose san diego”) and a beta version of mobile download search. All these services can be accessed via SMS (44636), WAP at http://wap.4INFO.net , or at http://www.4INFO.net.
Why 4INFO instead of Google?
“When asked recently for the address of a trendy downtown Manhattan club called Butter, both 4INFO and Yahoo! located it on the first try. But Google sent back results better suited to baking.”
- Wendy Widman, Forbes.com.
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:52 am
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