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Google

This is Your Google Gateway

Better understand the many and varied Google Tools and Services available

docs.google.com  will take care of most of your Word processing and Spreadsheet needs without having Microsoft Office installed, and will in addition facilitate better online sharing of related project documents online.  Must use this to see its power. HOT

The latest Google intelligence blogs.zdnet.com/Google

Download the Google Desktop Beta (personalized info. in a sidebar; Quick Find, search Gmail; Search Outlook... more)

Google Local at http://local.google.com  helps users locate businesses in a specific geographic location. Google Local offers comprehensive local information including business listings, reviews and related Web pages.

Google Maps -- at http://maps.google.com
is a browser-based online mapping service that enables users to find location information, navigate through maps, and get directions quickly and easily. The service features results from Google Local to offer users access to traditional business listings combined with relevant information from Google's 8 billion page web index

Google Maps and Google Local are now integrated and are the same site...

Google Offers Index of Public Domain Works  http://www.print.google.com/ (launched 11-3-05)
Search the full text of books (and discover new ones) --  
print.google.com has exploded into the top ranks of U.S. Internet sites, rising to the 30th most visited site.  Google, "organizing the world's information and making it more universally accessible and useful."

Google Base says "Google Base is a place where you can add all types of information that we'll host and make searchable online." http://www.google.com/base/ (my sample page)

Google Offers Index of Public Domain Works  http://www.print.google.com/

Google Calendar google.com/calendar

Google Video Top 100  View the 100 most popular videos on Google Video -- video.google.com/videoranking including Loose Change 2nd Edition 9/11 Conspiracy Video

2-23-06 -- Google Page Creator may blow away much of the competition for simple web hosting and web design -- http://pages.google.com/ or http://www.googlepages.com -- my trivial sample page is at http://mikebaird.googlepages.com

Google Video  http://video.google.com/ 
Check out yadio.com -- an Entertainment and Online Community for for TV, Radio, Music, Podcasts, etc.

Google recommends "If you're interested in learning more about computer applications that embed themselves into your computer without your knowledge (often called "adware" or "spyware"), ... [read] ... http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/"

A new Google Finance finance.google.com Beta challenges finance.yahoo.com as the standard page people go to check out the stock market and their investments

Download the essentials to make your PC just work  Google Pack -- A free collection of essential software, including Norton AntiVirus 2005 free for 6 months http://pack.google.com/

 

Not Google, but related:
Who needs Microsoft Office to create or share the occasional letter or spreadsheet? Use http://writely.com/  and http://numsum.com/ for free.  This is a glimpse of the future -- there is not much reason to have expensive applications running on many PCs when these things can now be done online for free.  Here is my sample publicly viewable numsum.com "social" spreadsheet that you can view online.  Here is my sample publicly viewable writely.com document that you can view online.  Writely.com documents that you create online can also be saved as Word ".doc" files on your hard drive.  These utilities allow you to easily share and collaborate with others in the creation of such documents.   ajaxWrite.com is the newest player in this space... "the look, feel, and functionality of Microsoft Word, in a completely web-based... platform" --
docs.google.com  will take care of most of your Word processing and Spreadsheet needs without having Microsoft Office installed, and will in addition facilitate better online sharing of related project documents online.  Must use this to see its power.
HOT

answers.com is Google-based... a free, ad-supported, reference search service, created to provide you with instant answers on over a million topics. As opposed to standard search engines that serve up a list of links for you to follow, Answers.com displays quick, snapshot answers with concise, reliable information. Our editors take our content from over 100 authoritative encyclopedias, dictionaries, glossaries and atlases

GoogleCurrent.com http://www.current.tv/google Google's Top Searches

 

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