| • Power Tips • Recent Google Launches • Miscellany Greetings, gentle readers, and welcome to this edition of Google Friends, a newsletter of Google's cornucopia of services you might enjoy using. Newsletter details, including subscribe/unsubscribe information, are below. Power Tips * When you want to see the value of one currency in relation to another, simply enter the conversion you'd like done into the Google search box. You can even type a phrase like [Brazilian currency in Malaysian money] or [2 dollars per gallon in euros per litre] to get the right answer. http://www.google.com/help/features.html#currency * To search for something with a range of numbers, use two periods (no spaces) to have your search include multiple numbers that form a "numrange" (numeric range). For example, to search for inventions in the 19th century, use [inventions 1800..1900]. http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html#numrange Recent Google Launches Google Earth Part search tool, part flight simulator: Google Earth gives you a deep dive into terrain, properties, roads, and other real-world features across the globe. Try zooming along a route you select to see the sights from the air. And it's completely free. In the short time it's been live, Google Earth has proved so popular that we've had to turn off downloads intermittently; if that happens to you, please check back again shortly. For Windows only. http://earth.google.com Personalized Search This new improvement to Google search, available on Google Labs, orders your search results based on your search history. And the Search History feature lets you view and manage that history of searches and search results you've clicked on. As you build up your search history, your personalized search results will continue to improve. Note that you must be logged in to your Google Account to use it. http://labs.google.com http://www.google.com/psearch Google Video Viewer We introduced Google Video a few months ago as a way to find TV programming content. Then we added an Uploader so that people could add their own videos. Now, logically enough, we've added a way to play back those submitted videos. The Viewer only works for what you find on our site - but it doesn't conflict with your other video playback software. http://video.google.com/video_download.html Blogger Images For those who use Blogger, now it's easier than before to share the highlights of that Fourth of July parade or your summer vacation. You can upload images from your computer, and even pick the size you prefer - and voila, they appear instantly in your posts. http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=324 Mobile Web Search These days, more websites are optimized to display information better on small phone and PDA screens, and we've developed Mobile Web Search for that reason. Just type http://www.google.com in the URL field on your phone screen (if you get an error message, type www.google.com/xhtml). Then enter your search query, select "Mobile Web," and scroll up to the "Google Search" button. Press "enter" to see 10 results on the page. Try checking "weather" this way if you're heading out on a picnic. http://mobile.google.com/mobile_search.html Miscellany What's a "wiki"? This Hawaiian word can mean both "quick" and "informal" - and both apply to an easy and collaborative way of sharing information across the Web. The nonprofit Wikipedia is a large collection of articles on many topics, contributed by lots of people and edited by even more. They all include helpful links to source material for each topic, too. You might enjoy browsing or digging in yourself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki The Google Blog features insights from Googlers on technology, our products, and the company at large. http://googleblog.blogspot.com If you enjoyed reading this newsletter, share it with a friend. Google Friends on Google Groups (including subscribe/unsubscribe): http://groups-beta.google.com/group/google-friends Google Friends archive: http://www.google.com/googlefriends/archive.html To unsubscribe from the Google Friends Newsletter, send an empty message to: google-friends-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 |
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