Top 7 Google Services that You may not have Known Before
By Dipankar Das, Gaea News NetworkFriday, February 26, 2010
The following is my pick for the Google services that you might not have known before, but, you can get lots of benefit by using them.
- News Timeline: Google Lab launched a product Google News Timeline last April. It gives you a snapshot of the major stories for each day, and you can drag the dates across as far you like. You can also search for new keyword or subject or scroll down further to see more stories. Additionally, you can switch the calendar to view stories by day, week, month, year, or decade.
- Google Moderator: This service is provided by Google that uses outsourcing to rank user-submitted questions, suggestions and ideas. The service takes the management of feedback from a group of people and they can vote for the top questions that they think should be posed and ask their own. The service makes sure that every question is considered, lets the audience see others’ questions, and helps the moderator of a team the questions that the audience most cares about.
- City Tours: The Google Lab project City Tours helps locate points of interest and plan multi-day trips to major-cities. You have to just enter the destination city, and City Tours automatically maps out a three-day plan with approximately 10 activity suggestions per day. The site also tells how long you can spend at each place and meaures the time for the walking distance between destinations. You can then add and remove sights manually, and change the date and length of your visit.
- Code Search: Google Code Search gives programmers a single place to search publicly accessible source code. In general, regular web search won’t open up executable and other programming files to index what’s inside of them. The new service has billions of lines of code indexed and that it supports regular expression searches. Google wants to help further develop a coding community, so offering a good code search engine helps with that.
- Product Search: Google Product Search is a price comparison service which was launched by Google. The interface is an HTML form field. The user can type product queries and gets back lists of vendors selling a particular product plus the pricing information. It neither charges any fees for listings, nor accepts payment for products to show up first.
- Similar Images: This software offers a new way to refine image searches. You can narrow down your results based on images that are very similar to what you’re looking for. It works just like Google Image Search. The exception is that a new Similar Images link that appears below each result.
- Audio Indexing: This is the product of Google Lab. It allows users to search what people are saying inside YouTube videos. You simply type a query in the search box and press the “Search videos” button. The results of your search will appear in the left column. Clicking the result will display the video on right column.
Filed under: Featured Article, Google, Web
Tags: Audio Index, Code Search, Google Lab, Moderator, News Timeline, product Search, Youtube
Tags: Audio Index, Code Search, Google Lab, Moderator, News Timeline, product Search, Youtube
Discussion
February 26, 2010: 2:40 am
Code search sounds really cool. I should have learned of this feature earlier, back when I was programming at school, although they may not have that service at that time yet. |
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