Google Space

Next time you’re at the airport, scan the waiting area and see what people are doing. You’ll be shocked by the number who are doing absolutely nothing -- other than staring glassy-eyed at other people who are doing absolutely nothing. Naturally, these people had rushed in a mad frenzy an hour prior in order to get to the airport on time, only to sit and stare.

This observation is what spawned Google Space.



Read the full article here at the Google Blog

Public transit via Google

Latest launch in Google’s offerings is Google Transit – With it, commuters will be able to easily access public transit schedules, routes, and plan trips using their local public transportation options. This first release covers only the Portland, Oregon metro area, but Google is working to expand the coverage very soon

Goolge chose to launch with the Portland metro area for a couple of reasons. Tri-Met, Portland's transit authority, is a technological leader in public transportation. The team at Tri-Met is a group of tremendously passionate people dedicated to serving their community. And Tri-Met has a wealth of data readily available that they were eager to share with Google for this project. This combination of great people and great data made Tri-Met the ideal partner.

Blogger for Word

This is really cool … I did this post by creating an offline document in MS Word, and then published it to this blog here using Blogger for Word – it is so convenient.

Acumen Visits Google

The Google Foundation supports select organizations whose work addresses the challenge of global poverty in ways that are effective, sustainable, and scalable. Here is the first of the series where Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO, Acumen Fund visits Google

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/acumen-visits-google.html

Google is the best !!! ... Take the test yourself

Blind Study Finds Google Really Does Offer Best Results

http://www.webmasterbrain.com/seo-news/seo-tools-news/blind-study-finds-google-really-does-offer-best-results/

A Search Engine Experiment reveals that Google returns the most relevant results


Take the blind test yourself

T-Shirt cover letter

This is very interesting - how a college grad bagged the much coveted job at Google becuase of her favourite T and the cover letter.

The best part of the story: "... Don't underestimate the power of your favorite T-shirt, and don't neglect your email while on vacation. Either one may hold the key to your future ..."

NEW Google Desktop Search

There is a new version (beta) of Google Desktop Search ... It creates a sidebar and integrates all Google products and much more .... This is how it looks