- Google Personalized Homepage adds minimization and tabs
- Google Earth: imagery update, featured content
- Google Video shows page views and captions
- Google Notebook adds collaboration
- Google Calendar includes web events (weather, moon phases)
- orkut adds friends map
- Writely migrates to Google Accounts
- Froogle + Checkout integration
- create up to 5 sites in Google Pages
- 50 profiles in Google Analytics
- Picasa 2.5 out of beta, Picasa Web in public beta
- Google Reader updates the layout
- Google Talk opens to the world (it needs only a Google Account)
The most difficult problem for Google was Belgian's court order that forced Google to remove some newspapers from Google News and Google.be. The biggest event for Google was their eighth birthday, that showed how much the company has evolved.
In the next months, we'll see more improvements in integrating shopping features into the main search, more updates for Google Talk, Google Webmasters Central and Google Video, and some surprising products emerging into light.
Some stats for this month of Google Operating System:
most popular posts
1. Google recommendations
2. 10 great uses for Google Desktop
3. Gmail keyboard shortcuts (printable)
4. Play Google videos in Windows Media Player
5. More than one Gmail
most unpopular posts
1. Google mobile search adds Onebox results
2. Related searches
3. Google inaccessible to Comcast users
4. Marketing tools for Intuit
5. Google, only a content mediator
most comments
1. Homepage tabs [40]
2. Google turns over data about orkut users [19]
3. On bookmarks [17]
4. 10 great uses for Google Desktop [17]
5. Google Reader update [13]
Image Labeler [13]
How much data does Google store? [13]
most popular image
Some subjective rankings:
most interesting
1. everyday
2. Capturing and organizing personal information
3. On bookmarks
4. Google, a mix between a startup and a grad school
5. 8 years of Google
most useful
1. Handy calculator in Firefox 2.0
2. 10 great uses for Google Desktop
3. Play Google videos in Windows Media Player
4. The best way to read books in Google Book Search
5. Send free SMS in the US
You forgot Google Video: Localisation in Australia!
ReplyDeleteHow about, too, the publicity that was generated by that find (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/484568/) in the new set of high-res photos of the military base in China where the army built a 1:500 scale model of all of Aksai Chin? That's the region occupied by China since the 1962 Sino-Indian War. The replica is 1000 by 800 feet big and shows the whole region in amazing detail. Still, nobody has been able to determine why the Chinese would built such a thing. It and Google Earth got lots of coverage in mainstream media, and for the first time India probably approved of GE.
ReplyDeleteGoogle Moon is pretty neat - if you zoom all the way in you can see the moon is really made of cheese. I never realized it was a yellow swiss tho :)
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