Ahad, Jun 01, 2008

Google Friends Newsletter - May 2008

POWER TIP

See related topics when searching on Google News

When you search with Google News, you'll now see a list of related searches at the bottom of the results page. For example, a search for [global warming] will show more news results for topics such as carbon dioxide, Al Gore, carbon emissions, greenhouse gas and the Kyoto protocol.
http://news.google.com

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NEW PRODUCTS & UPDATES

Walk for Good with Google and Cleveland Clinic

Be good to yourself and add the Cleveland Clinic walking program to your iGoogle page. Use the Walk for Good gadget to track your progress and stay motivated. If you complete at least half of the 15-week program by October 25th, you can help choose a health charity to receive a donation from Google.
http://www.google.com/goforgood

Updates to Google Maps

Now, whenever you search for a location on Google Maps, you'll get a better understanding of locales around the world, because you can see Paranoramio photos, view YouTube videos, find user-created maps, and peruse popular queries specific to that location. All of these options appear when you click the "Explore this area" link in the left-hand side panel. Also, this month, we introduced rooftop geo-coding for 50 million homes and businesses in the U.S., which significantly improves mapping accuracy. You'll see that address searches in Google Maps will now often return results with pinpoint accuracy.
http://maps.google.com

Google Sites now open to everyone

We've made it easy for anyone to set up a website and share all types of information — team projects, company intranets, community groups, classrooms, clubs, family updates, you name it — in one place, for a few people, a group or the world. You can securely host your own website and add as many pages as you like — all for free.
http://sites.google.com

View Google Docs presentations offline

The presentations aspect of Google Docs received a number of exciting feature upgrades. You can embed YouTube videos, select multiple objects, create speaker notes and view presentations offline using Gears, among others.
http://docs.google.com

Google Health now available for public use

Wouldn't it be great if you could get access to and manage all of your personal health information online? This would help you keep your doctors and family members up-to-date on important medical conditions and current medications. Well, after a successful pilot with the Cleveland Clinic, we've opened up Google Health to everyone in the U.S. It's easy to sign up, and free to use. All you need is a Google username and password. You can import your medical records and prescription history from our partners — well-known brands such as Walgreens, Longs Drugs and Quest Diagnostics.
http://www.google.com/health

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MISCELLANY

There's no question that "user-generated content" — most often meaning words, photos, videos that you produce and upload — is a big part of the Web 2.0 phenomenon. From homemade videos to blogs on everything from gaming to traveling, the web is becoming a place for expressing yourself, sharing and collaborating on what you create. It's heartening to see people coming together in creative ways to rally around important issues. In the last month alone, the world has witnessed a 7.9-magnitude earthquake in China, a devastating cyclone in Myanmar (Burma), and a voracious wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. People and groups have created everything from My Maps and KML layers to live video, photos and satellite images in an effort to share up-to-date information and keep people on the ground informed. Of course, we can all enjoy a good video about hand- holding sea otters from time to time, but it's inspiring to see the power of the web harnessed during more difficult real-world situations too.
http://maps.google.com
http://earth.google.com


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