Happy Google Day

10 May 2006

It’s Google Day!

At the time of writing, only Google Trends is up and running (I would say that it’s surprising for Google to mess up with these kind of details, but to be honest they do it a lot). Google Trends does seem to be pretty cool though, quickly creating trend graphs on any topic, and easily comparing multiple trends.

It’s a good Google product, then, not a bad one.

Google Notebook sounds promising – I like the direction – but they are going to have there work cut out trying to beat Backpack which sounds like a direct competitor. Google Notebook is apparently launching next week, which again strikes me as a bit odd; they obviously couldn’t get it ready in time, but it sounds like a really simple app. I suppose we’ll find out next week…

Google Co-op I currently just simply don’t get – I’m waiting till I can use it before passing judgement, but the concept – allowing people to directly contribute to Google, and then allowing users to subscribe to different contributors – certainly sounds intriguing.

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10 May 2006