Sunday, July 15, 2007

Google Patent Search

Google Patent Search
With the new beta release of Google Patent Search, you can discover the fascinating ideas behind products you use every day -- from adhesive tape and contact lenses -- to obscure inventions you may have never heard of before. You can search the full text of over 7 million U.S. patents, and as with Google Book Search, scroll through pages or zoom in on text and illustrations. http://www.google.com/patents

Holiday offerings through Picasa
We've updated Picasa Web Albums, Google's photo sharing site, to make this season of photo sharing even more merry and bright. Now you can upload videos to the web and share them with family and friends just as you do with photos. You can also search through all the photos and videos you've uploaded, and tag your photos for easier browsing and searching. And two of our partners, Shutterfly and PhotoWorks, have special offers when you order through Picasa Web Albums. -- Take 20% off all PhotoWorks products when you use code: C850-38-5124-11 during checkout; valid until 1/17/07. -- New Shutterfly users get 15 free, film-quality prints. Click "Learn More" for details after you select Shutterfly. http://picasaweb.google.com/

The new Blogger
Blogger is more powerful than ever, and still easy to use. Customize the page elements of your blog's design; create a private blog and control who sees it; add a feed for all your comments; manage multiple blogs from the re-designed dashboard; label posts to group related entries -- all without any HTML or CSS knowledge. http://www.blogger.com/

Google Toolbar for Firefox
When we released the latest Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer, Firefox users wanted to know when they'd see new Toolbar features in their favorite browser too. Now there's a new Toolbar beta for Firefox that lets you access your bookmarks from any computer, add custom buttons to your Toolbar, and share web pages via Gmail, Blogger and SMS. There's even a nifty feature only available in the Toolbar for Firefox: you can open document and spreadsheet files right in the browser using Google Docs & Spreadsheets. http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/FT3/intl/en/


New features on Google Finance
There are quite a few improvements to Google Finance: a newly designed homepage, currency information, sector performance for the U.S. market, and a listing of top market movers along with the relevant and important news of the day. See which companies are the day's Top Movers in the market by price, market cap, volume, and popularity as determined by our own Google Trends. Track U.S. stocks on more comprehensive charts, which now display up to 40 years of data. And Google Finance has richer capabilities for importing your other online portfolios, using different views, and adding transactions. You can also add and view your Google Finance portfolios on the Google Personalized Homepage. http://finance.google.com/

Domain registration with Google Apps for Your Domain
When we launched Google Apps for Your Domain in August, we made it a lot easier for companies to offer private-labeled email, instant messaging and calendar accounts to their users for free. Now we've partnered with GoDaddy.com and eNom, two leading domain registration services, to offer companies and individuals without their own website domain a way to register one for as little as $10 a year, including private registration. You find a domain name that you like, register it, and automatically configure everything so it works with Google Apps for Your Domain right away. http://www.google.com/a

Google Earth's Geographic Web layer
If you've pondered what it's like to walk in someone else's shoes, now you can. The Google Earth Geographic Web layer uses the rich data of Wikipedia, Panoramio and the Google Earth Community to bring you the writings, photos and postings of travelers who have circled the globe. Just launch Google Earth and click on the new icons -- the Wikipedia globe, the Panoramio star, or the information "i" from the Google Earth Community. http://earth.google.com/

Multi-point driving directions on Maps
With the latest addition to Google Maps, you can plan your road trip from one stop to the next, all in one sweep. When you go to Google Maps, get directions between any two places as you normally do and then just click on the "Add destination" link below to add more stops. You can add as many destinations as you'd like, and to re-order your trip, just drag and drop the destinations in the left panel. http://maps.google.com/

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