Search Engine

Once I saw , I like it. It is a great idea to combine specific events with search keywords popularity. Though, Google Zeitgeist is limited to events chosen by Google according to its popularity accumulated through the past year. According to the popular of Zeitgeist, Google launched  to publish hourly zeitgeist on a TV channel, , and monthly zeitgeist. In addition, this idea has also been applied to .

Google Calendar seems to be the best web-based calendar right now. Though, it doesn’t support WebDAV and CalDAV but it does provide  in  (aka GData client APIs). In fact, Google Calendar data APIs has just  about 20 days ago. As of today, there are at least 2 desktop programs which recognize Google Calendar and display your events directly on your desktop.

is being used to develop sidebar plug-ins. Here come the first one: . By the way, Goocal is just a one way today’s event. Hopefully the author will continuously improve this cool plug-in to display monthly calendar and event synchronization.

One week later since  was officially released, today Google has just  . By using this APIs, we are able to query, create and update events in Google Calendar programmically. I’m talking about potential shared calendar softwares being in progress to release in a few days. There might be Google Calendar for Google Sidebar, Firefox extension, Thunderbird extension, CMS extension, and many more.

I found an interesting blog posted by Nick Lewis. He accidentally found . What does it mean? As far as I know, the background of Google’s logo in this link are taken from the default background of Windows XP. Could it be just a trap?

Google Bookmarks is not the latest service from Google. It is just a small service offering web-based bookmark for Google account. It doesn’t support sharing like social bookmark. Anyway, you can specify labels for each entry so you can search from your bookmarks. Generally, you don’t need to go to Google Bookmarks to browse or search for an entry. What you need is just to access the bookmark via browser or other program running on your desktop. On IE, the latest Google Toolbar supports this feature. Unfortunately, Firefox don’t support at all.