GOOGLE E-MAIL

Google has begun testing a free webmail service named GMail. Here’s a press release from Google about the new service. Google intends to offer each user essentially unlimited storage of e-mail – 1 gigabyte per user, miles ahead of the paltry 2Mb or 4Mb...

MICROSOFT VS. GOOGLE

Microsoft has begun testing a news service to aggregate headlines from a variety of publications. The new service, MSN Newsbot, is currently targeted at the UK and three European countries during beta testing. The new service competes with Google News. It’s the...

GOOGLE TRICKS

You know how valuable Google is for web searches, but take a look at this page for other equally valuable Google services – among others, a price comparison service, an index of online shopping catalogs, indices of Usenet discussion forums, and a Yahoo-style Web...

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

Bored? Go to the Google home page, type in “weapons of mass destruction” and click on “I’m Feeling Lucky.” (The page you’ll see has risen to be the number one search result on Google for that phrase, which is why it comes up when you click on “I’m Feeling Lucky.” If...

GOOGLE TOOLBAR 2.0

The Google toolbar is one of the only utilities I allow on my computers. It’s so handy that I’m willing to let it take up a bit of valuable screen real estate. Google will be announcing a new version of the toolbar, with one extraordinary feature: a built-in free...