GOOGLE ADDS SATELLITE IMAGES TO MAPS

Google Maps has quietly been updated to include satellite images. It’s pretty extraordinary – click on the word “satellite” to switch from traditional maps to satellite photos for a particular place or for a display from one location to...

GOOGLE MAPS

Google just rolled out Google Maps (on the bruceb favorites page under Travel / Maps). It’s a huge step forward from current online favorites like MapQuest. FOLLOWUP: Wow, those are some gorgeous maps! You’ll be completely astonished when you click and...

PICASA PHOTO ORGANIZING SOFTWARE

Google seems genuinely committed to making the world a better place. (Example: A client just mentioned this news story from last week – Google’s AdWords division, responsible for the contextual ads that appear alongside search results, insists that...

GOOGLE DESKTOP

The Google Desktop is a free program that indexes and searches your Outlook folders and the documents on your computer. This will have more of an impact on your world than you suspect. From an icon down by the clock, you can instantly search every incoming and...

NEW SEARCH ENGINE – “CLUSTY”

Google is one of the world’s best-known brands; it also supplies the technology powering searches done from scores of other web sites. As you might imagine, lots of web sites want to be the next Google. This week’s buzz is about Clusty, which takes search...

GOOGLE ZEITGEIST

While I was looking at toolbars, I stumbled on Google Zeitgeist, an interesting place to look around for a few minutes. It’s on the Google Toolbar – click on the Google logo on the left, then click on Google Links / Zeitgeist.