Showing posts with label google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label google. Show all posts

April 28, 2009

Track Swine Flu Using Google Maps

Since yesterday's total of outbreaks was only at two and now that total is growing everyday, keeping up with where it's moving to is pretty important. Hundreds of victims have died, mostly in Mexico, but since it is spreading fast it is very important to protect yourself and to monitor your own health. Use the link here to track the outbreaks on Google Maps.


Map Key:
• Pink markers are suspect
• Purple markers are confirmed
• Deaths lack a dot in marker
• Yellow markers are negative

April 1, 2009

Gmail's April Fools - Autopilot

Expecting a new Google Labs feature for Gmail turned out to be a quick laugh. Gmail's autopilot is below:





What happens if a sender and recipient both have Autopilot on?

Two Gmail accounts can happily converse with each other for up to three messages each. Beyond that, our experiments have shown a significant decline in the quality ranking of Autopilot's responses and further messages may commit you to dinner parties or baby namings in which you have no interest.

October 1, 2008

Google Time Machine?

In celebration of their 10 year anniversary as a search engine, google is going retro! They've launched a period accurate recreation of 2001 in the form of a search engine. Featuring the ability to "Search 1,326,920,000 web pages!" retro-google will take you back to the days when Ipod meant "The Image Proof of Deposit Document Processing System." Can an actual Google time machine be far behind? We will have thought not.

September 23, 2008

Google's Android Operating System

Finally, something to give Apple iPhone's OS some competition and functionality...Google can of course handle this with its wide variety of powerful applications that love to sync on multiple devices. Maybe in the future they will bring it to AT&T for the rest of us.