February 22, 2007

Google Competes With Microsoft’s Office Suite for Big Business

Google has just announced that it will offer an online-based office suite to large businesses. The suite, in direct competition with Microsoft Office (during the current Vista push) will offer email, calendar management, spreadsheets and word processing tools for a competitive $50 per year per user -- far below the current cost of maintaining the latest version of office.
February 9, 2007

Conspiracy Theory: Does Google Know Too Much About You?

You know, I love Google's offerings. I use alot of them. I have a gmail account. I use Google Docs, analytics, customized search pages. Google IS my home page.

I've always felt that the sign of a good education was not what you know as much as how good you are at being able to "ferret out" any information you need on any topic. I thought this before the invention of Google, and I think that Google has enabled the masses to be more "educated" by my own definition.

Google is how I work and play without having to store an inordinate amount of detailed information in my head -- I know how to find it... on Google. But there have been a few people (myself included) lately, that have become a bit concerned with the sheer mass of information Google now possesses about individuals.
November 10, 2006

Google and Yahoo! Dabble in Real Estate Listings

Most of you have probably heard of -- even played with -- the new Yahoo! Real Estate Search Tool, but I'd be willing to bet that very few of you have seen a "sneak peak" of the new Google Real Estate tool.

It's still in what I'd call "pre-alpha" -- although I have no idea what the Google developers are calling it -- and has been discovered via the back end by some people so geeky they make me look chic!

November 10, 2006

Review of Cool Google Tools: SketchUp

In my series on reviewing some of the coolest offerings of free online tools by the daddy search engine, Google... I just love SketchUp. It's a CAD-style drawing device available online for download. The price is right, the features are cool and it's like creating SIMS houses! If you want to check it out...