Get Political with Google In-Quotes
An American鈥檚 most sacred right is the right to vote. While we have no intentions of proselytizing any political opinion, we would like to bring your attention to Google lab鈥檚 nifty service dubbed In Quotes, which displays a side-by-side comparison of your favorite mainstream politicians and their note worthy quotations on heavy political issues. Type in a search topic or choose a pre-determined political issue, select two politicians, and then choose a year; the generator offers speeches and opinions from Mitt Romney to Bob Barr, beginning from 2003 to present. There鈥檚 also a U.K., India, and Canada edition for International transplants.
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Quotes are generated automatically depending on what topic you choose, though there are only a limited number of politicians to choose from. In Quotes proves to be a great tool for students preparing papers or debates, or as a resource for future elections. We hope to see that the selection of quotes will grow to include other key political players, as well as those in state and city governments.
Brainstorm Communally with Google Moderator
If you鈥檙e ever in need of an objective opinion on what kind of case mod you should attempt next, or you need a bit of advice on how to do something completely out of your sphere of knowledge, Google Moderator offers an open forum for users to pose questions, offer suggestions, and concoct ideas, as well as receive feedback from other anonymous Google users, disguised only by an optional alias. You can scour topics and vote on other people鈥檚 opinions, or contribute your own.
Each question has its own list of topics and there are even featured series that offer a lot more, like Take a Tip, Share a Tip, which is an open forum for suggestions on how to be frugal in all areas of your life, from finances to gardening. Google Moderator is a great alternative for the Internet user who needs to ask a question or wants to waste a little time, without having to deal with silly web Trolls or extensively involved social networking profiles.
Explore Sunny Sweden with Google City Tours
Traveling is already a pretty pricey endeavor, so why not save some money on travel books and outdated maps and invest some time in printing out your own walking tours with Google Lab鈥檚 City Tours. This great new service from Google generates a list of the most important monuments and must-see historical sites in a variety of cities and countries. All you need to do is type in a start address for your tour and indicate how many days you鈥檒l be staying. Then, City Tours will generate various points of interest within the limits of the city that you specified and offer a personal itinerary. Type in Lund, Sweden and Google will suggest you visit Kulturen Lund, stay for an hour, and then walk about 8 minutes to your next sight-seeing point. Additionally, City Tours also lists the hours of operation for the location you鈥檙e visiting, so you won鈥檛 have to risk showing up right as doors close to visitors.
We should note that there are still a few bugs with City Tours, the most prevalent being that walking tours aren鈥檛 supposed to take 53 minutes, or have you walking across freeways and sky scraping buildings. In some instances, you may consider taking public transportation or paying for a taxi ride, or getting creative and using City Tours to map out an incredible road trip and see everything your destination has to offer.
We have to keep in mind that most Google Labs applications are a work in progress. Regardless, this is one feature we plan on using for all of our future traveling destinations.
Get Organized with Google Sets
Automatically generating a set from just a few examples may not seem like the most useful of applications, but Google Sets somehow makes it an integral and functional part of the Internet. A great way to use this application is to type in associating subjects and then generating a small set. This Is especially helpful for writers who frequently confront writers block.
Share Spreadsheets with Google Fusion Tables
The issue with placing large sets of data in an Excel or Open Office spreadsheet is that not everyone you wish to share your data with will possess the hardware or software capabilities required to view your tabular data. Thankfully, Google Labs has provided us with Fusion Tables. This is an extension of Google鈥檚 already popular Google Docs, which has allowed us to share important documents without the middle-man of memory-hogging office software.
Now, if you need to share an expense report across the board, upload the document from your desktop and it鈥檚 ready for review. The added bonus of Fusion Tables is that if you鈥檙e working on a project with several other people, they can add comments for each row as you update your data. Even though Fusion Tables is still in the Pre-Alpha stage, it works with both Microsoft Excel and Open Office Calc, and you can share your tabular data with other users.
Search Smarter with Google Squared
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Google Squared organizes information into tabular form based on your search query. The upside to using this particular service is that it 鈥渟quares in鈥 and narrows down your search, especially if you鈥檙e looking for something a bit more specific. If you鈥檙e looking for, say, comic conventions, but doing a regular search in Google brings up very broad results, using Google Squared will actually return a list of popular conventions that have been on the radar. This could make it easier to retrieve specific data for hasty decision making. And even if your square isn鈥檛 perfect at the beginning, Google Squared can be tinkered with to ensure that you get a better answer.
Sift Through Video with Google Audio Indexing
Sifting through streaming video is as agonizing as rewinding and fast forwarding through VHS on a VCR. Whether it鈥檚 fast forward or rewind, you never know where you鈥檙e going to end up. That鈥檚 where Google Audio Indexing becomes a key player. It鈥檚 great when you need to sift through a variety of political videos seeking specific quotes or looking to catch up on recent news.
Audio Indexing works so that you type a popular subject into a search query and it returns a list of the most watched videos on the Internet, accompanied with bookmarks of each time your search word is mentioned. You can also post a video to a few of your social networking profiles should the video catch the interest of your followers. Either way, it seems that when it comes to dissecting politics, Google has managed to do it in a way that is both unbiased and informative.
Master Web Design with Google Code Search
For the web coder or computer programmer that has frequent bouts of amnesia, or is simply in need of a hint, Google Lab鈥檚 Code Search is a life saver. If you鈥檙e writing CSS and need a few examples of the <div> element, simply type it in and Code Search will bring up lines of code from various resources. This is a great way to figure out how to use a specific element in your code or check to see that the element has been correctly configured.
Find Look-a-Likes with Google Similar Images
Google Lab鈥檚 Similar Images is basically a harder-working version of Google鈥檚 already impeccably accurate Image search. If you鈥檙e looking for a specific image, say you want a picture of one particular shot of Golden Gate Bridge, Google鈥檚 Similar Images will search through the Internet for a picture that looks almost exactly like the one you鈥檝e chosen.
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