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Gmail is moving, fingers are fitter, YouTube goes centennial
April 1, 2011
With the help of
Gmail Motion
, we’ve been working faster than ever this week to build new products and celebrate a few existing ones. Here’s a roundup of our most recent efforts:
Chromercise
helps you increase your hands’ strength and dexterity while browsing the web
YouTube celebrates its 100th anniversary
with a flashback to its original homepage and a blog post by President Taft
Body Browser
lets you explore new anatomical terrain
Look who’s going Google
!
Google Maps
now features strange sightings around the world
Docs Motion
follows Gmail Motion into new gestural terrain
Meow Me Now helps you find
kittens near you
We announce an
exciting acquisition
Seriously great typists may apply to be
autocompleters
gBlimps
: the inevitable new ad platform
New sessions added to Google I/O
Fans of Mail Goggles should like the
Voice-alyzer function in Google Voice
New display advertising
formats take marketers back to the good old days
It was only a matter of time before Voice Search became available in
this language
ChromeLite
is an even faster version of our browser you know and love
After extensive user testing, we’ll soon be making Comic Sans the
default font
for all Google properties—get a preview on the
search results page
Travel through time and space to discover things from “then and now” with
Google Teleport Search
(in Chinese only)
Tired of life on Earth?
Learn more about a Moon loan
Use
Earkut
to receive notifications when someone visits your Orkut profile
A new
look
for our webmaster team members
It’s been a busy—and frankly, odd—day at Google, but with our finger sweatbands in place and our savvy email-writing moves, we’ll work faster than ever on new and exciting projects.
Update
4:06PM
: Updated with additional announcements. -
Ed.
Posted by Michael Krantz, Project Manager, Google Creative Lab
Project Teaspoon
April 1, 2007
Posted by Michael Krantz and Marissa Mayer, TiSP Product Team
That's what we call it here at Google, anyway. What you'll call it is a godsend: free wireless broadband throughout your home, a host of optional breakthrough applications -- all with just one quick, easy self-install.
Learn more about Google TiSP (beta) today
.
Cupid's algorithms
April 1, 2006
Posted by Michael Krantz, Product Manager, Google Romance
Ever been on a date and wondered "What on Earth am I
doing
with this person?" Or perhaps you wished there was a way that you could instantly find your perfect match, and then go on a date during which everything just went right?
Wish no more:
Google Romance
, a beta product currently incubating in Google Labs, uses cutting-edge personal search algorithms to help you find your soulmate, then sponsors your first Contextual Date with said soulmate-to-be in exchange for showing you highly relevant advertising that just might help Cupid's arrow find its mark. Does it really work? Ask our internal beta testers -- if you can find them, that is. Not a single one has shown up for work in days.
So why not give
it
a try yourself? You've got true love to gain, and only your faith in psychographic and contextual advertising software to lose.
Drink up
April 1, 2005
Posted by the Google Gulp team
Granted, for an online search company a beverage line constitutes a bit of a departure. But at Google we try never to lose our focus on the user, and this year we got to thinking that the one thing missing from the perfect web-surfing experience was a cool, refreshing
smart drink
.
Cheers!
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