New Google applications
Google presented Desktop version 4, Google Notebook, Google Trends and Google Co-op.
The new version of Google Desktop lets people use mini-interactive applications from within the product's Sidebar without having to download software or open up a browser.
Notebook is designed to let people click a "note this" link in the last line of a particular search result and save the result information to a virtual notebook in a pop-up window.
People can also grab text and pictures from Web sites and paste them into Google Notebook, as well as make the notebook full-screen size, drag and drop items to reorganize them, and e-mail the notebook to others. The program requires a plug-in and a Google account.
Google Trends, available immediately on Google Labs, graphs the number of global searches on whatever term a Google user types into the search engine.
Google Co-op, which will be available next week. The search service lets experts tag Web sites that Google will then include on the main search page.
For example, experts can send a particular Web page from the Centers for Disease Control to Google and ask that it be labeled with the "malaria" tag. Users searching for "malaria" will then be given the option to refine their search by "causes and treatments" and "symptoms," and the sites that have been relevantly tagged will be displayed.
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