Thursday, April 26, 2007

Google Labs

Amazing how many things there are to discover...way more than 27 I'd venture to guess! Anyway, Google Labs was one of them for me.

My favorite, in terms of potential usefulness to my library work, was Goggle Suggest. I like the way it came up with potential search terms as I typed more letters into my search...and I was surprised at the usefulness of some of the suggested terms. I can see using this Lab in my on-desk searching. Google Suggest was much better than Google Sets, which I think was kind of off-base and uninspired when it comes to linked areas/terms.

I also looked at Google Trends and Google Mars...fun but not really exciting or useful. And Google Transit, which I liked..glad to see Seattle was listed as an accessible city...would be great to have more cities added...a good traveling tool.

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