Archived Weblog Entry - 12/22/2002: "New Google Goodies, One Word & Season's Greetings"

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12/22/2002 Archived Entry: "New Google Goodies, One Word & Season's Greetings"

December has been especially busy for me workwise, and for that reason I haven't posted here as often as I had hoped this month. With this, my final post for 2002, I am happy to report on some news from the amazing search-engine folks at Google. They have recently released a few new fun and interesting search applications:

Googlism--lets you "...find out what Google.com thinks of you, your friends or anything!"

Google Viewer--helps you "[b]rowse search results effortlessly."

Year-End Google Zeitgeist--reveals "[s]earch patterns, trends, and surprises."

Google WebQuotes--lets you "[v]iew search results with quotes about them from other sites."

Froogle--"makes it easy to find information about products for sale online." (Punsters will agree, it's a brilliant name!)

One other great site I've come across recently is One Word. It's an online writing exercise where visitors are invited to write a 60-second essay about the "word of the day". The authors note that "the real purpose of this exercise is to alleviate our natural tendency to edit everything." This is a simple, but very effective demonstration of CALL in action!

Finally, I want to wish everyone a happy and healthy holiday season and a peaceful and prosperous New Year.

Replies: 1 Comment

Just to say I found your paqes most interesting and illuminating
from both a teaching and technical perspective.
Aberdeen
Scotland

Posted by Jim Cowan @ 01/19/2003 02:13 AM PST

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