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Posted 02/25/2010 at 3:04pm | by Florence Ion Whether you're sending an email in Gmail, finding directions to that fancy restaurant using Google Maps, or pretending to be a part of the latest microblogging craze with Google Buzz, the G-word is everywhere. Well, it turns out that there is also a whole library of Google web applications and services stacked up behind the everyday services you may have come to take for granted.
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Google Apps Education Edition is a broad IT solution that schools can use to bring communication and collaboration tools to the entire academic community for free.
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Google Buzz Adds Button for Publishers (Including GigaOM)
Google launched a new feature for Google Buzz today that makes it easier for web site publishers — including GigaOM — to add a button to their content so that users can directly share it on the Gmail-based social network.
10 Simple Google Search Tricks
I’m always amazed that more people don’t know the little tricks you can use to get more out of a simple Google search.
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Insights for Search
[link here for YouTube ] On September 23, Google announced Sidewiki , a feature on the sidebar of Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers that will allow you to contribute content to any page of the Web. Which means that companies can now stop having meetings about whether to open the comments to their blogs or not - and whether to legislate them.
Conversation Agent: Google on a Roll: Sidewiki
Google Apps for Education: ePortfolio and Formative Assessment Workflow Schools and universities can set up free Google Apps accounts with their own domain name, where they can give all student and faculty acces to a variety of tools, including a GMail account, iGoogle portal, Google Groups for collaboration, and Pages, for creating websites. Each user can also use their GMail account to activate other Google services, such as GoogleDocs.
Google Apps for ePortfolios
Beyond Google: Applying Google Tools to Teaching and Learning
A growing number of educators are concerned when they hear students are "googling" rather than really thinking about sources of information. Many students have only used the Google Web Search option.Google's search suggestions started to include instant answers for Math calculations, unit conversions, currency conversions, weather information, simple facts, local time, package tracking, word definitions and more. That means you no longer have to click the search button and open a new page to see the results: the answers are displayed instantly. "This kind of information will appear in Suggest either above or below the suggested search terms for a variety of queries.
Instant Answers in Google Suggest
Explore Google Search
Explore air travel options and plan your trip with just a few clicks of the mouse. Now you can use Flight Search to find and book flights from the US to many international destinations. Find that great image you're looking for or explore a topic through pictures with related search previews.Personalized Search for everyone
Today we're helping people get better search results by extending Personalized Search to signed-out users worldwide, and in more than forty languages.This service enables you to search the full content of over 4000 development focused websites, as selected by Eldis editors. You are able to filter results according to type, such as PDFs, videos and blogs, and by region.