Google Friends Newsletter March 2006 Vernal greetings from the Googleplex to all of our Google Friends. We hope you enjoy this update on various services and new products. At the bottom of this message, you'll find details on subscribing to or canceling this newsletter. POWER TIP Google Desktop Quick Search Box The newest version of Google Desktop adds another handy feature: the Quick Search Box. Hit your "Ctrl" key twice to bring it up on your computer screen, and start your search for web or local computer information even faster than before. When you're done, press "Ctrl" twice again to hide it. If you don't want to use the Quick Search Box at all, disable it on the Google Desktop preferences page. The Quick Search Box is also available in 16 languages. http://desktop.google.com/features.html#quicksearch NEW PRODUCTS Google Finance Here's a way to get quick and easy access to business and financial information about public and private companies and mutual funds. Google Finance includes interactive charts (with corresponding news stories); company search by name or ticker symbol; stories grouped by topic from Google News; timely blog posts delivered from Google Blog Search; on-topic discussion groups; and portfolios that are easy to use when tracking your financial information. http://finance.google.com Google News for mobile When you're on the go with your web-enabled phone, keep current on the news stories that matter to you. Google News for mobile devices enables you to access top headlines, browse through news categories, or search for exactly the stories you want - all in a phone-friendly format that's easy to read and navigate. http://mobile.google.com/news/index.html Google SMS Sports Scores Sports scores are among those "gotta have" bits of information mobile phones were surely made to deliver. Now U.S. mobile users can get up-to-the-minute scores and game schedules using Google SMS on your mobile device. Just text message a school or team name to 46645 (GOOGL) and get ready to cheer (or groan). http://www.google.com/sms/demo.html Google Widgets for your Mac Party on, Mac-heads: there are three new Mac Dashboard Widgets for OS X Tiger. The Blogger Widget enables quick and easy posting to your blog; the Google Mail Widget enables a quick check of your Google Mail inbox; use the Search History Widget to find that website you saw last week while searching Google. http://www.google.com/macwidgets Google Mars We admit a fascination with outer space, and now most definitely include the Red Planet. Two NASA researchers from Arizona State University worked with us to combine Google Maps technology with some of the most detailed scientific maps of Mars ever made. Now you can explore Mars three ways: an elevation map (shows color-coded peaks and valleys); a visible-imagery map (shows what your eyes would actually see), and an infrared-imagery map (shows the detail your eyes would miss). http://mars.google.com National Archives films on Google Video Over 70 years ago, the National Archives was founded to preserve American historical documents, as well as the moments and events that could be saved in still photos, films, and audio recordings. Today the Archives is home to everything from rare historical footage (newsreels and government documentaries from the 1930s) to the 1969 moon landing. Now Google is launching a pilot program to digitize its video content and offer it to everyone in the world for free, and you can watch a growing selection on Google Video. http://video.google.com/nara.html MISCELLANY The 'plex talks Folks who visit the Googleplex in Mountain View, California often compare it to a college campus - there are people engaged in group meetings, in solitary work, and when they can, they make time to eat, play or exercise. One of the most campus-like elements is a thriving program called "Tech Talks" - regularly scheduled presentations offered by Googlers or our guests on a wide variety of subjects. Any Googler can attend a talk on, say, "Collecting Meteorites in Antarctica" or "High End Computing and Scientific Visualization at NASA." Now you can also watch these talks, just by searching Google Video for [techtalks]. We obtain clearance from all speakers so Tech Talks can be posted publicly, and will continue to add them to Google Video. 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