Shows how much you know. You're probably one of those people who thinks that broccoli has a place in the world, ham radio has something to do with bacon, and that
Al "Get The Fudge Out" Sharpton is just a nice guy trying to make a point.
Google, boys and girls. That glorious all-encompassing bastion of webbish goodness. Most people, except for maybe Tr0z (and only then because he has that silly integer in his name), know that Google is
the source to search for something on the Internet. There is no other because there needs to be no other. But, dear reader, do you know about the dark side?
And by dark I mean development, of course. There are a host of services that have been rolled out including
Froogle,
Google Image Search,
Google Newsgroup Search,
Google News, and
AdSense. All of these are great tools for just about any purpose in which you need information.
Newly announced, however, is the ZOMG HUGE
Gmail service, boasting one gigabyte of storage space with an encouragement to archive e-mail, instead of deleting it. I sense some Google-ploy™ in how they're handing out user accounts. They're free, but you have to be "invited." If it were me, and I wish that it were, it would be an excellent way for me to count my affect on users. Moreover, since my free accounts were selling for $80 or more a few weeks ago (which are now down to $5 or so, incidentally), I'd know that I've got a good thing going.
And finally, ladies and germs,
GoogleGroups. This is not to be confused with the aforementioned
groups.google.com, but is an entirely different service. GoogleGroups offers listserves and group management ala Yahoogroups but sans suck. The service is still in extremely early beta, and is not really usable at this point. But it's coming, and that's what counts.
This public service announcement has been brought to you by my need to ramble, and the letters J, R, and P. This post has been made possible by the financial support of viewers like no one that visits here.
KD5ING sez : Don't forget the Google Calculator. Just type your problem into the window and press Enter. Whammo - there is your answer. Better yet is the conversion utility - Want to convert kg to pounds, inches to picometers, or watts to horsepower (great for building electric vehicles) then type it in! How cool is that?
