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Kottke.org article on why Google Maps wins out with old technology because of a better user experience

This is a scavenger hunt type of game where you use Google Maps to find the location of a particular graphical clue.

This site is an integration between Flick and Google Maps. All you need to do is input a set of coordinates, and the site will show you a Google Map of the area where a photo was taken and the picture itself. Works by pulling photos from Flick marked as “geotagged”.

The Options window of Firefox explained in detail for newbies and even the experienced hand using the Firefox.

If you like the way Google writes its name and would like to have your own company name or just any name to be spelt like that, then this link can be a lot of fun.

All this google logo thing does is have a picture for every letter and then puts them together to make it look like one picture.. Still kinda neat though. Rather interesting. I can see the “fun” value in this.

You can tell instead of buying the catul font and making each letter from scratch they just took parts of the original google/froogle logo’s and pieced them together.. Yeah, go ahead and use this for your own company’s logo. That will go over SO well. Just offsetting the colors looks so odd.

Ummm how much you wanna bet google has a copyright on it’s logo style? LOL!! How the heck do people find sites like this haha?

Here’s another great use of Google Maps — Storm Report Map. Our local meteorologist pointed this out last night. It overlays a Google Map with weather report data after storms strike.

“Google Sitemaps is an experiment in web crawling. Using Sitemaps to inform and direct our crawlers, we hope to expand our coverage of the web and improve the time to inclusion in our index.” - it generates the file for you to put on your site essentially to do be a roadmap for the crawler.

As Google and Yahoo! continue their volley of product offerings, this guy thought it would be useful to compare the interface design solutions each company employed to solve similar user needs. In other words: how does Yahoo’s version of a product (Maps, Local Search, Image Search, etc.) compare to Google’s? Really neat side by side comparison.

The only reason I use google is because of the interface, i used to use yahoo, back in the days but now Google dominates with it’s simplicity.

22 Google searches on one page: Images, Groups, News, Froogle, Local, Answers, Maps, Directory, Government, Scholar, Weather, MP3, Clips, Movies, Video, Catalog, Prints, (stock) Quotes, Windows, Mac, Linux, and BSD.

Xtragoogle’s been my homepage for a while. It’s just so dang comprehensive - maps, Froogle, news, OS news, images, and those google hacks (mp3, movie, etc) all in one click. I don’t think it’s any more illegal than putting a google search bar in your page - this one just tosses a few extra terms in your search for you (and looks way prettier).

It’s useful because it’s all in one place. You don’t have to go to the Google home page, then to More, then Labs, etc.