Google unveils new applications

Well I think that about rips it. Google is just getting a little too up close and personal I think. I mean come on, the last version of Google Desktop was bad enough. The latest version sounds even more intrusive…

At its annual press day here in the Googleplex, the search giant took the lid off Google Desktop version 4, Google Notebook, Google Trends and Google Co-op.

The new version of Google Desktop lets people use mini-interactive applications from within the product’s Sidebar without having to download software or open up a browser, said Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience.

Mayer led a demonstration in which a song icon was dragged and dropped atop a media player, causing the song to start playing. Similarly, a video clip, titled “Laughing Babies,” was dragged onto a player, launching a clip of a mother holding a gaggle of giggling babies.

“Nothing like a biological clock right there in your Sidebar,” Mayer joked.

Google Desktop 4 is integrated with other Google products to let people use the Sidebar to, for instance, easily see when their friends’ birthdays are via the Orkut social network, or see what events they have on a particular day via Google Calendar. Desktop 4 also synchronizes with other computers so that when a change is made on a person’s work machine, it’s reflected on the person’s home computer, she said… Source: CNET

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