Just discovered that you can filter your Google search results by pages you have previously visited. Cool!
Next time you search, click on “Show Options” and then “Visited pages”. Be sure to also check out the very currious Wonder Wheel too!
Posts Tagged: google
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Aug 09
Relax into Productivity
In Grown Up Digital, Effie Seiberg was interviewed on the culture at Google:
“Unlike in the corporate world, no one thinks twice if you IM with your friends in the middle of the day or go out to play volleyball at two. The culture is designed to help employees relax into productivity, not stress into it. . . . To me this seems, well, logical.”
What a simple, brilliant idea. We’re so busy stressing about goals, metrics, deadlines, and doing things the corporate way, that we forget: people are most productive when they can relax at work.
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Jun 09
Live Translation
Two people on a phone call can speak in different languages but will hear their native language. This is what Kurzweil predicted would be a reality in 2009 or 2010.
I have not yet heard of the phone version yet, but this is now a reality when you use email thanks to Google’s Automatic message translation:
“you can have entire conversations in multiple languages with each participant reading the messages in whatever language is most comfortable for them. It’s not quite the universal translators we’re so fond of from science fiction, but thanks to Google Translate, it’s an exciting step in the right direction.”
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Jun 09
Google Voice
Google Voice continues to surprise me in good ways. A few features that I’m digging:
1) One phone number rings multiple phones. I want to answer the calls on my work phone, but my cell phone has my address book and thus the functioning caller-id. Now I can see who’s calling by looking at the cell, but still pick up the work line.
2) Keypad-less dialing. It feels weird at first to answer my phone to call someone, but I can search my address book online and click “call”. Google calls me and then connects me to whomever I clicked on. Now I don’t have to punch in 10 digits which I invariably get wrong on the first attempt.
3) Transcribed voicemail. I much prefer to read a voicemail than listen to it. It isn’t perfect, but good enough to get the idea. And it emails the transcription too, so I don’t even need to “look it up”.
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