Comments on: 10 interesting Google products you don’t know about

By: The =Q=

The =Q= — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:24:55 +0000

8004464411 Free Google 411. I LOVE this service… use it all the time instead of paying my phone company $3 for getting a number and writing it down the dialing it again. Google 411 says the number then connects you to it. Of course, you have to hear a short advertisement but that’s no big deal since it’s only like 10 seconds.

By: JayFrom1800Free411

JayFrom1800Free411 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:21:38 +0000

Just to let you know, that Google 411 number only works for businesses. To get business, gov’t, and residential listings, you’ll have to call 1-800-FREE411. That number also works for getting driving directions texted to your cell.

Cheers,
Jay

By: George

George — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:33:34 +0000

Mean to say, it seemed confusing at first but once you get the hang of it it makes sense.

The graph has a dropdown menu on the x and y axis. This lets you customize what each axis represents. So you can, for example, arrange the circles from lowest to highest literacy going left to right with the bottom dropdown menu and arrange them from lowest to highest life expectancy along the y axis using the dropdown on the left of the graph.

The colors represent another data point (which can be changed from the top right dropdown which shows the map by default) and the size of the circles represent a fourth data point (population by default) which can be changed from the bottom right.

By: George

George — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:19:07 +0000

Gapminder was pretty cool. At first it seemed a bit confusing

By: Argus McSheep

Argus McSheep — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:16:08 +0000

What about Google Image Labeler?

http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/

By: iGameroli

iGameroli — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:00:54 +0000

Hey, not a bad list at all! I like, I like!

By: Pingdom

Pingdom — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:40:33 +0000

Thanks for the comments so far.

@Ester: Yeah, it is a bit confusing to use, isn’t it? They have a blog for it that may be of help, and there’s supposed to be an instruction video somewhere on the site as well. Here’s the blog:

http://www.gapminder.org/world/blog/

@Corpus: That one must be brand new. Cool!

By: Corpus

Corpus — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:34:58 +0000

This one is pretty cool too, and quite new I think:

http://labs.google.com/gaudi

Search Youtube for words

By: Bommar

Bommar — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:26:16 +0000

I remember hearing about that mobilizer service but forgot to check it out at the time. Time for another try. Might be useful.

Thanks for sharing.

By: Ester G

Ester G — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:20:12 +0000

Nice list!

But I must admit that the Gapminder app is a bit confusing to me. Ok, confusing as hell! Very different interface.