Resources – Google Applications
Google Street View Live For SA
Although the official announcement is only slated for later today, Google's map integrated street view for South Africa is now live. Google Street View is Google's integrated 360° photography taken, as the name suggests, at street level.
Google Docs
For some time now, Google has offered a set of document related applications built into their user accounts. Google Docs allows you to create, store and share your documents online, which means they're accessible any time, from anywhere.
Google To Phase Out IE6 Support
According to a notice we've just received from Google, the search engine giant has decided to phase out support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 from the 1st of March 2010.
Google Local Business Directory
Now that Google Maps has officially launched in South Africa, with all the functionality that's associated with it, it's become possible to add your business to Google Maps with the Google Local Business Centre.
Fast-Flip Testing By Google
Responding to an increasingly media rich online environment, Google has launched a new experimental service that they call Fast Flip.
Google Trends – Search Research Tools
Google Trends is a public web tool released by Google, that provides a graphic representation of how frequently any given term is searched for, according to date, region and language.
Google Caffeine Comparison Tool
Following on from our last article, in which we discussed the new Google Caffeine algorithm that's in development, here's a handy little tool that lets you compare the results of the existing Google search infrastructure with results using the proposed new Google “caffeine” algorithm.
New Boss For Google SA
Business Day reports that there's a new face at the head of Google South Africa, replacing Stafford Maisie, who stepped down in April, after 18 months at the helm of the South African division of the search engine giant.
Quick Guide To Google Applications
Google makes a wide variety of different applications available to their users, most of them freely. As well as being free, many of them are fun, engaging, useful, or all three. For your convenience, here's a list of Google application, as well as links to them.