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Google announced a few new services during Google Press Day 2006: Google Trends, Google Desktop version 4, Google Co-op, and Google Notebook.

Google Trends

Google Trends allows you to compare the world’s interest according to your favorite topics. You can enter up to five topics and Google Trends will display a chart of search frequency, number of related Google News stories, and which geographic regions have the most often search.

With Google Trends, you can have fun discovering what other people are searching for. It may not be useful for general users but it is useful for content publishers.

Please note that the cities and regions charts are calculated based on ratio, not the total number of searches. This explain why Kuala Lumpur is No.1 city for “adsense” keyword. Kuala Lumpur does not has most search queries about “adsense”, but based on search query ratio, it is the No.1 city.

Google Desktop version 4

Google Desktop version 4 added Google Gadgets. Google Gadgets are mini-applications that can be anything from games, search tools to media players, similar to widgets.

Beside gadgets, the new Google Desktop also index files more quickly and accurately, and add option to remove cache version of deleted files.

Google Co-op

Google Co-op is about sharing expertise. You can contribute your expertise and benefit when others do the same. Help other users find information more easily by creating “subscribed links” for your services and labeling webpages around the topics you know best.

[Read Google Co-op]

Similar to Google special features, you can add your own services by creating subscribed links for your users. Your users will get additional result from your services when they search on Google.

Google Notebook

Notebook is a little notes window that follows you from the Google search results to other sites, allowing you to collect bits and pieces of information. You can also make public parts of Google Notebook to share it with others.

[Read Google Press Day 2006]

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