[January 2006] New Products

[Laurent Van Winckel]

Google Personalized Homepage for mobile
Take your Google homepage with you. Now you can access your Google Personalized Homepage selections (Gmail message previews, news headlines, weather, stock, movie showtimes, plus your pick of webcontent via feed) in a format that's friendly to the small screen.
http://mobile.google.com/personalized

Google Earth for the Mac
Macintosh fans let us know they were keen to see the whole Earth too,and now it's available as a beta service for (as Mac fanatics used to say) the rest of us, so that Mac and PC users can all enjoy zooming in,measuring routes and lots more.
http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

Google Video store
Our Google Video uploader program has encouraged the submission of thousands of clips from videomakers of all kinds. Now Google Video is enhanced with a store where you can buy or rent current and classic episodes of thousands of hours of video, including CBS programs, games from the NBA, music videos - even entire movies - and watch the musing the new Google Video player. Special bonus: Watch a webcast (or read the transcript) of our co-founder Larry Page's keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show, where he unveiled the new Google Video.
http://video.google.com
http://www.google.com/press/podium.html (January 6)

Google Pack
Google Pack is a free collection of essential software to help you browse the web faster, remove spyware and viruses, organize your photos, and more. We put it together with a number of software companies like Adobe and Symantec to help take the hassle out of downloading, installing, and updating software that helps you have a better web experience. You can download and install the entire Google Pack in just a few clicks. And the included Google Updater helps you discover new programs and keep your current software up to date.
http://pack.google.com

Personalized Search: Trends
Trends are a new way to look at the searches you've done on Google. Touse Trends, you need to have Personalized Search turned on and be signed in to your Google Account. You'll see graphs and lists detailing your own search activity, including top searches, most-visited websites, daily activity by hour and other interesting tidbits. If no Trends appear, just check back in a couple of days.
http://www.google.com/psearchends