When I first open my internet browser, I want to have a bunch of information right there ready for me. iGoogle creates a very easy way to do that. I have bookmarks, Gmail, Google Reader and (of course) the Google search engine. And now iGoogle comes with backgrounds that change with either the time of day, the season of the year or even the weather in your area! Find it here!
This is just really handy. It uses the popular searches to suggest what you might be typing. If you begin to type "Three blind mice" it suggests just that after you reach "Three bl". It may sound dull, but it shaves a lot of time off of your internet surfing. I set a time limit for myself so that I am not on the computer all day and this helps. Firefox now comes with this already installed! Find it here.
Google Reader takes all the blogs that you read and puts them in a single manageable site. You can "star" items as your favorites so that they are easy to find and you can share items through email and your blog. It makes all the information you read in blogs come to you in one place. Find it here!
Google Trends allows you to see how many searches for specific words and search strings have been made. You can view where it is being searched and how often. Find it here.[No picture]
Google Patent Search is a fun and very handy search engine to use. I have found that the US Patent Office's site is terrible to view the patents themselves. Google helps with that making it easier and more accessible than ever before. Find it here!
Not that I don't like Google Book search, but I wanted to mention something else. Google has a page within their book search that has a list of banned/challenged books. Find it here!And if you thought that Google Maps/Earth was awesome then you will love
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Just click those images and go see, cause it's cool.
I hope you enjoyed my little list of Google sites. If you would like a more thorough list please click here.
Images from Google.com and Wikipedia.org
