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Google Friends Newsletter - April 2007

Hello and welcome to the Google Friends Newsletter. We hope you enjoy
this month's update on our products and services.

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POWER TIP

Create your own Google Maps

A new Google Maps feature lets you easily create maps with placemarks
that incorporate your text comments, photos, and videos from YouTube
and Google Video. It's a great way of sharing your stories on a map,
whether it's stops you enjoyed on a recent vacation or the best places
to grab a quick bite to eat in your city. To get started, just click
the "My Maps" tab on the left-hand side of the Google Maps homepage.
You can take a look at the maps other people have created (there's
even one of the Googleplex), and then get started making your own by
clicking "Create new map." If you make your map public, we will make
it searchable for other folks who use Google Maps.
http://maps.google.com

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NEW PRODUCTS & UPDATES

Call 800-GOOG-411

Use the new Google Voice Local Search experiment to connect to local
businesses anywhere in the U.S. from your phone, for free. Just dial
the toll-free number 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) and speak the
name of a business ("Giovanni's Pizzeria") or its category ("pizza").
You can choose to connect to the business directly over phone or, if
you are calling from your mobile phone, you can also say "text
message" and we'll send you the business's details by SMS. Google
won't charge you for a thing, but note that regular phone charges may
apply based on your phone service provider.
http://labs.google.com/goog411

Updates to Google Docs & Spreadsheets

This month, you'll notice some changes in the spreadsheets portion of
Google Docs & Spreadsheets. In addition to improving its general
performance, we've added several new features: you can create simple
charts, including column, bar, line, pie and scatter charts; attach
comments to individual cells; quickly duplicate a spreadsheet; and
search the web for the text in a cell by using the right-click menu.
And heads-up: this summer, watch for a new addition to the Google Docs
& Spreadsheets family: presentations.
http://docs.google.com

Find your next home with Google

Searching for a place to live is rarely fun, so we've made the search
experience on Google a lot easier. Now when you type in queries like
[New York real estate] or [homes for rent in San Francisco], you'll
see the location you're interested in and type of listing at the top
of your search results. Clicking the "Go" button will display details
of individual homes that Google has indexed. If a certain listing
interests you, click on the provided link or image, to go straight to
the listing source.
http://www.google.com

Google Desktop beta for the Mac

If you're a Mac user, you can now search your computers using Google
Desktop. In addition to searching everything on your Mac, you can also
search your emails (including Gmail), web history and deleted files.
Just click the ⌘ key twice to start using the Quick Search Box.
http://desktop.google.com

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MISCELLANY

We knew Google Earth was remarkable when we first saw it, but at that
time we didn't imagine all the uses to which it might be put. Since we
unveiled it in 2005, millions of people have enjoyed zooming in to
their homes, zooming out to far-flung places around the globe. More
recently, many information providers outside of Google have developed
"layers" you can add to your personal Earth. You can explore Africa
through the eyes of National Geographic photographers and writers; you
can see "America's Favorite Buildings" from a contest held by the
American Institute of Architects; you can study historical maps from
the renowned Rumsey Collection. But a recent project with the United
State Holocaust Memorial Museum demonstrated even a newer use: Google
Earth as a powerful current events resource. By showing recent imagery
from the Darfur region of the Sudan, suddenly millions of people can
see the destruction and desolation for themselves. We hope this
powerful combination of information and technology spurs enlightenment
and action on the part of many. You can search YouTube or Google Video
for 'google darfur" and find the videos talking about the project. Or
visit the Museum and read more about this important geography
education initiative.
http://earth.google.com
http://www.ushmm.org/


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