One man’s voice

I love Google

Posted on May 1st, 2007 in Google, Personal Messages

Dude, I am starting to love Google more and more every day.
It seems as though there is nothing that Google cannot do. I mean nothing. I started toying around today with the Google Docs and Spreadsheet application. That thing is awesome. It is slow, granted, but for those that need access to documents in a cross platform environment anywhere in the world, that little app is a great fit. Since it is on the web, it doesn’t matter what type of system you are on. It doesn’t matter what format you would normally be using since it is on the server. The spreadsheet works great and the word processor works great. Overall, it is a great productivity tool.

Another neat feature of Google’s is their personalized home page. Have you ever used that? You can make as many tabs as you like and include views into your stuff like GMail, ToDo lists, your Google calendar, various news feeds, RSS feeds, weather information, time information, traffic information… the list goes on and on. There are a few other web sites that offer stuff like this, namely Proto Page and NetVibes. I think I like the layout of NetVibes the best, but Google’s service offering blows the other two out of the water. Plus Google offers themes now, and their beach theme actually changes from daylight to dark as your time changes. That is freaking neat.

Anyway, Google isn’t paying me enough to talk this good about them (though they would if you would click the links to the left that are sponsored by Google), so I am going to step down from the soap box for now and continue to bask in the enjoyment that is the Google user experience. TTFN (or, as they say when you are a grown up, Ta Ta’s…. Freaking Nice!).