Google: creeping all the way to everything

  • News – pulled in from thousands of sources all over the globe and, except in very unusual circumstances, no human intervention to determine importance.
  • Calculator – for the mathphobic and the geekheads, calculations from the simple to the sublime.
  • Stock Quotes – go to the main page, type in a ticker symbol (say, MSFT), and click the I’m Feeling Lucky button and you go straight to the Yahoo! Finance Page for that stock.
  • Dictionary and Spell Checker
  • Phone Book – type in your phone number and see what comes back!
  • Street Maps – where do you want to go today?
  • Even machine translation of web pages and plain text.
  • Finally, of course, Google also owns Blogger, used to publish this message for you.

[Note: New version of Blogger, same old crappy handling of lists in posts.]