Google Search - more functionality.

Posted by TinMan

May 30, 2007

Google Maps Search
Ok this is totally awesome, I caught wind of this today, Google Maps has added Street-Level Pictures to Google Maps. Can you say F’n sweet!
Seriously it feels like you’re walking down the street!
Check out Google Maps Street Level Images
Sunny Side San Fran
Google Map’s Street View images are currently available in Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York, and San Francisco.

Google Image Search:
Not sure how I feel about this one yet. Google has added a new feature to Google Image search. By adding the “imgType=face” parameter to the end of your URL you are able to focus your image search to only people faces, creepy. I’m sure someone will pimp this feature out sooner then later but at the moment I’m not sure what I would use this for… “SEO wise”
Google Image Search Example
http://googlified.com/2007the-search-of-faces-on-google-images/

Gmail Search:
I have been using a couple of these Gmail Search operators for a while now but saw a post on Digg the other day and thought I would bring it up again just in case there are still some stragglers that not aware.

List of Gmail Search operators

The “from:” “to:” and “filename:” I find very helpful:

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