Google Blog Search, search better with time

Google Blog Search has added a new feature that allows you to view search results based on the date they were posted, you can track your favorite topics according to when those items were posted, some more changes have also been done in the search to improve the search quality and make your blog-search experience even better.

You can sort the results for content posted within an hour, within 12 hours, past one day, past one week, past one month, or view all the results too. You can also sort the results by providing specific dates using the Choose dates link.

For those who have not yet visited or heard about Google Blog Search, it is a service which allows you to search blogs from all over the world, the indexing is done specifically only for blogging sites only. You can submit your blogs to Google Blog Search by using the service provided by Pingomatic.com.

"Ever since Google Blog Search launched, we've noticed that the universe of blogs has truly exploded--our index is doubling every six months. Perhaps even more striking, though, is that there's no one region in the world that leads the growth of blogs. Self-publishing clearly has global appeal, and blogging makes it easy for everyone on the web to share their voices and connect. True, there continues to be blog spam (and we continue to fight it), but our blog search reveals the great range and quality of ideas and writing out there."

Source:Official Google Blog

Picturecloud, create your cloud with pictures

Picturecloud allows you to bring photos to life by showing items on the web just like you see them in person, Picture clouds are easy to create and easy to share. You do not have to download additional softwares or need any special cameras, you can create the picture clouds even without signing up.

You can use picturecloud to create demos about your products, capture a complete view of the bike you have and show it to your friends, create product pictures for ebay auctions etc.

The user interface for picture cloud is pretty neat and they have a easy to use interface. You can simply drag and drop the pictures and upload easily, They have a inbuilt methodolgy that rejects picture that are not of the same size.

A picture can only be created around an object, for example a product picture taken in different angles, check out their examples to get an idea about how a picture cloud exactly works.

Here is my test picture cloud, note you may have to use pictures with same sizes to create a picture cloud though.

Whatsbuzzing beta

Ever stood outside a shop to have a view of products you can buy before deciding to enter and shop. That's Window shopping for us.

How about doing the same online.

Whatsbuzzing Beta is a kind of window shopping online, it gives all the buzz about the latest products from various stores and brands.

You can choose your buzz based on tags and the results can be sorted by time or relevance.

Whatsbuzzing provides you with a rich media interface to surf, Quick browse tabs to seamlessly move between different stores and brands, you can add your own tags to the buzz, and just a click thu will allow you to buy the product online.

You can search by brand or item, or use a search filter to search for products, you can also select produts by category, sub category, merchant etc.

There is also a use for tags which is getting popular by the day, create your own tags for different buzz, share your tags, view tag cloud are some of the nice features you can use with whatsbuzzing.

Editgrid a web based spreadsheet editor

Another web-based software to edit spreasheets online, but this one is pretty cool and has a lot of features.

Editgrid allows you to access spreadsheets across computers, workspaces anytime from anywhere.

With editgrid you can see changes in real time when someone modifies a spreadsheet, they call it RTU (real time update). You have full keyboard navigation in the spreadsheet, 135 functions like SUM(), COUNTIF() etc.

You can also import and export the spreadsheets to common formats, including MS Excel, CSV, Gnumeric and OpenOffice.org Calc.

You can set the access rights for each spreadsheet and share it with only those who you want to invite.

Browsers supported are Internet Explorer 6.0+ and Mozilla Firefox 1.0+, support for Safari browser is coming soon.

You also have a workspace to organize all your spreadsheets online.

You need to register to the site, registeration is simple though and you just have to create a username and password.

They also provide you with some templates which are listed below

Personal

* personal phone book
* to-do list, shopping list
* personal fittness tracker
* keep track of birthdays and special dates
* holiday planning with boy/girlfriend
* lecture timetable

Business

* Presenting data/information (e.g. stock data crawled from the web)
* Share price information across offices
* customers database
* customer orders, inventory records, sales pipelines mini-database
* project task list
* employee's annual leave, sick leave records
* staff roster