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Google Desktop Search
Google Desktop Search is a slick and speedy search tool for finding information on your hard drive. It lacks a file viewer and media player but is very fast and easy to use.
Google Home
Google Home is a breezy service that lets you create a custom sign-in page chock-full of news and widgets.
Google Apps for Your Domain
Google Apps for Your Domain lets you brand online services with your own URL, but it doesn't eat the costs of domain registration as Microsoft Office Live does.
Google Talk
With an interface that lacks ads but is also short on features, this early Google Talk beta serves Gmail users who want to chat via text or voice.
Google Spreadsheets
The online Google Spreadsheets is free, easy to use, and handy for collaboration, but stick with Excel for complex spreadsheets.
Google's desktop liberation tool
Google's new desktop search tool comes with a surprising feature.
Google updates desktop search tools
Google is adding new features to its Desktop search program, including further customisation of the Sidebar and the ability to send information directly to a friend's desktop, search on multiple computers at once and lock the search function with a password.
Google takes another swing at desktop search
Google launched a new beta version of its desktop search tool that features updated Web navigation software and an innovative tool-bar.
Google adds Android app for Flickr photos
Google's Photostream will let phones running its Android phone operating system view photos stored at Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing site.
Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces
A new face recognition feature on Google's Picasa Web Albums will help users label their photos with the names of subjects. That and other changes to the photo-sharing site are joined by a new beta version of the accompanying Picasa 3.0 photo-editing software.
Google hacks
Think you know how to use a search engine? These three handy tips will help you get even more out of your Googling experience.
100 tips to speed up your software
Do more faster with these amazingly useful shortcuts.
DIY: Yahoo Hacks
CNET describes ways to use Yahoo for custom searches and to compare results against those of Google.
Newbie's guide to Google Reader
RSS feeds aren't so scary. Give Google Reader a try and we think you'll enjoy them quite a bit.
101 software tips, tweaks and tricks
Our insider secrets will help you master your PC and its most important applications.
50 significant moments from internet history
We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet.
Top 10 Google apps
CNET.com.au reviews Google's most compelling desktop and Web-based applications for communications, mapping, 3D drawing and more.
Start-page smackdown: Netvibes, Pageflakes, iGoogle and Live.com
Want to create your own homepage? We put four personalised start pages through their paces and rank them according to looks, features and performance.
Microsoft and Google give away office space
Microsoft and Google are offering free online packages to put your company's touch on its communications and to help build basic Web sites.
Calendars: Yahoo vs. Google
CNET pits Yahoo Calendar against the Google Calendar beta online scheduling service.
Refine your search
Google, Tool image galleries
A clearer focus on Google Earth
Google beefs up resolution and coverage of Google Earth to the level of aerial photography -- even showing people walking in some places.
This easy-to-use photo editing and organising tool now lets you instantly upload and share your picture albums.
A basic Google Base search provides a listing of items with a thumbnail photo. It gives people options to easily refine a search.
Is Google's acquisition of Web word processor Writely a harbinger of more acquistions? Dozens of Web 2.0-style start-ups certainly hope so.
Mozilla Firefox 2 is a winner, beating Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on security, features, and overall cool factor.
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