COOL!! I'm excited. Thanks for giving us live updates! That's awesome.

For everyone who is lazy like me. It is starting at:

18.30 in Central Europe (GMT+2)
17.30 in United Kingdom / Portugal (GMT + 1 = BST)

I'll be in chat room for this discussion

Is it really going to be 3.5 hours long?

Last year's Google Factory Tour – did they just rename this to Press Day? – was also about the same length:
http://www.google.com/press/factorytour.html

Thanks Sam
I guess it is going to be 3.5 hours long. Don't know what they will talk about for that long though!

Do you think they will put it on Google Video later today to watch afterwards since I can't watch it live?

It does not fit in my browser window, and every time I resize the window it goes back.... had to make it so JavaScript can not mess with my windows! (I love FireFox)

might go into google podium
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/podium.html

They're scrolling by live (?) searches right now next to a rotating globe :)

If anyone wants to run the webcast in a smaller window, go to this link and click on the webcast :-

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressday.html

we have 3 minutes coiunt down.. I think we should comment here live :)-
(IRC chat) ?

or open this URL right in windows media player: http://video.vdat.com/playmedia_embed2.asp?sid=57687&aid=59013

Yes Pd, I think this thread is great for live comments...

This is when that AJAX shoutbox I saw a few days ago would come in handy.

I got a it clocked at 1:05 in my window now.. oh btw I am working of twin monitors
  

How long is this globe going on for.......?

"Are you ready...?" yes.

whoever grabs any ppt's could you share /host on your blog

tia

Anyone tried getting their searches to appear on the screen?...probably like winning the lottery :)

Product annoucments are likely to be at 11:30 aren't they?
With Marissa Mayer...

5:31 UK time here. Should start any second.

(someone try to get "google blogoscoped" on the screen)

Somebody tell me if Googlers for Jesus makes it.

I can spy on slide 2 of the presentation already – but not page 3 or 4!
http://www.shareholder.com/common/media/GOOGPR/20060510/20263/s2.jpg?unique=1147278073312

starting!!

oh maybe not! lol

Its starting

i saw a different screen...lol....then it defaulted back the the live searches.

the search queries aren't shown live

heh I think I just saw shiping numbers.

Nice work philipp. How did you manage that?

are those search quiers like ? they seem repeated

i saw "preparation of a detergent" twice

why don't they start?? I'm tired of seeing these searches...

turn off cell phones.. guys.. :)

I need to know how to make a detergent Alex. I lost the site the first time ok?

I'm on -8.45 minutes away from actual start time!! why the delay!!

Who bets the "welcome" is boring?

I love the music.

Good NYSE/DOW : Open :Open: 408.31 trading at 406.02 now!!

eh ?? music stopped!!

how long is this going to go on for! 15 mins so far....

question answered!

its started!!

The 10:30 slot sounds like a justification for China and censorship

I doubt the real value of this 'press day,' it's for the largely uninformed press (ah it's starting now)... the only thing we'll probably get is some broad "we're cool" stuff and some very basic product announcment info.

the real stuff goes on in blogs and IM, and people actually talking in person, to regular people that work there

I cant read the note from the lawyers..!!

thats cool....interactive webcast

music is funky!

Pd, right-click the slide, copy the image location, and then you can go through the different slides by changing the image file number at the end...

The E-mail address for questions is pressday06google.com

whats he talking about maships eh ?? thats what google does well!!

"Yahoo for example" LOL.

Are they trying to keep up gurus out of the DaVinci Code contest?

magical moment ?? did you notice he mention travel ?

Irony – whilst Eric and the gang say how cool Google is...

-- Google breaks!

My Firefox Crashed.... I should not have tried to do da vinci at the same time :)

yeah, I thought it was only me!! did everyone lose the broadcast too ?

I didn't loose the broadcast – but had a few refused Google Searches, and a broken Google module.

i had to reload ..missed some conversation

it kept telling me that I looked like a suspicious search... no matter what Google service I was using. just had to type in charictors

I'm lookin' forward to your comments on the lunch ;-)

I think all of this stuff on "create remember share" stuff is leading up to the GDrive.

He is talking about putting as much things as possible online, so people can share wotever they create and then use search to organise the whole thing.

(I got this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davyson/144089224/)

yeah the search tech overview – "kevin delany wsj" ?? who the heck is that ?? :)-

http://www.shareholder.com/common/media/GOOGPR/20060510/20263/s14.jpg

lots of his slides are available

This guy is doing the lighthouse technique really bad.

What is the "moma"? http://www.shareholder.com/common/media/GOOGPR/20060510/20263/s10.jpg

yea.. anyhow.. what's moma?? i noticed it..

yes he will talk abou the "Haystack problem" .. and also the news line!!

no one clicks "I'm feeling lucky" from crowd

who do they estimate that 20-25% search queries ahve never been seend before ?

did I hear that 25% of queries are unique?

travis : no not unique... but not been seen before!!

what is the difference?

PS... Mr Lenssen at what point will this collapse so I do not have to scroll all the way down?

100 comments I think

MOMA: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-01-05-n89.html

Ha Ha... interpretation : "Do you guys hate everything but search... is that why everything else is down all the time?"

I think at 150, at this moment...

yeah he is being question on the 20-25% figure!!

Did that guy ask the same question last time round?

"We hope to be optimistic"

The Wi-fi in their room doesn't work?

Philipp could you kick it in early for this thread?

OR set it to 75 just while it is on

all i have is a green screen... what's up with that??

Nice catch Luke.

Also, "Take a picture with your phone, OCR it, and let a search engine tell you who’s the person in it."

Umm, I don't think that would be considered OCR :).

i can hear it.. but can't see the video..

Andrew: That is Riya!

Yahoo Finance!! Oops!

Optical Character Recognition.... daffy duck is a character... Jim Carry is quite a character..... I guess OCR fits!

Optical Charachter Recognition as in" A is a charachter, B is quite a charachter"
I think they shouldn't use the same abbv. as this already existing one. it should be Optical Face / Person Recognition

20 min break!... THANKS TODD!

Philipp, what's yahoo.google.com???

My internet connection broke down just now... had to restart!

So, I guess the big announcement is made by Marissa and Jonathan then.

Hey Philipp : yeah change the thread!! lock this out and open a fresh one pls

> Philipp, what's yahoo.google.com???

Ooops... I fixed this to finance.yahoo.com.

"“Google Finance” (finance.google.com arrived much later than yahoo.google.com)"

LMAO!

On a serious note: the next presentation is the key one if we are going to get anything new.

can't we chat somewhere :D

Does anyone know how you fast forward the webcast? I started watching it at work and came home to find I have to start from the beginning! When I click the >> icon, the counter goes up, but when I click the play icon again, it goes back to where I was!!! Grrr...

hit the << button -fast rewind

btw i think this is comment number 100

So some predictions before they make the announcement. what do u guys think they will announce?

My thoughts :

- They are talking about sharing content (personal content) across different mediums so some sort of drive like the GDrive could be announced.
- They are bigging up the mobile space where they have made a lot of progress and it is possible they offer a much more integrated solution for mobiles that runs mostly locally but uses the web to transfer data.
- Google Purchases – A progression of Google Base – Rather than a direct challenge to ebay, something much more service based than product based.

Hmm, I also had to restart the presentation... what does everyone else see right now? I hear music and see the cover screen.

I think it's the press conference is going really well so far.

Yeh a white screen showing "Press Day 2006" with music

Waiting they come back...
<{=...
Google Press Day- 2006

Tony, I think that's just the normal pause screen you're getting then...

OK. We'll see...

getting there
waiting them to spell the word GOOGLE HEALTH

is it break time or what?

Hey...they got indian music. lol

they are back

now it sound like balls and old electronic games , Google moves on Gaming industry

please take your seats.. we are about to begin..

Please Take your seats in
Sweden
Germany
France
UK
Lebanon

some friends following the event

Aside: Google Desktop just release a new version
http://googledesktop.blogspot.com/2006/05/say-hello-to-google-gadgets.html

Looks like it *is* at the beginning for me as I'm still seeing that same slide... :-(

Nah, the 'Press Day 2006' slide is still visible.

It's continuing... looks like a Google Health commercial...

We are all seeing that same slide...they just keep announcing people to take their seats. If you can see the "What google has done for us" you are seeing the latest version

And they're back.

Tony, can you see it now?

It's a story about... Health!

hmm, rather, looks like a mixed topics commercial...

Yep – looks like it's back for me... :-)

...and back to health :)

Missed last few bits. What happened?

Google Health official?!

LOL. Not yet!

Where is Gmail on that chart?!

Look at this...

http://www.shareholder.com/common/media/GOOGPR/20060510/20263/s39.jpg

What an interesting way to show a map of the world. Is Google going to make this a standard?

Don't think so. Other maps seen today have USA on the left.

does anyone knows where it is that you can post questions for the Q&A section?

jon: Send an email to pressday06google.com

It's interesting to hear how they still refer to Google Book Search as "Print". (We do the same thing internally at work too; we call our projects by what you could call their "working titles"...)

Looks like the new Google Desktop release is an announcement:
http://www.shareholder.com/common/media/GOOGPR/20060510/20263/s47.jpg

most of it is old stuff.... so far..

Taking a peek at future slides...

Introducing Google Co-op
http://www.shareholder.com/common/media/GOOGPR/20060510/20263/s56.jpg

did they speak about the WWDW ? Digital warehousing ?

http://www.shareholder.com/common/media/GOOGPR/20060510/20263/s58.jpg

is it about done already??

Did he say Google Traffic?

Google Trends!? That sounds cool...

http://www.google.com/trends

http://www.google.com/trends

It looks very similar to Google Finance!

yeah its about done!!

Google Trends is very fun :)
http://www.google.com/trends?q=star+wars%2C+star+trek&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

Cool! You can compare searches for Google vs. Yahoo:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=google%2C+yahoo

Yahoo wins!!!

Like Google Finance without the flash (thank god). Seems pointless though I think.

3 more launches to go

Pointless? It's invaluable for SEO! You can see which search terms are the most popular and optimize your site for those. You could even optimise your site for different seasons (if you were a shopping site, for example)...

Google Desktop Gadget.

Google Desktop recommendations sounds cool.

New Google Desktop... does anyone use Google Desktop here atm?

I've used google desktop some.. kinda like it...

google eyes tracking users behaviours

New Google Desktop is released.
http://googledesktop.blogspot.com/2006/05/say-hello-to-google-gadgets.html

Link for Google Co-op?

Using Google desktop, Gcalendar integration is cool although shared calendars do not seem possible

Finally, Google Coop! I posted about that 11 minutes ago! ;-P

^^^^^ (It's already been collapsed!)

yes and i see a logo for HON www.hon.ch health on the net foundation

lets co op

http://www.google.com/trends?q=pirate%2Cninja

Hehe, I'm likeing this

yes i knew it
as i said one week ago
marissa will mention google health
yes here it is dr. google

Re: Google Health

"That'll teach me to give a wink and a nod to a reporter..." – Marissa Mayer

LOL

Erm, neither http://www.google.com/coop nor http://www.google.com/co-op seem to work yet...

what was it??? she said smth ".com/coop"

Google trends goes back a (perhaps alarmingly) long way! (do they have our IPs too?)

That Note thing looks AWESOME!

google notebook

Splasho, of course they do! And they know which results you click even if you're not logged in – each one has client-side tracking code attached to it and had done for years!

heres co-op jpg and I lost accidently closed the darn player window!! GRrrrr

http://www.shareholder.com/common/media/GOOGPR/20060510/20263/s56.jpg

Google Notebook?!

http://www.google.com/notebook redirects to http://www.google.com/gn

(Which is currently a 404.)

Woa, notebook may actually increase productivity a lot. Especially compairing things, ebay. And well noting, to come back to.

This is Google responding to del.icio.us. And it looks very good. What is this "plugin" though?

Google eyes, how appropriate.

I love the Trends, but not that they "watch" everything on the desktop.

desktop feastures pages just got updates

http://desktop.google.com/features.html

holy crap
the google earth was my question!!!

Real time weather, that's a lot of satellites.

Anyone know whether they addresses the GE ads, whether they are by zip code, IP address, or query?

Jon, really? It's good to know they're asking real emailed questions and not just engineering them!

Search on TV. What a great oppurtunity for marketing.

yeah, when you told me the email, i emailed them, and bamm it was asked (thanks for sharing the email btw).

concerning too many satellites: if you consider the weather channel, i don't think it would be too hard.

Good point Jon

Did anyone understand Google Co-op + labels?

BTW, has anyone else noticed that Google Labs products/services have now got their own style logo like this:

http://labs.google.com/images/labs_logo2.gif

Reader: http://www.google.com/reader
Trends: http://www.google.com/trends
Related Links: http://www.google.com/relatedlinks/
Mars: http://www.google.com/mars

Is that new or have they just done this? I didn't notice it was like that in Google reader about 60 minutes ago...

Has anyone even found coop?

Scrap that last comment – it's evidentally old news...

http://blogoscoped.com/forum/30685.html

;-)

(I'm integrating lots of information here into the main post, so a big thanks to everyone.)

I think it's a wise move to switch "Beta" for "Labs" – perhaps there will be no more "Beta" products from Google from now on...?

No!! --no Co-op is still fuzzy!!

Has lunch already started?

I don't understand Co-op AT ALL. It is something broader than Google Health but how it actually works?!

Re: Google Co-op

It sounds like they're outsourcing their research in some areas to other companies... or at least that's how I understood it.

Just got it in my email...

http://groups.google.com/group/GooglePress/browse_thread/thread/b40d2785030fddde/0fffb16288067f06#0fffb16288067f06

Tony: No. Not all products that start in Beta start in labs.

e.g. Calendar, Gmail.

Good point. I wonder how they decide that.

BTW, from the press release:

----------------------------------------------------------------

Google Co-op Beta

Google Co-op beta is a community where users can contribute their
knowledge and expertise to improve Google search for everyone.
Organizations, businesses, or individuals can label web pages relevant
to their areas of expertise or create specialized links to which users
can subscribe.

Once a user has subscribed to a provider's content, all of that
provider's labels and subscribed links are added to the user's
search results for relevant queries. These contributions serve as meta
information that helps Google's search algorithms connect users to
the most relevant information for their specific query. Users
interested in contributing can get started at www.google.com/coop.

For example, a doctor can label web pages related to arthritis, and
users who subscribe to that doctor's information will receive options
at the top of the results for more specific information such as
"treatment," "symptoms," or "for health professionals" when
they enter a relevant query.

As a first step, Google has worked with partners to annotate web pages
related to health and city guides and to offer dozens of subscribed
links to specialized content such as restaurant and movie information.
Going forward, the broader online community will begin building out new
topic areas and subscribed links to help improve the way people find
and discover information online.

Users can subscribe to content and providers at
www.google.com/coop/directory. Google Co-op is available today on all
English language Google domains including Australia, Canada, New
Zealand, and the United Kingdom

----------------------------------------------------------------

However, at this time http://www.google.com/coop and http://www.google.com/coop/directory are still both dead.

So, is Google Co-op a way for sites to gain priority in the organic listings through search results and subscriptions?

That's what it sounded like in this blurb: http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/002033.html

Note that they are dead in a different way to http://www.google.com/gn (different 404 page).

GOOGLE BLOGOSCOPED!!!

Wow! It's a question from Google Blogoscoped! ;-)

wow...u got a message through! Your famous Mr. Lensenn

so what no google health?

what was the message? I didn't see it.

So Tony Ruscoe Google Coop is like dmoz.org in a sense, only without selected editors, according to the PR?

smile , ur website name was on the video :)

famous philipp
question about chinese market
WOOOOOOOOOOW

COOL , ask them if they heard about my son Google
lol

They just asked my question: "Do you sometimes have discussions with the Chinese government over specific sites you are requested to censor?"

I did not fully manage to transcribe the answer. It was something like "From time to time, you have conversations about how a law is incorporated."

ContentWorth: Yes, I guess it does sound a bit similar to dmoz.org but with labels rather than simply filing the sites into a directory structure...

Cool coverage...trends sounds pretty interesting

I am thinking that Notebook is that coolest release today. It could replace del.icio.us couldn't it? It depends exactly how it works.

Larry seems not that exited .. look how quickly he drops the mic down when he's finally finished talking.

Do you think Notebook will be ie only?

Sam: I think Google Notebook sounds like a cross between Search History and the Gmail Drafts folder/label.

It almost sounds as thought it could be like a blog which just contains clippings from various websites...

both urls on coop are 404 still

The way I understood it was that Google Notebook would be an application... is that not the case?

Google releases (except Toolbar) are normally Firefox & IE simultaneously.

Ahh.. finally caught a glimpse of google notebook... :-)

http://www.googlestore.com/product.asp?catid=4&code=GO0016

I think it is a "plugin" for the browser and then a seperate site to edit your notes later.

I am thinking about the notebook in the same way as you I agree completely with "It almost sounds as though it could be like a blog which just contains clippings from various websites...".

You can do this will del.icio.us today (just links though).

the japanese dude is funny

Will the Google Notebook have unlimited storage ?

Anyone want to take a guess on this one ...

iZeitgeist – yes I think it will.

In the same way that Blogger does.

But where is the value added propoistion for ntoebook ?? We have so manyu link blogs which is like a full note book and shorts links liek del.io.us.

so what is new for the user ?

Just as Philipp does, it's often useful to use a snippet from a website rather than just a link. I think that Google Notebook will start a whole new debate on copyright issues and fair use!

How did we miss it _ ?

well Google Inc just registered googlecoop.com on the 8th of may 2006

Registrant:
Google Inc. (DOM-1489864)
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043
US

Domain Name: googlecoop.com

Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com

Administrative Contact:
DNS Admin (NIC-1467103) Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043
US
dns-admingoogle.com
+1.6502530000
Fax- +1.6506188571
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
DNS Admin (NIC-1467103) Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043
US
dns-admingoogle.com
+1.6502530000
Fax- +1.6506188571

Created on..............: 2006-May-08.
Expires on..............: 2007-May-08.
Record last updated on..: 2006-May-08 09:08:13.

googlecoop.us is still availible though......

I wonder why Google didn't release the Notebook and the Co-op today, it's not of their habits to annonce product release early...

I'm pretty sure those services are ready already.

Google is weird anyhow.

Just musing...

that's being transparent, baby

That's my question!

"Do Google have any plans in the near future to integrate their statistical machine translation system with services such as Google News, Gmail, Google Talk and even Google Search?
  
Also, do they have any plans to integrate human translation or proofreading and translation memory into their translation system?"

so pretty much all of their webcast questions are coming from this forum, which could mean we are the only people who are actually watching this live online.

HEY, Google dude reading us here!! do u see this????
i want gmail for my domain!!

Jon, that's what I was thinking. Isn't anyone else interested? This is good stuff (well, the new stuff anyway).

Sergey: We've probably used the word "Beta" a little bit...

LOL

there is already a gmail for your domain
https://www.google.com/hosted/

I rather be interested if Orkut is going anywhere or if they decided its a dead horse..

/pd I think that there are two significant things that we will see with Google Notebook (bear in mind that none of us actually know how this thing will work etc):

* It is not actually bookmarking. You it more like saving. Saving whatever you like. It is a definate mashup between Gmail Drafts / Bookmarks as Tony noted. It looks from the UI that they took stuff from Google Pages to me, but whatever I am sure the UI will be slick. You can save pics You can save notes of your own (to dos). You can save links. It is more like one of the newer bookmarking sites (that allow lost of media formats) than del.icio.us I think.

* del.icio.us is popular amongst you and me. And probably everyone reading this entry. Google Notebook may have appeal to other people who are not so technically enabled. Especially if it was integrated into Gmail at sometime (which there seem to be no plans for atm) it would get more people saving snippets and links and images online.

They are my thoughts anyway, I think if it is like I expect it will be really useful and I will probably use it over del.icio.us. It however largely depends on the UI and how the "plugin" works. That will determine its utility.

Tony: not "used", "abused".

Finished.

Thank You.

good session!!

As at close this thread had a record setting View!! :)-

4 hours ago • 3,145 views

wow .. we've viewed this 40 KB page 3154 times
i actually had auto-reload on my opera.. and around 240 comments..
gd job covering it, ppl

Thanks for great coverage

Thanks to all!

Philipp in ur post u linked to http://www.google.com/trends/ which doesn't work.
Remove the slash at the end. it's: http://www.google.com/trends

Yes – thank you Philipp & everyone else for the commentary as we went through. Now we can look forward to the ACTUAL launch (as in you can use it) of Google Co-op and Google Notebook.

I think I heard it commented before that doing it this way is "good" marketing. Google get buzz now upon announcing the product. And then more buzz when the product goes live.

But Sam, that means they are switching marketing tactic's. This would be the frist range of products that is being luanched like this!!

maybe they ran into problems, and couldn't get it out in time...

Thanks Ramibotros, fixed!

Now how long does Google take to fix google.com/coop? They announced the link to the world today...

/pd perhaps. I meant they had the same sort of thing (kind of) with Page Creator / Analytics.

It is launched – but there is no sign up (or in this case no site) until later.

http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news/2155794/google-emphasises-search says in the last paragraph:
"The new Google Co-op service includes search results from a list of select partners who for instance list restaurants or information about movies.

The search engine at launch will partner with six sites including Open Table, *Digg*, People magazine, Wine Spectator and Fandango. Partners are included free of charge.

Listing search results provided by qualifying partners will make for more accurate search, Mayer claimed."
Did they actually say that?

Anyway we could get the nice review on Digg? Here is my try:
http://www.digg.com/technology/Google_Press_Day_2006_Announcements

Ramibotros, yes I've heard Marissa say "Digg News". Now that there's someone else who heard this, I'll add it to the article... I wasn't 100% sure.

Dugg! :)

Now that's a lot of broken links in the official Google blog post on press day:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/yes-we-are-still-all-about-search.html

Google links to the following URLs which are not found at the moment:
http://www.google.com/pressday/
http://www.google.com/coop/
http://www.google.com/notebook
http://www.google.com/pressday.html

I also did some live blogging specifically to hear about Google Health.

They had that video with the young couple and how Google provided them with the correct treatment for their infant...but that was all.

http://billkosloskymd.typepad.com/wirelessdoc/2006/05/live_blogging_g.html

Google Co-op is not broken anymore...I can see a webpage now

Weird, I don't see it yet.. what URL are you at Utills?

Bill, if I understood this right then Google Health will be part of Google Co-op.

I don't see it yet either.

Nothing here (UK) at:

http://www.google.com/coop
or http://www.google.com/co-op

This is the URL :

http://www.google.com/coop/

Here is a sample from the site about what they offer :

"Google search covers a wide array of topics. You can contribute to the ones you know best by labeling webpages in those areas. Learn more about topics.

Here are some topics that are currently being developed:

   * Destination Guides
   * Health
   * Autos
   * Computer & Video games
   * Photo & Video equipment
   * Stereo & Home theater "

Most of the links from the Google Coop page dont work such as Subscriptions, Profile, Topics, etc.

One page that is live is the following page:

http://www.google.com/coop/docs/faq_users.html

Hey, it worked! I had to bang on the refresh button a bunch of times to get it.

About Google Health, Marissa said a lot about and we saw several health and hospital logos as part of their google coop.

By The Way Liked Google Trend where you can have as maximum 5 keywords compared by years, regions, cities, languages.

I'm in UK, Sam. The site does seem a little bare though. The whole layout seems jittery with only two images, the google logo and the three coloured balls.

Let me take some screenshots before it dies again.

Philipp: interestingly now -

http://www.google.com/pressday/ is a 404 but without the slash

http://www.google.com/pressday is the right page.

I'm not seeing it either. It mustn't be on all servers yet.

The coop is pretty nice...despite the fact that it's quite buggy right now (have to keep refreshing). I tried the subsections for video games: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=wii+more:images_videos&cx=computer_video_games_devel!&sa=N&oi=coopctx&ct=col1&cd=2

Yep – hitting refresh a few times seems to work.

Philipp – you got it yet?

Coop is worked now, but many pages are still broken :(

http://www.google.com/coop/directory?cx=news this one gives digg

Nope, /coop is still dead for me...

Just keep pressing the refresh button. It seems to work after 5-10 tries.

Keep refreshing. Switch browsers. It will work eventually.

It is very erratic for me with the stylesheet being implemented pretty hit and miss.

Niraj Sanghvi, can you give screenshot? As Co-op works only for some countries.

Philipp – check your inbox. I've mailed you some screenshots.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davyson/144206332/

here's digg on google screenshot: http://ramibotros.googlepages.com/gdigg.PNG

http://www.nirajsanghvi.com/images/misc/google_coop.jpg

Everything seems to be working fine now btw .. it's so fast now.

There's a Google Co-op Group – only 2 members at the moment:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-co-op

Yikes this UI is awkward to use. I have no idea what I am doing but I have subscribed to two feeds (whatever that does).

Anyone sign into their Google Co-op profile yet? Just getting their now.

Just saw that the main idea of Coop is to provide "Subscribed Links" (the same way we see "Sponsered Links"). And digg is one of the choices to subscribe to.

Sam, you're right! I think I need to read the Guides and FAQ before I go any further with this...

Wait, so subscribing is how we see relevant search results (related to the sites we've subscribed too). I don't know which sites are going to be relevant to my search queries, that's Googles job. Is there more to is than that?

about Google trends, quite of ...

Try two words in a certain order A, B and then B, A

The results are differents, ... why ?

Clicking the Google Logo annoyingly takes you to Google.com not to coop home.

Anyone else finding this Co-op feels pretty rushed?

Elias, for example:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=google%2C+yahoo
http://www.google.com/trends?q=yahoo%2C+google

The graph at the top appears to be the same, but the bars at the bottom appear to be different. I assume that they are just ordered using the first term entered. Apart from the colors being reversed, the lengths of the bars (i.e. for Paris, France) appear to be the same.

BTW, the graphs are dynamic PNGs generated on the fly:

i.e. http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=google&graph=weekly_img

Look what server they're running:

Server Response: http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=google&graph=weekly_img
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: image/png
Server: iZeitgeist Frontend
Content-Length: 23743
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 21:48:00 GMT
Connection: Keep-Alive

Does this mean it was going to be called iZeitgeist?

Ditto what Sam Davyson said above – for instance, contact link is broken on this page on item #4:
   http://www.google.com/coop/docs/faq_users.html
The irony is hilarious ...

I like Coop!
You can compare results with Coop (http://pics.livejournal.com/didaio/pic/000cfhgd) and without (http://www.google.com/search?q=wii), I searched "Wii" for pages about Nintendo Wii.

Official Google Blog have post about new services (dated by May, 5th :))

Congrats, Philipp, u'll soon be on digg frontpage.
Anyways, i'll go sleep now .. it's 1 AM!

I'm into co -op!!

> (dated by May, 5th :))

OOPS, my mistake (1 AM :)).

has anyones return key stuck ?? after signing up for co-op ?? grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!! or is it only me ??

pd, what is your co-op's Home page? :)

> I have no idea what I am doing but I have subscribed ...

Hehehe.. when you can pull THAT off as a company, you've hit the jackpot :)

Good catch on iZeitgeist...

And as for Co-op, I can see it now but when I e.g. subscribe to People magazine and search for [angelina jolie], nothing special happens... I also can't search for [flu] to trigger Google Health. Maybe they're slowly rolling this out?

H'm, interested, when Co-op be implemented to Main Google search (from toolbars, Google homepages, etc)?

try this http://peterdawson.typepad.com/scmv2.0

why did it default to my sleath blog ?? under my main url ??

On the Digg front-page now...

Philipp Lessen 15:30:57 on 05/10/06 Error Remove
   URL: http://blogoscoped.com
Log: XML parsing errors:
Wrong toplevel element-- should be Results

this was when I sub'ed to Philipp blog
anyone has a linky to sure ?? for the co-op communiyt for test purpose ??
  
  

pd, I mean your profile page at Co-op. :)

oh the profile page is here

http://www.google.com/coop/profile?user=004314596130829742526
  

Google has not innovated since 1996, when its search was developed. Let's see what they've done since:

Google Pack blows
Google Video blows
Google Base blows
Google Talk blows
Google Finance blows
Froogle blows
Oh wait. Gmail. That was good marketing, I'll grant them that. For an email website. Wow.

Did anyone record the audio of the webcast? Or does anyone have a link to the video if they have released it on Google Video?

I would like to listen to it again, since the first time you often miss things.

Matt Cutts posted the Q&A from the event in his blog: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-press-day-2006/

Here's my profile page – not sure what it's used for:
http://www.google.com/coop/profile?user=001647362868805548177

yeah he linked into blogoscoped too!!

Huh, that's weird. No one in Mainland China has searched for "Democracy" in the last three years...

http://www.google.com/trends?q=democracy&ctab=1&date=all&geo=CN

On the Google.com front-page right now:

"New! Just launched: Google Trends and the latest Google Desktop."

No mention of Google Co-op, but then again it seems to be mainly targeted at developers (at least the "do something with it" part).

Does anyone know how to play only a certain part of the webcast? I can play it, but have to start at the beginning...

Nate, maybe such a search would get blocked by the Chinese gov't before it reaches Google.com servers in the US?

Nate – there are also no results for "democracy" when you restrict the search to e.g. Spain. Maybe the numbers of Chinese users searching for an English term is below the treshold Google applies?

Definition from "Labs" and "Beta". All products is what developed in labs (http://labs.google.com/) now have "Labs" logo (not beta). Exception is Google Video and WebAccelerator.

how do you get bookmarks into sidebar?

Wow, Co-op and Notebook are really ground-breaking for Google.

Phillip probably you're right, "democracia" ("democracy" in spanish) has results in Trends. No news BTW.

Pau Tomàs, Google News doesn't have Spanish version. For it you can't see any related news.

Sorry :(I must go to sleep.... Google News have Spanish version....

Ya know what? I gave the new GDS a try...and it's already gone. I have a pretty good PC, with a lotta power and memory and HD space. And when I ran GDS it went from a Porsche to a...well, a tiny car.

Pass.

Valleywag has some hilarious coverage...
http://www.valleywag.com/tech/google/

Yikes. A Google Trend analysis of the term "Tsunami" produces a startling graph!
http://british-in-america.blogspot.com/2006/05/google-trends-tsunami.html

I can't believe I read the WHOLE THING!!!

The transcribed answer to your Q philipp:

"Under Chinese Law we are required to filter some of the content, on our .cn site not on .com site. From time to time, as you would expect, with any authority you have conversations about how that law should be applied in a particular circumstance"

Btw philipp i think we've subscribed too early .. i had to un- then subscribe agn to digg for it to appear on my results.

http://www.google.com/coop/docs/guide_subscribed_links.html here anybody can also let people subscribe to him. I think that's why they made this profile thing. So it's not only digg.

Does the Google Co-Op program remind anyone else of the del.icio.us service?

I don't know how I feel about the notebook, it sounds like they're just taking Apple's "stickies" and making it more annoying.

Good coverage though, I'm glad I came across this. I posted some thoughts about Google's developments and the "Epic 2015" movie at the link below. Maybe the producers of the film were right?

http://www.yourcollegesurvivalguide.com

where people who type in "www.google.com" into google are located:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=www.google.com&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

very strange results – can someone explain why India is interested in "derivatives" ?

http://www.google.com/trends?q=derivatives&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

google, google, google:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=google%2C+google%2C+google

How come the graphs at the top follow the same line but the 1st of the three bars at the bottom are different? Must have something to do with the "several approximations" used when computing the results...

Try this one – you'll get slightly different lines on top (rounding errors, I s'pose):

google -nothingxyz1, google -nothingxyz2, google -nothingxyz3
http://www.google.com/trends?q=google+-nothingxyz1%2C+google+-nothingxyz2%2C+google+-nothingxyz3&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all

I think Google Notebook is disappointing; I'd expected more / better.

There's too much confusion in between their offerings now, IMHO. There's Blogger and Pages for publishing, there's the whole Bookmarks deal as well, which is pretty much being ignored.

My full list of issues / problems is here: http://www.dhirajgupta.com/Home/tabid/36/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/71/Google-Notebook-sucks.aspx

I think Blogger/Google Pages should be combined somehow. As a single place to create websites. Along with a service like Flickr, (see discussion here.. http://blogoscoped.com/forum/33581.html) to create photo websites/blogs.
And then Google notebook which can publish to one of these services.