Google: Gadgets, SearchMash

October 3rd, 2006

GoogleGoogle made a few new announcements today. Fairly stunning is that the Google Gadgets used for people’s customized Google home pages, are now available for people to embed in any web page. This is pretty cool, as the widgets include RSS feed readers, weather, stock quotes, and loads more. It definitely makes Google Gadgets worth a second look to see if there’s anything appropriate for other presentations.

SearchMash might be a preview of the next iteration of Google, or something else. It’s basically web page search with images on the right side, but stripped down to its minimum. There is a little bit of funkyness with a vertical scroll, and how images don’t have names or indicators of what sites they’re from. So it’s a bit underwhelming over all, but keeping in mind the scale-back of Amazon’s A9, maybe simpler is the way to go.

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