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• Power Tip • New Products • Miscellany Esteemed readers, our warmest new year's greetings to you from all of us at the Googleplex. We hope you enjoy this fresh batch of news and updates on Google services. At the bottom of this message, you'll find details on subscribing to or canceling this newsletter. Power Tip Meet the product guides Reporters find them useful, and you might too. We publish a variety of reviewer's guides to selected Google products on the Google Press Center. These contain overviews of specific features and setup steps (if needed). We add new ones or update them, so check back now and again. http://www.google.com/press/guides.html We're feeling festive You might spot a visual theme now and again in some of our contextual ads - it's a subtle way to highlight a special day or season, and we plan to feature thematic graphics for holidays throughout the year. Read more about our first holiday ads in December on the Google Blog. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/decking-halls.html New Products Google Personalized Homepage for mobile Take your Google homepage with you. Now you can access your Google Personalized Homepage selections (Gmail message previews, news headlines, weather, stock, movie showtimes, plus your pick of web content via feed) in a format that's friendly to the small screen. http://mobile.google.com/personalized/ Google Earth for the Mac Macintosh fans let us know they were keen to see the whole Earth too, and now it's available as a beta service for (as Mac fanatics used to say) the rest of us, so that Mac and PC users can all enjoy zooming in, measuring routes and lots more. http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Video store Our Google Video uploader program has encouraged the submission of thousands of clips from videomakers of all kinds. Now Google Video is enhanced with a store where you can buy or rent current and classic episodes of thousands of hours of video, including CBS programs, games from the NBA, music videos - even entire movies - and watch them using the new Google Video player. Special bonus: Watch a webcast (or read the transcript) of our co-founder Larry Page's keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show, where he unveiled the new Google Video. http://video.google.com http://www.google.com/press/podium.html (January 6) Google Pack Google Pack is a free collection of essential software to help you browse the web faster, remove spyware and viruses, organize your photos, and more. We put it together with a number of software companies like Adobe and Symantec to help take the hassle out of downloading, installing, and updating software that helps you have a better web experience. You can download and install the entire Google Pack in just a few clicks. And the included Google Updater helps you discover new programs and keep your current software up to date. http://pack.google.com Personalized Search: Trends Trends are a new way to look at the searches you've done on Google. To use Trends, you need to have Personalized Search turned on and be signed in to your Google Account. You'll see graphs and lists detailing your own search activity, including top searches, most-visited websites, daily activity by hour and other interesting tidbits. If no Trends appear, just check back in a couple of days. http://www.google.com/psearch/trends Miscellany The 2005 Year-End Zeitgeist Every week, and every month, and once a year, we take a close look at the search trends we see thanks to millions of queries that Google users make using our service. What is top of mind? What do people really want to know about, and when? Sometimes we know why - celebrity gossip is always popular, and sports wins, as is the passing of the famous -- but sometimes we don't. (Human nature still has its mysteries, after all.) Our annual look back at the year in search queries covers topics both serious and fun, and in 2005 we studied the trends of selected searches in a graphical format. We don't make hard and fast conclusions so much as we marvel at the volume of curiosity that builds from each word typed into a white box on a plain page. http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist2005.html If you enjoyed reading this, you might also like the Picasa newsletter. Be the first to learn about the latest features, tips and tricks with Google's free photo software. 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