Gmail is moving, fingers are fitter, YouTube goes centennial
April 1, 2011
With the help of Gmail Motion, we’ve been working faster than ever this week to build new products and celebrate a few existing ones. Here’s a roundup of our most recent efforts:
- Chromercise helps you increase your hands’ strength and dexterity while browsing the web
- YouTube celebrates its 100th anniversary with a flashback to its original homepage and a blog post by President Taft
- Body Browser lets you explore new anatomical terrain
- Look who’s going Google!
- Google Maps now features strange sightings around the world
- Docs Motion follows Gmail Motion into new gestural terrain
- Meow Me Now helps you find kittens near you
- We announce an exciting acquisition
- Seriously great typists may apply to be autocompleters
- gBlimps: the inevitable new ad platform
- New sessions added to Google I/O
- Fans of Mail Goggles should like the Voice-alyzer function in Google Voice
- New display advertising formats take marketers back to the good old days
- It was only a matter of time before Voice Search became available in this language
- ChromeLite is an even faster version of our browser you know and love
- After extensive user testing, we’ll soon be making Comic Sans the default font for all Google properties—get a preview on the search results page
- Travel through time and space to discover things from “then and now” with Google Teleport Search (in Chinese only)
- Tired of life on Earth? Learn more about a Moon loan
- Use Earkut to receive notifications when someone visits your Orkut profile
- A new look for our webmaster team members
Update 4:06PM: Updated with additional announcements. - Ed.