Just noticed that Google’s music search has gone live (am I living under a rock again?) [caption id=”attachment_89” align=”aligncenter” width=”500” caption=”The preview player is pretty slick too, wow”][/caption]

At 12:00 Beijing time on June 27, 2008 (00:00 US Eastern Time on June 27), Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates officially retired today. Related reports: Bill Gates officially retires For det...

Came across yet another new Google service — Google Site. This service is roughly the equivalent of a special-interest group site or a personal homepage service, letting you share your articles, photos, videos, schedules, life plans and so on with a group of people who share your interests. It lets you create and edit web pages online as easily as editing a document. You could treat it as just another personal homepage service, but I think it’s better suited as a platform for a club to share and communicate. Take this guy’s, for example: http://sites.google.com/a/googleuniversity.org/ski-club/Home He set up a ski club homepage on GSITE.

(Late May update: Firefox screen word capture is now supported!) On May 8, Kingsoft and Google, the world’s largest search engine company, jointly held a press conference at the Avic Hotel in Beijing to announce the official release of their co-branded product, Google PowerWord. http://cp.iciba.com/news/2008/05/08/120894.shtml Downloads are already available online. http://download.iciba.com/pwl/powerwordlite.25269.3008.exe PowerWord’s size has shrunk from over 300 MB to just over 20 MB! This makes downloads easier for users while saving disk space. PowerWord users will also get timely access to a rich vocabulary sourced from the internet. Google PowerWord has three major features: Free Internet-based Innovative machine translation technology