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Google Ride Finder Beta

Not to be outdone by the excellent third-party Google Map hacks, Google has come out with a hack of their own. Google Ride Finder is an awesome application that uses GPS signals from taxis and plots them on the map. You can see exactly how many taxis are available in your area, and exactly where they are at this moment.

Ride Finder is currently in beta testing, and only available in 12 cities in the U.S., but it is a terrific example of what’s to come.

Next, we’ll have parents tracking their teenage kids…

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Googlicious

adj.
1. Highly pleasing or agreeable to the end user, especially the functionality and performance.
2. Very pleasant; delightful: a googlicious web interface.

The knowledge management system I am working on is tightly entwined with Verity’s Ultraseek search engine technology. One of the recurring requests we used to get about search functionality (both the search form and the results) was simple: make it more like Google.

It seems like almost everyone loves Google. And why not? It’s got a simple, no-nonsense interface that puts little in the way between me and my task: to find something. It’s fast. And the results are very accurate. Things should be more like Google. Simple. Purposeful. Incredibly useful… maybe even Indispensable.

So that’s my goal. Create interfaces that are a pleasure to use.

Googlicious.