How will Gmail look like if it is designed by Microsoft. Here is a humerus explanation of the Gmail design by Microsoft with the screen shots.

Google X is another wonderful product from google labs. It consist of traditional google search text box with Doc like interface at the top. Which pulled off a day later after it appeared. The reason behind the page disappeared is unknown. The rumor is that it was pulled because of a threatened lawsuit by Apple. Apple has patent protection covering the implementation of the Dock effect, together with trademark protection for the graphical design elements of the Dock.

For those who missed Google X can see the demo which created by me from the source code at http://www.boinc.ch/~webofunni/googlex/ .

Screen shot of google X

Need more :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlex

http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2005/03/16/google-x-pulled/

One thing that make me love google is its lab that always comes with new interesting products. There are lot of wonderfull products from google.

Including

Google desktop http://desktop.google.com/

Google earth http://earth.google.com/

Hello http://www.hello.com/

Mail notifier http://mail.google.com/mail/help/notifier/notifier_windows.html

Google pack http://pack.google.com/

Picasa http://picasa.google.com/

Gmail http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/about_mobile.html

And lot more. You can get the full list from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_services

The newest from google labs are some efforts to add some more features to its existing search facility. You can see the experiments they done at http://www.google.com/experimental/ . Lets see what are they.

1. Timeline and map views

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Google’s technology extracts key dates and locations from select search results so you can view the information in a different dimension.

example search : http://www.google.com/views?q=nanotechnology%20view%3Atimeline

2. Keyboard shortcuts

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By this they are trying to implement keyboard shortcut to navigate search result.

Example search : http://www.google.com/search?q=rattlesnake&esrch=BetaShortcuts

3. Left-hand search navigation

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Is google following clusty http://clusty.com/

See the example search result : http://www.google.com/search?esrch=RefinementBarLhsGradientPreview&q=ipod

4. Right-hand contextual search navigation

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Left box moved to right nothing more ……………….

Example search : http://www.google.com/search?esrch=RefinementBarRhsPreview&q=python