Online Observations

Google finally gave way to massive requests for PDF support to be added to Google Docs. There were a number of users who felt that this was a sorely missing feature in Google’s offering. I guess you don’t have much of a choice if you get comments such as this one asking you to give this feature:

"If you’re listening O Great Google Demi-Gods, we supplicate
thee for PDF storage!!"

While this is a welcome feature, it is still far away from being a full-fledged module of Google Office. Currently, you can do the following:

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For years, I have had one complaint with Microsoft Windows. And that is the fact that the progress bars in Windows never show the right status. The amount of progress shown on the bar is never an indicator of the amount of time remaining versus amount of time taken so far. Ideally, equal amounts of length on the progress bar should represent equal amounts of time.

Google, it seems, can’t crack this either.

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I use MS Office extensively and haven’t though I have tried to use Google Docs off and on, I haven’t been able to stick around on it. Still, I keep following what’s going on with the ‘Google Office’ just in case they make a break through which makes it easy for me to shift.

Despite all the claims where people say that Google Docs is not meant to be a replacement for MS Office and is a different offering all together, it seems that with every new enhancement it gets closer to office. Take for instance the latest additions to Google Presentation:

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Digital Inspirations let us know that Google has launched a mobile version of Orkut. Now, apparently there has been no official announcement yet. So, this is something which is still under testing probably.

The Url for the mobile site is http://m.orkut.com. Here’s a look at the home page once you log in.

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Google announced yesterday that the Google spiders will now fill out forms to access dynamically generated pages which till now were inaccessible to search engines. This gives Google the ability to start indexing the Deep Web.

Google promises to follow “good Internet citizenry practices”, but then again not a lot of people trust Google:

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