Gmail Web Clippings

Gmail introduced a new feature recently, showing "Web Clippings" at the top of your Gmail message list. The clippings are customizable, but the automatic ones are context sensitive which leads to interesting results. For example, the clippings when in the spam folder are predominantly links to recipes using Spam brand luncheon meat, like this recipe for Spam Breakfast Burritos.

Google Music

Google has added a music search function. The search adds a short form with the artists name, a few of the artists albums and songs and an option to find "More music results for" the artist whenever a singer, songwriter or band name is searched on the regular Google site.

"Music is popular, and people want to find music," Joe Wilcox, analyst for JupiterResearch said. "Google is first and foremost about information and connecting people to that information. To me, music makes perfect sense. The question is why didn't Google do this sooner?"

Google Launches Music Search Feature

Google Print Goes Live

Google Print, the controversial Google project to scan the world's libraries and make them available online, went live today in a limited version. Currently only non-copyright protected books are available.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information, but much of that information isn't yet online. Google Print aims to get it there by putting book content where you can find it most easily – right in your Google search results.