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Google, on the other hand, is a search engine. That is, it was just a search engine. Last year, Google launched Google Base, a database where people can list items for sale, among other things. It’s similar in ways to eBay — but free. Google started testing their own online payment system last year, and their Google Talk service (think Skype) is in beta mode.

Thinkpad (AXcess News) Reno, NV - Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) debuted Google Spreadsheets Tuesday through its Google Labs. Google Spreadsheets, in beta form, is being made available to a limited number of applicants on a first-come, first-served basis.

(AXcess News) Reno, Thursday, Google launched a free scheduling tool called Google Calander for keeping track of schedules, whether they're on your own agenda or on the calendars of contacts who opt to share their schedules with you. Carl Sjogreen, Product Manager, post in Google Blog Thursday morning about Google Calander in which he said Google made it very easy to use and to invite others to view scheduled events on your Calander.

Microsoft Google outlines on its Google Spreadsheet pages that you can upload your existing spreadsheets in CSV or XLS format, or you can create them from scratch.

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Laptop Computers Google Spreadsheet offers more user-friendly editing buttons arranged in a desktop format. Microsoft's Excel is a little complex in comparison.

Google Desktop gives you easy access to information on your computer and from the web. It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, music, photos, chats and web pages that you've viewed. By making your computer searchable, Google Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks. It makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google.

Laptop Computer Today's offering for a free online spreadsheet application from Google shows the nation's No. 1 search engine is starting to encroach on Microsoft's turf. This launch of Google Spreadsheet is the second application in competition to Microsoft that search giant has ventured into. Last March Google acquired Writely, an online word processor that offers similar word processing functions as Microsoft Word in Microsoft Office.

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Desktop Computer One unique feature of using Google Spreadsheet is that you can share it with others you select online. Just enter the email addresses of the people you want to share a given document, and then send them a message, says Google Spreadsheet's description page.

Notebooks But a cool feature is multiple editorial spreadsheet capabilities through Google's file sharing approach. Now I was impressed with that!

Lenovo "Multiple people can edit or view your spreadsheet at the same time as you - their names will appear in an on-screen chat window," writes Google in its Google Spreadsheet description section.

Hard Drive You can access your Google Spreadsheets from anywhere, as the search engine gives users file space for storing their work online. Some may argue about privacy issues in storing sensitive material online, but there are distinct advantages in that others can find it if you want them to. But there was no information on whether anyone could find it as an html page within the search engine's huge web page index. This was a feature made available (by user option) in Google's Writely word processing application. But the search giant may have taken too much flack over it and left web page formatted html versions out of the loop for the present.

Travelstar Google share enthusiasts greeted the Google Spreadsheets beta feature with enthusiasm, lifting Google's stock up $12.81, or 3.4 percent, to $387.27 in late afternoon trading in New York.

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