Google and the Cloud

Google has taken everything they can to the cloud from their Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, to start and then there is Youtube, Maps, Earth, Picasa, .... it just keeps going.  

Where will it end.  It won't. Their Android OS for mobile phones,  and their Chrome OS for the future net books, indicate that Google wants to be on the top of the cloud and are giving it everything they can to make it simple and affordable. (free)

Everyone has a favorite Google tool and my current one is Google Mobile. The latest version which runs on smart phones has an amazing feature... Voice Search!  Simply stated, you push a button on your phone, say what you want and it appears at record speed on you mobile browser, voila!  I couldn't believe that it worked so well on my first try.  I pushed the green handset button on my phone and spoke the words " temperature in Panama City Florida" in less that 3 seconds it had converted my words to the exact text that I had spoken, done a search and presented me the current temperature and associated current weather information along with additional searches that it selected including the local radar link in case I wanted to see the weather condition too!  Mind boggling. I wish I knew how they did it so fast, but actually I don't care.  They hooked me.  No more typing for searches on my phone which has been a pain.  Its so cool.
I now find myself using it at wine stores asking for the price of a particular wine to see if I'm getting a good deal when the say its a sale, or I can say ... wine spectator rating ..... and include the name of the wine and instantly I've got the answer.
This is one cool feature but its even cooler if you have an Android supported phone so I'm told. I'll have to get one of these soon.  I've got more to say about Google Mobile and will have for a long time to come I bet.