The saga of the geeky Google Desktop T-Shirt continues
Do you remember my rant post about not being able to order my free Google Desktop T-Shirt that I got after submitting a Google Search API .NET Wrapper?
I’ve decided today that I’ll go to the GoogleStore again and try again.
I got in, enter the coupon code and it work. Oh what joy!
Expect to see me with my Geeky Google T-Shirt rollering around Tel Aviv on my newly bought K2 Exo 4.0 Rollerblades (I’m still a rollerblades virgin, so you’ll probably see me more on my ass than actually roller blading).
" doc_version: "1" last_updated: "2017-06-02" date: 2005-07-03 tags: [GDS, Google, Google-Desktop-Search, T-Shirt] canonical: "https://eran.sandler.co.il/2005/07/03/goolge-are-not-so-bad-after-all/" --- ## Sitemap - [Home](https://eran.sandler.co.il/) The saga of the geeky Google Desktop T-Shirt continues Do you remember my [**rant post**][1] about not being able to order my free Google Desktop T-Shirt that I got after submitting a [**Google Search API .NET Wrapper**][2]? I’ve decided today that I’ll go to the [**GoogleStore**][3] again and try again. I got in, enter the coupon code and it work. Oh what joy! Expect to see me with my Geeky Google T-Shirt rollering around Tel Aviv on my newly bought [**K2 Exo 4.0 Rollerblades**][4] (I’m still a rollerblades virgin, so you’ll probably see me more on my ass than actually roller blading). **Google Maps API Finally Released** On another Google note, Google released their first version of the public [**API for Google Maps**][5]. Now that’s something I’ve been waiting to see. The only thing I find missing is the Search Ability they have in their own [**Maps site**][6] which enables you to write something like “Pizza Place, Washington D.C., USA” and get all Pizza places in Washington D.C.. They don’t expose it yet, but they do give a link to a [**query in Google**][7] for free [**geocoding**][8] sites that can give you geographic locations for streets and places. I wonder if I can cook up a web site that will let you do a few things: 1. Search for location using text queries (like “Pizza Place, Washington D.C., USA”) and show them on the map (similar to [**Google Maps**][6]) 2. Let you add new places by marking them on the map, adding their address and some text to them and saving them to my database. 3. Add a Web Service that will enable everyone to query my database. What do you think? [1]: http://erans.blogspot.com/2005/06/my-so-called-google-desktop-search.html [2]: http://our.homeunix.org/googlesearch/ [3]: http://eran.sandler.co.il/www.googlestore.com [4]: http://www.k2skates.com/products/skate.asp?ProductID=5 [5]: http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ [6]: http://maps.google.com [7]: http://www.google.com/search?q=free+geocoder [8]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocoding