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Better flight stats results

Filed under: Official Google Blog — Wrote by Lees on Sunday, May 4th, 2008 @ 2:22 am

Posted by Nick Weininger, Software
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The holiday season is upon us, and we know that
many amongst you are traveling to be with family and friends. To
make sure you spend more time celebrating and less time waiting at
the airport, we're introducing a new flight status feature that
we hope will make your travels easier.

For the latest information on a flight's status, simply search
for an airline and flight number, and the first result will tell
you whether your flight is on time or delayed as well as the
estimated departure and arrival times. Here's a quick example
for a specific American Airlines flight:

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Hopefully this makes your makes your travels a little smoother.
Happy holidays from the Google Search team.

P.S. We're still working on building a search feature that will
find your lost luggage

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Find a needle in a feedstack with Google Reader

Filed under: Official Google Blog — Wrote by Lees on Friday, December 7th, 2007 @ 10:35 pm

Posted by Ben Darnell, Google Reader
Engineer

The fundamental problem with information is that there's too
much of it, and this is probably why we all go to our trusted
sources to learn what we really need to know. Your sources
filter out the noise and present the most interesting bits to you
in a useful way. For many of us, these sources include newspapers,
magazines, and of course blogs. We built href="http://reader.google.com/" >Google Reader as a way for you
to see all of your online sources in one place.

So if you want to keep up with the chatter about the new iPods or
Superbad, now you can. We've added a familiar search box
to the top of Google Reader so you can search across all the blogs
and sites to which you're subscribed.

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