Google to Kill World Time market ?

try a search on google for Time in LA or Time in London ..

see what I see

Los Angeles, California, US — Current local time: 1:31 AM on Tuesday, March 6
According to http://www.google.com

screen shot :

google timezone

I don’t know how new it is .. lol so maybe they won’t kill the timezone market place, but timeanddate.com didn’t get a click from me, I guess timeanddate.com aren’t feeling the google love at the moment..

DaveN

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8 Comments | Leave a comment »

  1. 1. Pete Wailes | March 6th 2007 @ 10:46 am

    I’d noticed this a while ago. But it can’t yet do what I want, and tell me that if it’s 3am CST, what is it in GMT? or PST? Or what time is it in Calcutta…

    I want Google to do be a time conversion thingy damnit. Who cares about search? Time conversion is where it’s at, baby!

    (Note. I’m not being serious. I really would like it to convert times, but that’s not “where it’s at, baby!”)

  2. 2. Amit Agarwal | March 6th 2007 @ 1:03 pm

    Dave - almost all search engines have the “time in” operator since long.

    Infact ask.com has a much better implementation than Google.

  3. 3. Dudibob | March 6th 2007 @ 2:00 pm

    I think this is worse than Google being top of adwords for there own stuff :/

  4. 4. ukgimp | March 6th 2007 @ 2:03 pm

    so did you wake the person up?

  5. 5. g1smd | March 7th 2007 @ 12:24 pm

    *** can’t yet do what I want, and tell me that if it’s 3am CST, what is it in GMT? or PST? Or what time is it in Calcutta… ***

    That’s what timeanddate.com CAN do for you.

    And, GMT ceased to exist in 1971. It has been called UTC since that time…

  6. 6. Jack | March 12th 2007 @ 12:42 pm

    I think this has been on Google for a while. I’ve been using it for a long time, that’s for sure. But I believe they used to have it as text, with links below. Perhaps a better way of doing it?

    And for the record g1smd, I still refer to GMT as GMT. Always have. And I was born in 1979… Infact, UTC is a new concept to me.

  7. 7. Max Downunder | March 13th 2007 @ 1:10 am

    It’s not so unlike when you type in anything with an address you get served a google map right at the top - We seem to compete with these for a lot of our RE searches. People are looking for a house on a specific street and they get a map.. Not sure how this is 100 % relevant in terms of user experience.

  8. 8. Ketan | March 13th 2007 @ 8:49 pm

    Wait, till the point when Google will be sued in the same fashion as Microsoft was for bundling all goodies in its OS!!!

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