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Google Calendar
Google (or whomever) search for events happening on a certain date | |
I was trying to find all the gallery openings in the Meat Packing district tonight. (We have been invited to one, but the galleries down there tend to cluster openings to attract more patrons to all, and it would be fun to visit some others at the same time.)
So what I would like to see is a search
feature that picked out events posted on web pages, then let me search amongst those events by date and/or time and my desired keywords ["gallery openings -weird"]. (Since every website uses a different convention to convey dates, it's very hard to do this manually.)
Google has a Local service that allows you to search by ZIP code, but while I always hesitate to suggest new features for commercial services, I think this is a niche they could usefully explore.
The Meat Packing district
http://www.newyorkm...ods/meatpacking.htm
"chock full of hip restaurants, exclusive clubs, and paycheck-draining boutiques." [DrC] should feel right at home. [angel, Sep 15 2005]
Google Hacks
http://douweosinga....jects/googlehistory
Would this be for the teacher's version? [Scythan, Sep 15 2005]
Shhh! Someone's listening.
http://google.weblo...ith-their-practice/
(Waves to Google) [Dub, Apr 26 2006]
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This is a great idea - if it were also linked to a reliable online calendar that knows what public holidays are happening where and when, I'd be purchasing stock at this very moment. |
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what the devil is the meat packing area? :) |
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good question, i wasn't going to mention it. |
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Thanks [angel], it sounds like New York's equivalent of Smithfield(s?) Market. |
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thought it was going to be a bit like Soho. |
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*our* calendar is much better - time for an airing. |
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Good idea. zen-tom's extension makes it even better. I'll bet teachers could make good use of it too if the calendar could be filtered even further (like days weird things happened in history, important discoveries were made, etc...) |
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Add it to Google Images as well, to find pictures of a certain date and location. |
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a universal calendar would be great, although I think a subscription model, like Apple's iCal (/Sunbird) would work best. |
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hmmn, perhaps [Dub] means google calendar (see link). They do imply that you can search 'public' calendars, e.g. one's you don't know about by name. |
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[neilp] Yes, I did - I assumed everyone had heard of it by now - I thought, judging by the timing that just maybe someone at Google found the post, and created Google Calendar specifically as a response to this post! |
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[jutta]Oni soit qui mal y pense - I wasn't being naughty, 'onest. |
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Good idea; I always want to find out when the 5-million people "races" are in Central Park, so I can stay the heck away from it on those days. Noisy drunk bird-scaring nature-nonappreciating bunch of wild screaming lunatics. |
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I currently try Googling "central park 2006 race etc." but there are apparently four thousand places in the world called Central Park, and 260000 cities named "New York" as well as 13 thousand "Manhattans" so it's useless. Bun. |
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Google Calendar is a google-owned frontend to the independent iCal XML format, and has little or nothing to do with this idea, which is about understanding natural language clues about dates and times in human text. |
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IIRC anyone can write a component that will plug into the calendar and do whatever they want...Which includes tying time and space together - e.g. producing a specific calendar of information about events (including opening times) specific to a given location -
...If they wanted to - Someone //just// has to write a plug in. |
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So it's not about searching for the ideal utensil for draining wet peas or beans or spaghetti? |
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