While testing Google Spreadsheet, I discovered this amazing feature: googlelookup. What id does is very simple, it can retrieve information form the web and return it into the cell. For example I can write a formula that looks like this =GoogleLookup("John lennon", "date of birth") and it will return Wednesday October 9 1940. You can also try =GoogleLookup("Roger Clemens";"earned run average") and it will return the info !
More on this amazing feature can be found here
When I saw that, It reminded me of the movie "Minority Report", you know when they are lost in the city and go to a special place to ask a super computer all questions of the world. Congrats to the Google Team for pulling this off
Posted by: Mathieu Nouzareth | March 26, 2007 at 02:42 AM
Glad you like it (googleLookup function)...
Don't forget to try googleFinance() also... it gives ticking stock prices - 15 minute-delayed, but you can watch them update (ajaxy)...
Posted by: JR | March 25, 2007 at 10:50 PM