Professional journalist and freelance writer for hire Hi I'm a Freelance journalist from Monash University in Australia. I’m currently studying an Arts/Journalism degree while working for my local paper. I'm currently looking for long term clients who would buy articles from me on a daily/weekly basis. Everything I write is written to Associated Press guidelines and standards. This means it could be (and has been) printed in a major metropolitan or national News Paper. My details and a sample of my work are printed below. I hope to hear from you via a PM ASAP. Cheers James Name: James leach Nationality: Australian Native language: English Academic Institution: Monash University Education: 3rd Year University Academic Certificates: available on request Rate: 0.01 per word (negotiable) TAR: 6 hours for 10 articles Payment: PayPal or bank transfer Google Squared For those of you who don’t know, Google Labs is Google’s testing ground for its new and future features. It lets users like you and me go and preview what Google has in store and have our say about whether their new ideas are good or bad. It also lets Google see how their new features work in the real world without exposing them to Google’s millions of everyday users. Google maps, Google trends and Google Docs are all alumni of www.googlelabs.com/. For every star student however there’s one who didn’t quite make the grade and Google labs has its fair share of drop outs. Remember Google X? Don’t worry not many people do; after all it was only on Google labs for a day back in 2005 before it was pulled without explanation. It was a new version of Googles home page which replaced the boring old words above the search bar with an apple type dock user interface. More of you may remember Google accelerator or possibly Google answers, while these two had more luck than Google X they too failed to catch on and were eventually abandoned. Google Labs is great fun but you must always remember never to get too attached to any of its features because as illustrated above, there’s no guarantee that the features which you are playing with today, will be there tomorrow. These days Google Labs has extended its reach, with other Google ventures such as Google Maps, Youtube and Gmail all having their own Labs site. The first new feature which I’m going to look at is called Google squared. Essentially it organises your search into a grid format and gives you a small amount of information on each sub category within your search. For example if you Google American states, Google would generate a grid listing all the American states, a short description of each and other important information like capital, population and location. At first glance this feature looks impressive, it quickly generates and organises a large amounts of information into a highly simple and accessible format. However I see two problems which may prevent Google squared from ever becoming a main stream Google feature. The most obvious is that it isn’t a highly useful feature. I mean think about it, how many times do you search for something with the aim of finding small amounts of information on many sub categories of your search Phrase. This feature may be useful for students doing assignments on American states or European nations but beyond that I see very little practical application. The only other mainstream use I see for Google squared is for prospective shoppers who want to look at different types of IPods for example, but even then I think other shopping sites could probably offer more relevant information in a similar format. That leads me to the second major problem with Google squared and that is that it doesn’t always deliver the most accurate or relevant information. The description box for example is taken from the first listing on Google for the category, and hence it often doesn’t describe the category at all. For example, after searching “Cars†the description for Porsche was just a list of countries, similarly, for the Ford Focus, all that came up was a URL which just looked like gibberish. Also not everything in the grid is meant to be there. When I searched for Australian states, not only did I get the ones I was meant to but also small Island nations like Samoa and even a guy called John Cain.