The search giant may be launching a calendar-style events manager, with all the trimmings, according to bloggers.Various bloggers claim that Internet search company Google Inc. is about to unleash a calendar-style events manager, in its latest foray against software giant Microsoft Corp.
Three different bloggers, citing anonymous sources, said Google Calendar debuts Wednesday, and it will have tie ins to Google's Gmail e-mail and Google Maps features.
"Calendaring can be done so much better," blogger Paul Kedrosky writes. "And while Google is as likely as the next company to get it wrong, the Rules of Monkeys and Typewriters applies."
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Google representatives did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.
Google whispers abound, and many end up existing only in the circular logic of the blogosphere. Generally, the ones that stick around longest tend to have a better chance of being true.
Google Calendar 'blogged' itself into existence in February when Dave Jung flat out predicted a Google Calendar to come, after noticing that Google's automated Web crawlers were "pinging the hell" out of his church's Web site for calendar information.
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Some evidence that has been cited since involves how a likely Web address that Google would use for such a service, calendar.google.com, is active, although it does mirror Google's main Web page.
Penciling in a Google Calendar fits into Google's apparent strategy of creating an array of services to match those of Microsoft, the software giant which operates the popular MSN Internet portal.
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