Google Inc. is introducing on Thursday a free Web calendar service for consumers to schedule events and share them with others. Google Calendar, available at www.google.com/calendar, offers a variety of features to make using Web calendars as easy as desktop calendars such as Outlook, allowing users to “drag and drop” events from one calendar to another. The coding is pretty good as always when Google put fingers into something. Users of Gmail may find the Google Calendar particularly useful. Google’s software scours Gmail to recognise mentions of events and then automatically offers the user to add the date information to the calendar.
Details of the long-rumored calendar, complete with screenshots of features and instruction guides, had leaked out in late February among Silicon Valley technology enthusiasts. The calendar poses a direct challenge to Yahoo Calendar, the No. 1 Web calendar service in the United States, which was introduced in 1998 and has changed little in substance in recent years. But Google said it plans to “play nice” and allow users to share Google Calendar events with Yahoo Calendar. Friendly approach, quality services and all for free. That’s what I like about Google…
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