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If you’re in the United States, there’s a good chance that you’ll spend your evening watching the presidential election results roll in. The only problem is that there’s not enough action! Most states close the polls at the same time, and depending on how saucy the exit-poll watchers are, there could be long stretches of time between real action, which is calling a state for a given candidate. Here’s what you should be looking at on your phone or tablet while watching the results: Google Trends. You can break down election-related search terms by state or the Nation, and dropping tidbits like “New Hamshire is searching for Obama way more often than they’re searching for Romney” is the kind of fun fact that will get you invited to more election day parties, even if you did have to google “who is running for president” earlier today.
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When you run as many services as Google does, every once in a while you’re going to have to do some pruning. Evidently Mountain View’s got the secateurs out, having just announced the next batch of its projects that will be getting axed wound down. For the chop are: AdSense for Feeds, Classic Plus, Spreadsheet Gadgets, Places for Android, and +1 Reports in Webmaster Tools. Other services are being merged into existing properties to prevent overlap, such as Google Storage for Picasa and Drive — which are now consolidated — and Insights for Search is now part of Google Trends. Naturally, the search giant claims this is all about streamlining, and improving other core products. If the retired service involves a paid subscription, or legacy data, then you’ll need to check the specifics on the official blog to find out how this will affect you, which fortunately for you, is just a tap of the source link away.
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