Google widgets

These widgets can offer your clients or customers directions directly on your website, show a small event calendar or even add a desktop chat.

I wouldn’t start throwing them on your site for ‘cool’ purposes only, though. You should choose those that are marketing smart and not gratuitous toys. Unless, of course, your target audience is totally captivated by gratuitous toys.  I’ve used the mp3 player for radio commercials and the google maps widget. The mp3 player works for almost everyone and no one has to download a plugin that works with their operating system.

The widget I HATE the most would be the spider, though. Put that on your web page and I promise to never visit your site. I confess that I am downright horrible at google pacman but at least it’s free.

I added the currency converter so you can take it for a test drive. It took 5 seconds to install.