WHOOo WHOoo!! Last night Google jumped on board the Mac OS X Widget Wagon (WW for short (pronounced dub dub)) in a big way, and it was about time. Google released 3 new widgets, including one that connects you to a quick view of your Gmail account. This widget lets you see that last few messages in you inbox and is kind of a gimmick if you ask YISTA. I mean, if you hang out on your widget screen all day then maybe it could come in handy. One really cool part of this widget was the ability to run a quick search against all of your Gmail mail.

Another widget Google released was also long awaited and is quite useful: a Blogger widget. Considering that Wordpress and Bloglines have had theirs for a while now, it was a good idea for Google to finally release this tool.

The last widget that Google released is, of course, their search history tool. We’re not sure how this tool integrates with your browser of choice. Perhaps it only works with Safari? It does require you to already have a Google accounts login (i.e. Gmail account) which means that your search history is stored on Google’s servers. This could easily be considered a privacy issue for some (including me), as your searches are being directly attached to your profile.

This seems to be a new trend with Google as their new Google Desktop 3 software has an optional remote searching capability that allows you to search you remote systems via the web for files, emails, pics, etc… If this feature is turned on you are actually allowing Google to index and cache that information on their own servers (for a limited time). This had brought out a lot of press at the time of release, some good and some bad, even though this “feature” is controlled by the end-user.

You can find out more info regarding these widgets in Google Groups.