No, really:
After a long and arduous development process, we’ve released our first gadget for Google Desktop! Now you can see this week’s comic book releases right in Google sidebar.
You can download it here, where the official blurb says:
Never miss an issue with this gallery of the week’s hottest covers from Marvel Comics. Click on a cover to see a description of that issue and click through to Marvel.com to view the full details about this book.
Technology is advertising’s friend, apparently.
November 21st, 2006 at 11:45 pm
I wonder if the list of “releases” is generated from Marvel or from Diamond. Marvel constantly lists items as shipping that aren’t and don’t. This is a useless item if it doesn’t use Diamond’s information and as always be careful of spyware.
Also this gadget would only truly be useful if it included DC comics. A truly nice utility would be one that monitored Diamond’s ship lists and sent you notices of whatever comics you were interested in as being shipped.
Of course all of this is unnecessary if you have a subscription folder at your LCS and use Diamond Previews to pre-order your comics!