BLOG #3: GOOGLE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

SUMMARY

The article “Google Products and Services” was written by Vangie Beal and posted on December 22, 2006. In his article he mentioned in 1996, Google started out as a research project by Larry Page a Sergey Brin, two college students. They made their own computer with the purchased Disk at the bargain price. In 1999, the Beta logo came off the website. Then after their success, Google expanded their business with Blogging, mapping, shopping, research and more.

Google is famous with the search, search services and applications; also it called “perfect search engine”. With the help of Google you can search so many things just by typing the few words; also it can provide you the further links for the explanations. You can access them by clicking “more” on the search page.

The major search criterion on Google is: Book Search, Catalogs, Calculator, Currency exchange in which you can get the value of the currency in other currency. Definitions is the very quick search engine where we can search for anything, you can easily get the explanation of the word or the meaning. You can do shopping on Google products, images will be easily found on the Google. You can do local search, watch movies, listen to music, you can easily get news headlines. Google provides you the facility to find the person information with the help of the phone number or you can easily get the full address just by typing few words for the address. Google can help you find the weather conditions in all countries; you can use the spelling checker or so many further features.

There are few features of online communications for example, bloggers is the main medium of the communication where people can update their daily blogs and it is very easy to use with free services. Another is Page creator, which is the free Web page, provided by Google. Gmail webmail is the software by an ISP that provides the user name and password where you can communicate via emails. Google talks and Google groups are other examples for Google communications.

           Other features that are available are free software and Google mobile services. Google calendar is one of the most recent additions. This service allows you to organize any event for any time of the year. If you own a Gmail account, you can set up events through your email. There are many features that are available through your phone. By going on the Google browser, you are able to search the web, images, etc. A great new feature that’s also available is the Internet Explorer 7 optimized for Google. It allows the person to personalize their Google homepage, the Google toolbar, and also sets Google as the default search engine.

          Along with the free software and Google mobile services, they have offered Google desktop, Picasa, Google pack, Google docs and spreadsheets, and Google mobile. Each of these new features allows you to use Google to a whole other level. All these new apps make using the internet faster and efficient.

PERSONAL OPINION

          After reading this article I found anyone could start business as a student; the only thing is hard work and intentions of being a good worker. As a student Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google as researchers and they made Google so successful that today if anyone wants to search anything, Google will come in very handy. So many searching features made our life so comfortable and smooth we don’t need to ask for help while searching. With the help of Google we can make our full trip cost cheaper as they have full competitor feature. Now we don’t need to have calculator, books, phone numbers, and address notebooks handy we can use Google to have useful information. Google can help us to find best place for shopping with competitor rates.

          Google is coming in very handy with all the new features it’s coming out with. I find that I can get an answer for anything that I search for with the help of Google. Google has become the perfect search engine for me. No other search engine comes to mind when I need to browse the web. The most important feature for me other than the search engine is Google Maps. I use Google maps for any address/location that I need to find.

Questions/feedback:

1.    How helpful is Google for you?

2.    Do you use any Google apps through your phone?

3.    Would you prefer using Hotmail or Gmail?

Reference:

Vangie Beal. (2006, December 22). Google Products and Services

 Retrieved from: http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/Google_Services.asp