“Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
We are in 2007, and we can say congratulation to Google, especially for their CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt (Chairman of the Executive Committee). They accomplished many things in 2006, their services were almost in full shape, and we cannot forget the $1.65 billion USD deal of YouTube.
Like I said in the previous post, Google is not only a normal search engine today, but it got many other services which we will go through in this post.
“Did you ever try www.googlw.com?”
Web Search that’s what most of us know the giant for, it is the best search engine when we want to find something over the internet. It needed two brains like Larry Page & Sergey Bin to create it, and since its birth it is having major upgrades to survive on the top among them all.
Images Search well they wanted us to be their first and second choice, so if we need to search for images related to topics or keywords, here we go, didn’t try it yet? So you should.
Video Search oh common’ what else? Today Google provide us with the video search where we can find video clips, documentaries, commercials… and to support their point they just bought YouTube.Com the biggest movies sharing directory on the net, so the $1.65 billion were paid for each one of you tubers, but what you got?
News ok am some who hate to follow up the radio or tv news, as well I hate to go get the world news from sites, not even cnn.com was a site that I would like to go to every day, but Google just gave it to me, I just keep the news.google.com page opened in my browser, very simple interface, not heavy to load like others, it reloads automatically every 10 minutes, it got all types of news so I am updated for the top stories and if I got more time I will search for some others.
Maps we can never get lost with Google, not only yahoo got their maps section but the giant made his own interface too.
Books oh copyrighting we forgot this? Never, they done it and now they got problems with many publishing houses, but their books search is one of the bests and they are on top as well.
Blogs ok if you are an internet user, you should know about bloging Google just wanted every one of you to have his/her own blog even without having your hosting account, or know how to build it, just register there and they will give it to you with clicks. All you need your writing skills to start filling your blog with posts. Be sure your skills are better than mine 
Froogle maybe you like to shop on the internet than anywhere else to save up time, but your problem you hate to go from site to another, so here is the solution Froogle by Google.
Earth you dream to have your own satellite and start traveling from a place to another over the globe. They knew this and they gave it to you, just with Google Earth software application. Oh a big firm who used to buy 3D visuals to integrate their work for some publications or demos? Well just buy the corporate Google Earth and you have it all.
Gmail oh my account is limited to 2MB sorry I cannot get this e-mail, who said so? Google was the first to provide you with a free web mail with a 1GB of space, your problem was solved even before the Microsoft Live Mail (honestly I don’t know what would had cost those people to be more generous with us like was yahoo). So if you want yourname@gmail.com just contact me and will send you an invitation, just got 40 left.
Docs & Spread Sheets I am not on my computer and I need to write something urgent on word and than save it, ok you don’t need to have Microsoft Word or other applications, nor save it on that computer than e-mail it to your inbox or whatever, just use this service, same goes for the spread sheets.
Picasa I don’t know about how to use design softwares not even I got any, because I hate them know nothing about them, ok picasa is where you can find, edit and share your photos 3 in 1. oh the name turn me on, duuuuuuuuuuuuuh!
Talk ok they got gmail that’s nice, but we are fed with messengers. ICQ, Aol, Yahoo, MSN, Skype, … that’s what I didn’t like, why to have a service that people got used to many others before and wont change, even me who hates Microsoft products I wont stop using msn messenger, sorry Giant you should keep on focusing on your stuff otherwise you will be a little hobbit!
Translate ok thank you for being generous and having it all in one place, now I can see sites with different languages with this service.
Groups, Patent, Alerts, Catalogs, Checkout, Desktop, Directory, Finance, Scholar, Toolbar, Mobile Services and some other services Google offer to their users and will keep on adding more, but the main point is where are they heading?
Hope this post helped you to discover some new services that giant offers us. In the next post in this series will talk about how Google help webmasters to enhance their website and be useful to search engines. So if you are a webmaster, web developer or designer, hope what you will be waiting for help you.
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Hey John,
Thanks for this primer on Google, I’ve spent hundreds of hours using them this year and didn’t even know the half of this.
Great resume, very exhaustive.
well Alex, i thought that I replied to your post when I approved but seems no, so now I am…
well am trying to talk about the leader in the online advertising business and its services, for those who doesn’t know about to know, so just be tuned to read the 3rd part which I believe it might interest a lot of users in the field.
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