Tuesday, March 20, 2007

The mother of all search engines: Google

Google Logo

http://www.google.com/

Everybody who surfs the internet, for whatever reason it might be, they most probably know about Google. It is one of the fastest search engines available to humans.

Google has a wide range of services other than search engine. But many people probably do not know about them. Being an avid user of Google services (Search, Email, Blog, etc) I can tell almost all Google services are better than others, faster, and innovative. Google comes up with so many services that for the first couple of months it releases the BETA version only. And to top it all – all Google services are free. Here is list of Google services.

Gmail (Google’s Email)
Google entered the email world with a blast by providing 1 GB (currently 2.6+ GB) of space for email and the fastest web based email service - Gmail.

Google News
Google News searches news from almost all major news publications. Fast and organized.

Google Earth
With Google Earth one can literally zoom into any city and get a satellite picture of the earth. Believe it or not but you can actually see the buildings, parks, roads, etc for real.

Google Talk
Google’s answer to Yahoo Chat, MSN Messenger, MIRC, and AOL.

Google Desktop
The fastest search engine you can install on your computer. Google Desktop indexes all the files on your computer, which makes the search process fast. Displaying of search result is also amazing and very creative.

Blogger
Google’s blog web site

Hello
Google’s photo management web site.

Picasa
Google’s photo management software.

Google Alert
Receive news and search results via email

Google Answers
Ask a question, set a price, get an answer

Google Blog Search
Find blogs on your favorite topics

Google Book Search
Search the full text of books

Google Directory
Browse the web by topic

Google Groups
Create mailing lists and discussion groups

Google Images
Search for images on the web

Google Labs
Try out new Google products

Google Mobile
Use Google on your mobile phone

Google Scholar
Search scholarly papers

Google Special Searches
Search within specific topics

Google University Search
Search a specific school’s website

Google Web Search Features
Do more with search

Google Translate
View web pages in other languages

Google Toolbar
Add a search box to your browser

Google Code
Download APIs and open source code

Google Pack
A free collection of essential software

Google Pack Screensaver
Photo screensaver

Google Toolbar
Search toolbar

Want to know more or use the above mentioned Google services? Just type the name of the Google Service you want to know more or use at http://www.google.com/ and hit the search button.

A Google user
“There is not a single day when I do not use Google for any of my needs. How do you think I reached Deewane Mastane? Through Google. How do you think I found all those sites where you can hack passwords and awesome stuff? Through Google. Google has many unknown features too (HINT: try clicking on the ‘more’ option at the top when you visit the site). There are also parameters you can place in the search box to help you search better. Go ahead and experiment my friends.”

Posted by: Kuldip Garhwal

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