At the present world of internet, Google is the most popular company, and its popularity is increasing day by day. The users of the greatest internet and software service Provider Company know the best reason of its popularity. But the people who do not know about Google in details may ask, Why Google so popular?
About Google
Google Inc., previously traded as NASDAQ: GOOG, NYSE: GOOG, FWB: GGQ1,engaged in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies, is an American multinational public corporation, generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two were attending Stanford University as PhD candidates. Google was first incorporated as a private company on September 4, 1998, and its IPO followed on August 19, 2004. Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together at Google for twenty years, until the year 2024. The mission of Google was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", and the slogan –is "Don't be evil". Google’s headquarter is in Mountain View, California.
Headquarter: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, United States
Website: www.google.com
There are many Google products and services, some of them are described briefly in this topic.
AdSense
Google Advertisement program for Publishers. Many website owners are earning revenue from this program.
AdWords
Google's advertising product, and main source of revenue. PPC based ad program of Google. It is Very popular.
Double Click
Well known Google’s Internet ad service provider.
Blogger
Users can create custom, hosted blogs with little technical knowledge.
Buzz
It is allowing sharing updates, photos, and videos making conversation among friend and more at once.
Calendar
It is Google’s free online calendar, allows inserting events using natural language input, similar to those offered by Yahoo! and Windows Live.
Docs
Here users can create Document, spreadsheet and presentation and publish on web.
FeedBurner
It is Google’s News feed providing and management services, including feed traffic analysis and advertising facilities.
Friend Connect
Friend Connect is an online service that empowers users to add social features to their websites that have implemented Google Friend Connect.
Google Gadgets
Mini-applications of Google designed to display information or provide a function.
Gmail
Free email service provided by Google, known for its abundant storage and advanced interface.
iGoogle
It is Google’s Customizable homepage, which can contain Web feeds and Google Gadgets.
Orkut
Google’s social networking service, where users can list their information, create relationships and join communities of mutual interest.
Picasa Web Albums
Online photo sharing.
Picnik
Online photo editing service.
Google Profiles
Allows users to appear and present themselves on Google products, to other Google users, and tell others about them.
Google Reader
It is capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds, lets users search, import and subscribe to feeds.
YouTube
It is Google’s free video sharing web site which lets users upload, view, and share video clips.
Google Android
It is an Open Source mobile phone platform developed by the Open Handset Alliance.
Google App Engine
This tool allows developers to write and run web applications.
Google Code
It is Google's site for developers interested in Google-related development. It provides project hosting for any free and open source software.
Google Maps
It is Google’s popular mapping service that indexes streets and displays satellite and street-level images, providing driving directions.
Google Blog search
Weblog search engine, results include all blogs, not just those published through Blogger, can be viewed and filtered by date.
Google Books
Search engine for printed books.
Google Checkout
It is a online payment processing service provided by Google.
Google Code Search
It is a search engine for programming code found on the Internet.
Google Dictionary
Google Dictionary was once part of Google Translate, which allows users searching of words and phrases from over 22 languages.
Google Directory
The links and their categorization are from the Open Directory Project, using Page Rank.
Google Finance
It provides searchable US business news, opinion, and financial data.
Google Groups
Web and email discussion service where users can join a group, make a group, publish posts, track their favorite topics, write a set of group web pages updatable by members and share group files
Google Hotpot
Is a search that allows people to rate restaurants, hotels etc. and share them with friends.
Google Image Search
Image search engine, when searching, a thumbnail of each matching image is displayed.
Google Translate
It allows users to translate text or web pages from one language to another language.
Google News
Automated news compilation service and search engine for news. There are versions of the aggregator for more than 20 languages. While the selection of news stories is fully automated, the sites included are selected by human editors.
Google News Archive Search
It allows users to browse articles from over 200 years ago.
Google Patent Search
Search engine to search patents, each result with its own page, including drawings, claims and citations.
Google Product Search
It is a Price engine that searches online stores, including auctions, for products.
Google Video
Video search engine that searches videos posted on YouTube, Metacafe, Daily Motion, and other popular video hosting sites.
Google Web History
It records Google searches, web pages, images, videos, music and more, released in April 2005.
Google Web Search
It is Google's core product. It was the first creation of Google and it is their most popular and famous service. It is the most used search engine on the Internet. Google has 189 different regional domains, see List of Google domains given below.
Google Analytics
It is Google’s Traffic statistics generator with strong AdWords integration. You can optimize your ad campaigns, using Google Analytics based on the statistics that are given. Google Analytics is based on the Urchin software.
Google Insights
Google Insights for Search is similar to Google Trends, providing insights into the search terms people have been entering into the Google search engine.
Google Trends
It is a graph plotting application for Web Search statistics, showing the popularity of particular search terms over time. It shows popularity of websites.
Google Health
Here users can control and organize all of their health information in one place
Google Labs
It is website demonstrating and testing projects of Google.
Google Search Appliance
It is a hardware device connecting to corporate intranets to index/search company files.
Google Mini
It is a lower cost version of the Google Search Appliance.
Nexus One
An open source mobile operating system.
Nexus S
It is an open source mobile operating system, Smartphone, version 2.3 "Gingerbread".
Google Public DNS
It is a publicly accessible DNS server.
Google Custom Search.
Previous name was Google Co-op. Search can be defined to specified web sites or areas of a site. Free to set up in web sites..
Google Maps
It was a Local listings service, previously called Google Local, which was further renamed due to popular demand. Google Local still exists, but only for Google Mobile Search.
Google Sites
It is a webpage-publishing program, which can be used to create pages and to host them on Google's servers. Free and premium services are available.
Personalized Search
Search results personalization tool.
Google Docs
It is Google’s Spreadsheet and word management application.
Video Player
It is a stand alone desktop application that allows viewing videos from Google Video.
Voice Search
It is currently integrated on the Google Mobile web site.
Web Accelerator
It is to increase load speed of web pages.