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Who doesn't know Google, it is slowly taking over the world :P. We all use (well least i think so) Google on a daily basis, it has become a part of our lifes. Some users just use google as a search machine, but others use it much more. Google offers so many services that not many people know about.

Google Groups
Google Local
Google Web Accelerator (BETA)
Google News
Google Adsense
Google Translate
Google Maps (Keyhole)
Google Video Search (still in Beta)
GMAIL (still in beta)
Desktop Search
Picasa
Google Print (online Libary, pre BETA)
Google Images
Google fusion (also in Beta)*
and don't forget Google Search :D
the list goes on =)

* Google fusion or My Google is the next generation of Google. Remember that huge space underneath the search buttons? Well that will be filled up with your personal layout: Weather, email, News.... (all google services) BETA version of the product can be found here: http://www.google.com/ig

History:

Google was owned by Yahoo in the begining, but after arguements google went solo (thank god).

Google was a "normal search engine up to a few years ago, when google noticed that they could make a lot more money with advertisement and so the set out to make the best search engine in the world.

What is next:

Well a lot of people are speculating about what will come next, so here are a few speculations:

A. G Messenger?
Probability: 90%

B. G Browser?
Probability: 50%

C. Local services?
Probability: 95%

D. Video content distribution?
Probability: 65%


I wonder if google will turn into a portal like its opponents (yahoo and msn)?

What do you all think?
My first post :D =) :D :D

can someone please move the thread to the correct forum! (Serves me right having two browser windows open on the site ;) :P :P )

Tue May 31, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   


A. G Messenger?
Probability: 100%

B. G Browser?
Probability: 100%

C. Local services?
Probability: Don't know what do u mean by this.. because google has "Google Contry", r.g. Google Colombia is www.google.com.co

D. Video content distribution?
Probability: Don't know what do you mean by this either... :D

A think you're missing a very important item: A G HOSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!

and i hope is a 110% PROBABILITY!!!!!

Google is a great company, in every instance!

Tue May 31, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

i agree :D, they offer free software that is great!

C. Local services?
Probability: Don't know what do u mean by this.. because google has "Google Contry", <- example http://local.google.co.uk/ search for what you want and where in the country you want it :D

D. Video content distribution?
Probability: Don't know what do you mean by this either... tongue.gif
Well that is the Video search, google still aren't sure if this should go onto the net or not :D

Wed Jun 1, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

and Also you forgot to mention the GMail and the space availabel (over 2 GB) you can use as Virtual drive ...
:D

But its all great. .. they had started in the regional language ....

like for india they have .... www.google.co.in and that is in four different local languages

its great

Wed Jun 1, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   


G Hosting.. I don't think that's going to happen, or if it does it won't be at the same quality as the other services. If they turn into a portal like Yahoo, Excite etc, they may offer hosting with scanty space and ads like they do. And the whole point behind google is providing a good, free service. So if they gave you a tiny bit of spaces plastered with ads, wouldn'ti t kind of defeat the purpose?

G messenger - I hope it won't be another generation of IM. If it was just a program that incorporated AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber etc and gave you an option to ad other google users, that could be of some use. Especially as google aims to make everything multi platform (most of the multi IM proggies only work in windows).

Wed Jun 1, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

i agree there are so many differnet types of messengers. i think that they might do something for gmail, like a desktop mail send.... or something like that

Wed Jun 1, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

I am a big Google fan!!!!
Research and development of new tech is his strength.

All this amazing and different products come from a company policy called "pet-proyects".

Every single Google employee is allowed to have some (about 20%) of their company time and resources for a project of his/her own. If this project is good/great/awesome it gets resources to be developed as a company product.

Many of the existing services which Google offers (including Orkut and Google News) were developed by employees.

Always the most talented, creative, and entrepreneurial people leave companies like Microsoft in frustration in order to start their own enterprises

Google has created an environment where the most talented, creative, and entrepreneurial employees can play in their own sandbox, and have their pet projected funded within the company.

Thu Jun 2, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

None of you really have put much research into this...

Firstly, Google News, Groups and Local are BETA (Tommy didn't mention it). Also, Google Maps and Keyhole are 2 seperate things.

Google already offer Instant Messaging. It came as part of the deal when they bought Picassa. Visit www.hello.com!

Gnatius, no offence, but the whole 20% thing is actually quite common knowledge.

The whole thing about Local Services, I don't know exactly what you mean, BUT try this - http://local.google.co.uk and http://maps.google.co.uk (or .com for the American versions).

And, heres an improved list:

  1. Google Groups
  2. Google Local (BETA)
  3. Google Web Accelerator (BETA)
  4. Google News (BETA)
  5. Google Alerts
  6. Google AdWords
  7. Google AdSense
  8. Google Translate
  9. Google Maps
  10. Google Video (BETA)
  11. Gmail (BETA)
  12. Google Desktop Search
  13. Picasa 2
  14. Hello (Instant Messaging and Picture Sharing)
  15. Google Print (online Libary, pre BETA)
  16. Google Images
  17. Google Fusion aka Personalized Homepage (BETA)
  18. Google Search
  19. I'm Feeling Lucky
  20. Froogle (BETA)
  21. Google Answers (Payed Service)
  22. Keyhole (Payed Service)
  23. Google Calculator
  24. Google Catalogues
  25. Google Directory (interestingly, there are 2 different Google Directories - I posted a thread on it earlier)
  26. Google Labs
  27. Google X (closed ages ago, but mirrored on many places on the net)
  28. Google Special Searches
  29. Google Universities
  30. Google Scholar (BETA)
  31. Google Mobile (WML and XHTML)
  32. Google SMS
  33. Blogger
  34. Google Toolbar
  35. My Search History (BETA)
  36. Google Glossary
  37. Google Suggest (Brilliant, yet BETA)
  38. Google Deskbar
  39. Google Suggest in Japanese
  40. Google Sets (BETA)
  41. Google Compute
  42. Site Flavoured Search Box
  43. Froogle Wirelss (BETA)
  44. Google Search Appliance
  45. Google Mini Search Appliance
  46. Google Store

Phew! :D
Feel free to add to it!

Thu Jun 2, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

Picassa's Hello service is not advertised as an instant messaging service. Yes, it sends instant messages, but most things do. Its main selling point is that it is a photo sharing program, and should be noted as such rather than as an instant messaging service.

Thu Jun 2, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

google is great. i love gmail <3... lol

Wed Jun 8, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

I'm trying out http://www.google.com/ig/

IT'S GREAT!!!!

You can customize out your web search, for instance, you can tell google to show 100 results per page, instead of ten....

It has the language option, you can see your gmail account from it, BBC new, Cnn news, google news, weather info, quotes of the day, the word of the day....

stuff like that

pretty useful!

Thu Jun 9, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

QUOTE (rapco)

I'm trying out http://www.google.com/ig/

IT'S GREAT!!!!

You can customize out your web search, for instance, you can tell google to show 100 results per page, instead of ten....

It has the language option, you can see your gmail account from it, BBC new, Cnn news, google news, weather info, quotes of the day, the word of the day....

stuff like that

pretty useful!
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That's the Google Personalized Homepage, I mentioned it in the list earlier.
You're right it is pretty useful, but at the moment, services like My MSN or My Yahoo are (I hate to say it) better...

The thing is, the services Google offer with thier personalized homepage are useful, but MSN and Yahoo's have so much more. Also, Google is stepping closer and closer to becoming a web portal, rather than a search engine.

Google Personalized Homepage does look promising though... but it could do with a lot of work on it.

Thu Jun 9, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

QUOTE

That's the Google Personalized Homepage, I mentioned it in the list earlier.
You're right it is pretty useful, but at the moment, services like My MSN or My Yahoo are (I hate to say it) better...


i know you mentioned it before, that's why i tried it out... and, wel... why i like the most, is tahat is not HEAVY FOR THE SITE, it does have ads everuwhere, adn i don't kno, saturated....

so, i would disagree on that!

Fri Jun 10, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

Oh my god how I hate google. And yes, it's taking over the world. My only problem with mozilla is that the start page is google, and that it doesn't work with my proxy, but thats beside the point.

Fri Jun 10, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

well, i use firefox, and like all the browsers you can change your hompage (start page) in the settings options

Sat Jun 11, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

Although it's efficient and so popular... I wonder what made google so popular? There were lots of search engines around before it. Maybe it's the name. Now people say "google" something instead of "search".

Anyways, GO GOOGLE!

Sun Jun 12, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

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