Introduction to Services and Products

• American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products

• Search• Cloud computing software• Online advertising technologies

• Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while Ph.D. students at Stanford University, September 4, 1998

• Named the search engine they built “Google,” a play on the word “googol,” the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros

•Background

• Web search engine• Google’s core product• Can filter results to show only images, websites, videos, maps,

etc.• Offers currency conversion, unit conversion, graphing of

equations, etc.• Can search images

•Search

• Free, advertising-supported email service• Can contain 10 GB of storage per account• Storage may be increased through a monthly charge

http://mail.google.com •Gmail

• File storage and synchronization service• Enables user cloud storage, file sharing and collaborative editing• Gives all users 5 GB of free storage

• Not counting Google Docs native file formats• Client software is installed to synchronize local files to the cloud

http://drive.google.com •Drive

• Free, Web-based “software as a service” office suite and data storage service

• Now housed in Google Drive• Document, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Form, Drawing• Documents can be shared, opened, and edited by multiple users

at the same time

http://docs.google.com redirects to http://drive.google.com •Docs

• Voice Over IP instant messaging service• Real time chat available over web browser or application for

Windows, Android, Blackberry and Chrome OS

•Talk

• Web mapping service application and technology that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit

• Offers street maps, a route planner for traveling by foot, car, bike (beta), or with public transportation and a locator for urban businesses in numerous countries around the world

http://maps.google.com •Maps

• Multilingual social networking and identity service• Currently the second largest social networking site in the world

• Passed twitter in January 2013• Features:

• Streams, Circles, Hangouts, +1, Games, Pages, etc.

http://plus.google.com •Plus

• Free video sharing Web site which lets users upload, view, and share video clips

• Created by PayPal in 2005 and bought by Google in 2006

https://www.youtube.com •YouTube

• Freeware web browser that uses the WebKit layout engine

• Beta version released on 2007, stable version released on 2008

•Chrome

• Open source Linux-based operating system designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers

• Has a large community of developers writing applications ("apps") that extend the functionality of devices, written primarily in a customized version of the Java programming language

• World's most widely used smartphone platform

•Android

• Digital application distribution platform for Android and an online electronics store

• Formerly called Android Market• Allows users to browse and download music,

magazines, books, movies, television programs, and applications published through Google

• Catalog content:• Play Music Play Books• Play Magazines Play Movies and TV• Applications Devices

https://play.google.com/store •Play

• Free statistical multilingual machine-translation service to translate written text from one language into another

• Supports 53 languages and voice input for 15 languages

https://translate.google.com •Translate

• Customizable Ajax-based startpage or personal web portal

• Provides gadgets to services by Google, e.g. Gmail, Talk, Calendar, News, etc. and other web apps like Facebook

• Has customizable theme

http://www.google.com/ig • iGoogle

• Free time-management web application• Can be viewed from any location that has Internet access• Natively supported on Android-based mobile phones• Has integration to other devices and to PC applications• Can share events created to other users with Google account

•Calendar

• Contact management tool that is available in its free email service Gmail, as a standalone service, and as a part of Google's business-oriented suite of web apps Google Apps

• Can be synchronized with mobile devices and operating systems

https://www.google.com/contacts/ •Contacts

• Blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries

• Blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com

• May 1, 2010 Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via FTP

http://www.blogger.com/home •Blogger

• Mobile payment system developed by Google that allows its users to store debit cards, credit cards, loyalty cards, and gift cards among other things, as well as redeeming sales promotions on their mobile phone

• Only available on some devices

http://www.google.com/wallet/ •Wallet

• Online photo sharing, with integration with the main Picasa program

• often compared to Flickr and similar sites• Allows users with accounts at Google to store and share 1 GB of

large photos for free• Actual resolution of the photo is maintained, even though a

smaller resolution photo may be displayed by the web interface• Can upload pictures in many ways

• Web uploader• Uploader applications

http://picasa.google.com/ •Picasa Web Albums

• Automated news compilation service and search engine for news

• There are versions of the aggregator for more than 20 languages

https://news.google.com/ •News

• Search engine for the full text of printed books• Google scans and stores in its digital database• The content that is displayed depends on the arrangement with

the publishers, ranging from short extracts to entire books

•Books

• Accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines

•Scholar

• Free service that supports discussion groups, including many Usenet newsgroups, based on common interests

• Membership is free of charge and many groups a re anonymous

• Users can find discussion groups related to their interests and participate in threaded conversations

• 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

•Groups

• Site for developer tools, APIs and technical resources• Contains documentation on using Google developer

tools and APIs—including discussion groups and blogs for developers using Google's developer products

http://code.google.com/ •Code

• And many more…