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Bryan.Sippel@gmail.comFriday, May 7, 2010

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• Overview of Google

• How does it work?– What is “the cloud”?

• Google Search and Services– Gmail and Buzz– Google Maps– Google Docs

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Agenda

Email

Bryan.Sippel@gmail.com

View the slides anytime

www.slideshare.com/bsippel

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IntroductionMe

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Who am I?• Grew up in Oakville, ON

• Education:– BAH, Psychology– MSc, Organizational Behaviour

• Jobs: – Queen’s: Admission Officer, IBM: Sales, and

Queen’s: Senior Functional Analyst

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• Getting married in September 2010

• Love technology

• Sports: Montreal Canadiens fan

• Weekly Newsletter– Products and Services, News and Facts,

and Tips and Tricks– Easy to understand language– Sign up here www.bit.ly/tforesignup

• Blogwww.technologyforeveryone.wordpress.com

Archived newsletters

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Technology for Everyone

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Overview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOZhbOhEunY&playnext_from=TL&videos=xfrZnrjuRbI&playnext=1

An Inside Look at Google – Working at Google

• Market capitalization = $162.05 billionshare price times the number of shares outstanding of a public company (wikipedia)

Google… they are doing well

http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html

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How does it work?

• Indexing the Internet

• Page Rank

http://www.google.com/howgoogleworks/

How Google Search Works

• Moment of “relevance”

• Where are ads located

http://www.google.com/howgoogleworks/#watch

How Google Ads Work

• Cloud Computing• Collaboration

http://www.google.com/howgoogleworks/#watch

How Google Apps Work

• Servers

• Synchronization

• Export

• Availability

Cloud

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Search and Services

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Google Search

Buzz– Similar to Twitter

Gmail

• Directions• Street View• Google Earth

Google Maps

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Google Street View

• Car takes pictures as it drives to create 3D representation of street• Most major cities in Canada and growing

Google Docs

http://docs.google.comhttp://www.google.com/google-d-s/intl/en/tour1.html

Privacy

• Do No Evil… or at least we hope

• Buzz Problem

• Street View

http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html

• Gmail frequent contacts became public Buzz followers by default

i.e. your most frequent email contacts became available as a publicly available list

– A problem because people don’t necessarily want some or all of their most frequent email contacts public

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Buzz Problem

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Google Wave• A wave is equal parts conversation and

document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Contact me for an invitation.

Blogger• Creating and sharing blogs online

iGoogle• Create a custom homepage

To explore after today…

http://wave.google.com/about.html http://www.blogger.com http://www.google.ca

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This Week in Google Podcast

http://twit.tv/

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Summary

Bryan.Sippel@gmail.com

• Cloud Computing

• Google Search

• Google Services

• Gmail

• Google Maps

• Google Docs