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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
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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
• Cloud Computing
• Google Search
• Google Services
• Gmail
• Google Maps
• Google Docs