| Inspired
from the term googol, Google is a popular and widely used search
engine located at http://www.google.com
that was first developed by Sergey Brin and
Larry Page in 1996
for a
research project at Stanford University. Google was later
incorporated on September 7, 1998.
Other Google services / web pages
- Froogle -
Search for products based off prices, location, type, etc.
- Gmail - Google's free
online e-mail service with over 1gb of storage.
- Google Alerts
- Create alert text messages sent to an e-mail address each
day or as it happens of web searches, news searches, etc.
- Google
Analytics - A great site for users who run a website.
Google Analytics allows anyone with their own domain to have
Google post great reports of visitors on their website.
- Google Answers
- Post questions and have it answered by Google searchers for
a fee of your choice.
- Google Base -
Location where you can post information and make your
information searchable on Google.
- Google Blog
- A blog maintained by Google
that helps give an insight into the company.
- Google Catalogs
- Search thousands of different scanned catalogs.
- Google Deskbar - Small software utility that adds a
Google search to the Microsoft Windows
Taskbar
allowing users to search without even opening a browser.
- Google Desktop
- Small software utility that allows Microsoft Windows users
to have a small sidebar that displays all the information they
commonly want, e-mail , and more.
- Google Directory
- Browse the Open Directory of web pages modified to list the
directory listings by Google's PageRank technology.
- Google Earth -
A fantastic software program that allows a person to view almost
everywhere on earth, get directions, find close shops and places
of interest, and much much more.
- Google
Features - A great listing from Google of some of its
different available features as well as tricks on searching
for different content on Google.
- Google Groups
- Google's bulletin board with millions of users and postings.
- Google H4x0r
- Display Google's search page and results in
leet
speak.
- Google Home Page
- Google's main page.
- Google Images
- Google search that allows you to search for images instead
of text.
- Google
Klingon - Display Google's search page and results in
Klingon.
- Google Labs - A
section of Google that displays some of the new features they
are working on and testing.
- Google Maps - A
great feature that enables users to search for directions from
one location to another, search for local businesses, and
more.
- Google Moon - In
celebration of the first Moon landing, Google created this
page that has a map of our Moon as well as each of the moon
landings.
- Google Personalized
- Enables Google users to personalize the Google home page,
having it display the latest news they want to view, their
local weather, and more.
- Google
Pig Latin
- Display Google's search page and results in Pig Latin.
- Google Search by
Location - Utilizes Google Maps to find local search
results.
- Google Sets
- Type in a few keywords that are similar to pull up a listing
of more words that relate to the words you typed in.
- Google Scholar
- Allows users to search for scholarly literature.
-
Google
Suggest - Display results as you're typing your search
query. This feature enables you to not have to type out full
search results or see very similar search queries.
- Google News -
Great news site automatically generated using the results of
news sites queried by Google.
- Google SMS -
Enables users to send text messages over their mobile using
SMS
to get quick answers such as driving directions, movie
showtimes, local business listing, etc.
- Google Talk
- Instant Messenger program.
- Google Toolbar
- For Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer and Firefox users,
this software add-on enables users using these browsers to have
access to the Google search and other Google features any time
the browser window is open.
- Google
Translator - Translate a foreign language web page or
text into your language.
- Google Video -
Search for online videos hosted by Google as well as
transcript text of videos and TV shows.
- Google Voice
- Use Google search over the phone using your voice.
- Google Web
Accelerator - For broadband users this is a small
software utility for Microsoft Windows users that helps speed
up browsing times by utilizing Google's global computer
network.
- Google
Zeitgeist - A listing of some of the top searches on
Google.
- Google.org - The
philanthropic arm of Google.
- Orkut - A
social networking site that
provides you a location to socialize with your friends and
family, and meet new acquaintances from all around the world.
- Picasa - A
great free Microsoft Windows software program to view images,
manage images, and much more.
We also suggest you visit our Internet
tips page for additional tips on search with Google as well as
other Internet tips.
Also see: GFS,
Goobuntu, Googol,
JFGI,
YouTube
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