Introduction to

Services and
Products

 Background

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

 Search

Web search engine

Googles 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

 Gmail

http://mail.google.com

Free, advertising-supported email service

Can contain 10 GB of storage per account
Storage may be increased through a monthly
charge

 Drive

http://drive.google.com

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

 Docs

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

 Talk

Voice Over IP instant messaging service

Real time chat available over web browser or
application for Windows, Android, Blackberry and
Chrome OS

 Maps

http://maps.google.com

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

 Plus

http://plus.google.com

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.

 YouTube

https://www.youtube.com

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

 Chrome

Freeware web browser that uses the

WebKit layout engine
Beta version released on 2007, stable
version released on 2008

 Android

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

 Play

https://play.google.com/store

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

 Translate

https://translate.google.com

Free statistical multilingual machine-translation

service to translate written text from one language
into another
Supports 53 languages and voice input for 15
languages

 iGoogle

http://www.google.com/ig

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

 Calendar

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

 Contacts

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

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

 Blogger

http://www.blogger.com/home

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

 Wallet

http://www.google.com/wallet/

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

 Picasa Web Albums

http://picasa.google.com/

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

 News

https://news.google.com/

Automated news compilation service and

search engine for news
There are versions of the aggregator for
more than 20 languages

 Books

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

 Scholar

Accessible web search engine that indexes

the full text of scholarly literature across an
array of publishing formats and disciplines

 Groups

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

 Code

http://code.google.com/

Site for developer tools, APIs and technical

resources
Contains documentation on using Google
developer tools and APIsincluding
discussion groups and blogs for
developers using Google's developer
products

And many more