Google is primarily known as a search engine. For years, it has become a forefront of everything that you need to know about something. Google has even become an informal verb where you “Google” someone or something for information. If you “Google” someone, that basically means you looked into the internet to get certain information about that someone or something.
Then comes to the services that revolutionized the Internet and cemented Google’s reputation as one of the best search engine out there. Gmail, or Google Mail was released in April 1, 2004 by invitation and the beta version was opened for public registration on February 7, 2007. Google mail introduced the 1 gigabyte capacity that made other e-mail services look into their own email and upgrade. Google upgraded it even more by increasing the capacity of the mail box literally every second.
Its success only prompted Google to offer more services to the public. In this article we take a look at the services they offer, which might be unknown to most of us but are equally as important as the next web-based software you use.
First is the Google Reader. Released in October 7, 2005, Google reader works as an aggregator. The Reader can subscribe to any RSS feed that you provide. It can extract information to any website with RSS feeds and update your reader with the latest news, movies, comics and all the information you need daily. You can even subscribe to a set of popular websites and read them all on one page. This is a great tool for people who want to visit only one site with all the information they need.
Next is the Google Scholar. Google Scholar indexes the works of various scholars, professors and authors regarding a single subject. Released in November 2004 and still on its beta version, Google Scholar can give you all the links regarding a single subject or author you would like to discuss. It’s a nifty website for academic researches and learns about the basic subjects that are available online.
Another great Idea introduced by Google is the Google Books. This was introduced by Google to the public in October 2004 and created some stir. Some people claimed that Google is guilty of copyright infringement for all the books. To understand their claim, the Google Books can provide its users a digital copy of various books indexed by Google. Somehow it died down since some of the important books that were indexed can be viewed only in limited pages. Its main difference with Google Scholar is that Google Books works as an online library of all the books they already indexed. Just type in the name of the author or title and you can view some books. Some of them are free and some of them can be viewed on limited pages.
There are many other projects that Google is working on and will be released for public use. There is also a part of Google that deals with that. That service is called the Google Labs. Google Labs indexes the projects the company is currently working on. You can try out their website and drop in a note or two on what you don’t like or like about the website.
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