Google Groups is a free service that provides a platform for group discussions of common interest topics. Users can participate in discussions through threaded conversations through the web browser or via email. Each group has one or more owners who are able to control access, deciding who may subscribe and allowing, or not, non-member access.
Users [...]
Knol is a wikipedia-type offering from Google opened to the public in beta, or testing form, in July 2008. Its aim is to promote user-written, user-reviewed, articles on a wide range of topics. As of January 2009, Google boasted 100,000 articles available on Knol read by users from 197 countries and territories.
Google defines “knol” as [...]
Gmail is a free email service provided by Google that was released to the public in February 2007. Though there are over 100 million users, Google still maintains the service in beta, or testing, status. Gmail offers 7300 MB of free storage with additional storage available for a fee.
Gmail is unique in several ways from [...]
Google Scholar employs the Google search engine to allow for searches for scholarly materials. These include theses, peer-reviewed papers, books, technical reports and abstracts from many areas of research. It includes full text and citations for many papers including results from academic publishers, universities, professional societies and other scholarly sources. Some access to full text [...]
Google News is an automated news aggregator that collects headlines from over 4,500 English language news sources globally, covering news articles that have appeared within the past 30 days. Related stories are grouped together and displayed based on the user’s personal interests. This offers users a variety of perspectives from which to choose and more [...]
iGoogle is a customizable homepage featuring a Google search box and allows a user to choose from among hundreds of “gadgets”. The gadgets give the user access to information and activities all from the single source of the personalized page.
With the gadgets, it’s possible to view Gmail messages, stay updated with headlines from major news [...]
Google Health is designed to put users in charge of their health information. It allows for the aggregation of all health information in one accessible location, the ability to gather medical records from doctors, hospitals and pharmacies, and allows for sharing the information, with permission, with family, doctors and caregivers. The goal is to help [...]
Google Earth is a powerful and innovative software technology that combines satellite imagery, maps and Google Search to make it possible for anyone to explore the planet in amazing detail. It allows the user to fly from one locale to another and zoom in for increasingly fine detail and access map overlays to find anything [...]
The Google Desktop is a handy tool that not only gives you the ability to search the web but also to search your own hard drive for files and folders, outgoing and incoming emails, IM chats and web browsing history. It creates cached copies of your files to make it easy to find an earlier [...]
In October 2006, Google launched their Custom Search Engine to the delight of website owners and bloggers. This tool allows for an easy to use, customized search engine to be embedded on websites and blogs. It also encourages monetizing the site with the use of AdSense ads while adding targeted search value to users.
The Google [...]