Overall View of Google

Overall View of Google

Help. I cannot do without Google!

As long as I am using a Web Browser, I will always have to click on Google.

They have made themselves indispensable!

It is now the market leader as a web search engine. Almost everyone that I know who uses the internet clicks on Google everytime, if not most of the time. Yes, there are many other search engines/programs that do just as well. But Google seems to have conquered the market.

Not only is it a web search engine it is also:

- news search
- blog search
- image search
- business and service search
- discussion group
- catalog search
- news alerts via email
- search through scholar papers and universities
- book search
- map search
- video search
- mobile and SMS services

On top of that, it has some tools which are real handy such as:

- blogger
- codes for interacting among various Google services
- Google Desktop
- Gmail (many people swear by this)
- Google Talk and many others.

During the past few months, they launched Google Desktop 2.0, Google Talk instant messenger for text and voice and even tried putting their Google Ads on magazines and newspapers.

Lately, they are trying to lauch a free wireless ISP service at San Francisco, as a starter service which hopefully will cover most hotspots of the world. Talking about world conquest by Microsoft/Bill Gates. What is this then?

They did meet some resistance from authors who objected to their attempt to digitize their copyrighted books but I believe they will find a way to get around this mountain. (Latest news is that Microsoft is going to follow Google and Yahoo services by offering online books search. The company said it will focus on books, academic materials and other publications that are in the public domain, in order to avoid copyright issues.)

Google also began offering exclusive video streaming of the new UPN comedy "Everybody Hates Chris".

So, is there a limit to what Google can do?

They have the resources - the online visitors, money and people. They are even trying to take on eBay. It was rumored that Google is reportedly testing a new Web-based service called Google Base that would allow users to sell products online, a move some see as a challenge to eBay Inc., the dominant Internet auction service.

What are they coming out with next, I wonder? Software production like Windows XP?

At least in the near future, we are going to have more online services that are related to browsing on the web.