Do you know Google A to Z??
Let me ask a question to you all first up today. How much you know about the Google? How deep have you used the Google tools? ,Well today I am going to take you in deep of Google. That’s why I have named the post as Google’s A-Z.What to tell about Mr.Search Engine! From the day it started, Google made a big impact on world wide web. Day by day it is growing. But still I feel Google is very young ;). OK now let me take you my collection of A-Z.
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1. Adsense :
Google AdSense is a free program that enables website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads and earn. Get paid for displaying targeted Google ads on your site, Customize ads to match your site’s look and feel, Track your success with online reports and It’s free!.
2. Analytics :
Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. Powerful, flexible and easy-to-use features now let you see and analyze your traffic data in an entirely new way. With Google Analytics, you’re more prepared to write better-targeted ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives and create higher converting websites.
3. Ad-Planner :
Refine your online advertising with DoubleClick Ad Planner, a free media planning tool that can help you “Identify websites your target customers are likely to visit”.
The DoubleClick Ad Planner account interface consists of:
- A research page, where you can search for sites by name, audience, and content.
- A media plan page, where you can save your desired sites and placements for future reference.
- A publishers page, where site owners can update their site information that’s displayed in DoubleClick Ad Planner.
4. Alerts :
Using Google Alerts you can, monitoring a developing news story, keeping current on a competitor or industry, getting the latest on a celebrity or event. Create your own Alert and enjoy what Google gives.
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1. Buzz :
Now a days Google Buzz has been updated in Gmail. Buzz says “Go beyond status messages”.
Share updates, photos, videos, and more. Start conversations about the things you find interesting.
Know more about Google Buzz with 3 Google Buzz tips.
2. Blogs :
Google blogs provides very useful site for searching a topic. Now a days people have added search box in their site or blogs. But non of the blog covers topics like how Google serves.
3. Books :
Google as a very big collection of books in it. You can find any your book here. Almost all kind of books are included. But only thing is downloading it is very difficult. But you can read it online!
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1. Chrome :
Google finally started competing with Microsoft when they released its explorer during late 2008. When Chrome came out it has many discrepancies. But now the release with ver5.3 Beta Chrome has gained most of the shares of IE. It has included many add-ons as well(to compete Firefox).
Chrome is easy to use explorer using which you can create site applications
2. Calendar :
- 7 reasons to use Google Calendar :
- Share your schedule
- Get your calendar on the go
- Never forget another event again
- Send invitations and track RSVPs
- Sync with your desktop applications
- Work offline
- Finally its free
Now more about the Google calendar usage here.
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1. Docs :
Create and share your work online using Google docs. Upload from and save to your desktop and Edit any time, from anywhere. Pick who can access your documents. Files are stored securely online.
And finally its again free π
2. Desktop :
Google Desktop makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google. It’s a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail, web pages that you’ve viewed, and more. By making your computer searchable, Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks.
3. Directory :
Nothing more to tell about Google Directory. Just visit my one of post
Google Search : Search with Category you like!!
4. Doodle :
A Google “doodle” is what we call the decoration we make to our logo every so often. Over the years doodles have become one of the most beloved parts of Google. People really look forward to going to our homepage and seeing what new doodle is on there. Some users have described it as a holiday for them when they see a new doodle. Google doodles have been produced to celebrate several noted artists and scientists. Some of our favourites have included: Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Ray Charles, among others.
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1. Earth :
Make it easy for your employees to view, understand, and make decisions about location-based information. Incorporate your company’s data into Google Maps and Google Earth to be shared quickly and easily with colleagues and clients. The intuitive Google mapping applications require little or no training; your staff and customers will immediately start to realize the benefits of rich, interactive geospatial information.
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1. Feedburner :
Feeds are a way for websites large and small to distribute their content well beyond just visitors using browsers. Feeds permit subscription to regular updates, delivered automatically via a web portal, news reader, or in some cases good old email. Feeds also make it possible for site content to be packaged into “widgets,” “gadgets,” mobile devices, and other bite-sized technologies that make it possible to display blogs, podcasts, and major news/sports/weather/whatever headlines just about anywhere.
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1. Gmail :
Gmail is one of the big repository. Google mail is very easy to use any has many advantages like, blocks spam before it gets to your inbox. If an unwanted message ever finds its way through, With just one click, you can chat in Gmail with the people you already email or reply to emails by chat. You can even talk face to face with Gmail voice and video chat. For more click here.
2. Groups :
Google Groups is all about helping users connect with people, access information, and communicate effectively over email and on the web. Now there’s a new version on the block. If you’re already a Google Groups user, we think you’ll like it. If you haven’t tried Google Groups yet, why not search, join or create a group? Or better yet, do all three.
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1. Hosting :
Project Hosting on Google Code provides a free collaborative development environment for open source projects. Each project comes with its own member controls, Subversion/Mercurial repository, issue tracker, wiki pages, and downloads section. Google project hosting service is simple, fast, reliable, and scalable, so that you can focus on your own open source development.
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1. Images :
Google Images is Google’s tool for searching its index of images from all over the Web. To use it, type the thing you want to see an image of, and click Search Images.
Google’s robots analyze dozens of factors on and about webpages (like captions, descriptions, and other contextual information) to understand and index the images on the Web. Google also applies sophisticated algorithms to the Images index to remove duplicates and to ensure that the highest-quality results show up first.
2. iGoogle :
iGoogle is a Google customizable homepage. iGoogle lets you create a personalized homepage that contains a Google search box at the top, and your choice of any number of gadgets below. Gadgets come in lots of different forms and provide access to activities and information from all across the web, without ever having to leave your iGoogle page. Here are some things you can do with gadgets:
- View your latest Gmail messages
- Read headlines from Google News and other top news sources
- Check out weather forecasts, stock quotes, and movie show times
- Store bookmarks for quick access to your favourite sites from any computer
- Design your own gadget.
Learn how to create your own iGoogle page.
3. IE8 optimized for Google :
An Optimized IE for Google means,
- A Google homepage you can personalize
- Preinstalled Google Toolbar
- Your default search engine set to Google
- Accelerators for easy access to Gmail, Blogger and other sites
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1. Jobs :
Google says “Let’s work together.”
At Google, your world is flat. When everyone in the company is reaching out, not up, good ideas can go a lot farther.
Few days back I just got one mail about Google Office. Seeing that i was shocked!! One guy got relocated to new place and it was totally unknown for him. Google provided accommodation for 1month. By seeing the facilities guy decided to stay for one more month! How’s that?
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1. Knol :
Knol – a unit of knowledge: share what you know, publish your idea.
Sharing your thoughts in your own language on the web has never been easier! Knol makes it easy for you to write and share your knowledge with the world.
All you need is an account, a name and a desire to write and Google will take care of the rest. You can specify the level of collaboration you want with the community. Your knol, your voice.
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1. Labs :
Google Labs is a website demonstrating and testing new Google projects. In 2006, all Google Labs products had a consistent logo, using the flask, and a gray title, as opposed to other color-coded Google products, such as Google News and Google Maps. Now Google Labs is doing experiment on 40 different items.
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1. Maps :
Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps. Google has it all.
Are you a Local Expert? a Ace Navigator? A Global Explorer? or a Business Owner?
Visit Google Maps tips for life to know more about it.
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1. News :
Google News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from more than 4,500 English-language news sources worldwide, groups similar stories together and displays them according to each reader’s personalised interests. Know more.
O
1. Orkut :
I seriously accept now a days it has lost its place in front of other social networking site. But Google never accept I’m lost. Google is still fighting adding new innovative things.
Orkut in 2 sentences : “orkut is an online community designed to make your social life more active and stimulating. orkut’s social network can help you maintain existing relationships with pictures and messages, and establish new ones by reaching out to people you’ve never met before.”
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1. Picasa :
Picasa is a software download from Google that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos. It’s free, and easy to use.
Using Picasa,
- Publish your favourite photos online with one click.
- Improve almost any picture with Picasa’s one-click fixes for common problems like red-eye, color, and lighting
- Easily add geo-tags to your photos so that you can remember exactly where they’re from using Google Maps.
Know more about Feature of Picasa. Get your Picasa Here.
2. Packs :
Google Pack is: Software selected by Google; Always free; Ready to use in just a few clicks!
Visit my post
Google Packs: Gmail as a application to PC??
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1. Ranking :
Tell me who doesn’t know about Google Ranking. First thing which comes to a website holder, Blogger or any other is when their site will come in Google and what ranking they will get.
What they will do for it? Yes. Its SEO. WordPress gives lot of plugins which does SEO on behalf of you. Visit our post to get best SEO plugins.
2. Reader :
Keep track of your favourite websites using Google Reader.
Google Reader constantly checks your favourite news sites and blogs for new content. Whether a site updates daily or monthly, you can be sure that you won’t miss a thing.
You can share your blog post in Google Reader. Click the sharing icon on any item and it will instantly appear on your public page. You can even customize your post to Spice up your site.
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1. Search :
Google Search Engine! What you want to know about it? Whenever my friend doesn’t answer to his question he will i have my best friend who knows everything. And he just opens “www.google.com“.
OK! Now know more about What is Google Technology. Enjoy π
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1. Talk :
Welcome to Google Talk, a downloadable chat application by Google. Check out what Google Talk can do:
Text chat :
Voice chat :
- Free long distance: make PC-to-PC calls to people anywhere in the world
- Audio conferencing: talk to multiple people at once
- Gmail integration: chat with your friends on Gmail
2. Toolbar :
Now you can access all of your Toolbar settings, bookmarks and custom buttons from any computer, no matter whether you’re at home or on the go. Select the option to ‘Access your Toolbar settings everywhere’ in the Toolbar sign-in menu. Then, when you sign in to Google Toolbar on any computer where it is installed, your settings will be updated and any changes you make during that session will be saved. But all these are only available in IE! Know more about Toolbar Feature here.
3. Translate :
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1. Updater :
The Google Updater is the program that downloads and installs all the software in the Google Pack. You can use the Updater to do the following:
Uninstall software
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1. Videos :
Have you ever wondered if anyone watches the videos you’ve uploaded? Or perhaps you’ve uploaded a video presentation and want to be able to illustrate its success with some numbers? Google added Insight to Google Video so that you can capture some of this information, and use it to optimize your video.
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1. Wave :
What is a wave?
A wave is equal parts conversation and document.People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.
A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.
2. Webmaster Tool :
Webmaster Tool is one-stop shop for webmaster resources that will help with your crawling and indexing questions, introduce you to offerings that can enhance and increase traffic to your site, and connect you with your visitors.
Learn how to use Webmaster Tool!
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1. Xistence :
Google Xistence is currently closed. But let me tell what is this Xistence all about. Google Xistence allows you to get important things done by automating social duties. This allows you to maintain the illusion of a ‘real’ life without all the hassle. Now more about Xistence here.
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1. YouTube :
Google YouTube is a Official YouTube channel.
Google just joined their hands with YouTube to increase its productivity on Google Videos, to promote it and many.Now a days whenever you trying to access YouTube videos which requires only adults view, it asks for you to login with YouTube or Google Account. Just see this video which tell more about Google in YouTube.
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1. Zing :
Google’s Zing is a most innovated project.Zing is an open social compliant social Networking Site (SNS) built in Java web technology. It is using Apacheβs Java Shindig framework for Open Social compliance. Know More about Zing by visiting the above link. OK! Finally i am done with the post. But still i have not completed about our Mr. Search Engine “GOOGLE“. It very is tough to cover everything about Google as it very vast and dynamic. “Everyday is a new day” for Google.
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