Google Products

                    The Different Google Products

 

 

Productive tools of Google 

Gmail, a free webmail service provided by Google, was launched as an invitation-only beta program on April 1, 2004 , and became available to the general public on February 7, 2007.The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009 , at which time it had 146 million users monthly . The service offers over 15 GB of free storage, shared with other Google Apps, with additional storage ranging from 20 GB to 16 TB

Gmail uses AJAX , a programming technique that allows web pages to be interactive without refreshing the browser.

Google Docs  This is another part of Google's productivity suite, allows users to create, edit, and collaborate on documents in an online environment, similar to Microsoft Word. The service was originally called Writely, but was obtained by Google on March 9, 2006, and was released as an invitation-only preview . On June 6 after the acquisition, Google created an experimental spreadsheet editing program , which was combined with Google Docs on October 10.

 

Products by the Google Enterprise 

Google Search Appliance was launched in February 2002, targeted toward providing search technology for larger organizations. Google launched the Mini three years later, which was targeted at smaller organizations. Late in 2006, Google began to sell Custom Search Business Edition, providing customers with an advertising-free window into Google.com's index. The service was renamed Google Site Search in 2008.

Google Apps allows organizations to bring Google's web application offerings, such as Gmail and Google Docs, into their own domains. The service is available in several editions: a basic free edition (formerly known as Google Apps Standard edition), Google Apps for Business, Google Apps for Education, and Google Apps for Government.

Other Products 

Google Translate - Google Translate is a free, multilingual statistical machine-translation service provided by Google Inc. to translate written text from one language into another.

Google Drive - Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service provided by Google, released on April 24, 2012 ,which enables user cloud storage, file sharing and collaborative editing. Rumors about Google Drive began circulating as early as March 2006.Files shared publicly on Google Drive can be searched with web search engines.

Google News - Google News is a free news aggregator
 provided and operated by Google Inc, selecting most up-to-date information from thousands of publications by an automatic aggregation algorithm.Launched in September 2002, the service was tagged as a beta test for over three years until January 2006. The initial idea was developed by Krishna Bharat .

Google Chrome - Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google. It used the WebKit layout engine until version 27 and, with the exception of its iOS releases, from version 28 and beyond uses the WebKit fork Blink. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and as a stable public release on December 11, 2008 .

Google Android - Android is an operating system based on the Linux kernel, and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and later bought in 2005, Android was unveiled in 2007 . The first publicly available smartphone running Android, the HTC Dream, was released on October 22, 2008.

Google Nexus -  Google Nexus is a line of mobile devices that run the Android operating system. Google manages the design, development, marketing, and support but some development, and all manufacturing, is carried out by third party partners. As of February 2014, the devices in the line are, Nexus 5 smartphone, partner LG Electronics, second generation Nexus 7 tablet computer, partner Asus, and Nexus 10 tablet computer, partner Samsung Electronics.

Google Maps - 
Google Maps is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit , and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. It offers street maps and a route planner for traveling by foot, car, bike (beta), or with public transportation. It also includes a locator for urban businesses in numerous countries around the world. Google Maps satellite images are not updated in real time, however, Google adds data to their Primary Database on a regular basis and most of the images are no more than 3 years old .