The American Corporation was founded in 1998. Sergey Brin and Larry Page became the "parents" of Google. In 2015, they founded conglomerate Alphabet Inc. Now Google is considered to be the most powerful brand in the world. The site of the same name is currently the most visited in the world. But in addition to the search engine, other Google products are just as popular.
Services
The main product of Google is a search engine. It is she who maintains the popularity of the remaining tools. But many are familiar with it, since even in Russia, with the enormous popularity of Yandex, a third of Internet users use just Google to search for information.
The corporation has enough services and tools. Some of them are publicly available, while others are designed for narrow-profile specialists. Most of them are web applications. To work with them, you only need a web browser and an Internet connection. Some tools will require you to install on a PC or mobile device. It is recommended to use a high-speed connection, especially if it is a program for watching videos or working with cards.
The peculiarity of Google products is that they are all integrated into a common system. For their work you need only one account, which will save all data and changes. After only one registration, the user gets access to work with mail, cloud storage, social network, etc. Also, Google recently bought several Internet services, the most popular of which is YouTube. Those products that have already been withdrawn from service have been sent to the Killed by Google section (killed by Google).
All services of the company can be divided into Internet services, specialized search, software and tools.
Internet Services
The list of Google products is huge, but it is Internet services that occupy a key place in it, since they are the main tool for users to work and entertain. These include:
- Search;
- YouTube
- Gmail
- Maps
- Drive
- Play
- News
- Hangouts
- Translate;
- Photos
- Books
- Docs
- Blogger
- Custom Search
- Earth
- Calendar
- Keeper;
- Analytics / AdSense / Advertising;
- App Engine, etc.
Many services are used by ordinary users. Others are needed for highly specialized tasks.
Narrow search
So it is worth mentioning separately for specialized search tools. They all relate to Google Search, so it’s hard to name them individual products. However, this includes:
- Images.
- Video.
- Flights
- Blogs
- Academy.
- Purchases.
The work of these services is their name. From it it is clear that Google Pictures is a tool for searching images, and you can find training materials at Google Academy.
Entertainment Services
Google products are diverse, so some of them are not easy to define in the same category (entertainment, work, training, etc.). In addition, for some, one tool may seem like entertainment, and for another - a service for work.
For example, YouTube has long been a pastime for many of us. We come here to watch news, funny videos, episodes of series and much more. But for video bloggers, this site has long been a job.
One way or another, a video hosting site provides services for storing, delivering and displaying videos. It allows you to upload, view videos, comment on them and rate. Find interesting channels, subscribe, create playlists, etc.
There are two interesting products on Google: The Map of the Moon and The Map of Mars. Of course, both services could be attributed to the group of working tools, but often ordinary users just want to look at unexplored places just to satisfy their interest. By the way, here you can also include Google Earth. This project provides satellite images of the entire earth's surface. Photos are so incredible that I immediately want to buy plane tickets and fly to the other side of the world.
Another entertainment product from Google can be considered Art Project. This is an online art collection. Here everyone can look at the most popular high-resolution paintings. It works thanks to cooperation with 184 museums, galleries and palaces from different countries.
For work
Google has a lot of products for business. Now many of them are used by large companies. The main, of course, should be considered Gmail. This is the email of the corporation, which performs all the necessary functions. It works with receiving and sending letters, helps to create folders, dialogs, mark special letters, etc. Like many other services, it is associated with an account on Google, which means it helps to integrate letters into other tools and vice versa.
Google Drive is cloud storage that has also become a business tool for many. Here you can not only save important files, but also integrate images from Google Photos and files from Docs.
By the way, the Docs service has recently been extremely popular and has become an excellent replacement for MS Office. The tool works with text editors, spreadsheets and presentations. It saves changes in real time (when connected to the Internet), and also sends ready-made documents to the cloud storage. Thus, you can work on several devices without a flash drive, but using a shared account or special access to files.
To help optimizers
For Internet marketers, the services Analytics / AdSense / Advertising were no less important. Analytics is a tool that helps you collect traffic statistics from a website. It works through a special code that connects to the owner’s site. After that, he begins to collect a variety of data that will help in drawing up an optimization and promotion plan.
AdSense is designed to work with contextual advertising. It will allow you to get income from the most visited pages of the resource. A feature of the tool is that it automatically creates relevant advertisements. “Advertising” is a service very similar to the previous one, but also works with keywords, which allows you to fine-tune advertising.
Software
Google products can also be found in the software section. Here are very popular projects and less developed. These include:
- Chromium is an open source browser.
- Chrome is a browser with proprietary elements and components that collect information about visits.
- Dictionary - dictionaries.
- Android is an operating system for mobile devices.
- Chrome OS is an operating system for working with web applications.
- TV - platform for the console.
- Glass is a headset for smartphones.
- Fiber - work with high speed internet.
This also includes Webmaster - a tool for webmasters or Checkout for online payments.
Google products for PC and mobile devices also have their own tools. For example, Android - an OS running on smartphones and tablets, is installed along with a software package that includes the Play Market, Maps, Assistant, etc.
The Chrome browser works with the core resources that are integrated into it. Some products will not function fully without this web browser.
There are also tools that speed up the work with services and simplify it. For example, on the desktop you can install Deskbar, a Google search widget.
The number of products is growing every year. For example, in March 2019, the company announced its own streaming service, of which little is known. At the same time, YouTube itself also has such a function. But apparently, Google is not enough in this direction. And the concept itself looks a little different.
Some projects are being closed. For example, in 2019, the completion of the so-called social network Google+ was announced, which many did not fully understand.