Google Services
As one of the most innovative tech companies in the world,
Google has a very special place in our hearts. They’ve created a huge number of
products and services that make all of our lives easier, beginning with their
famous web search engine. Everyone’s heard of Gmail and Google Maps, but it may
surprise you to find out just how many Google services exist that you probably
don’t know about.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a great way to keep up to date with
academic research and progress in science and technology. Easily and quickly
search across masses of scholarly literature from one place.
Google Inbox
The newest addition to Google’s ever-expanding suite of
services, Google Inbox gives you a refreshing minimal interface and shows you
what’s most important in your inbox – without even having to open the message.
Everything from flight status updates, reservation details to pictures and
attachments from family and friends is organized for you.
Google Goggles
Now you really can search everything. Snap a picture and let
Google crawl its database. If it finds the image in there, it will do what it
does best: give you useful information.
Google Sites
Plain and simple: a streamlined way to build a website from
scratch – or from pre-existing templates. Build one for your growing company,
for your family, or for just because. It’s that easy.
Google Classroom
Though this one is only relevant to those working in
education, Google Classroom is a great tool (without ads!) to help teachers
organize assignments, communicate announcements to students, and give quick
feedback.
Google Docs
With Google Docs, you can create and edit text
documents right in your web browser—no special software is required. Even
better, multiple people can work at the same time, you can see people's changes
as they make them, and every change is saved automatically.
Google Sheets
Google sheets and excel are very much same in the terms of
formulas and calculations and many of their features of them are same, both
have data in the form of a table or in other words rows and columns
Google Slides
Google Slides has the basic slide presentation features,
ranging from the ability to format text and add images to the ability to
use layouts and themes. It also includes more advanced presentation tools such
as the ability to publish to the web and great collaboration features
Google Forms lets you collect information from people
via personalized quizzes or surveys. You can then connect the info to a
spreadsheet on Sheets to automatically record the answers. The spreadsheet then
populates with the responses from the quiz or survey in real-time.
Google Meet
Google describes Meet as "a video meeting experience
with one goal: make joining meetings effortless". The company wanted to
improve Hangouts to make it easier and faster for people start and join video
conferences. Hangouts Meet has a very light, fast interface and enables you to
easy manage up to 250-person meetings.
Google Crisis
Response
Hopefully you won’t have to use this one – but if disaster
strikes, there’s no better tool to make information about response efforts and developing
news easily available. The service partners with government agencies, relief
efforts and more to bring helpful information and resources to the right
places.
Google Person Finder
This service helps people reconnect with loved ones after a
disaster hits and chaos has descended.
Google Art Project
For this service, Google collaborated with art institutions
all over the world to give people a chance to see brilliant art from the
comfort of their homes. If nothing else, you’ll definitely feel more cultured!
FieldTripper
Who doesn’t enjoy the odd field trip? This app serves up
location-based information to you as you move around a new (or old!) city with
tidbits of information about your surroundings. Expect everything from what old
movies were filmed to architecture factoids.
Google Shopper
Packed with features that show you everything from what the
barcode on an item means, daily and nearby deals to the ability to
search for an item by voice, Google Shopper makes it easy to shop in a much
smarter and more efficient way.
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