A COMPLETE SUMMARY OF GOOGLE SERVICES

Google is very vast – offering hundreds of great services that can make your life better in many ways. No matter whom you are, or what you do, Google has something for you. In this article, all these Google services are summarized in one place.

We are going to be covering the following titles:

i.                     Google accounts

ii.                   iGoogle

iii.                  Google Calendar

iv.                 Google Plus

v.                   Google Affiliate Network (GAN)

vi.                 Adsense

vii.                Adwords

viii.              Google Translate

ix.                 Webmaster Tool

x.                   Blogger

xi.                 Gmail

xii.                Google Map

xiii.              Google Earth

xiv.              News

xv.               Google Groups

xvi.              Google Images

xvii.            Google Talk

xviii.           Google Images

xix.              Google Answers

xx.               Forum

xxi.              Gadgets API

xxii.            Google Voice

xxiii.           Google Finance

xxiv.          Google Docs

xxv.            Philantropic Organization (google.org)

xxvi.          Toolbar

xxvii.         Google Books

xxviii.       Analytics

xxix.          Reader

xxx.            Apps

xxxi.          Google Chat

xxxii.         Google Alert

xxxiii.       Google Search

xxxiv.       Blog

xxxv.        Chrome Browser

xxxvi.       Trimble Sketchup

xxxvii.     Google Code

xxxviii.    Google Scholar

xxxix.       Picasa

xl.                 Google Checkout

xli.                Google Play

xlii.              Advanced Search

xliii.             URL Shortener

xliv.            Google Research

xlv.              Google Sites

xlvi.            Investor Relations

xlvii.           Google Base

xlviii.         Picasa Web

xlix.            Google Mobile!
l.       Social Bookmarks
li.       Google Trader
lii.      Google SMS
liii.      Get Businesses Online
liv.     Product Search
lv.      Google Local
lvi.     Google personalized
lvii.     Blog Search
lviii.    Baraza
lix.      Sync

We shall take them one after the other, but in no definite order (not necessarily according to the list)

 Google Plus

Google Plus is Google's social networking service. Its precursors are Buzz and Orkut. The replacement of Buzz and Orkut with Plus seems to be a competitive move in response to Facebook's great success in social networking. This is clear from the fact that Google did not only obviously copy the Facebook style, but added a lot of notable improvements to the latter. In Google Plus for example there is what is called 'groups'. With this feature, you can easily classify the people you are networking with into such as: family members, work colleagues, acquaintances, et cetera without them knowing which group you placed them in. This makes it easy to choose whom to share what with, while at the same time keeping this a well guarded personal secret.
Google Plus has other irresistible features but let me just mention that it makes it also easy to find people of like interest with you by showing you featured pages according to such categories as sports, entertainment, fashion, politics, technology, etc

Google Accounts

You will get the most out of Google services by becoming a member of Google. This requires a free account. Google Accounts is not a specific service of the company, but it gives you a single access to many of the services. Just a single Google account is what you need to be able to access all the numerous services already mentioned above.

You can go specifically to the accounts page at accounts.google.com to sign up for a free account or you can sign up for any of the Google services and use that single account to access the others. Thus by signing up for a Gmail, for example, you can use the same username/email and password to access Plus, Webmaster Tools, Blogger and in fact all.

Google Groups

This is the newsgroup service of Google. A newsgroup is a type of discussion forum in which discussants are placed into ‘groups’ whereby each group represents people who share a common interest sports, music, technology, religion, etc. You are free to join any group, and you can create a new group and let people join. You can participate in a discussion on Google Groups by means either directly (on the page) or indirectly (by emailing).

Google Groups is an interesting place to meet people of like minds from around the world, and to show of the stuff you are made of. Integrated with the Usenet newsgroup, Google Groups supports reading from and posting to Usenet newsgroups. It has its own custom search engine which enables you to search the archive of past discussions; you can rate other people’s post and never yours; you can create a public profile and can do a lot of other things.

Not only is Google a great place to learn, it is also a place to show you have something to offer. That is a networking opportunity. There are also official Google groups where you can discuss different services of Google such as Gmail, Blogger and more.