Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG and LSE: GGEA) is an American public corporation, specializing in Internet search and online advertising. It's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Google is now widely recognized as the world's largest search engine an easy to use free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second.The first funding for Google as a company was secured in the form of a USD100,000
Google Desktop
Google Chrome
Google search
Google Calendar
Google Search or Google Web Search is a web search engine owned by Google Inc. and is the most used search engine on the Web. Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services. The main purpose of Google Search is to hunt for text in webpages, as opposed to other data, such as with Google Image Search. Google search was originally developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997. Google Search provides at least 22 special features beyond the original word
Central Desktop
Google Calendar is a free time management web application offered by Google. It became available on April 13, 2006, and exited the beta stage in July 2009. Users are required to have a Google Account in order to use the software. The interface of Google Calendar, designed by Kevin Fox (who also designed Gmail and the second version of Google Reader), is similar to desktop calendar applications such as Microsoft Outlook or iCal on Mac OS X. The Ajax driven interface enables users to view, add,
Google Gadgets
Central Desktop, Inc. is a privately held collaboration software company that is headquartered in Pasadena, California. The company's primary focus is providing a Software as a Service collaboration tool to small and medium sized businesses. The company and its products are most often compared to other wiki based and project centric solutions such as SharePoint and Basecamp. As of February 2009, the company serves more than 375,000 users worldwide with customers such as Gymboree, Nielsen, CBS,
Desktop search
Google Gadgets are dynamic web content that can be placed on any page on the web. Gadgets can be games, mini applications, news feeds, maps or any content. Members of Google's site can add them to their iGoogle page. If Google Desktop is installed on a local computer, gadgets can be added to that computer's desktop in a similar way in which native Microsoft Gadgets run on Windows Vista. With Google Gadgets anyone who has a free Google account can create and publish them without having to pay
Google Pack
Desktop search is the name for the field of search tools which search the contents of a user's own computer files, rather than searching the Internet. These tools are designed to find information on the user's PC, including web browser histories, e mail archives, text documents, sound files, images and video. One of the main advantages of desktop search programs is that search results arrive in a few seconds; Windows search companion can be some help, but it searches through Windows files and
iGoogle
Google Pack is a software package that allows users to discover, install, and maintain a number of application programs. It was announced at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show, on January 6. Google Pack is currently only available for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Users can choose which of the following software applications to install. If the application is already installed, Google Updater checks to see if the user has the latest version and upgrades it, if necessary. The software
Google Lively
iGoogle (formerly Google Personalized Homepage and Google IG), a service of Google, is a customizable AJAX based startpage or personal web portal (much like Netvibes, Pageflakes, My Yahoo!, and Windows Live Personalized Experience). Google originally launched the service in May 2005. Its features include the capability to add web feeds and Google Gadgets (similar to those available on Google Desktop). On April 30, 2007, Google renamed Google Personalized Homepage to iGoogle . As of 17