A Wonderfull WorldKoen Van Loo
As Google moves lightening fast, parts of this presentation may already be outdated.
70% Search20% Other tools10% Experimental
This presentation
70% Other tools20% Search10% Experimental
What is Google? (1)
What is Google? (2)
What is Google? (3)
And a lot more…
Search
Alerts
Blog Search
Book Search Catalogs
Checkout
Desktop
Directo
ry
Earth
Finance
Froogle
Images
Local
Maps
News
Scho
lar
Spe
cial
ized
Sea
rche
sToolbar
Video
Web Search Features
www.google.com
www.google.com/ig
www.google.com/ig
Gadget
GadgetRSS
Gadget
Gadget
Gadget
RSS
RSS
RSSGadget
Define:SERP
Search Engine Results Page(s). The page or pages that are
displayed after entering a query into a search engine.
Weather
Weather
Weather One Box
Google News One Box
Ad Section
Who links to you?
Financial information
Spell Checker
Site search
Search by numbers
Prefetching of resultpages
Question & answers
Music
Groups
Filetypes
Definitions
Currency Conversion
Calculator (1)
http://www.google.com/help/calculator.html
Calculator (2)
Cached information (1)
Cached information (2)
Shopping
Books
Google Book Search
How to make better searches?
• Choosing search terms• Capitalization• Automatic "and" queries• Exclusion of common words• Word variations• Phrase searches• Negative terms
Operators
Advanced operators (1)
Advanced operators (2)
Advanced search
Alerts
E-mail alerts of key words inNewsWeb
News & WebGroups
Define:Googleplex
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googleplex
The Googleplex
Image search (1)
Image search (2)
Larry Page
Video search
Video result
Sergey Bin
Marissa Mayer
Easter Egg:niniane kicks ass
Google Earth
Eric Schmidt
Google Toolbar
Blogsearch
Define:googlerFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Googler may refer to:An expert user of Google search An employee of Google, Inc.
Googler is a character inAce Lightning, a children's television show
Niniane WangMatt Cutts
Google Code
Mashups
Blogger ( & Beta)
Calendar
Google Docs (1)
Google Docs (2)
Gmail (1)
Define: PageRank™
PageRank aka PR is one of the methods Google uses to determine the relevance or importance of a
Web page.
PageRank is a vote, by all the other Web pages on the Internet, about how important a Web page is. A link to a Web page counts as a vote of support. If there are no incoming links to a Web page then
there is no support.
Groups
Picasa(web)
Picasaweb (1)
Picasaweb (2)
Google Talk
Google Translate
Google Mobile
Google Pack
What’s a Google?"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed
by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician
Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and
James Newman.
Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of
information available on the web.
Google Apps
Google, other stuff…
• Business Solutions• Advertising (it’s all about the money)• Tools for webmasters• Supporting Open Source (incl. Firefox)• Google.org• www.google.grants• Environmental projects (e.g. the biggest
solar farm in the world…)
Labs
Google Labs• Google Code Search - Search public source code• Google Reader - Use Google's web-based feed reader to keep track of your favorite web sites• Google Transit - Plan trips using public transportation• Google Music Trends - See what music is popular among Google Talk users• Accessible Search - Web search for the visually Impaired• Google Extensions for Firefox (Google Browser Sync now available) - Add powerful new tools to
your Mozilla Firefox browser• Picasa for Linux - Google's photo organizer now available for Linux users• Google Notebook - Clip and collect information as you browse the web• Google Trends - See what the world is searching for• Google Related Links - Provide your website's visitors with links to useful information• Google Mars - View some of the most detailed maps of Mars created by NASA scientists• Google Page Creator - Create your own web pages, quickly and easily• Google Dashboard Widgets for Mac - Quickly access Google products from within Dashboard• Google Web Accelerator - Save time online by loading web pages faster• Google Ride Finder - Find a taxi, limousine or shuttle using real time position of vehicles• Google Suggest - As you type your search, Google offers keyword suggestions in real time• Froogle Mobile US | Froogle Mobile UK Improved! - Search for products from your mobile phone
using Froogle• Google Sets - Automatically create sets of items from a few examples
Google Reader
Google Trends
Google Sets
The future…
• Acquisition of other companies• GDrive? • Office 2.0• Amelioration of present products• New search strategies
– Customization features– Multimedia search– Voice portals
• Etc.
Acquisition of companies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google
GDrive?
New Search Strategies
Searchmash.com
Credits
Information & images from– Google Blogoscoped (http://blog.outer-
court.com) – Google (http://www.google.com)– Official Google Blogs
(http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/10949413115399023739/label/officialgoogleblogs)