A plethora of services from Google
This week NetSpeak takes a fresh look at some of the latest offerings from
Google.
Google's dominance over the online world seems to be insurmountable. Aside the
wide variety of search services from its flagship search product pack (web
search, video search, blog search and the like), Google offers numerous other
services as well (Google mail, Browser, Google Apps and the like). Even in the
fastest growing mobile web segment, Google is surging ahead.
The on-line world is now agog with the news that Android, the open source
mobile operating system from Google, has become a major platform for mobile
devices
(http://www.gpsbusinessnews.com/Canalys-Android-is-World-Leading-Smartphone-Platform_a2775.
html).
The staggering number of mobile applications being released for Android-based
smart-phones further underlines this trend. NetSpeak will deal on this topic in
one of the forthcoming editions of this column.
An interesting feature of the Google's product ecosystem is that its
constituents interact with mutual synergy, making it grow in an organic manner.
This aspect is quite apparent in Chrome, the popular browser from Google. As
already mentioned in an earlier column, the strength and popularity of Chrome
lies in the availability of a variety of extensions that enhance its power.
Extensions meant for accessing almost all Google services with ease are in
place. You may also note that the latest version of Chrome has got a feature
called 'Instant', which is similar to Google Instant.
This feature enables the browser to load a web page as soon as one starts
entering its URL. Besides this, instead of a site's URL, if you are entering a
search string, search results will start appearing as you type.
Google Apps marketplace
Google Apps (http://www.google.com/apps/) is a significant component of Google
ecosystem. For those of you who are not familiar with Google Apps, it is a
Google service that provides various Google products (such as gmail and google
docs) on a custom domain. Anyone with a domain name can avail of this service,
which is free for up to 50 uses.
Google Apps allows a domain owner to leverage Google's infrastructure and
deploy Google's popular applications on his domain without incurring any
additional hardware/software overhead. Google also offers 'Google Apps
Marketplace', a web-based platform meant for finding/installing third-party
on-line applications that work with Google Apps' built-in application mix.
The latest development in the 'Apps Marketplace' front is the launch of a new
channel exclusively meant for the education segment (http://goo.gl/pdGZJ). In
this category one can find several applications useful for both teachers and
students.
Brainpop, a popular on-line service that creates educational content for kids
is a good example.
The service offers animated educational movies on a range of topics within
Science, Technology, Social studies, English and so on. Although Brainpop is
not a free service, for 'Google Apps' users it is available for free till March
11, 2011.
J. MURALI
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