Alexa is the #1 site for checking websites popularity. As we can see Google is an absolute leader. Fallowed by facebook and YouTube.
So what is really behind of success of Google ?
Google named from largest number know by humans GOOGOL(10 to the power 100). Was started as a privately held company on September 4,1998 by two Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Since now Google has been repeatedly named Fortune Magazine's Number One Best Place to Work and most powerful brand in the world.
Alexa lists Google as the Internet's most visited website. It was only 12 Years that Google became one of the most powerful companies in future world of IT.
Maybe not everyone knows, but most of google success came from Google AdWords.
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Google AdWords is a flagship advertising product that google intrudoced in 2000 and it was really extension of idea that Bill Gross borrowed from YellowPages. Google AdWords gave company in 2008 a USD$28 Billion revenue.
AdWords offers pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and site-targeted advertising for both text and banner ads. The AdWords program includes local, national, and international distribution. Google's text advertisements are short, consisting of one title line and two content text lines. Image ads can be one of several different Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) standard sizes.
Google dominated the advertising on the internet which was on of the most important decision in company development over they past ten years.
Another success follower from Google was introduced in 2004 as invite-only beta the Google-Mail better known now as Gmail. Now Gmail as of july 2009 has 146 million users and counting. Gmail offered few new and for that time revolutionary services that decided about Gmail success. With an initial 1GB storage Gmail significantly increased the Webmail standard for free storage from the 2 to 4MB its competitors offered at that time. Gmail has a search-oriented interface and a "conversation view" similar to an Internet forum. Software developers know Gmail for its pioneering use of the Ajax programming technique.
Google yet most popular service is Google search engine itself.
It's still the most used web search engine on the web. Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services
Than google started to ship a whole range of products available to public.
With official Gmail google announced Google Apps suit for business users.
Google calendar integrated with gmail. Google docs, and on line office editing capabilities, contacts etc. Google started to work on their smart phone operating system called Android and now even their own operating system based on linux Google Chrome OS which is really the Google Chrome web browser (another product of Google) closed in an OS. Google Picasa and Web Albums are worth to mention also as they have strongly underlined Google multimedia aspirations. As well as the Google Earth and later Google Maps where a revolutionary for their times, and now are used in Townsend of apps and web pages across the world.
In your opinion what was the most interesting Google product you have been using or you'd started using or began with Google ?
Remember altavista? hotbot? they were also very popular ;)
ReplyDeleteAdwors seems to be interesting but did you know there's also Adsense?
I personally believe there must be something better than just ordinary web page with all it drawbacks, and at some time it probably will
Like probably most of us my adventure started with the main product which is the browser. The success in my opinion it gained because of the lack of ads and a decent speed of work. Very good application is Google Earth. When something is not on YouTube, it is on Google videos, so in the critical cases you can find what you want. When I have to translate some texts, I use Google-translate - unfortunately it does not work perfectly, but you can tell what's going on. It is very useful if you want to buy something on bay from Germany or Italy etc. I also use Gmail, which has the best spam filter i know. What is more it offers a lot of space for my messages and integration with Google Docs and Google Buzz. Summing up they can offer us a very good web apps but in my opinion their new OS or web browser will never become popular especially in Poland.
ReplyDeleteLike most of the users I use Google products everyday. Generally Google Chrome, Google Translate, web browser, Gmail... But the most interesting service for me is the automatic generation of captions or subtitles to videos on GoogleVideo.
ReplyDeleteFor me the most useful and crucial Google's product is Google Search. I also use Gmail and some of the Google Apps (documents and calendar).
ReplyDeleteGoogle is the leader in webapps. Their package containing, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Maps, etc. are really useful. I've got also phone based on Google OS called Android, so every of this application synchronize with my phone when I'm moving, so I can still check my email or edit documents outside office.
ReplyDeleteLike you I use Google every day. Like the author says Google adsense and adwords by enabling regular users to advertise and to earn on advertisments made them so popular.
ReplyDeleteNow i think, that the new iAds will make another step into advertising in the internet. One think i dislike about google is theire privacy policy, they can just block your account for any reason. Pieriod. So sad, they are to BIG !
ReplyDeleteI'm using Gmail and Google Search every day. Although I've heard some very positive opinions about Google Chrome, I still can't leave web browser I'm using. I don't know, maybe it's because I'm used to it. Google translate is not for me - I'd rather check every needed word in dictionary and translate it by myself than trust a translator engine. But I think that it's good to know every possible product, just in case it may become useful or only way to do what we have to do.
ReplyDeleteIn your opinion what was the most interesting Google product you have been using or you'd started using or began with Google ?
ReplyDeleteGoogle Wave
http://wave.google.com/about.html
My question about Google-Wave is: how the company is going to enforce a behavior change and find a way to grow in order for it to become the standard that Google wants it to become. The company wants it to be an open protocol so that people can build their own Waves and at the same time collaborate and federate. Because "product" is already on the market, and I see it rather as a fail.