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1. Google Maps: http://maps.google.com
2. Google Books: http://books.google.com/
3. Google Squared: http://google.com/squared
4. Google Sets: http://labs.google.com/sets
5. Google News Timeline: http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/
6. Google Similar Images: http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/
7. Google Audio Indexing: http://labs.google.com/gaudi

What is Google?

I would hope by now anyone on the internet has at least heard of Google, if not, here’s some history…Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. Google has also developed an open source web browser and a mobile operating system. The Google headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. As of March 31, 2009 (2009 -03-31)[update], the company has 19,786 full-time employees. The company is running millions of servers worldwide, which process about 1 petabyte of user-generated data every hour. Google conducts hundreds of millions of search requests every day. (via Wikipedia)

What you may not know about Google

Google is more than just a company trying to organize the world’s information and making it easily searchable.  Google offers a variety of methods of obtaining content on the internet, such as the 7 methods mentioned above.  Furthermore Google also offers a variety of web tools and services such as email clients, advertisement options, web analytics, and ridiculously much more.  Its actually quite remarkable what can be done with Google.  I’m done talking, go play.

Here’s a video on 7 Google search techniques that are really cool: