URL:

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:

URL:

http://www.bing.com

What is Bing?

Bing is Microsoft’s new search engine.  Bing is an intuitive search engine that tries to assist you in better searching.  It does this by offering suggestive terms and providing you content preview of your search results to help you refine your search of content on the internet.

What you may not know about Bing

Bing has multiple search features to not only search for articles and news related content.  Bing features an extensive search for multimedia such as images and video.  Bing has a collection of search refining tools for images and video.  For instance, you can search images and filter out images of people only by head shots.  Or hover your mouse over video results to see a preview of the video.  Bing is putting up a strong effort towards Google and their domination of finding content for users on the internet.

Here’s a quick video on Bing:

URL:

http://www.slideshare.net

What is Slideshare?

Slideshare allows its users to upload, share and collaborate on powerpoint presentations and Microsoft Word documents.  Many times speakers at differente events and seminars put up their presentations on Slideshare to share with its viewers.  This means you can search thousands upon thousands of powerpoint presentations from many popular events and seminars held worldwide.

What you may not know about Slideshare

Not only can you find powerpoint slides and Word documents, you can favorite and tag them to quickly create your own library of presentations.  Furthermore, on the right side of the presentation is the option to view related presentations to further your learning.  So stop using Google and Wikipedia as your only news source and start being more intuitive on your content learning.  Download powerpoint presentations on your topics and continue to broaden your knowledge presented by others.

Here’s a quick video on Slideshare: