6 Most Popular & Widely Used Google Products and Services


BENGALURU: Google Inc. is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. Recently the company’s Play Store has become the sixth Google product to be used by more than a billion people, as noted by Times of India.

We are dependent on Google’s products in our daily lives, whether it’s for navigation, downloading apps, or searching for literally anything. In fact, their search engine has become so powerful that the term ‘Google’ is now recognized as a verb. Trustful information is what Google gives us and we rely on it for our technical survival. Here are the 6 products that we use the most.

Android

We only see two types of smart gadgets, one is iOS based and the other is Android based. The latter has a user base of 1.4 billion and dominates the smartphone OS market and also has over 1.6 million apps. Android is a mobile operating system (OS) currently developed by Google, based on the Linux kernel and designed primarily for touch screen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

Maps

None of us can reach a  place on  time and in a smart manner  if it weren’t for Google Maps. It is a desktop and mobile web mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, street maps, 360° panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions (Google Traffic), and route planning and navigation for traveling by foot, car, bicycle, or public transportation.

Search

Google Web Search is the most famous and the most used web search engine, handling more than three billion searches each day and is owned by Google Inc. It was originally developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997, and the main purpose of Google Search is to hunt for text in publicly accessible documents offered by web servers, as opposed to other data, such as images or data contained in databases.

Chrome

Google Chrome is an Internet browser developed by Google Inc. that combines minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the Web faster, safer and easier. The Google Chrome browser offers features including access to favorite pages instantly with thumbnails, desktop shortcuts to launch Web applications, and independently run tabs within the browser to prevent browser crashing.

Play Store

Play store is a digital distribution platform operated by Google, which is an official app store for the Android OS, allowing users to browse and download applications developed with the Android SDK and published through Google. Google Play also serves as a digital media store, offering music, magazines, books, movies, and television programs.

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website and was an independent company, which was later bought by Google in November 2006. The site allows users to upload, view, and share videos, which uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media video. Available content includes video clips, TV clips, music videos, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.
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