More Services From Google, After 9 Years in the Web
Celebrating its 9th year, Google continues to be the most trusted by most online users. It started purely as a search engine, but grew into a company that had provided innovative services to web users. iGoogle, Google Maps, and Google Earth are only a few of their creative ideas that impressed us.
1. With iGoogle, web search users can now customize or personalize the Google home page. They can change the white plain background of Google with a colorful theme of their choice, then have fun with the Google font, and add mini applications. These mini applications, called Google Gadgets, will help the web users manage their wants and surfing needs in one page like a weather forecast, a stock chart, their Google Talk, headlines from Wall Street Journal, or even their favorite games in mini. Just in case they got bored while working.
2. Another cool service from Google is the Google Maps. It is a very valuable map application that allows web users find restaurants, hotels, schools, churches etc. quickly. All they have to do is type an address, an intersection, or keywords related to the place they are looking for. Aside from locating a specific place, you can also use Google Maps for directions. They can also have a bird view of the world by Google Maps zooming feature. They can see the top views of known tourist destinations. For example, if the users want to take a peek of Great Britain or Canada, all they need to do is go to Google Maps UK and Google Maps Canada.
3. Similar to Google Maps, Google Earth is a software that has enhanced viewing features of the Earth, straight from web users desktops. Google Earth may show users 3D buildings and structures.
Though users can download Google Earth free, the free version has limited functions. If they want more-advanced features, they have to upgrade it to Google Earth Plus. One feature of Google Earth Plus is GPS integration.
