Most Useful Google Features You Should Try

Ace Huynh
Every Internet users know Google as the biggest search engine. However, Google is not only used for "search".

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Blog search, catalogs, finance and product search, scholar search...: assists you to find information about finance, scholar, patent, catalogs and product. Some of the results you cannot find in other common web search.

Booksearch: this is the special service of Google. It allows you to search for the scan of newspaper. It has been doing by Google for three years.

Desktop: download and install Google Desktop search, the software that helps you to find your files and folders. You can also download Google Toolbar here.

Earth: map of all region in the world. All the images are captured by satellite. Check this out, you may find your roof in this. You can also find the direction between two addresses with Google Map.

News: Google bring to you up-to-date news. It will automatically find and display the news with the hottest headline on your screen.

Gmail: free mail box with up to 3GB space.

Blogger: free blog website.

Calendar: mark all your meetings and appointments.

Docs and Spreadsheets: the office tool similar to Word and Excel of Microsoft Office. This is completely free.

Group, Talk: instant message service. This will help you connect to other people online.

Picasa: a website helps you to manage and share your digital photos online.

Translate: interpret English to another language. Right now, Google Translate supports six main languages: English, French, German, Italian, and Korean. Besides, it will provide translation in Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese and Russian. When accessing Google Translate, you will see it has three features:

1. Text and Web: type in words you want to translate into "Original Text" and click "Translate". You can also interpret the whole web page with this feature.

2. Search Results: this is the program to search for website in another language. You only have to put in what language you want to use and what language you want Google to translate.

3. Dictionary: translate a word to another language. This feature will also include examples for each language. Therefore, it must be much easier for language learners to understand.

Youtube: the biggest website to share video.

Google Pack: download free pack from Google including screensaver, google toolbar, talk and picasa.

Google Checkout: helps customers to pay for online shopping. This gives $10 to new customers.
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Adword and adsense: helps you to advertise on the web.

Go Mobile: supports smart phones using Windows Mobile or Symbian.

These are only some of the useful services from Google. Google also has many more other great features like Google Lab. You should go directly to www.google.com to check out these interesting services.

Published by Ace Huynh

Hi everybody. I am a full-time student at University of California, San Diego. Through writing those articles, I really like to make new friends online. Thank you for all of your comments and opinions!  View profile

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