Today, it is very common to say, – “Things have become extremely easy with the advent of technology. Technology is actually growing at a tremendous rate today. This has made it possible to find out any information in minutes.” “Google” is a major component founded during this growth of technology. It was developed as a ‘search engine’, as a part of the research project of their PhD curriculum by two students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, in the year 1996. This has now grown to form one of the biggest companies, “Google INC.”.The website was named as ‘google’, as a result of the mistake in spelling the word ‘googol’, which means the number ‘1’ followed by hundred zeros. This number signifies the amount of the data this search engine was estimated to handle.
The Google search engine processes a huge number of search requests everyday and is the most popular search engine on the internet, today. They have an e-mail service, ‘gmail.com’, which is extensively preferred by most of the internet user’s today, because of the easy-to-use features. They have introduced a social-networking tool “Orkut.com’, which is extremely popular among most of the teen-agers and elderly as well. The features provided by the company in ‘Orkut’, makes it the most preferred social networking site.The most recent desktop application introduced in the market by Google is the ‘Google Chrome’ browser, which is being expected to give a faster speed of internet browsing. An interesting desktop application developed by Google is the ‘Picasa’. It allows you to crop and edit your photographs as per your choice.’Google Talk’, is the most favored instant messaging software by people all over the world.
Google is recently associated in the development of the mobile OS, Android. This OS is widely used in the HTC mobiles and is gaining a great popularity in the recent days. ‘Droid Eris’ and ‘Nexus one’ are examples of the phones using this OS. Google is currently the leader in the development of the android Operating system.
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