Whats so great about google?

i keep hearing a lot of buz about how "great Google is" and about how "Google has revolutionized the web" i thought it was just another search engine like yahoo but today i decided to go and make a google account (because i have never used google)


so, now what do i do so that i can see this "revolutionized web" that google has created. i made a gmail account, and went to google docs, pixasa, and google calendar (that syncs with microsoft office) but its not something i will use all the time. what else is there?

Whats so great about google?
google finance, maps, trends, products, gchat... check out their labs. I personally use the maps for directions more often than other services.
Reply:I prefer Yahoo! But, I'll tell you one great thing about it... they have a new service on their maps section ( http://www.maps.google.com ) that allows you to actually see a 360 degree eye level view of your destination address. I thought that was pretty wicked. Try it out. Everything else they offer is pretty much stationary i think.
Reply:For starters, Google was the first search engine with results that were good, vs simply counting the number of times a specific word appeared on a webpage (which was easy for spammers to abuse).





Google maps is very innovative, nobody else was providing good map data on the net, and the few who were, had very clunky interfaces. Google invented the whole "draggable map in a webpage" that Windows apps have been using for years.





Gmail is good, but you won't realize it at first. I wasn't very impressed either but after awhile, it's automatic spam blocking is great and the fact it organizes replies into conversations makes it easy to keep your mail organized.





I don't use google's other services, although I do add their toolbar to IE and Firefox because I prefer adding my favorites to Google bookmarks, that way I can access them at home, work, friend's house and don't need to worry about a PC crash or whatever.
Reply:i kinda dont like it. when im looking for stuff for homework, it really bugs me. idk. i never find the good stuff.
Reply:omfg googles well better, just do google and type in what you want and it comes up automaticly, whats better than that.
Reply:Nothing I don't like google i prefer yahoo
Reply:well there is everything with google


google has done something which nobody did till now


so many services giving free


u can search much more in google.com


than any other search engine


google has the best security


u know why google is popular still


because its main page is so simple today also


see other website pages


and see http://google.com


too simple


people like simple


see services of google


http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/





what else u can have?
Reply:Google is fastest big source of information which is in order. I liked it it made me survive.
Reply:Read this:





Just WHY is Google so good?


Google's initial success was built on its


breakthrough search technology, which produced


more useful search results, much more quickly, than


anyone else. Some analysts believe that edge is


waning or is gone. I still think Google is the best, but in any case, there's another secret to


Google's success: honesty.


Of all the major search engines, Google is the only one that's truly, scrupulously honest. It's the


only one that doesn't rig its search results in some manner to make money.


You may or may not like Google's search results. You may disagree with its search methods. But


with Google, the search results you see are strictly those that its search methodology yields. By


contrast, at major competitors like Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN, the first search results you see


are there, at least in part, because companies paid to place them there.


Google makes money in a traditional way that users understand. It sells ads. These ads are


clearly labeled and easily distinguished from the real, unbiased search results. They are triggered


by whatever search term a user enters, and they run down the side of the page and, occasionally,


across the top. The ones across the top are shaded in color, just to make extra sure nobody


confuses them with search results.


This separation of advertising and editorial content is the same one that has been used for a


couple of hundred years in newspapers and magazines. People get the distinction.


Contrast that with Yahoo and MSN, Google's biggest competitors. In addition to ads down the


side of the page, Yahoo places paid search listings at the top and bottom of its results, in a format


that looks exactly like real results. These paid listings are labeled as "Sponsor Results," but I


suspect many users don't grasp the difference. And on a small screen, you would have to scroll in


many cases to see the unsponsored listings, so it's easier to just click on a sponsored link.


Even Yahoo's real, unsponsored results are rigged to some extent. That's because Yahoo sells


companies the right to be included in its searches, something Google never does.


MSN also supplements ads down the side of the page with paid search listings that appear before


its real results in many, but not all, cases. These are called "Featured Sites," which sounds


innocent enough. But they include paid entries.


I'm all for advertising. Advertising pays my salary, and it can be helpful and interesting to


consumers. But I'm against advertising that is too easily confused with editorial content. If


Yahoo's system applied to newspapers, there would be paid news stories in the paper that looked


just like real stories but were even more prominent than the real stories.