Google other services

It also has a calculator for basic arithmetic, Google Calc, and a currency converter, if you write an arithmetic operation in the search box, Google Calc is activated to give us the result.

Google Page Creator offers a simple web page editor with a space of 100 megabytes, Google Spreadsheets spreadsheet online and Picasa as a free image editor in which you can upload to the Internet and publish them in a web album. The following are additional services that also belong to Google:

Google Alerts

Blogger

FeedBurner

Google Analytics

Google App Engine

Google Base

Google Blogsearch

Google Chrome

Google Code

Google Code Search

Google Dictionary

Google Docs

Google Earth

Google Friend Connect

Google Groups

Google Health

Google Notebook

Google Pack

Google Reader

Google Sandbox

Google Scholar

Google Sites

Google SketchUp

Google Talk

Google Trends

Google Voice

Google Wave

Google Webmasters Tools

iGoogle

Knol

OpenSocial

Orkut

Panoramio

Picasa

YouTube

Google Summer of Code

Main article: Google Summer of Code

The SoC is an event that was first made in the summer of 2005 in which Google pays cash to students who complete a free software project.

Google bomb

Following its important leadership position in the market, Google is the main objective of so-called search engine spamming. In this sense, it tries to position as many search words as possible among search results. These keywords often have no relation to the actual content of the pages. Techniques used are “Doorway Pages, Farm-Links and Page-Cloacking.

This possibility was first found in the light of public opinion in connection with a pump-Google, which was geared to U.S. President George W. Bush. The search “miserable failure” (was bound by Bush’s opponents to the official page with the biography of Bush House Blanca. In return Bush supporters tried to do the same against Michael Moore (director of Fahrenheit 9/11).

Since then the top often vary between the two. Manipulations, which aim to improve the ranking of websites especially Google, are considered from that time to be Google-spamming. To prevent abuse, Google changes its algorithm frequently.

Googleplex

Googleplex is the name given to facilities where Google employees do their work. The main office is located in Mountain View, California, but there are others scattered throughout the world.