Week 7 - Google

I've briefly touched on the usefulness and importance of Internet and Google previously, but I think that writing a post purely dedicated to Google would do more justice to it.Google is more than just a search engine. It has since developed into so much more. With countless of features that it has, Google now not only provides you with search results for images and web pages, it also translates for you, provides top news stories for you, gives you directions with maps, suggest videos, books and scholarly articles that you might be interested in, and connects you with others through the use of Google Mail and Google Groups (like how Mr. Choy connects and share documents with us students through the COM125 Google group). That is not all; there are so much more Google provides for Internet users that totally revolutionized the whole web navigation idea.

Google had even developed and launched an independent web browser Google Chrome that has a minimalistic graphical user interface (merging of address bar and search bar), aiming to be a secure, fast, simple and stable web browser around. It has since gained popularity among Internet surfers, being the third most widely used browser and passed the 10% worldwide usage share of web browsers, as of January 2011. Here is a video showing 10 features of Google Chrome.



So now you see why people like using Google. It's like a one-stop station where many of your online needs are served. For both work and entertainment purposes, Google has indeed made our lives better. Still not persuaded? Google on the usefulness of Google. :)