The Google Story does not end here

A six letter world is all it requires to change the Internet. No guesses, its Google!

Google has become an unchallenged standard in its own. Even strong players like Microsoft are helpless but to put in futile effort to capture the web search-engine market.

Starting with search-engine, Google has expanded into many arenas over years. Like recently, it has entered the mobile OS world with Android. Lets count what Google has added into its portfolio in a few years:

Gmail – Fast like lightning, giving new meaning to mail applications

GTalk – What a breakthrough was it when GTalk was integrated with Gmail window.

Maps – Started off with Google Earth, then matured to online version of Maps. This has been in controversy over security. Now, cities are getting added to the Steet View feature.

Etc, Etc, Etc…

Strategic acquisitions of services like YouTube, Kaltix(that’s what we know now as iGoogle), Picassa, Feed Burner, etc has helped Google expand its product base. However, we can now see that Google will foray into a lot of acquisitions for mobile applications and advertising as future apps will demand that technology.

Recently, it has come out of its beta-clinging and released a version of Google Chrome – ‘A browser built for speed, stability and security’ (in the words of Google.) A release was necessary as corporate won’t touch something that is always under development and does not have stability. This will help IT sector to build more apps supporting the browser.

Google SMS is also something very useful. What more, it has been launched in India long ago. So 9773300000 on mobile stands for Google!

Google Apps and code.google.com are a boon for developers. Google Gears seems to be something promising.

Get a hand on ‘The Google Story’ for interesting reading.