Transcript CS 110Projectx

Daniela Cosmai
CS110-3
Professor Scaramastra
12/11/2014
Index
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Incorporation
Goals
Search Services
Advertising
Operating Systems and
Platforms
6. Hardware Products
Incorporation
Google is a global technology company. It was founded on
September 4, 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, financed by
the engineer Andy Bechtolsheim.
At first the search engine they had created was called BackRub,
the name was then changed into “Google” with reference to
the word “googol” (1 followed by a 100 zeros).
“[Their] mission [was] to organize the world’s information and
make it universally accessible and useful.”
Goals
Goals:
key areas
Search
You tube, Google Maps
Advertising
Adsense program, Adwords
Operating systems and platforms
Android, Chrome, Google+
Google Play, Google Drive
Hardware products
Nexus 5 (smartphone),Google Glass
Explorer Edition
Search Services
Google Search
google.com
Google Search, commonly referred to as Google Web Search or just
Google, is a web search engine owned by Google Inc. It is the mostused search engine on the World Wide Web, handling more than three
billion searches each day.
Google Maps
googlemaps.com
Google Maps is a desktop and mobile web mapping service
application and technology provided by Google, offering satellite
imagery, street maps, and Street View perspectives, as well as
functions such as a route planner for traveling by foot, car, bicycle
(beta test), or with public transportation.
YouTube
youtube.com
You Tube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno,
California. The service was created by three former PayPal
employees in February 2005 and has been owned by Google since
late 2006.
Advertising
AdWords
AdSense
adwords.com
adsense.com
Google AdWords is an online advertising service
that places advertising copy at the top, bottom, or
beside, the list of search results Google displays for
a particular search query. The choice and
placement of the ads is based in part on a
proprietary determination of the relevance of the
search query to the advertising copy. AdWords has
evolved into Google's main source of revenue.
AdSense is a free, simple way to earn money by
displaying targeted ads next to your online content. With
AdSense, you can show relevant and engaging ads to
your site visitors and even customize the look and feel of
ads to match your website.
Google Data
Operating System and Platforms
Android
android.com
Android is a mobile operating system (OS) based on the
Linux kernel and currently developed by Google. Android
is designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such
as smartphones and tablet computers, with specialized
user interfaces for televisions (Android TV), cars (Android
Auto), and wrist watches (Android Wear).
Chrome
chrome.com
Google Chrome browser is an open source program for accessing the
World Wide Web and running Web-based applications, available for
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android and iOS operating systems.
Google released Chrome in 2008 and issues several updates a year.
Google Drive
googledrive.com
Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service provided by
Google, released on April 24, 2012, which enables user cloud storage,
file sharing and collaborative editing.
Android-In Depth
Hardware and Products
Google Glass
googleglass.com
Google Glass is a type of wearable technology with an
optical head-mounted display (OHMD). Google Glass
displays information in a smartphone-like hands-free format.
Wearers communicate with the Internet via natural language
voice commands.
Chromebook
chromebook.com
A Chromebook is a laptop running Chrome OS as its operating
system. The devices are designed to be used primarily while
connected to the Internet, with most applications and data
residing "in the cloud". A Chromebook is an example of a thin
client.
Nexus 10
nexus10.com
Nexus 10 is a tablet computer co-developed by Google and
Samsung Electronics that runs the Android operating system.
It is the second tablet in the Google Nexus series, a family of
Android consumer devices marketed by Google and built by
an original equipment manufacturer partner.
Focus on Google Glasses