Technology has always been my interest from the work of Steve Jobs during his early years to the launch of Windows by Bill Gates. From the come back of Steve Jobs to Apple to the Innovation of Dot Com companies.
Of all these inspirational stories, there is one company which got my attention. It is Google. Google started with just a search engine and a vision to organize everything in the cyber space. Currently, they are offering a lot of free services for use to use. The likes of blogger, youtube, gmail, googlewave (unfortunately, this project was discontinued), google maps, google docs and many other services. What got my attention is their financial model. They earn purely from getting advertisements from their search engine.
Being inspired by Steve Job's idea of making a dent in the universe, Google seem to be doing this perfectly. I am not sure if this is part of Larry Page and Sergey Brin's idea, but the services they are offering are of great help to Internet users. How were they able to do this?
First of all, the search function of Google is way powerful than MSN/Bing or Yahoo. This give users a better result from what they are looking for. Also, there are minimal ads unlike other websites that are so irritating.
Next, when offered Gmail to users. Yahoo mail was forced to increase their capacity because initially, Yahoo mail has a small storage space compared to Gmail. To combat this, Yahoo mail made their storage unlimited just so that users will not switch. I almost did switch but currently, my Yahoo mail is still my primary email.
Another good service that they made, was the introduction of Google maps. No need to further explain this because they offered a concise map of the planet Earth which we can access real time to go to our desired location.
Google also ventured into operating systems however, they focused on mobile phones. Microsoft, being the top software company who sells operating system, didn't saw the opportunity of the smart phone market. Currently, Google's Android OS has the highest market share in terms of smart phone OS which also competed with Apple's iPhone IOS. Steve Job currently is not happy with the fast growth of the Android.
Google also competed head-on with Microsoft's Office applications by introducing Google Docs where users can create spreadsheet, presentations, and documents on line even when they do not have any Office applications installed in your computer.
Lastly, Google is now competing with Facebook. It is known that Mark initially wanted to battle Google by offering email address to Facebook users. Currently, Google is competing with Facebook with Google+. They did made a lot of attempts to compete with Facebook, but all of their attempts were failures. As of the moment, Google+ seems to be getting a good review by users of this Beta release.
These efforts of Google gives us a lot of benefits and most service they offer are free. To top that, they have the best working environment most people would die to be in.
Here are some videos of Google's work place. Isn't this the bomb?
Of all these inspirational stories, there is one company which got my attention. It is Google. Google started with just a search engine and a vision to organize everything in the cyber space. Currently, they are offering a lot of free services for use to use. The likes of blogger, youtube, gmail, googlewave (unfortunately, this project was discontinued), google maps, google docs and many other services. What got my attention is their financial model. They earn purely from getting advertisements from their search engine.
Being inspired by Steve Job's idea of making a dent in the universe, Google seem to be doing this perfectly. I am not sure if this is part of Larry Page and Sergey Brin's idea, but the services they are offering are of great help to Internet users. How were they able to do this?
First of all, the search function of Google is way powerful than MSN/Bing or Yahoo. This give users a better result from what they are looking for. Also, there are minimal ads unlike other websites that are so irritating.
Next, when offered Gmail to users. Yahoo mail was forced to increase their capacity because initially, Yahoo mail has a small storage space compared to Gmail. To combat this, Yahoo mail made their storage unlimited just so that users will not switch. I almost did switch but currently, my Yahoo mail is still my primary email.
Another good service that they made, was the introduction of Google maps. No need to further explain this because they offered a concise map of the planet Earth which we can access real time to go to our desired location.
Google also ventured into operating systems however, they focused on mobile phones. Microsoft, being the top software company who sells operating system, didn't saw the opportunity of the smart phone market. Currently, Google's Android OS has the highest market share in terms of smart phone OS which also competed with Apple's iPhone IOS. Steve Job currently is not happy with the fast growth of the Android.
Google also competed head-on with Microsoft's Office applications by introducing Google Docs where users can create spreadsheet, presentations, and documents on line even when they do not have any Office applications installed in your computer.
Lastly, Google is now competing with Facebook. It is known that Mark initially wanted to battle Google by offering email address to Facebook users. Currently, Google is competing with Facebook with Google+. They did made a lot of attempts to compete with Facebook, but all of their attempts were failures. As of the moment, Google+ seems to be getting a good review by users of this Beta release.
These efforts of Google gives us a lot of benefits and most service they offer are free. To top that, they have the best working environment most people would die to be in.
Here are some videos of Google's work place. Isn't this the bomb?
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