Larry Page, CO-FOUNDER OF GOOGLE INC. once described the “perfect search engine” as something that “understands exactly what you mean and gives you back exactly what you want.” We can’t claim that Google delivers on that vision 100 percent today, but THERE’re always working on new technologies aimed at bringing all of Google closer to that ideal.
Sometimes GOOGLE combine a few technologies to make them even more useful. Google Translate, for example, is the largest machine translation engine in the world, with more than 50 language pairs; using voice recognition, the mobile version of Google Translate can transcribe your voice, translate what you’ve said into another language, and then speak it back to you in another language. This is just one example of the things that are becoming increasingly possible. And THERE’re always looking ahead for more.
GOOGLE looking for the next great innovation, the next way to make something you never thought could be better or easier to use… better and easier to use. GOOGLE'S work will result in a tiny improvement you may not notice, like a new way of displaying some part of a search result. Other times, THEY tear up all THEY‘ve learned in order to start from the beginning.
GOOGLE built; Google Chrome based on three ideas: speed, simplicity and security.
The design of Chrome is sleek and minimal, letting you focus on what you’re doing online rather than taking up valuable screen real estate with unnecessary menus and icons. Meanwhile, every aspect of the browser is optimised for speed, and THERE powerful JavaScript engine, V8, which was built from the ground up, lets Chrome handle complex web applications at lightning speeds. And Chrome was designed with security in mind, isolating each page in its own “sandbox” for an additional layer of security, automatically updating when new bug fixes and security patches are available. On top of all this, THEY’ve built in robust support for HTML5 and an extensions gallery for you to personalize and enhance your browsing experience.
Chrome as a foundation THEY’re building Google Chrome OS, an operating system for a new generation of devices that will share Chrome’s focus on speed, simplicity and security.
Mobile and Android
Mobile devices are fast becoming the world‘s portal to information, and GOOGLE IS’ committed to developing IT'S products so they can be used on these small computing devices. For many, a mobile phone is the primary or even the only means of accessing the web, so designing IT'S products to be accessible on mobile devices is a key part of making information available to more people around the world. GOOGLE'S goal is to build mobile applications, such as Google Maps and Gmail, that work across multiple devices and locations.
This is all possible because the applications and the data associated with them is stored on Google’s machines, rather than on your desktop hard drive or on servers maintained by your company. THEY keep live copies of your data on multiple servers in each of multiple locations, meaning that there’s no scheduled downtime and your data is backed up and secure.
Android is a free, open source mobile platform that any developer can use and any handset manufacturer can install. By opening up mobile devices to all developers, GOOGLE believe THEY can drive greater innovation and more choice for the benefit of mobile users everywhere.
Apps
In the past, the computer applications that people used to connect, communicate and collaborate with others—like email, word processing, calendars and spreadsheets—would have to be “installed” on your computer. This software would live on your computer, jamming it up with old files and outdated versions of the same software. If you spilled coffee on your computer, your files were done for. And you’d continually have to upgrade your programs manually whenever a new version came on the market. These are the kinds of problems that cloud computing technology avoids altogether.
With cloud computing, the apps themselves live “in the cloud”: on the web, so you don’t need any special software or hardware to use them as long as you have an Internet connection. As a result, you can access your stuff from anywhere, using any device with a browser: smartphone s, net-books, laptops. You don’t need to worry about whether an app is compatible with your computer or about upgrades and downloads. Your files are safe from any hard-drive-meets-coffee-cup disaster, and you can invite anyone to share your files or keep them private. If you’re collaborating on something, each of you can work in the same document, without having to save, attach and email version after version, risking the loss of important updates.
For individuals, this can make everyday tasks easier and faster: Imagine planning a wedding, and being able to access your guest list, budget and other important information at work as well as at home, and being able to share everything with your fiancee and family to get input and share planning tasks. For businesses both large and small, cloud computing saves money by removing the need to purchase and maintain software for each client machine, while at the same time enabling employees to be more productive.
Describing the basic crawling, indexing and serving processes of a search engine:
As Larry said long ago, we want to give you back “exactly what you want.”
DID GOOGLE DELIVER OR IS THERE MORE TO SEE?
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