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TipMonkies has an Ultimate Guide to Google Services.

Google isn’t just doing search and ain’t simply giving you that simple plain text box. It has tons of other services related to images, video, book, desktop app, map, blogging, advertisement…and more. Going through the list, except most search related — which basically indexing the contents on web (takes it to be images, video, published papers/books), Google has bought over some other small companies to provide quality image management application (Picasa), desktop search (still about searching, but just a layer up your hard disk), Google Earth (would map info via satellite consider information on web to be indexing?)…

All and all, google is slowly building up whole chunk of technical driven services or application (self-build or bought over). Nevertheless, technology is the core competency of Google. And it ain’t following other old web startup like Yahoo, who target to be the homepage of everybody’s browser and having its own army for media contents (Warner’s style). Google stay focus and grow around its core. That’s good because both has the separation of web market and giving its own different evolving path. These companies’ future is interesting to look out.