Lesson 1. Google products

Google is known around the world mainly for its internet search engine, but apart from that it has a large number of products, which can be either free or with charge.

As you can see in the following list  these products can be classified between:

• Web-based products
• Development tools
• Operating systems
• Desktop applications
• Mobile applications
• Hardware
• Services

Businesses can take advantage of all of these Google tools to carry out every aspect of their online activity. The most common ones are:

- For their office workload: Google Chrome, Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Cloud Print and Google Voice.

- For their site and search management: Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics, Google Merchant Center, Google Alerts, Places for Business, Custom Search Engine, Google Sites and Google Translate. 

- For their media: YouTube, Google and Your Business, Google Books and Google Maps. 

- For social aspects: Google +, Google + Hangouts, Google Moderator and Blogger.

To sum up, Google products can be very helpful for businesses to accomplish easily daily tasks, and without having to invest too much money in them, as most of them are free of charge.