WELCOME!
GOOGLE
GOOGLE SEARCH
GMAIL
GOOGLE MAPS
YOUTUBE
GOOGLE
Began in January 1996 as a research
project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Originally nicknamed as "BackRub".
Changed to Google, originating from
misspelling of "googol“.
Google as privately held company on
September 4, 1998.
GOOGLE SEARCH
Google Search: three
billion searches each
day.
Competitors:
Baidu, Yandex,
Yahoo!, Bing,
DuckDuckGo,…
Google Doodles: Logo
changes on special
occasions
12.9 billion monthly searches in 2014
56% Of Users “Google” themselves
First Google Storage made from LEGO
"google" added as a verb in the Merriam-Webster and Oxford
English Dictionary
GMAIL
1 GB per user – 2007
15 GB per user – 2015
June 2012: over 425 million active
users.
Available
on February 7, 2007.
Competitors :
500 million users in 2014
Gmail users: thin young men aged 18-34 who are college-educated and not
religious
GOOGLE MAPS
Mapping service
by Google.
First announced
on Google Blog
February 8, 2005
Competitors:
800-1500 feet – The altitude from which most of the high-resolution imagery of cities are
taken.
0 –North Korea - the only country with no data available.
12 billion – Number of miles per year Google Maps guided users.
2 years – Time saved per day.
1,162,460 – Number of sites use Google Maps.
YOUTUBE
Video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.
Created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim in February 2005.
November 2006: bought by Google for US$1.65 billion. Now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.
Third most visited website on the Internet.
Featured an April Fools prank on April 1.
Competitors:
4 billion videos watched
daily
300 hours of video
uploaded every minute
60% of Youtube viewers
whose primary language is
not English
Most
user-generated
YouTube - “Charlie Bit My
Finger,” - 500 million views.
Most viewed – PewDiePie over 8 bill
First YouTube video, “Me at
the zoo”:
co-founder
Jawed Karim at the San
Diego Zoo on April 23,
2005.
THANK YOU!