Google Tools!

Google Tools has been an integral part of my life for a very very long time. I started using Google almost 6 years back, during the days when wireless networks and 3G were new-fangled galore... Since then, Google has evolved its services into a powerful and varied set of TOOLS that include:

• Google Images


• Google Search (Of Course!)


• Google Groups: A power groupware that allows users to share files and communicate


• Google News: a Powerful service that crawls the web to bring you content that only you want. It has completely broken the conventional idea of a news reading.


• Google Docs: An "Office" product that is online.


• And Many Many MORE!

However, the one that stands out the most for me is Google Earth.

While everybody was working on creating the next browser, or the next Office package, Google set it's sights on a beautiful project that is meant to combine elements on Web 2.0 into one single package that will allow users to find their way anywhere across the world, down to the street and apartment numbers!

Using GPS and satellite imagery, Google Earth allows us to traverse anywhere in the world, from Singapore to Europe, from Europe to the Depths of the Pacific Ocean, and then to the Stellar Heavens! No place is Foreign to Google Earth!

As Promised... To Outer Space we goooo!



Amazing isn't it?

SO... Why is it so appealing?
Well... What I think is that Google has brought back the Magic of Technology to us. In the early days, we were all hankering over how computers have made our lives better, more exciting and interesting. Now, we finally remember the "Uncovering" of that mystique, the unknown and the intriguing!
Google has utilized technology to bring us, new mysteries, answer old ones and show us the challenges that the world and the Universe has to offer. That is why Google Earth is so amazing!