Article authored by Sankaranand
The Search Giant Google plays many major roles in web industry from advertising, analytics to communication and enterprise solutions. But an average user is never aware of some of the interesting products and projects maintained by them. So I thought of writing a compilation of some of the interesting projects and products developed by Google.
The free Energy monitoring is a tool that analyses power consumption and provides solutions to save energy and money. You need an energy monitoring device to run this tool, the information gathered is then analyzed and utilized by Google Power meter to show your home's power consumption information and solutions for cost reduction and energy saving. The best part is you can access it anywhere in the world since it’s saved in the cloud. This tool is completely free.
Google TV allows you to search content on your TV, the web and applications. It can transform your TV into a digital entertainment box by reducing dependency on just Cable or STB networks. Starting 2011, TV manufactures bundle Google TV with them. Google TV brings content personalization to users thus you choose what you want to see. You can either buy a Google TV set box or a pre-configured Google TV. You can switch between watching television, web and use applications like in your phone. Google Chrome and Adobe Flash player is pre-installed in it. You can watch videos from YouTube, view photos, chat with friends. It’s just like a power computer designed for Media. Also you can use your android based or Iphone smart phone to control your TV. Seriously I am not joking about it. My final verdict about Google TV is that it is going to change the way you watch Television.
We know Google Street view, Moon view but the folks at Google had gone further to take high quality business photos of Local listing in Google Places. Right now business consumers in US, Japan and Australia could allow Google Photographers to take Interior photos of their businesses and publish it in their Google Places listing. The photos may include the storefront, decor, layout, merchandise, food, signage about hours and accepted payment types, and other items that help people learn more about a business and decide if they want to go there. Next time if you are looking for a good restaurant for your first date and worried about finding a better ambiance I hope Google places will come to rescue.
What if I told you technology can drive cars for you? It’s true. Google has developed a technology that uses video cameras, radar sensors and laser range finder to see other traffic with guided maps to travel and navigate safely across the traffic. These cars have been test drive successfully. By this way Google aims to reduce road accidents and cut carbon emissions by proper use. Google self driving cars are good example of innovation and give a glimpse about our future transportation.
Fusion table is a modern data management and publishing web application. It allows you to manage, collaborate, visualize and publish table data. Enterprises can import their data tables from spreadsheets or CSV files and with the help of Fusion API developers can program to query data to their requirements. Some best features are turn your location tables into maps, make heat maps, plot graphs, filtering data and graph, flexibility in merging different data from different sources. It allows you to make maps in minutes never mind how big the data is. You can collaborate with other users in cloud for working in your data. This will be a useful tool for businesses that depend in data analysis and analytics.
Follow finder helps analyze public social graph information about a particular list in Twitter. Based on the list, it generates two Tweeps you follow and tweeps with similar followers. For example if you are following a web designer's tweet and wants to learn and find similar web designers, it generates a list from their network as well as public.
It creates a visualization of various browser sizes in our browser. It is a very useful tool for designers and web developers to decide about the site interface. Once a developer enters a URL of their site, it analyses and creates an overlay layer which shows the percentage of users visits in that particular area. By this way the designer can be sure that his content is reached to a wide range of audience.
