Google Maps is a basically web-mapping service application provided by Google to navigate you through your by lanes, your favorite restaurant..that new mall for shopping your levis jeans ( apparently Akki-Twinkle jeans unbuttoning tactics have started working on young men/old men/middle aged man!)...it helps you post reviews about any & every place on this earth. Note : Google Maps is very much similar to Google earth, however it is much more interactive. One can find out what's happening in your local area, post reviews about that latest food joint, connect with your school friends, add ratings & comments & much more.
let me throw some light on the intricacies & features of Google Maps, Somewhat similar to Google Earth, Google Maps are bundled with up teem features which will help you & your business visibility & easy access to your customers.
1.Put your business on Google Maps: Put you business on the Google Map & Expand your visibility.
2.Display your ads on Google Maps : You can Now Advertise on Google Maps..imagine someone searching for a particular location & he/she finds your relevant restaurant/store/product/service ad!
3.Google Maps for your phone :
*Download Google Maps for Mobile: Once you submit your mobile no you get a link, on activation of the link you can:
*Determine your current location with or without GPS
*Get driving and transit directions
*Get phone numbers and addresses for local businesses
*Run Exciting Contests on Google Maps: Recently a Book Launch did a exciting ‘Treasure Hunt’ with the help of Google Maps.
5.Add Videos & Pictures : On a specified location you can add pictures & videos
6.Write Reviews : Write reviews of your favorite restaurants, movies, places, etc
Google Maps overall is a great social tool for users as well as Social Media Enthusiasts.Way to Go!
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Interesting Facts About Google That You Should Know!
Google is a way of life. We just can’t live without it! We Google recipes, we Google news, we Google videos, we Google cricket, we Google Google itself! Let's take a look at some of the interesting facts about Some of the interesting facts about Google:
*1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) - approximate number of unique URLs in Google’s index
*2,000,000,000 (two billion) - very rough number of Google searches daily
·*$110,000,000 - approximately amount of money lost by Google annually due to the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button
*68,000,000 - The average number of times people Googled the word Google each month for the last year
*Google has the largest network of translators in the world!
*The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’
*They listen to feedback actively. Emailing Google isn’t emailing a blackhole.
*Employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are both examples of projects that grew from this working model.
*Famous Google Quotes : "Give Users What They Want When They Want It"
"Integrate Sensibly"
*Google's name is a play on the word googol, which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.
*Google started as a research project at Stanford University, created by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively (a combined 47 years old).
*Google's index of web pages is the largest in the world, comprising of billions of web pages. Google searches this immense collection of web pages often in less than half a second.
*Google receives daily search requests from all over the world, including Antarctica.
*Users can restrict their searches for content in 35 non-English languages, including Chinese, Greek, Icelandic, Hebrew, Hungarian and Estonian. To date, no requests have been received from beyond the earth's orbit, but Google has a Klingon interface just in case.
*Google has a world-class staff of more than 2,668 employees known as Googlers. The company headquarters is called the Googleplex.
*Google translates billions of HTML web pages into a display format for WAP and i-mode phones and wireless handheld devices, and has made it possible to enter a search using only one phone pad keystroke per letter, instead of multiple keystrokes.
*Google Groups comprises more than 845 million Usenet messages, which is the world's largest collection of messages or the equivalent of more than a terabyte of human conversation.
*The basis of Google's search technology is called PageRank™, and assigns an "importance" value to each page on the web and gives it a rank to determine how useful it is. However, that's not why it's called PageRank. It's actually named after Google co-founder Larry Page.
*Googlers are multifaceted. One operations manager, who keeps the Google network in good health is a former neurosurgeon. One software engineer is a former rocket scientist. And the company's chef formerly prepared meals for members of The Grateful Dead and funkmeister George Clinton.
*1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) - approximate number of unique URLs in Google’s index
*2,000,000,000 (two billion) - very rough number of Google searches daily
·*$110,000,000 - approximately amount of money lost by Google annually due to the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button
*68,000,000 - The average number of times people Googled the word Google each month for the last year
*Google has the largest network of translators in the world!
*The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’
*They listen to feedback actively. Emailing Google isn’t emailing a blackhole.
*Employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are both examples of projects that grew from this working model.
*Famous Google Quotes : "Give Users What They Want When They Want It"
"Integrate Sensibly"
*Google's name is a play on the word googol, which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.
*Google started as a research project at Stanford University, created by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively (a combined 47 years old).
*Google's index of web pages is the largest in the world, comprising of billions of web pages. Google searches this immense collection of web pages often in less than half a second.
*Google receives daily search requests from all over the world, including Antarctica.
*Users can restrict their searches for content in 35 non-English languages, including Chinese, Greek, Icelandic, Hebrew, Hungarian and Estonian. To date, no requests have been received from beyond the earth's orbit, but Google has a Klingon interface just in case.
*Google has a world-class staff of more than 2,668 employees known as Googlers. The company headquarters is called the Googleplex.
*Google translates billions of HTML web pages into a display format for WAP and i-mode phones and wireless handheld devices, and has made it possible to enter a search using only one phone pad keystroke per letter, instead of multiple keystrokes.
*Google Groups comprises more than 845 million Usenet messages, which is the world's largest collection of messages or the equivalent of more than a terabyte of human conversation.
*The basis of Google's search technology is called PageRank™, and assigns an "importance" value to each page on the web and gives it a rank to determine how useful it is. However, that's not why it's called PageRank. It's actually named after Google co-founder Larry Page.
*Googlers are multifaceted. One operations manager, who keeps the Google network in good health is a former neurosurgeon. One software engineer is a former rocket scientist. And the company's chef formerly prepared meals for members of The Grateful Dead and funkmeister George Clinton.
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