Monday, July 02, 2007

Google Adds more Services to their Powerful Offerings

Google's original mission was to organize the world's data. This mission is still the main focus, however, they now have expanded to not only organizing data, but providing many services which complement that mission.

Although they keep expanding and growing by the thousands, they only acquire companies which suit the same philosophy. One of the things I recently read on the Google Blog is that they have expanded their free 411 service to include maps and directions to any location. I wasn't aware that they provided the service to begin with, but it was great to find out that they designed the application to tie in with their free mapping options.

Another company they just acquire goes by the name of GrandCentral Communications. GrandCentral Communications designed a system which centralizes all your phone numbers into one. In other words, their system allows you to receive calls all in one account which can be checked online 24/7. The system is also designed to combine all voice mails received from all of your phones in one centralized web accessible location.

The bottom line is that Google is great and everyone wants to be part of them because they know what their core focus is and they are able to buy technology that further strengthens their suit of offerings. They are also able to provide all of these services and products free of charge to the public. Free is good, but good products are better. No wonder everybody is racking their brains to come up with the next good idea and have Google buy them off. Lotto is just to hard and this might be a good alternative for a well designed product to yield millions.

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