Google

Summary

Arguably the daddy of all search engines on the Internet.
Google is based around pure search and is not a portal for other services, although Google do offer some other Internet related services.
With the term ‘Google™ It’ becoming a common phrase and the simplistic interface, Google™ certainly have a large percentage of the search market.

Crawler

Commonly known as Googlebot™, this robot crawls the web and populates the Google™ main index.
It is reported that Google™ employ specific algorithms to the crawl results and rank web sites according to these algorithms

Submissions

Google™ allow for simple submissions to their index by using their online form
Google™ also provide a sitemap service that allows for XML submission of a site map

Advertising

Commonly known as Google™ Adwords™; This is Google´s system for deploying paid adverts.
With a bidding style system for the phrases you wish to appear under, this method of advertising can provide significant traffic if employed correctly.

Email

Known as Gmail™; This is Google´s free webmail facility
To subscribe you have to be invited by an existing member

Maps

Google™ Maps was launched in early 2005 and provides the user with street maps and other geographic tools
Whilst you cannot search for a location, this tool is very helpful for the web developer and provides a insight to Google™ Earth

News

Google™ provide a news service that picks up the most relevant up to date articles from whatever news you are searching for
This news is also split into regions and categories, so you can easily find the news you are looking for.

Other

Images

Groups

Froogle

Book Search

Earth

Finance

Blogger

Calendar

Translate

Talk

Picasa

Desktop

Local

Video