For users around the world, Google is no longer a simple search engine. For more than ten years, the company has been making us happy with its unusual and useful services, which greatly simplify the lives of users. Eight services and one small bonus will show you Google in a completely unexpected way.
Google Alerts
Google Alerts is a functional notification service from Google that provides users with ample opportunities to grow their business and fight against innovations of competitors. This service allows you to set up an information channel on a topic of interest to you in a short time. For example, you want to create a chain of clothing stores, and at the same time you need a complete market analysis that includes data on all major competitors. In this case, Google Alerts is your irreplaceable assistant. A special search bar will help you find any companies and select them as an object of observation. Moreover, you don't have to check the site every time to find out the news about your competitors. The service will do everything for you: at a given time, a selection of news will come to your e-mail.
Service features:
- Free to use
- Simple interface
- Process automation
- Specifying information
Google translate
Every year, online translator from Google is becoming an increasingly reliable assistant not only for professional translators, but also for travelers. As of the end of June 2018, over 500 million users are using the Google Translate app as their primary translation engine. What is its main secret? This application allows not only to translate simple texts into 103 languages of different peoples of the world, but also to process inscriptions from signboards, shop windows and any other surfaces in real time. To translate the text, it is enough to take a picture of it. That is why this service is at the top of popularity in the infamous Google Play store.
Service features:
- Offline translation
- Translation from a photo
- Large language set
- Several modes of operation
Google images
Google Images can literally be called one of the oldest Google services since it forms part of its search engine. Image search allows you to find copies of it in various sizes in the most remote corners of the Internet, as well as show the user on which sites it was posted. The main advantage of this service is its wide range of tools, allowing you to apply various filters and search restrictions.
Service features:
- Multiple search modes
- Browser extension support
- Working with various file formats
Google Academy
The global scientific social network from Google has won the hearts of millions of students, researchers and ordinary people interested in achievements in various scientific fields. This Google product can be considered one of the most outstanding, as it opens up almost unlimited opportunities for finding scientific papers. The Academy offers users a wide range of functionality, including the ability to download publicly available articles.
Features of the service:
- Three search modes: by author, title or keywords
- Subscription to articles by certain authors
- Large base of publications
Chrome Remote Desktop
Google's remote desktop may not be the newest service, but it is certainly one of the most useful. The program allows you to access your computer data from any stationary or mobile device, which at some point in life may well save a person who has forgotten to take his flash drive with the necessary files to work or study.
Service features:
- Access to the device from anywhere in the world
- Simple control system
Google pay
Google has taken care of all ordinary people who do not like to carry bank cards and cash with them. The relatively new Google Pay application invites users to use a mobile phone or other smart device to pay for absolutely any purchases around the world. The undoubted advantage of this service over competitors is the ability to add various certificates and promotions to the application for their further use.
Service features:
- Security of transactions
- Convenience and ease of use
- Partner bonuses when paying with Google Pay
Google keep
Bright and functional enough service for those who are used to living according to plan. Google Keep is an instrumentally developed application for composing various notes and reminders, which makes it indispensable for the modern businessman, engineer, teacher or ordinary student. Google developers have done their best by equipping the service with such features that a previously employed person could only dream of. Voice input of notes, time and area reminders, lists and tags - all this is not a complete list of Google Keep features.
Service features:
- Extraordinary design
- Simple interface
- OCR from photos
- Collaborate on notes
Google Authenticator
Is personal data security not an empty phrase for you? Then Google Authenticator is for you. Currently, more and more Internet resources are using this simple program to protect the data of their users. Google Authenticator generates one-time security codes in real time to reliably protect your accounts from intrusion by third parties. According to the free encyclopedia Wikipedia, in order to penetrate a user's account, an attacker needs not only to know his password, but also to have access to a device with Google Authenticator installed, which in almost all cases is impossible.
Service features:
- Limited access to the application
- Multi-language support
- Automation of the process of use
Bonus - Google Trends service
Google Trends is a useful addition to some of the services listed above. The site offers users the service of advertising analytics for the various interests of users. Google Trends compiles a selection of the most significant trends for Internet users, which will allow you, as professionals in your field, to create effective advertising campaigns.
Service features:
- Constant updates
- A large number of categories
- Dynamics of trend development
