FC Member Blog
27 ways to leverage the power of Google
BY Chadwick ConteSat Mar 1, 2008 at 10:57 AM
This blog is written by a member of our blogging community and expresses that member's views alone.
- Google Search
- Create email account using GMAIL
- Post your local listing to Google local
- Advertise your business locally or nationally using Google Adwords
- Create a Blog
- Making money off your own website Google Adsense
- Track your website stats with Google Analytics
- Post YouTube videos promoting your business
- Sign up for Google Alerts for terms that relate to your subject of interest
- Subscribe to Google News RSS feed about your subject of interest
- Submit your products to Google Products (formerly google products & google base)
- Get feedback about specific subjects by searching/posting in Google Groups
- Upload and Share your photos with the world using Google Picasa
- Sell your products using Google Checkout
- Explore the world using Google Earth
- Don't get charge a high free to dial information, call 1-800-GOOG-411
- Have a great new idea? Check to see if a patent exists using Google Patent Search
- Install the Google Toolbar to stop popups, add a google search and get access to pagerank information
- View all of your blogs and news feeds using Google Reader
- Chat with your friends using Google Talk
- Meet new friends on Orkut
- Put a custom search box on your website
- Find an image
- Language Translator
- Take notes as your surfing the web
- Bored? Send a text message to google.
- Get stock updates
- *Create a Sitemap
Wow, the average Internet user could spend a day exploring each one of the items above. Over the next few weeks, I will be posting more in depth about the above items.
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Recent Comments | 4 Total
March 22, 2008 at 9:29pm by Jonathan Smith
How about www.grandcentral.com, another Google product. JBS
May 2, 2008 at 5:36am by Desmond Haynes
http://techwatch.reviewk.com/2008/04/google-faces-decline-of-entrepreneu...
"Google, is starting to suffer something that could have an equally significant impact: a drain of some of the entrepreneurial energy that drove its early growth and on which its unique culture depends heavily.” While Google “continues to suck in some of the best talent around,” and former Googlers “pay tribute to the intellectually stimulating culture, good pay levels and extravagant benefits,” for some early hires Google “has lost two vital ingredients: the anything-goes approach of a start-up environment and the chance to strike it rich."