GMAIL
Gmail is the email service provided by Google. As of 2019, it had 1.5 billion active users
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worldwide, making it the largest email service in the world. It also provides a webmail
interface, accessible through a web browser, and is also accessible through the official
mobile application. Google also supports the use of third-party email clients via the POP
and IMAP protocols.
At its launch in 2004, Gmail (or Google Mail at the time) provided a storage capacity of
one gigabyte per user, which was significantly higher than its competitors offered at the
time. Today, the service comes with 15 gigabytes of storage for free for individual users,
which is divided among other Google services, such as Google Drive, and Google
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Photos. Users in need of more storage can purchase Google One to increase this 15
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GB limit across most Google services. Users can receive emails up to 50 megabytes
in size, including attachments, and can send emails up to 25 megabytes. Gmail
supports integration with Google Drive, allowing for larger attachments. Gmail has a
search-oriented interface and supports a "conversation view" similar to an Internet
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forum. The service is notable among website developers for its early adoption of Ajax.
Google's mail servers automatically scan emails for multiple purposes, including to filter
spam and malware and, prior to June 2017, to add context-sensitive advertisements
next to emails. This advertising practice has been significantly criticized by privacy
advocates with concerns over unlimited data retention, ease of monitoring by third
parties, users of other email providers not having agreed to the policy upon sending
emails to Gmail addresses, and the potential for Google to change its policies to further
decrease privacy by combining information with other Google data usage. The company
has been the subject of lawsuits concerning the issues. Google has stated that email
users must "necessarily expect" their emails to be subject to automated processing and
claims that the service refrains from displaying ads next to potentially sensitive
messages, such as those mentioning race, religion, sexual orientation, health, or
financial statements. In June 2017, Google announced the end of the use of contextual
Gmail content for advertising purposes, relying instead on data gathered from the use of
its other services
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GOOGLE MAPS
Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google.
It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic
views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for
traveling by foot, car, bike, air (in beta) and public transportation. As of 2020, Google
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Maps was being used by over one billion people every month around the world.
Google Maps began as a C++ desktop program developed by brothers Lars and Jens
Rasmussen, Stephen Ma and Noel Gordon in Australia at Where 2 Technologies. In
October 2004, the company was acquired by Google, which converted it into a web
application. After additional acquisitions of a geospatial data visualization company and
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a real-time traffic analyzer, Google Maps was launched in February 2005. The
service's front end utilizes JavaScript, XML, and Ajax. Google Maps offers an API that
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allows maps to be embedded on third-party websites, and offers a locator for
businesses and other organizations in numerous countries around the world. Google
Map Maker allowed users to collaboratively expand and update the service's mapping
worldwide but was discontinued from March 2017. However, crowdsourced
contributions to Google Maps were not discontinued as the company announced those
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features would be transferred to the Google Local Guides program, although users
that are not Local Guides can still contribute.
Google Maps' satellite view is a "top-down" or bird's-eye view; most of the
high-resolution imagery of cities is aerial photography taken from aircraft flying at 800 to
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1,500 feet (240 to 460 m), while most other imagery is from satellites. Much of the
available satellite imagery is no more than three years old and is updated on a regular
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basis, according to a 2011 report. Google Maps previously used a variant of the
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Mercator projection, and therefore could not accurately show areas around the poles.
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YOUTUBE
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned
by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad
Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in
San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after
Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7 billion monthly
active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos
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every day. As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate
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of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and as of mid-2024, there were
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approximately 14.8 billion videos in total.
On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion
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(equivalent to $2.39 billion in 2024). Google expanded YouTube's business
model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content
such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also
offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without
ads. YouTube incorporated Google's AdSense program, generating more revenue
for both YouTube and approved content creators. In 2023, YouTube's advertising
revenue totaled $31.7 billion, a 2% increase from the $31.1 billion reported in
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2022. From Q4 2023 to Q3 2024, YouTube's combined revenue from advertising
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and subscriptions exceeded $50 billion.
Since its purchase by Google, YouTube has expanded beyond the core website
into mobile apps, network television, and the ability to link with other platforms.
Video categories on YouTube include music videos, video clips, news, short and
feature films, songs, documentaries, movie trailers, teasers, TV spots, live
streams, vlogs, and more. Most content is generated by individuals, including
collaborations between "YouTubers" and corporate sponsors. Established media,
news, and entertainment corporations have also created and expanded their
visibility to YouTube channels to reach greater audiences.
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GOOGLE DOCS
Google Docs is an online word processor and part of the free, web-based Google Docs
Editors suite offered by Google. Google Docs is accessible via a web browser as a
web-based application and is also available as a mobile app on Android and iOS and as
a desktop application on Google's ChromeOS.
Google Docs allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating with
users in real-time. Edits are tracked by the user making the edit, with a revision history
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presenting changes. An editor's position is highlighted with an editor-specific color and
cursor, and a permissions system regulates what users can do. Updates have
introduced features using machine learning, including "Explore", offering search results
based on the contents of a document, and "Action items", allowing users to assign tasks
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to other users.
Google Docs supports opening and saving documents in the standard OpenDocument
format as well as in Rich text format, plain Unicode text, zipped HTML, and Microsoft
Word. Exporting to PDF and EPUB formats is implemented.
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GOOGLE SLIDES
Google Slides is a presentation program and part of the free, web-based Google Docs
suite offered by Google. Google Slides is available as a web application, mobile app for:
Android, iOS, and as a desktop application on Google's ChromeOS. The app is
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compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint file formats. The app allows users to create and
edit files online while collaborating with other users in real-time. Edits are tracked by a
user with a revision history presenting changes. An editor's position is highlighted with
an editor-specific color and cursor and a permissions system regulates what users can
do. Updates have introduced features using machine learning, including "Explore,"
offering and "tasks to other users."
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