10. Blogger

Pyra Labs, the creators of Blogger, was bought off by Google in 2003 and has since made a number of changes to it including making it available free of cost for all. Blogger allows users to publish their content out here on the internet.

9. Google Translate

Up to 64 languages are supported by this tool which does a pretty good job in going from one language to another. The translations are done instantly and it is possible to translate words, sentences and even entire web pages across any two of the 64 languages.

8. Google Docs

This is the most preferred shortcut for internet users to view documents that come as attachments in email. Instead of downloading the file and waiting for Office to open them, users can just view them online.

7. Advertising

Unlike most automated online advertisements, Google’s ads actually make sense and are relevant to the context. It helps Google generate money which in turn is used for improving the quality of the products. Also, these ads help keep a lot Google products free of cost.

6. Chrome

Google Chrome is a web browser which was launched in 2008, in a time when Internet Explorer was extremely buggy and a few alternate browsers were desperately required. Chrome is now the favorite web browser of most users.

5. YouTube

It is highly unlikely that you have not heard about the most popular video-sharing website on the planet. According to Reuters, 4 billion videos are streamed by YouTube every day.

Youtube

4. Android

Android is a smartphone operating system based on Linux and was seen as a direct competitor to Apple’s iPhone when it was released in 2007. Even today, only Apple’s iOS and Android sit at the top of the table when it comes to the best smartphone operating systems.

3. Google Earth

Google Earth helps people not to get lost out on the road and even allows you to explore the remotest of locations. With Street View, you simulate walking on the road just as if you are actually there. The service started in February 2005.

2. Gmail

Unlimited mail storage was a far-fetched idea at the time this service debuted. It was released on April fool’s day of 2004, giving people the impression that it might by one of the jokes that Google is used to dishing out on the occasion. At first it was an invitation-only beta and was released to the general public in 2007.

1. Google Search

Search is the number one reason for which Google has become a household name. Google is actually used as a verb; this is how much it has gotten into our lives. It was released in 1997 and is preferred by almost all web users for its extremely relevant results.

Google search

Google Gravity

This is one of the fun tricks used by Google to amaze its users with the gravity effect. As soon as you type in the search bar “Google Gravity” and click on the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button, the gravity seems to work on the Google page instantly and everything falls. The search bar itself, the buttons, the Google logo and everything lays there on the bottom.

9. Let me Google that for you:

Let me Google that for you

If you have a lazy friend, I have an awesome Google trick to surprise him. If he wants to search something on Google but is too lazy to do the same, you can help him out by searching the thing yourself and then mailing him the search results. Just type “Let Me Google That for You” or “LMGTFY” into the search bar and click on I’m Feeling Lucky button. You will be redirected to the Let Me Google That for you home page where if you type anything in the search bar, you won’t get the result of your query but a link carrying the result. You can mail this link to your lazy friend so that he does not have to Google it and can use the results sent by you.
8. Google Mirror:

Google Mirror

This is a nice and cool trick which presents a mirror image of everything on your Google’s home page. Type “Google Mirror” in your search bar and then click on the I’m Feeling Lucky button. This would take you to the official Google Mirror page where you will see a mirror image of the Google. And, when you type anything in the search bar, it would appear in reverse order and you feel like you are viewing everything in a mirror.

7. Do a Barrel Roll:

Do a Barrel Roll

My all time favourite, the “Do a Barrel Roll” is a superb Google trick that makes people squeal with joy. When you type “Do a Barrel Roll” in the Google Search bar and click on the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button, the Google page performs a barrel roll as directed by you. This trick is also popular to make small babies cry as it is hell of fun.

6. Google Rainbow:

Google Rainbow

For all those people out there who love to play with colours, Google has come up with an interesting and colourful trick that makes you experience the colours of rainbow on your home screen. You type “Google Rainbow” in your Google Search bar and then click on the I’m Feeling Lucky button. Then you will automatically be directed to the Google Rainbow homepage where you see everything changing colours in the order of the colours of the rainbow. And, if you type something in the search bar there, even that starts changing colours as the colours in the rainbow.

5. Google Sphere:

Google Sphere

This is one of the fun tricks used by Google to provide its users an elusive effect. As soon as you click the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button after typing the “Google Sphere” in the search bar, you are taken to the Google Sphere homepage where everything revolves around the Google logo in a spherical manner. The centre of the sphere is directed towards that direction in which you take your mouse pointer.

4. Tilt:

Tilt

This is yet another awesome Google trick to amaze its users. As soon as the users type tilt in the search bar and press enter or click the “Google Search” button, the Google page along with the Search results becomes tilted a bit. At once, you may feel like nothing has happened, but when you look at the side bar or your computer screen from the side, you notice the difference. The main thing that makes this Google trick even more incredible is that the tilted nature of the screen keeps on increasing as you keep on typing tilt again and again. Note: In place of tilt, if you use askew, the results are similar.

3. Annoying Google:

Annoying Google

The “annoying Google” trick is not really so annoying. When you go to the Annoying Google page by typing “Annoying Google” in the search bar and then clicking on the I’m Feeling Lucky Button, everything you type in the search bar there, keeps on converting into lower case and upper case letters randomly. Sometimes you might feel it is annoying as it becomes hard to read the words, but as long as you are trying this trick for the fun purpose, this trick is amazing and would leave you in a refreshed mood.

2. Epic Google:

Epic Google

The title “Epic” in this trick point to the epic size of the letters Google can reach up to. When you want to try this trick, you need to type “Epic Google” in the search bar and then click on the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. Then, you will be redirected to the Epic Google homepage which contains a search bar just like the Google home page. As you start typing something in the search bar, its size keeps on increasing continuously and the letters may go out of the screen. If your query is somewhat big, chances are there that it has gone beyond the screen already even if you haven’t finished writing it in the search bar.

1. Google Magic:

Google Magic

This is really a magic trick provided by Google. If you want to prove your friends that you are a magician. Type “Google Magic” in the search bar and click on the I’m Feeling Lucky button. You will be taken to a page that looks just like Google. Then call your friend and make him sit beside you. Then put your two fingers on the two OO’s of Google and pretend to rub it for about 2 seconds. Click anywhere on the screen now and remove your fingers. The two OO’s would no longer appear. Don’t worry they are not lost, you can bring them back by the same trick, put your fingers in the empty space and click anywhere on the screen.

So, now that you have known some of the awesome Google tricks, what are you waiting for? Just start trying them now and make the most out of Google.

1. Content is and Would Remain the King

Whatever some one tells you remember the One and Only thing that can help bring in Traffic to your Website is the Content. Google has it’s own heaps of metrics and factors to rank a particular Website (some know others still a mystery) but one thing that weights most is the Content. Remember to create Unique, Well Researched, Original, Full of Facts and Interesting Content. Such content would give your Website high significance in Google ranking and it would solve your lot of other factors below automatically. For Example whenever a well crafted content is written visitors automatically turn into a Loyal Readers, they end up sharing your content which in turn brings in High Traffic. Also at the end of the day your content should solve the Visitors purpose because Content only crafted to rank well in Search Engine’s and without much information would not interest a Visitor and you might end up loosing an important person.

2. Work on Website’s ON Page Optimization

Website On Page Optimization is another important step towards getting high ranking for Google Search. In Order for Google to understand with what keywords you need high ranking you must follow certain rules and make your Website Optimized according to the keywords you wish to rank well. On Page Optimization factors normally include Title, Meta Tags, Alt Tags, Heading Tags, etc.

3.  Build High Quality Permanent Backlinks

It is certainly a very important task if you want to Build high Authority of your Website so that it ranks well in Search Engines. Backlinks refers to other site’s that link to your Website or Content, it basically refers to Inbound Links in technical term. Backlinks rom High Quality Website’s to your Website tells Google of your Website’s Authority and Trust. Thus Google understands that your Website has some High Quality Service or Content and needs to be shown to more people. Backlinks can be built using various methods which includes Social Bookmarks, Contextual Backlinks through Articles, Web 2.0, Forum Profile Backlinks among others. But it’s best to get backlinks in natural ways because that would eventually be the easiest thing (Trust me building Backlinks is the most Difficult Task) and also if Google finds out that you are building backlinks automatedly you could face some serious Penalties. So remember if you want to build to build backlinks do that manually or let them come in Naturally.

4. Learn and Understand How SEO works

According to me every Website Owner must understand How SEO works, just the basics alone would work because the ultimate Goal of a Website is to Get traffic to sell the Product, Service or make the Cause or Brand Popular. You can obviously outsource the SEO work to an SEO specialist but in order to know if the Work they are doing is actually Good for you in Long Term you must understand the SEO intricacies. Example: SEO agencies helped a lot of Website’s rank high before Google’s Penguin and Panda updates by building spammy links and stuff but such websites are heavily Penalized by Google and they have lost most of their traffic. So only the Ethical Practices must be followed when playing with Google.

5. Old is Gold

You can’t do much about this particular point, but yes it still hold’s high value. Google gives more weight age to a website that has been around for more time then a website that is relatively new. You can definitely buy an Old Domain but that would cost more and you wouldn’t be aware of the Domain’s Past. So the best option is to keep working up and as the Website’s gets older it would have more natural links and More Google Weightage.

6. Consistency

A point specially valid to Bloggers, a lot of bloggers tend to loose interest once they don’t see the results expected. The first few months are often the hardest, so remember that it may look tough and hard during the initial phase but you would soon catch up if you have Influence and Authority in your Content. So work for Quality and not the Quantity and be consistent, give particular number of hours daily and you would start seeing good returns very soon.

7. User Interface and Website Speed

Keep your Website’s user interface simple and speedy because Google has special love for Website’s that Load Quickly. Keep everything as clean as possible and make navigation easier so that your User can get what he is looking for easily. Note: Do not stuff your Website with Ad’s all over, it may seem an attractive option specially when it makes money to you but Google can penalize your site for that specially when Google has a lot of secret metrics to rank a website, and Visitors Bounce rate can definitely be one of them.

8. Keyword’s and It’s Density

While writing Content remember to keep your important keywords at appropriate places and use them decently (not a lot of times) so that Google understands that this is the word that you want to rank well for. Better your Keyword density better would be your ranking for that Particular Keyword in the “Big G”.

9. Use Social Media, Specially Google Plus

Social Media is not just for keeping updated of Your friends but Social Media can bring in some huge huge Traffic to your Website too. Mark Zuckerberg recently stated in an interview that Facebook gets close to a Billion Searches a day. So that alone states the power of Social Media, and you can use it to your strength. Try making content more and more shareable, so that you get decent traffic from sources out of Google. But also Focus on one area not much explored by your Competitors, getting more and more Plus 1′s from Googl. This definitely can add value to your Website and make your Website rank higher in future when some of the Google Metrics change.

10. Use Google Webmaster Tools and Remember to Submit a Sitemap

Google offer’s an informative tool to the Website Owners free of Cost Google Webmaster Tools. It is a handy tool since it lets you know your Website’s links, Search Queries, Plus 1′s, Impressions, Errors and other stuff. Also one important functionality of Google Webmaster Tools is it’s ability to accept Sitemap’s so every time you create content for your website Google would automatically know that and index your Content on the Search Engine.

10] Google Alerts:

This service of Google is for mails. You select a search term and all the latest results regarding that will be emailed by Google. One has the rights to choose the specific types of results and also the frequency of receiving i.e., how often would you want to receive alerts. Most often, the people use Alerts to know about some news story or some court-trial verdict as soon as it is released. This works because as soon as a result is found regarding the topic, the mail the information which impresses the users.

9] Google Books:

Previously known as Google Print or Google Books Search is another product by Google of which users are very fond of. Any book or magazine which Google come across is scanned for words by an ‘optical character recognition’ and is then stored in the digital database of Google. Users can create their library and partition it as ‘to read’, ‘have read’, ‘favourites’ etc. One can preview the book, have a full view, add it to library and review the books as well.

8] Google Picasa:

This product acquired by Google allows one to share the photographs, organize them as well as edit them. It gives the user a feel of a personal digital album and such an experience is very exciting. As everyone probable knows that it is named after Picasso, a very famous artist, combined with “casa”, a Spanish word meaning house. It keeps on modifying. In 2006, a feature for ‘Face recognition’ was also added to the list of options in Picasa. Overall, this product by Google is very user-friendly and people all over the world seem happy to have so many options with their digital picture.

7] Google Earth:

This is an application product by Google which works on every corner of this world. Anywhere you go, satellite images, 3D buildings, terrains, and many other fantastic things. Professionals are very much satisfied by this product. You can use and operate this Google Earth from your personal desktop, or on mobile devices like smartphones, tablets, mobiles etc. Google Earth also provides a facility to mark the places that you visit and allows you to save those information and also share the same with your friends.

6] Google Talk:

This product of Google is an application which can be downloaded and used for chat. This app can be used in two different ways. One way is to use voice and video plug-in which allows one to have a chat using Gmail, iGoogle and also Orkut. The other way is that you download its software Application and enjoy the chat in ‘MSN’ style.

5] Google Adwords:

Google Adwords is the main source of income for Google. The record of 2010 shows that Google earned more than USD$28 Billion. It provides a way of pay-per-click. It distributes the advertisement not only locally or nationally but on a global level. The format of adds on Google is that there is a heading which has maximum 25 characters, whereas, the further two additional lines can be of 35 characters each. This product of Google was released on 23rd October, 2000.

4] Google Adsense

This is another source of revenue for Google. This product by Google permits publishers to serve automatic video, image or text and even other rich media advertisement to attract audience. Google maintains them, keeps them sorted and administrates them. Revenue is generated on per-click basis and even sometimes on per-impression basis. Last year, in 2011, Google earned US $9.71 billion which made 28% of their total income. Those website which lack funds to create Advertises sales programs, use Google as medium to advertise.

3] Android

One Mobile Os that has reached huge heights, and Android is the only mobile OS that is considered as a competitor to Apple’s iOS. Android is a very refined product and has huge fan following, they also have been extremely huge Market which has more than 600,000 apps. Android is definitely one of the most premium Google Products and has single handedly changed the Mobile Phone industry. Also Android tablets have become immensely popular, the sales of the tablets are increasing daily and you can check the best android tablets of 2013 here.

 2] Google Mail

The most widely used email facility is GMail which is a part of Google. This service is freely available to users. This email service also supports advertisements. It was launched on 1^st April, 2004 but in beta version and this email service was made public in 7^th February, 2007and was upgraded with addition of some Google Apps on 7^th July, 2009. The storage capability was 1GB which was way higher than that given by other mail facilities. Statistics show that there were 425 miilion users who actively use Gmail.

1] Google Search Engine

The most-used website in the whole world for search is Google. It provides results for hundreds of queries everyday. The result of a particular search query depends upon the rank of the page which is a priority rank. The results provide websites and web pages related to the search. Formed in 1997 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, provides 22 various types of features other than word-search ability, for example, dates, prices, calculations, area codes, temperature, money conversions, etc.

10. Tagged

This social networking site was founded in 2004 and it has its headquarters at San Francisco, California. Today, Tagged has a membership of more than 300 million and the number is constantly increasing. It has all the features of good networking site. You can browse through the profile of your friends, you can play games, tag your friends in your posts and pictures, send virtual gifts and there’s much more to do on this site.

9. MySpace

Owned by Specific Media LLC and the famous pop star Justin Timberlake, this site was founded in August, 2003. The headquarters of MySpace is located in Beverly Hills, California. Within a very short while after its launch, this site became the leader of all social networking sites. But now, its popularity has decreased. Yet, it has a membership of almost 25 million.

8. LiveJournal

LiveJournal or most popularly known as LJ was started by an American programmer Brad Fitzpatrick in 1999.  But today, LJ is particularly famous in Russia and currently owned by SUP media. LJ allows its users to maintain a blog, journal or diary. This site is also famous among the Russian political pundits who use this platform to post their political commentary. An interesting thing about this site is that is allows ‘voice posts’ to their paid and sponsored users. You can call the system and record your entry as per your convenience.

7. DeviantArt

This site was launched on August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, Angelo Sotira and others. The site is commonly known as dA. It has its headquarters at California and United States. Currently, it has a membership of 19 million people. dA is an excellent platform for all those artists who need a medium to showcase their work to the entire world. This site has a category structure and accordingly, the work of every individual is arranged into it. Photography, digital art, traditional art, literature, Flash, filmmaking, skins for applications are some of the categories in which the arrangement is done.

6. GooglePlus

Although this site is new in the field of social networking, it already has 250 million registered users. Launched in June, 2011, this site is owned by Google Inc. Like any other site, it took time for GooglePlus to gain popularity, and in October 2011 there was an outburst of registered users on this site. You can add your friends in your ‘circle’, play games, upload your pictures instantly, and you can also enjoy the new features with your mobile. There is also an option of video chatting on this site.

5. Pinterest

Like Googleplus, Pinterest is also one of the newer websites and it was launched in 2010. It is social photo sharing site and it operates in the style of pin-board. Pinterest is managed by Cold Brew Labs with the help from some small scale entrepreneurs. The main aim of Pinterest is to “connect everyone in the world through the ‘things’ they find interesting”. This site allows users to create their own theme-based image collection. You can browse through the pin-board of other users and like their work. ‘The rising star of 2012’ is the phrase which has been used to celebrate the success and growth of this website.

4. Linkedin

Linkedin was founded in December 2002 and was launched in March 2003. It is a social networking site which is basically for professional people. According to reports, this site has about 150 million registered users. Professionals can built up a contact network by their direct connections. You can upload your resume on the site which is very helpful for finding jobs. You can also design your own profile and make it attractive so that it contributes to your resume and you can get a job more easily. You can follow the posts of companies and get notifications about new job offers and other incentives.

3. Twitter

‘The SMS of the internet’ is the most appropriate words to define this site. This site was launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey and it has a current membership of 500 million users. The messages or tweets have definite word limit. The concept of twitter revolves mainly around the followers. Twitter defines the effectiveness of small messages and it does it beautifully.

2. YouTube

YouTube is the most popular video sharing website which was launched in 2005. It is also a California based company. You can upload any video, watch them and you can also share them with your friends. You can leave a comment about the video and it also has an option of liking the videos. This site has 54 language versions.

1. Facebook

Founded by Mark Zuckerberg, today Facebook stands as the king of all social networking sites. It has a membership of more than 900 million users. Today, every person has a Facebook account, whether you are a student, a business man, parent of four children or a child who has just celebrated his 10^th birthday. You can see your friend’s ‘wall’, post a comment there, upload photos, tag your friends in them, play different kind of games and the list goes on. There is an endless list of the stuff which you can do on Facebook. Nowadays, it is also preferred by the teachers because now they don’t have the task of manually circulating class presentations among students. Now they just have to form a group and post all the notes in it. What will our life be without Facebook?