Asking a Google Novice
Judith, what is Google Talk?
Judith: I believe that’s a text to speech program to read out things for
you.
What is Google Earth?
Judith: I know that one! You can view the whole globe from above. You
can zoom close into every country.
What is Picasa?
Judith: That’s a fun drawing program to create Picasso-like paintings.
What is Gmail?
Judith: That’s an email client.
What are the Google Labs?
Judith: That’s a place to propose interesting ideas for Google to add to
their products. The suggestions are filtered by Google engineers and
finally, they will be implemented.
What is Google Maps?
Judith: I don’t have a clue.
What is Google Scholar?
Judith: Google for students, without any adult websites.
What is Google Video?
Judith: That’s a search engine, similar to an image search, but for videos
instead.
What is Google Images?
Judith: The same like a search engine for words, but with images.
What is Google Answers?
Judith: That’s a place where you can ask questions for other people to
answer. If the answer is right, those who answered will get money.
What is Google Catalogs?
Judith: You can see pages taken from catalogs, for example when you
enter “teddy bear,” you will see catalog pages containing teddy bears.
What is Froogle?
Judith: That could be a parody site acting just like Google... no matter
what you enter, all you get are results containing images of frogs.
What are Google Alerts? Page 34
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Judith: That’s when Google sees you are searching for illegal material
online and you click on one of the result pages. This can have legal
consequences.
What is Google Blogger?
Judith: That’s a weblog community run by Google.
What is Google Desktop?
Judith: That’s like Microsoft Windows but made by Google. E.g. it
contains a word processor.
What are Google Groups?
Judith: Those are chat rooms on any conceivable topic. You can login to
talk.
What is Google X?
Judith: I have no idea! Well, I suppose it’s a kind of Google-related
riddle or puzzle game.
What do you think is fun about Google?
Judith: Searching for people. That’s nothing particularly special or
uncommon, but it satisfies your curiosity about someone you want to
know more about.