Google

With this blog I am sure that I don’t require introduction to this topic – “GOOGLE”. As an engineer it has been my best tutor. I am happy that for this I need not provide reasons as no one would go against it. In this blog I am trying to write down my journey with Google.

In the first year Google was just another search engine on the web. I was not even using Gmail as my mailer client. My experience with Google started in full flow with one of the society’s workshop in second year when one of my senior said
“I taught you what I could. From this point onwards try to learn from Google as I have also learned from it. You cannot buy all books and it is easy to search your problem. If you do not understand the error application is throwing, copy and paste the error and you will get your answer.”

This really helped me. Many times I get stuck with some error like ERROR#%$##%#. When you have no clue about what is written just copy and paste this scribbling on Google and trust me you will get the problem. But this thing is also common to other search engine.

Now let me talk about the span on Google which I have realized over a span of time

In the second year, I created my account on Gmail as my Email Id on yahoo was hacked. That time Gmail introduced embedded Gtalk on its website which was I liked very much though it was later also introduced in Yahoo. One more thing which was very useful for me was that if I add a friend in Orkut, he is automatically added in my contacts and chat list. User interfaces of both these web applications are fabulous.

Later in the third year when I started my website, Google provided web development tools to help me publish my website easily. I managed to bring my site from seventh page to the first page of Google for the query “Vaibhav Dixit”.

And then came forth year and the best year of my exploration. Our placement was to start and Google Group was created. The interactions between the people are very nicely displayed on the group’s mail. Later it proved very useful for the completion of our project on Deloitte.

With the Deloitte project I also came across Google Documents. And believe me, I have seen many web applications but no one matched it. Open an excel file and you could see other working on it. If you want to discuss, no problem, go ahead with the embedded chat application. You do not require creating any chat group to discuss on any file. You could restrict the access of these documents.

My last experience was with BLOGSPOT. To register on BlogSpot I just required my Google account details and all my details were imported. This may be possible with other mailer servers also as I have not tried it with other providers like Yahoo, etc.

In general Google helped me right from technically by solving my problem for application or website errors to socially by Orkut and BlogSpot.

If Google was not present, I think 1 engineer would definitely be absent from the society.
Thank You Google :)