I have been a fan of Google for quite some time. They offer a wide variety of web tools that I really enjoy. Over the years I have tried to take full advantage of their offerings and I am often amazed at their ability to keep up with the pulse of the Internet. Here are a few of their applications that I have grown most fond of:

Google Analytics – offers a full featured web statistic program that many have reviewed as being too robust. The power behind this program is amazing and even more so is the fact that they offer most of their applications for free. How do they do that?

Google Adsense – The adsense program has proven to me where Google gets their money. Adsense allows me to place Google ads onto my website and I receive a revenue percentage of every click of an ad on my website. I am grateful for the monthly checks that I receive from Google and I am often surprised to find out how much people spend on Google adwords. I know that I only get a small portion of the click but I never imagined how much my small portion could amount to. I can only imagine what Googles portion is.

Google Voice – This is one of the newer applications that is now being offered by Google. Once again Google manages to come up with a product that I never even new that I needed that is just so damn useful. Google Voice provides me with the opportunity to add on that business phone line that I always wanted and it even transcribes my voicemails and sends me a text of the transcription. Did I mention that this stuff is free!

Let’s not forget about the services that Google offers that have now become staples in our everyday life. Things like YouTube, Google Maps, and Gmail.

The fun thing is that they just keep doing it over and over again. I really hope that they don’t get too greedy and create a bunch of enemies. Microsoft gets such a bad rap for this sometimes and I would hate to see this happen to the almighty Google. For now, I will just sit back and wait for my opportunity to catch the next big Wave!