Week #6 Google Universe

What do you like about the Google product? What do you dislike? Would you recommend the product to friends and colleagues?

I prefer the Google products to others on the Interent because I like the clean interface that tends to be consistent throughout Google products. I find that many of the others are to cluttered by too many other things, headlines, catergories (ie Trending Now), Ads etc. I also really like Google Earth, although at the Alberta Library Conference one of the key note speakers pointed out that there is this million dollar technology developed and one of the first things people look up on Google Earth is their house, which they could have just opened their front door and looked at for free. There isn't much I dislike about Google although I haven't used many of the products listed just because they don't appeal personally. I'm not a big fan of G-mail and prefer to use Hotmail, but I think that's because I started using Hotmail as a teenager and just got used to it. I would recommend Google to friends and colleagues especially if they are using the Internet to answer a reference question. I think because of the clean interface Google products aren't as intimidating as something like Yahoo.