Googlactivities
It's hard to imagine the web without Google. I do remember a time when searching the web involved using several search engines and lots of time, but it all seems quite distant. These days I just go to Google, and... well, google. Fact is, Google is so omnipresent they've even got their own verb.
Google is a lot more than just web search. Gmail has recieved a lot of press lately, and they have started the Google Blog. Speaking of blogs, did you know Blogger is part of Google too? Blogger was recently redesigned, check out The New Blogger at Stopdesign.
I'm carefully optimistic about the future of Google. I see potential harm in the fact that they are everywhere though. I would not be surpised if Google is in a Microsoft-like love-hate relationship with the web users of 2014. Some though, are more critical than I am, like Google Watch for instance.
Despite all of this Google's web search is still pretty darn good. I actually found a bunch of Google web search features I was unaware of quite recently. The calculator and definitions are especially handy, have a look.