More than searching

Everyone is familiar with Google for searching, but how familiar are you with Google's other products?  You may be more familiar with:

• Google Scholar- an academically oriented subset of Google
• Gmail - their popular email client
• Blogger - free blogging platform
• YouTube - videos

But you may want to check these out...

• Google Docs - an online suite of products including word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software. It's free and web-based so it's available anywhere, it also offers offline capabilities.  The spreadsheet has a forms feature which is really handy if you're running the registration for a conference.  One of the best features is the ability to work collaboratively, synchronously or asynchronously on a document, perfect for group projects!
• Picasa - photo organizing software.  Allows you to organize your photos into albums, do some minor editing, and upload to Picasa Web.  Consistently one of the best photo organizing programs on the web.
• Chrome - a tabbed browser, that allows for extensions and themes so you can customize it based on how you want to search, it also uses less system resources than other browsers
• Google Public Data Explorer - mines public dataset and presents them in an easy-to-understand, visual manner.  Interesting sets include: Unemployment in the US, Historical Population in the US, and  World Development Indicators.

Check out what Google has to offer beyond searching.  Here are some handy cheat sheets for Google Spreadsheet, Google Reader, and more!