What Google services have you used?

I have used the followings :

Search Engine : Its awesome. Does some one has any doubt about it?

Reader : Well, I recently started using Google reader. I have not used other readers, but I had once made an rssfeed reader. Well, if someone will give me an option, I will use my rssfeed reader. My rssreader was made on .net framework (mercy, please). I have not tested it on Mono. Surprising my thunderbird on Fedora doesn’t give me option for “news and rss” account. And anyways, thunderbird sucks for networks with proxy. My rssfeed reader has proper proxy support. But the point is that I want my data on net, so that I could access it from anywhere. But at the same time, its a bit inconvenient as well.

Calendar : Currently, I am using Google Calendar. I mainly use it to keep track of the money transactions and birthdays. I don’t use it that frequently. It’s not worth seeing online calendar. I want desktop application and online application both. I don’t think google calendar can be a solution. Whats going in Evolution? Really, Office Outlook is far too good for this purpose.

Documents : I don’t prefer it. It’s very slow.

Photos : Picasa is good. I do not have doubt about it. But Gallery2 and digikam combo is better. Both are free. Its working fine on my site. rohitj.net/photo . I will write a separate review on it.

Blogspot : Well, I have shifted from blogger to Wordpress. I did not have any problem with blogger. Blogger was equally good except the fact that there was this blue colored strip at the top of the page which didn’t go well with my green theme.

Groups : I have used 2 google-groups now. The good thing in google groups is that you can make a group which will be all email based. So, you don’t need to go to a site to see posts and to write anything. Thats cool. No advertisements, nothings. I don’t think phpBB has this email feature.

Orkut : Those who don’t know about it, orkut is like facebook. Let’s try to compare facebook and orkut. In facebook, one good thing is the privacy it gives you. Others can not see your profile unless they are your friends or you have tried to communicate with them. You can add so many photos. In orkut you can just add 12 photos. Though you can give your picasaweb address. Tagging on photo is cool in facebook. Orkut doesn’t have this application system, which is good. Facebook is so full of these silly applications. Facebook has Indox, which is good. Groups in orkut are cool. Orkut groups make you use them. Some groups are really active. Overall, I think facebook is better.

gmail : I have used yahoo and hotmail as well. I think gmail is better. Well, the user interface is no doubt sucky. There is no option for user made folders. Labeling thing isn’t cool. Hotmail is better for this purpose, but its too heavy. But Google spam filter is awesome. I get like 10 spams everyday. It filters it properly. In my Indox, I rarely see any spam. And unlike hotmail, it doesn’t delete spams without asking me. Yahoo anyways sucks, so lets not talk about it. I think 1GB is more than enough for a normal person. So, lets not compare space. But there is no IMAP server, thats very bad. POP3 doesn’t work as well. If they will make POP3 work properly, I will start using gmail as my main mail box. Right now, its my school mailbox.

iGoogle : ah, thats not cool. I never found any use of iGoogle.