On the main page you mentioned Google, Blogger, MeetUp, Friendster and so on. What are they really?
Google started out as a search engine for the web on the Internet. It has now begun to delivery a wide range of technologies to provide easy access to information – desktop search assistant, google maps with local information, Internet shopping via Froogle, Google Print which delivers full text searchable books (mostly from Library collections, books with expired copyrights and books submitted by publishers), Google Scholar which indexes scholarly journals for research and academic use. Blogger is a service that lets millions of users maintain their own blog sites, considerably enhancing the voice of the citizen to express their ideas and opinions freely. MeetUp is a fee-based site that assists people find others with shared interests, usually meeting once a month in local meeting places. CraigsList is an enormously successful site started by one person to enable others to buy and sell used equipment as well as rental apartments and so on. It is very much in the spirit of Google with a
