Most publishers and webmasters have a love hate relationship with Google. Google have become so big, that even this week they have been declared as the #1 Branded Company in the world! It makes alot of sense why people want to get their websites into Google, because Google is so popular with searchers, webmasters know that if their sites are visible in Google, then they are likely to get people visiting their websites.

Although Google is primarily a search engine, they do also offer free services for users of the web.

Here are a few services that Google offer you for free.

Google Analytics
Google Mail
Webmaster Tools
Google Reader
Google Alerts
Google Talk

These are just to mention a few. Over the next few posts, I will be going into more detail about these services, give you a little history about them and show you how you can benefit from using these services.