Using Google Apps

Chapter 1. Understanding Google Apps and Web-Based Applications

In this chapter, you learn what Google Apps is and how cloud computing works.

Google Apps isn’t one thing—it’s a collection of things. There are the “official” Google Apps collections, which group a variety of different web-based applications, such as Gmail and Google Docs, in a variety of configurations for business and education. Then there are the unofficial Google Apps, comprised of many of the same applications, but not in any official grouping.

Official or unofficial, Google Apps represents a new way of working. Google Apps are web-based applications that employ a technology dubbed cloud computing. That means you can use Google Apps on any computer connected to the Internet ...