Preface

I’ve been using Google Apps since it came out, back when it was known as Google Apps for Your Domain (or GAFYD by many). I was impressed from the beginning with Google Apps’s products and even more impressed by Google’s goals: to create an online suite of software and services that anyone could use from anywhere in the world, with everything stored online in the cloud.

Over the past several years Google has expanded Google Apps in many directions. New Apps have appeared, and new features have shown up on an almost-weekly basis. In fact, the constant improvements have made this book hard to write—every time I would finish a chapter, I’d have to revise it again after Google changed something or in some cases added new programs.

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