Online Services Introduction

What is an Online Service?

Now days, people use online services all the time, sometimes without even know they're using them. An online service is something that we can use online, examples like online banking, social networking or just train timetable.

Due to technology constantly expanding, there are new services coming to the internet that people can use.

Online services like Email and Skype are very commonly used for communicating between other people across on the globe.

A basic online service may help people gain needed data through a search engine, while a complex one might be an online mortgage application from a bank. Online services may be free or paid.

"Online service" has come to mean any tool that runs on the Internet. For example, Google operates multiple services, ranging from its search engine to YouTube and Google Plus. YouTube can be considered as a entertainment online service whereas Google Plus can be considered as a social networking page

Examples of Online Services

Social networks have hugely grown over the past decade with almost everyone now having either a Facebook account or a twitter account and constantly using it.

A new service that has also become very popular is Cloud Storage used for archiving. This online service can be accessed by phones and computer very easily.

Because information can be easily found on the internet, schools have started using online services with their education system, websites like BBC Bitesize and MyMaths are online services that come under the educations category, that almost anyone going to school or not can easily get hold of on the  

internet.

Most companies move their business online to make it easier for people to access what the company is selling or has to offer, that's why the government has started to offer a service online where people can pay for their tax and car insurances without having to do it in person