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I would like to find out what projection is google map using is it EPSG:4326 or P900913 ? Also if you use the drawing tools what projection coordinates are generated?

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EPSG3857 is the official designation.

Interactive web maps are using "Spherical Mercator" system which uses Mercator projection on
the sphere instead of WGS84 ellipsoid.

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Google Maps uses the Mercator projection for this purpose https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/maptypes#WorldCoordinates

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Commonly what projection does google map use when it is translating any of the lat long value on its map?
@What EPSG value does that represents is 4326 or 900913
> Google Earth uses the WGS84 projection which has the code EPSG:4326 whereas Google Maps uses EPSG:3857 (alias EPSG:900913). (gis.stackexchange.com/questions/21427/…)
so can I say whatever drawing I do on google map is eventually in EPSG:3857? And whatever lat long value I try to project on the map is eventually converted into EPSG:3857 for google map.

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