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List Of Google Products And Services Information
This page is a summary of services and tools provided by Google Inc.
This list of Google products includes all major standalone services and tools created or acquired by Google. They are either a gold release, in beta development, or part of the Google Labs initiative. This list also includes previous products of ones that have either been merged or discarded. Features of products, such as Web Search features, are not listed.
Many of these products are made by individuals or small groups of Google Engineers. Each Google Engineer devotes a certain amount of time to develop a new application or technology.
Web Applications
Advertising
- Google Adwords: AdWords is Google's branded text-based pay-per-click (PPC) advertising service. AdWords is Google's search engine. If you're an AdWords advertiser, Google Advertising Professional, or just interested in learning more about AdWords, you can use our free training to sharpen your AdWords knowledge.[1]
- Google Adsense: Adsense is an advertisement program run by google. Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads on their website's content pages and earn money.[2]
- Google Analytics: Google Analytics is a free services thats generates traffic statics for defined websites. Webmasters can optimize their ad campaigns, based on the statistics that are given. Analytics is based on previous Urchin Software.[3]
- Google Click to Call: Google Click-to-Call is a service which allows users to call advertisers for free at Google's expense from search results pages.[4]
- Google Grants: Google Grants is a scheme for non-profit organizations to benefit from free Cost-Per-Click advertising on the AdWords network.[5]
- Google Website Optimizer: Google Website Optimizer, released on October 18 , 2006, is a tool to test different website content, in order to gain to the most successful advertising campaigns. It is fully integrated with AdWords, and is currently only available to selected beta testers.[6]
Aggregration
- Personalized Home: Google Personalized Homepage is a customizable, modular, tabular, dynamic page which a user can access through their Google Account. It was launched in May 2005. The user selects the content of the page from RSS feeds as well as specialized modules known as Google Gadgets. Multiple page tabs can also be created.[7]
- Google Reader: Google Reader is a web-based news aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds. It allows the user to search, import and subscribe to feeds. The service also embeds audio enclosures in the page. Major revisions to Google Reader were made in October 2006.[8]
Communication & Publishing
- Apps for Your Domain and Apps for Education: Google Apps for Your Domain service combines Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, and Google Page Creator into a single offering targeted to small businesses and educational institutions. Includes Administrator's control panel for managing services and users, and makes the services work with client's domain. Apps for Your Domain; Apps for Education.
- Blogger: Blogger is a weblog publishing tool. Users can create a customisable, hosted blog with features such as photo publishing, comments, group blogs, blogger profiles and mobile-based posting with little technical knowledge.[10]
- Google Calendar: Google Calendar is a free online calendar. It includes a unique "quick add" function, that inserts events from natural language input. Other features include Gmail integration and calendar sharing. It is similar to those offered by Yahoo! and MSN. [12]
- Docs & Spreadsheets: Docs & Spreadsheets combines both previous applications Spreadsheets and Writely into a single interface. It was released on October 11, 2006.[13]
- Dodgeball: Dodgeball is a social networking site built specifically for use on mobile phones. Users text their location to the service, which then notifies them of crushes, friends, friends' friends and interesting venues nearby.[14]
- Gmail: Gmail is a free webmail and POP e-mail service provided by Google, known for its abundant storage and advanced interface. Its competitors include AIM Mail, MSN Hotmail / Windows Live Mail, and Yahoo! Mail. It was first released in an invitation-only form on April 1, 2004. Gmail added support for mobile devices in November 2006.[15]
- Joga Bonito: Joga Bonito is an Internet community for those interested in soccer. It is similar to services like as MySpace, in that each member has a profile, and can join groups based on shared interests. The service allows a user to meet other fans, create games and clubs, access athletes from Nike, and watch and upload video clips and photos.[16]
- JotSpot: JotSpot is an application wiki company that offers enterprise social software and was founded by Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer, co-founders of Excite. The product is targeted mainly to small and medium-sized businesses. It was acquired by Google on October 31, 2006.[17]
- Measure Map: Measure Map provides statistics for blog writers. It was launched on February 2, 2006.[18]
- Notebook: Google Notebook provides a simple way to save and organize information when conducting research online. The tool permits users to clip text, images, and links from pages while browsing, save them online, access them from any computer, and share them with others.[19]
- Orkut: Orkut is a social networking service, where users can list their personal and professional information, create relationships amongst friends and join communities of mutual interest. New Orkut accounts are by invitation only from an existing member.[20]
- Page Creator: Google Page Creator is a web-publishing program, which can be used to create pages and to host them on Google's servers.[21]
- Picasa Web Albums: Picasa Web Albums is Picasa’s newest feature, designed to help users post and share their photos quickly and easily on the web.[22]
Development
- Code: Google Code is Google's site for developers interested in Google-related development. The site contains Open Source code and lists of their API services.[23]
- Code Search: Google Code Search is a search engine for programming code found on the Internet.[24]
- Co-op: Google Co-op is a platform for users to expand and apply Google Search to specific sites and topics. Currently, there is Custom Search Engine, Subscribed Links and Topics.[25]
- Google Sitemaps: Google Sitemaps is part of Google Webmaster Tools, and allows users to create a file that lists the URLs on the site for better indexing.[26]
- Web API: The Google Web API is Google's public interface for registered developers. Using Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), a programmer can write services for search and data mining that rely on Google's results. Also, users can view cached pages and make suggestions for better spelling.[27]
- Web Toolkit: Google Web Toolkit allows users to create AJAX interfaces for their websites by "compiling" Java apps into JavaScript. Google claimed it could be used to create similar interfaces to that of Gmail and Google Calendar.[28]
Mapping
- Maps: Google Maps provides maps, satellite imagery, driving directions and local search for the USA, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia and New Zealand. It is also available as a mobile service in some countries.[29]
- Mars: Google Mars provides imagery of Mars, using the Google Maps interface. Elevation, visible imagery and infrared imagery can be shown. It was released on March 13, 2006, the anniversary of the birth of astronomer Percival Lowell.[30]
- Moon: Google Moon provides NASA imagery of the moon through the Google Maps interface. It was launched on July 20, 2005, in honor of the first manned Moon landing on July 20, 1969.[31]
- Ride Finder: Google Ride Finder is a service that allows users to find a taxi, limousine or shuttle using real time position of vehicles in 14 US cities. Ride Finder uses the Google Maps interface and cooperates with any car service that wishes to participate.[32]
- Transit: Google Transit provides public transport trip planning through the Google Maps interface. Google Transit was released on December 7, 2005, and is currently available in six cities.[33]
Search
- Accessible Search: Google Accessible Search is a search engine, aimed at the blind and visually impaired. It prioritises usable and accessible web sites in the search results, so the user incurs minimal distractions when browsing.[34]
- Alerts: Google Alerts is an e-mail notification service, which sends alerts based on chosen search terms, whenever the are new results. Alerts include web results, Groups results and news.[35]
- Answers: Google Answers allows users to pay approved researchers to answer questions. Once a question has been resolved, they can be browsed or searched for free.[36]
- Base: Google Base enables content owners to submit content, have it hosted and make it easily searchable via Google. Information within the database is described using labels and attributes.[37]
- Blog Search: Google Blog Search is a search engine for blogs, with a continiously-updated search index. Results include all blogs, not just those published through Blogger. Results can be viewed and filtered by date.[38]
- Bookmarks: Google Bookmarks is a free online bookmark storage service available to Google Account holders which organizes bookmarks with tags. Bookmarks labelled homepage will be displayed on the user's Personalized Homepage.[39]
- Book Search: Google Book Search is a search engine for the full text of printed books. Google scans and stores in its digital database. The content that is displayed depends on the arrangement with the publishers, ranging from short extracts to entire books.[40]
- Catalogs: Google Catalogs is a search engine for over 6,600 print catalogs, which are acquired through Optical character recognition.[41]
- Checkout: Google Checkout is an online payment processing service provided by Google aimed at simplifying the process of paying for online purchases. Webmasters can choose to implement Google Checkout as a form of payment. This service is currently only available to US residents.[42]
- Directory: Google Directory is a collection of links arranged into hierarchical subcategories. The links and their categorization are from the Open Directory Project, but are sorted using PageRank.[43]
- Finance: Google Finance features searchable US business news, opinion, and financial data. Features include company-specific pages, blog search, interactive charts, executives information, discussion groups and a portfolio.[44]
- Froogle: Froogle is a price engine that searches online stores, including auctions, for products. It is also offered in Wireless Markup Language (WML) form as Froogle Mobile.[45]
- Groups: Google Groups is a searchable Usenet archive. As well as searching, users can join a group, make a group, publish posts, track their favorite topics, write a set of group web pages updatable by members and share group files. [46] . On October 4, 2006 a beta version of Google Groups was released. New features include the ability to create customised pages and share files, such as photos or music.[47]
- Image Labeler: Google Image Labeler is a game that induces participants to submit valid descriptions (labels) of images in the web, in order to later improve image search.[48]
- Image Search: Google Image search is a search engine for images. Results are based on the filename of the image, the link text pointing to the image, and text adjacent to the image. When searching, a thumbnail of each matching image is displayed.[49]
- Mobile: Google Mobile allows users to search using Google from wireless devices such as mobile phones and PDAs.[50]
- Music Trends: Google Music Trends shows a ranking of the songs played with iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player and Yahoo Music. Trends are generated by Google Talk's "share your music status" feature. [51]
- News: Google News is an automated news compilation service and search engine for news. There are versions of the aggregator for more than 20 languages. While the selection of news stories is fully automated, the sites included are selected by human editors.[57]
- News Archive Search: Google News Archive Search is a feature within Google News, that allows users to browse articles from over 200 years ago.[58]
- Personalized Search: Google Personalized Search prioritizes Google search results based on previous search habits. Search History keeps a record of all searches and clicked results while a user is logged into a Google Account and allows this to be accessed and searched. This also tracks queries made to Google Images and Google News.[59]
- Scholar: Google Scholar a search engine for the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and scholarly fields. Today, the index includes virtually all peer-reviewed journals available online, except those published by Elsevier, the world's largest scientific publisher.[60]
- SearchMash: SearchMash is a search engine that means to "test innovative user interfaces." Among its features are the ability to reorder search results, a URL menu, image results on the same page as web results, and continuous scrolling results. Aside from its privacy policy and terms of service, there is no Google branding on the site.[61]
- Sets: Google Sets attempts to make a list of items when the user enters a few examples. For example, entering "Green, Purple, Red" produces the list "Green, Purple, Red, Blue, Black, White, Yellow, Orange, Brown.[62]
- SMS: Google SMS is a mobile phone short message service offered by Google in several countries, including the USA, Japan, Canada, Germany, Spain and formerly the UK. It allows search queries to be sent as a text message. The results are sent as a reply, with no premium charge for the service.[63]
- Special Searches: Google Special Searches is a collection of search engines, tailored to a particular topic. These include U.S. Government Search, Linux Search, BSD Search, Apple Macintosh Search, and a Microsoft Windows Search. There is also Google University Search, which lets you select a particular university, then search within their own site, and Google Public Service Search, a service intended for non-commercial organizations only.[64]
- Suggest: Google Suggest uses auto-complete while typing to give popular searches. It is still in beta stage.[65]
- Trends: Google Trends shows, as a graph, the popularity of particular search terms over time. Multiple terms can be shown at once. Results can also be displayed by city, region or language. Related news stories are also shown.
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- Video: Google Video allows users to search, buy, watch and upload videos. Users can also see stills and closed caption transcripts of some videos. Search is based on title, keywords, network and transcript. Google has signed agreements with CBS and the NBA to offer some programs online.[67]
- Web Search: Google Web Search is their core product, a Web search engine. It was the company's first creation, coming out of beta on September 21, 1999, and remains by far their most popular and famous: it receives 200 million requests a day and is the largest search engine on the Internet.[68]
- Zeitgeist: Google Zeitgeist is a collection of lists of the most frequent search queries. There are weekly, monthly and yearly lists, as well as topic and country specific lists.[69]
Miscellaneous
- Labs: Google Labs lists all of Google's experimental projects, that are not yet widely available.[70]
- Store: Google Store sells a range of physical Google-branded products. These include clothes, toys, office equipment and lava lamps.[71]
Desktop Apllications
- Blogger Web Comments: Blogger Web Comments is a Mozilla Firefox browser extension, that displays related comments from Blogger sites.
- Browser Sync: Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes web browser settings, including bookmarks, history, cookies and saved passwords, across multiple computers. It also allows users to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.[72]
- Dashboard Widgets for Mac: Google Dashboard Widgets for Mac are small applications that appear on the Mac OS. Widgets include interaction with Gmail, Blogger and Search History.
- Desktop: Google Desktop is a desktop search application, that makes e-mails, documents, music, photos, chat and web history searchable. It allows the installation of Google Gadgets, which are similar to Mac OS X's widgets.[73]
- Earth: Google Earth is a free, downloadable virtual globe application. It maps the entire earth by pasting images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS over a 3D globe.[74]
- Gmail Notifier: Gmail Notifier is an application for Windows that alerts the user of new messages in their Gmail account[75]
- Hello: Hello is a free application that allows users to send images across the Internet and publish them to their blogs. [76]
- Notifier for Mac: Google Notifier for Mac is an application for Mac OSX which informs the user of new emails through the Gmail service and of upcoming events from the users personal Google Calendar.[77]
- Pack: Google Pack is a collection of computer applications, including Google Earth, Google Desktop, Picasa, Google Talk, Mozilla Firefox and more. It was released on January 6, 2006. [78]
- Picasa: Picasa is a downloadable photo-organization application. Users can organize photos into albums and collections, view in various orders, apply simple effects, create slideshows, print and order physical prints. There is a Microsoft Windows version [79] and a Linux version [80] available.
- Send to Phone: Google Send to Phone is a Firefox extension that allows users to send text messages to their mobile phone about web content.
- SketchUp: Google SketchUp is a simple 3D sketching program with many of the tools a professional 3D program has. SketchUp models can be directly imported into Google Earth and can be skinned with various pre-made colors and textures. [9]
- Talk: Google Talk is a windows application for VoIP and instant messaging. Google Talk beta was released on August 24, 2005. It consists of both a service and a client used to connect to the service. It is integrated with Gmail.[81]
- Toolbar: Google Toolbar is an internet browser toolbar available for Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox (with slightly different features). Features include, but not limited to, Google search bar, phishing protection, feed subscription, spellcheck, autofill, translator and pop-up blocker. There is a version for Internet Explorer [82] and a version for Mozilla Firefox.[83]
- Video Player: Google Video Player allows you to watch videos downloaded from Google Video and resume video downloads automatically.[84]
- Web Accelerator: Google Web Accelerator is a download that uses various strategies to increase the speed of browsing. [85]
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