List of Google products
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This page is a summary of services and tools provided by Google Inc., for the underlying technology, see Google platform; for others see Google (disambiguation).
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| Alerts | Google Alerts are emails automatically sent by Google when there are new Google results for a user's chosen search terms. The service offer four types of alerts: News, Web, News & Web, and Groups. Alerts can be configured to be mailed daily or as soon as news is discovered. | |
| Analytics | Google Analytics is a free service that generates detailed statistics about traffic to a website. It was launched on November 18, 2005. The service is mainly aimed at webmasters who can optimize their ad campaigns through the analysis of where visitors came from, how long they stayed on the website, and their geographical locations. The service is based on the Urchin software that Google acquired when it acquired Urchin Software Corporation. | |
| Answers | Google Answers allows users to pay approved researchers to answer questions for them. Customers ask questions, offer a price for an answer, and researchers answer them. Past questions can be browsed or searched for free. | |
| Base | Google Base is a free service, currently in beta, that 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. | |
| Blog Search | Google Blog Search is a search engine for blogs. It was launched on September 14, 2005. Results include all blogs, not just those published through Blogger. Users can currently search in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Brazilian Portuguese. | |
| Bookmarks | Google Bookmarks is a free online bookmark storage service available to Google Account holders which organizes bookmarks with tags. Bookmarks labeled homepage will be displayed on the users Personalized Homepage. | |
| Book Search
Formerly Google Print |
Google Book Seacrch is a search engine for the full text of books that Google scans and stores in its digital database. Depending on the arrangement agreed with the publishers, users may view: a short extract with their search terms highlighted, sample pages of the book, a limited number of pages, or the entire text. Links to buy the book online are provided. The legality of Google's scanning texts without the author's consent is still an open question. See also: List of digital library projects |
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| Blogger | Blogger is a weblog publishing tool. Google acquired Pyra Labs, and with it Blogger services, in 2003. Blogger allows users to create a highly-customisable weblog with features such as photo publishing, comments, group blogs, blogger profiles and mobile-based posting with little technical knowledge. Blogger also provides free weblog hosting. | |
| Calendar | Google Calendar is a free online calendar. It is similar to those offered by Yahoo! and MSN. It was launched on April 13, 2006. Google Calendar can export calendar files in iCal and XML formats. It can import calendar files from Microsoft Office Outlook, Yahoo! Calender and iCal. Features include: simple google-style interface, calendar sharing, Gmail integration, and "Quick Add". | |
| Catalogs | Google Catalogs is a search engine for over 6,600 print catalogs (acquired through Optical character recognition). | |
| 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. | |
| Co-Op | Google Co-op allows experts to create of list of sites about a particular topic and users to subscribe to these lists. Google launched the service on 10 May, 2006. When users subscribe to links and labels provided by a Google Co-op contributor this information is incorporated into that user's web search results when they search for a related topic. | |
| Directory | Google Directory launched April 2000. The directory is a subset of the links in Google's database arranged into hierarchical subcategories, like an advanced Yellow Pages for the web. The source of the directory, and its categorization is from the Open Directory Project (ODP). The ODP publishes an easily parsed version of its database in Resource Description Framework (RDF) format for other sites, like Google, to use for derivative directories. The Websites in the Google Directory are sorted by PageRank. | |
| dodgeball.com | Dodgeball.com is a new social networking site built specifically for use on mobile phones. Google purchased the website in 2005. | |
| EPayments | Google's EPayments System is sometimes referred to as GBuy. It is integrated with the Google Account system and works with other Google products such as Google Base and Store. | |
| Finance | On March 21, 2006, Google, Inc. launched the new Google Finance website (Official Blog Post). The service features the latest business and enterprise headlines for many corporations, including their financial decisions and major news events. | |
| Froogle | Froogle is a web-based price engine that searches online stores for products. It is also offered in Wireless Markup Language (WML) form and can be accessed from cellphones or other wireless devices that have support for WML. | |
| Gmail | Gmail is a free webmail and POP e-mail service provided by Google, known for its abundant storage and advanced interface (based on Ajax technology). It is known as Google Mail in the United Kingdom and Germany. Its competitors include AIM Mail, MSN Hotmail / Windows Live Mail (beta), and Yahoo! Mail. | |
| Groups | Google maintains a Usenet archive, called Google Groups (formerly an independent site known as Deja News). Google is currently testing a new version of its Groups service, which archives mailing lists hosted by Google in addition to Usenet posts, using the same interface as Gmail (see below). Formally known as "Google Groups Beta," the new version of Google Groups is much more advanced than the last, letting you more easily join a group, make a group, and track your favorite topics. However, many users prefer the old interface, finding the new one cluttered. | |
| Images | In 2003, Google announced Google Images, which allows users to search the web for image content. Keywords 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. When clicking on a thumbnail, the image is displayed in a frame at the top of the page and the URL of the website on which that image was found is displayed in a frame below it. | |
| Joga.com | Joga.com is an Internet community in the mold of MySpace targeted at footballers (ie. soccer) It can locate people that live near you, like the same players as you, etc. Joga.com is a joint venture of Nike Football and Google. | |
| Labs | Google Labs consists of all of Google's experimental technologies. Google Labs is akin to a directory page that links to all Google technologies under development or in beta that have not yet been made widely available. From the Google Labs home page, a user can access Google Suggest, Google Desktop Search, and other web technologies. | |
| Language Tools | This tool allows users to translate text or web pages from one language to another. It also allows searching in web pages located in a specific country or written in a specific language. Also see Google Translate. | |
| Maps
Formerly Local |
On February 8, 2005, Google introduced a beta release of an online map service called Google Maps, which only covered the USA, Canada, the UK and Ireland. It can interact with Google Local to restrict results to certain areas. The service features draggable maps, a location search, and turn-by-turn directions. It currently works with Internet Explorer, Mozilla-based browsers (such as Mozilla Firefox), Opera and Safari web browser. On April 4, 2005, Google added satellite imagery to Google Maps. Originally limited to North America and the United Kingdom, the satellite imagery was extended to include the whole planet in June 2005. In June of 2005 the Google Maps API was also released. On October 6, The service was then merged with Google Local Search and was called Google Local. On November 7, 2005 Google launched Google Local for mobile, a free service that combines directions, maps and satellite imagery. On April 21, 2006, Google reverted the name of Google Local back to Google Maps due to popular demand. On April 26, 2006, Google released beta versions of Google Maps for France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, and featured better high resolution coverage as well. On May 18, 2006, Google introduced detailed map coverage for Australia and New Zealand. | |
| Mars | On March 13, 2006, Google added imagery of Mars to its Google Maps interface. This coincided with the anniversary of the birth of astronomer Percival Lowell. | |
| Measure Map | Measure Map provides statistics for user blogs. | |
| Mobile | Allows users to search using Google from wireless devices such as mobile phones and PDAs. | |
| Moon | On July 20, 2005, in honor of the first manned Moon landing on the July 20, 1969, Google has added NASA imagery to Google Maps. As a joke, the closest zoom level features an image of cheese instead of the moon surface. This plays on the expression "the moon is made of green cheese." | |
| News | In April 2002Google launched Google News, a beta release of an automated news compilation service. 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. The service is integrated with Google Search History. Google News left beta testing on January 26th, 2006. | |
| Notebook | Introduced on May 15, 2006, Google Notebook is a free service offered by Google that provides a simple way to save and organize thoughts when conducting research online. This personal browser tool permits users to clip text, images, and links from pages while browsing, save them to an online "notebook" accessible from any computer, and share them with others.
Google Notebook is an interactive scratch pad for every visited website, offering a single online location to collect web findings without having to leave the browser window. |
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| orkut | Though not mentioned on the Google homepage, orkut is a service hosted, created and maintained by Google engineers. 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 invite only from an existing member. Affinity Engines, a company based in Palo Alto, has filed a lawsuit alleging that their co-founder Orkut Büyükkökten illegally re-used Affinity Engines software code when he moved to Google. [1] | |
| Page Creator | Google introduced a beta release of a web-publishing program which creates pages and hosts them on Google's servers.
The URL given to members is http://username.googlepages.com/ |
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| Personalized Home
Formerly Portal or Google Fusion |
In May 2005, Google introduced Personalized Homepage. Personalized Homepage builds on a modular homepage concept, not unlike My Yahoo! The user selects the content of the page from RSS feeds as well as specialized modules offering anything from language translation to recipe databases. | |
| Personalized Search | By making use of Google's Search History feature, this service allows users to create a profile based on their prior search history. Future search results can be prioritized based on previous search habits. | |
| Reader | On October 7th 2005, Google launched Google Reader, a feed reader, or "news aggregator", capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds. Google Reader is accessed through a web browser and features an interface similar to Gmail. It allows you to subscribe to feeds by URL, import/export subscription lists using OPML, and search for new feeds. The service also embeds audio enclosures in the page. | |
| Ride Finder | Google Ride Finder is a service provided by Google which allows users to find a taxi, limousine or shuttle using real time position of vehicles. Ride Finder uses the Google Maps interface and cooperation with any car service that wishes to participate. | |
| Scholar | In November 2004, Google released Google Scholar, a search engine that indexes 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. Google Scholar is comparable in function to Elsevier's Scopus and Thomson ISI's subscription-based Web of Science service, though more inclusive in sources and languages. | |
| Search History
Part of Personalized Search |
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. Recently, Google expanded Search History with a new feature, dubbed Trends, that allows users to view detailed statistics based on data in their search history. | |
| Sitemaps | In June 2005 Google released the Google Sitemaps tool into beta testing. Google Sitemaps allows Webmasters to generate a file that lists the URLs on the site for better indexing. | |
| Special Searches | Allows users to perform special searches such as U.S. Government Search, Linux Search, BSD Search, Apple Macintosh Search, and a Microsoft Windows Search. | |
| SketchUp | Google SketchUp is among Google's less-known offerings. It is a simple 3D sketching program with many of the tools a profesional 3D program has. Google offers free video tutorials for SketchUp that are very helpful. SketchUp models can be directly imported into Google Earth and they can also be skinned with various premade colours and textures. | |
| SMS | Google SMS (Short Message Service or Simple Message Service) allows users to send text message queries on mobile phone devices in order to easily get answers to questions. The answers appear in a text format and includes stock quotes, movie listings, and driving directions. | |
| Suggest | Google Suggest uses auto-complete while typing to give popular searches. | |
| Transit | Google Transit's goal is to provide local trip planning (eg, using the local buses and rail system) in a simplistic manner, all on one page. Utilizing the Google Maps interface, transit shows a picture of your route with detailed directions. Google Transit was released on December 7, 2005
Google Transit currently works only in the Portland, Oregon area but may be expanded soon. |
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| Translate | A translation service launched in May 2001 by Google, see Google Translate | |
| Trends | Google says that "Google Trends builds on the idea behind the Google Zeitgeist, allowing you to sort through several years of Google search queries from around the world to get a general idea of everything from user preferences on ice-cream flavors to the relative popularity of politicians in their respective cities or countries." The service was first publicized on 10 May 2006. | |
| University Search | Allows users to search within a large number of educational institution domains. | |
| Video | On January 25, 2005, Google introduced a beta of Google Video, allowing users to search through television content based on title, network or a closed caption transcript. Users can then watch the videos, or in most cases see stills and transcripts of them. Google signed agreements with CBS and the NBA to offer some programs online. | |
| Web Search | Google's most famous creation is the Google search engine. Google.com has indexed over 8 billion Web sites, has 200 million requests a day and is the largest search engine on the Internet. The search engine allows you to search through images, products (Froogle), news, and the usenet archive. It uses a proprietary system (including PageRank) to return the search results. A culture has grown around the very popular search engine, and to google has come to mean, "to search for something on Google." | |
| Zeitgeist | Google uses the information it gathers by tracking search results to compile a list of the most frequent search queries. Google then summarizes weekly, monthly, and yearly statistics to the public through a service called Zeitgeist. Google claims, that the data used to compile the reports is completely anonymous. | |
| Web API | The Google Web API (or Google Web Services) 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, websurfers can view cached pages and make suggestions for better spelling. | |
| Web Toolkit | On the 15th May 2006, Google released a web development kit which allows users to create AJAX interfaces for their websites. Google claimed it could be used to create similar interfaces to that of Gmail and Google Calendar. | |
| Writely | On March 9, 2006, Google acquired Upstartle, the maker of online word-processor Writely. It is still in beta and is not available to new users as of yet. |
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