List of Google products
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).
| Service | Summary | Logo |
|---|---|---|
| Accessible Search | Google's 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. [1] | |
| AdSense | AdSense is an advertisement program for website owners. Adverts can incorporate text, image and video. These are administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click or per-thousand-ads-displayed basis. Advertisements shown are from AdWords users, and are displayed using contextual relevancy to determine the subject matter of the page. [2] | |
| AdWords | AdWords is Google's flagship advertising product, and main source of revenue. AdWords offers pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and site-targeted advertising for both text and banner ads. [3] | |
| 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. [4] | |
| Analytics | Google Analytics is a free service that generates traffic statistics for defined websites. Webmasters can optimize their ad campaigns, based on the statistics that are given. Analytics is based on previous Urchin software. [5] | |
| 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. [6] | |
| Apps for Your Domain | 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. [7] | |
| 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. [8] | |
| 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. [9] | |
| 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. [10] | |
| 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. [11] | |
| 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. [12] | |
| 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. [13] | |
| 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. [14] | |
| Catalogs | Google Catalogs is a search engine for over 6,600 print catalogs, which are acquired through Optical character recognition. [15] | |
| 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. [16] | |
| 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. [17] | |
| Code Search | Google Code Search is a search engine for programming code found on the Internet. | |
| 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. [19] | |
| Compute | Google Compute is a feature of the Google Toolbar that enables a user's computer to help solve challenging scientific problems when it would otherwise be idle. [20] | |
| Co-op | Google Co-op enables users to subscribe to two types of content feeds: (1) Content feeds from sites they trust, and: (2) Feeds of sites labelled by subject matter experts. When a user subscribes 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. [21] | |
| 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. [22] | |
| Directory | Google Directory is a collection of links arranged into hierarchical subcategories. The links and their categorization are from the Open Directory Project (ODP), but are sorted by PageRank. The directory can be searched or browsed. Despite being based on the DMOZ, it is updated very infrequently [23] and thus is probably of limited value as some sites it contains may no longer exist.[24] | |
| 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. [25] | |
| 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. [26] | |
| 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. [27] | |
| 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. [28] | |
| 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, leading many to assume that it was an April Fools' Day joke. [29] | |
| Groups | Google Groups is a searchable Usenet archive. As well as searching, users can join a group, make a group, publish posts, and track their favorite topics. [30] | |
| Hello | Hello is a free application that allows users to send images across the Internet and publish them to their blogs. [31] | |
| Image labeler | Google Image labeler is a game based around the image search. [32] | |
| 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. [33] | |
| 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. [34] | |
| Labs | Google Labs lists all of Google's experimental projects, that are not yet widely available. [35] | |
| Language Tools | Google Language Tools is a collection of applications, including one that allows users to translate text or web pages from one language to another, and another that allows searching in web pages located in a specific country or written in a specific language. [36] | |
| Maps
Formerly Local |
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. [37] | |
| 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. [38] | |
| Measure Map | Measure Map provides statistics for blog writers. It was launched on February 2, 2006. [39] | |
| Mobile | Google Mobile allows users to search using Google from wireless devices such as mobile phones and PDAs. [40] | |
| 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. [41] | |
| 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. [42] | |
| 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. [43] | |
| News Archive Search | Google News Archive Search is a feature within Google News, that allows users to browse articles from over 200 years ago. [44] | |
| 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. [45] | |
| 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. [46] | |
| 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. [47] | |
| Page Creator | Google Page Creator is a beta release of a web-publishing program which creates pages and hosts them on Google's servers. [48] | |
| 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 offering services such as: language translation, recipe databases, new emails, Wikipedia search and weather forecasts. [49] | |
| 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. [50] | |
| Picasa | Picasa is a downloadable photo-organisation application. Users can organise photos into albums and collections, view in various orders, apply simple effects, create slideshows, print and order physical prints. [51] | |
| 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. [52] | |
| Reader | Google Reader is a web-based feed reader, or "news aggregator", capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds. It allows the user 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. [53] | |
| 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. [54] | |
| 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. [55] | |
| 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. [56] | |
| Sitelinks | Google Sitelinks are additional links that are added under the first result of a search. They are meant to help site navigation. [57] | |
| 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. [58] | |
| 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 premade colours and textures. [59] | |
| 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.[60] | |
| 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. [61] | |
| Spreadsheets | Google Spreadsheets allows the creation and editing of spreadsheets online, as well as real-time chat collaboration and editing. It was released on June 6, 2006 on a 'limited test basis'. Users were granted access on a first-come, first-serve basis after requesting to sign up. [62] | |
| Store | Google Store sells a range of physical Google-branded products. These include clothes, toys, office equipment and lava lamps. [63] | |
| Suggest | Google Suggest uses auto-complete while typing to give popular searches. It is still in beta stage. [64] | |
| 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. [65] | |
| 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. [66] | |
| Transit | Google Transit provides public transport trip planning through the Google Maps interface. Google Transit was released on December 7, 2005, but only for the Portland, Oregon area. [67] | |
| 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. [68] | |
| 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. [69] | |
| Web Accelerator | Google Web Accelerator is a download that uses various strategies to increase the speed of browsing. [70] | |
| 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. [71] | |
| Web Search | Google Web Search is an internet 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. It uses a proprietary system (including PageRank) to return the search results from its 8 billion Web site index. A culture has grown around the search engine, and to google has come to mean, "to search for something on Google." When certain terms are used, Web Search automatically provides: calculations, conversions, definitions, movie information, music information, phonebook details, spellcheck, alternative terms, or weather information. [72] | |
| Web Toolkit | Google Web Toolkit 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. [73] | |
| Writely | Writely is an online word-processor. On March 9, 2006 Google acquired Upstartle, the makers of Writely. [74] | |
| 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. [75] |
See also
External links
- Google Homepage
- Official Google Blog
- Official History of Google Products
- CNET reviews of Google products
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