[edit] Development
Android
Open Source mobile phone platform developed by the Open Handset Alliance
App Engine
A tool that allows developers to write and run web applications.
Code
Google's site for developers interested in Google-related development. The site contains Open Source code and lists of their API services. Also provides project hosting for any free and open source software.
Mashup Editor
Web Mashup creation with publishing facilities, as well as syntax highlighting and debugging.
OpenSocial
A set of common APIs for building social applications on many websites.
Subscribed Links
Allows developers to create custom search results that Google users can add to their search pages.
Webmaster Tools (Previously Google Sitemaps)
Sitemap submission and analysis for the Sitemaps protocol. Renamed from Google Sitemaps to cover broader features, including query statistics and robots.txt analysis.
Web Toolkit
An open source Java software development framework that allows web developers to create Ajax applications in Java.
[edit] Mapping
Maps
Mapping service that indexes streets and displays satellite and street-level imagery, providing driving directions and local business search.
Mars
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.
Moon
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.
Sky
An Internet tool for viewing the stars and galaxies, you can now access this tool through a browser version of "Google Sky".
Ride Finder
Taxi, limousine and shuttle search service, 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.
Transit
Public transport trip planning through the Google Maps interface. Google Transit was released on December 7, 2005, and is now fully integrated with Google Maps.
(For Google Earth, see "Standalone applications")
[edit] Search
Accessible Search
Search engine for the blind and visually impaired. It prioritises usable and accessible web sites in the search results, so the user incurs minimal distractions when browsing.
Alerts
E-mail notification service, which sends alerts based on chosen search terms, whenever there are new results. Alerts include web results, Groups results news, and video.
Base
Google submission database, that enables content owners to submit content, have it hosted and make it searchable. Information within the database is organized using attributes.
Blog search
Weblog search engine, with a continuously-updated search index. Results include all blogs, not just those published through Blogger. Results can be viewed and filtered by date.
Book Search (Previously Google Print)
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.
Catalogs
Search engine for over 6,600 print catalogs, which are acquired through Optical character recognition.
Checkout
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.
Code Search
Search engine for programming code found on the Internet.
Directory
Collection of links arranged into hierarchical subcategories. The links and their categorization are from the Open Directory Project, but are sorted using PageRank.
Directory (Google China)
Navigation directory, specifically for Chinese users.
Experimental Search
Options for testing new interfaces whilst searching with Google, including Timeline views and keyboard shortcuts.
Finance
Searchable US business news, opinion, and financial data. Features include company-specific pages, blog search, interactive charts, executives information, discussion groups and a portfolio.
Groups
Web and e-mail discussion service and Usenet archive. 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. [2]. In January, 2007, version 3 of Google Groups was released. New features include the ability to create customised pages and share files.
Image Labeler
Game that induces participants to submit valid descriptions (labels) of images in the web, in order to later improve Image Search.
Image Search
Image search engine, with results 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.
Language Tools
Collection of linguistic 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.
Life Search (Google China)
Search engine tailored towards everyday needs, such as train times, recipes and housing.
Movies
A specialised search engine that obtains Film showing times near a user-entered location as well as providing reviews of films compiled from several different websites.
Music (Google China)
A site containing links to a large archive of Chinese pop music (principally Cantopop and Mandopop), including audio streaming over Google's own player, legal lyric downloads, and in most cases legal MP3 downloads. The archive is provided by Top100.cn (i.e. this service does not search the whole Internet) and is only available in mainland China. It is intended to rival the similar, but illegal, service provided by Baidu.
News
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.
News Archive Search
Feature within Google News, that allows users to browse articles from over 200 years ago.
Patent Search
Search engine to search through millions of patents, each result with its own page, including drawings, claims and citations.
Product Search (Previously Froogle)
Price engine that searches online stores, including auctions, for products.
Rebang (Google China)
Google China's search trend site, similar to Google Zeitgeist. Currently part of Google Labs.
Scholar
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.
Sets
List of items generated 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."
SMS
Mobile phone short message service offered by Google in several countries, including the USA, Japan, Canada, India and China and formerly the UK, Germany and Spain. 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.
Suggest
Auto-completion in search results while typing to give popular searches.
University Search
Listings for search engines for university websites.
U.S. Government Search
Search engine and Personalized Homepage that exclusively draws from sites with a .gov TLD.
Video
Video search engine and online store for clips internally submitted by companies and the general public. Google's main video partnerships include agreements with CBS, NHL and the NBA. Also searches videos posted on YouTube.
Voice Local Search
Non-premium phone service for searching and contacting local businesses
Web History (Previously Google Search History / Personalized Search)
Web page tracking, which records Google searches, Web pages, images, videos, music and more. It also includes Bookmarks, search trends and item recommendations.[citation needed]
Web Search
Web search engine, which is Google's core product. It was the company's first creation, coming out of beta on September 21, 1999, and remains their most popular and famous service. It receives 1 billion requests a day and is the most used search engine on the Internet.
[edit] Statistics
Analytics
Traffic statistics generator for defined websites, with strong AdWords integration. Webmasters can optimize their ad campaigns, based on the statistics that are given. Analytics is based on the Urchin software and the new version released in May 2007 integrates improvements based on Measure Map.
Gapminder
Data trend viewing platform to make nations' statistics accessible on the internet in an animated, interactive graph form.
Trends
Graph plotting application for Web Search statistics, showing 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.
Zeitgeist
Collection of lists of the most frequent search queries. There are weekly, monthly and yearly lists, as well as topic and country specific lists. Closed 22 May 2007 and replaced by "Hot Trends, a dynamic feature in Google Trends".
[edit] Hardware products
Google Search Appliance
Hardware device that can be hooked to corporate intranets for indexing/searching of company files.
Google Mini
Reduced capacity and less expensive version of the Google Search Appliance.
[edit] Other products
GOOG-411
Google's directory assistance service, which can be used free of charge from any telephone in the US and Canada.
[edit] Previous products
Applications that have been discontinued by Google, either because of integration with other Google products, or through lack of support.
Answers
Question and answer service, allowing users to pay researchers to answer questions. Google announced the closing of service on November 28, 2006. All past discussions have been publicly archived.
Browser Sync
Saved browser settings for backup and use on other installations of Mozilla Firefox.
Deskbar
Bar on your desktop with a minibrowser built into it. It was discontinued when a very similar feature was added to Google desktop. Some people preferred Google deskbar for its ability to add custom searching and the mini-browser so you wouldn't have to open an actual window. The last release, version 9.95, had a .NET plugin.
Free Search
Free code to embed either web search or site search into another website. Discontinued in favour of Google Co-op's Custom Search Engine.
Hello
Allowed users to send images across the Internet and publish them to blogs.
Joga Bonito
Soccer community site, similar to services such as MySpace, in that each member had a profile, and could join groups based on shared interests. The service allowed a user to meet other fans, create games and clubs, access athletes from Nike, and watch and upload video clips and photos.
Local
Local listings service, before it was integrated with mapping. The merged service was then called Google Local, which was further renamed to Google Maps due to popular demand.
Music Trends
Music ranking of the songs played with iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player and Yahoo Music. Trends were generated by Google Talk's "share your music status" feature.
Personalized Search
Search results personalization, now fully merged with Google Accounts and Web History.
Public Service Search
Non-commercial organization service, which included free SiteSearch, traffic reports and unlimited search queries. Discontinued in February 2007 and re-directed to Google Co-op.
Related Links
Script that places units for related Web content, including pages, searches and videos, on the owner's Website, through embedded code. Discontinued in July 2007.
SearchMash
Search engine that means to "test innovative user interfaces." Among its features are the ability to display image results on the same page as web results, feedback about features, and continuous scrolling results. Aside from its privacy policy and terms of service, there is no Google branding on the site. Discontinued November 2008.
Spreadsheets
Spreadsheet management application, before it was integrated with Writely to form Google Docs & Spreadsheets. It was announced on 6 June 2006.
Video Player (Mac OS X/Windows 2000/XP)
Standalone desktop application that allowed you to view videos from Google Video.
Voice Search
Automated voice system for searching the Web using the telephone. Now called Google Voice Local Search, it is currently integrated on the Google Mobile web site.
Writely
Web-based word processor created by software company Upstartle, who were acquired by Google on March 9, 2006. On October 10, 2006, Writely was merged into Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
Google X
Re-designed Google search homepage, using a Mac OS style interface. It appeared in Google Labs, but was removed the following day for undisclosed reasons.
[edit] See also
List of Google acquisitions
Google Pack
[edit] External links
Google Homepage
Official Google Blog
Official History of Google Products
About.com reviews of Google products
