User:Mporcheron/Sandbox/List of Google products/1

This is a draft for the replacement of the current List of Google products page.

This page is a summary of services and tools provided by Google Inc. For other uses, see Google (disambiguation).

Standalone applications

 * Desktop (Supported platforms: Windows 2000 SP3+/Windows XP/Windows Vista)
 * Desktop search application, that indexes e-mails, documents, music, photos, chats, web history and other files. It allows the installation of Google Gadgets.


 * Earth (Supported platforms: Linux, Mac OS X and Windows 2000Windows XP)
 * Virtual globe that uses satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS over a 3D globe.


 * Hello (Supported platforms: Windows 98/Windows ME/Windows 2000/Windows XP)
 * Allows users to send images across the Internet and publish them to blogs.


 * Gmail Notifier (Supported platforms: Windows 2000/Windows XP)
 * Alerts the user of new messages in their Gmail account.


 * Pack (Supported platforms: Windows XP/Windows Vista)
 * Collection of computer applications, including Google Earth, Google Desktop, Picasa, Google Talk and Mozilla Firefox.


 * Picasa (Supported platforms: Linux and Windows 2000/Windows XP)
 * Photo organization and editing application, providing photo library options and simple effects.


 * SketchUp (Supported platforms: Mac OS X and Windows 2000/Windows XP)
 * Simple 3D sketching program with unique dragging interface and direct integration with Google Earth.


 * Talk (Supported platforms: Windows 2000/Windows XP/Windows Server 2003)
 * Application for VoIP and instant messaging. It consists of both a service and a client used to connect to the service.


 * Video Player (Supported platforms: Windows 2000/Windows XP)
 * Video player to watch videos from Google Video, including unique resume and download features.


 * Web Accelerator (Supported platforms: Windows 2000 SP3+/Windows XP)
 * Uses various caching technologies to increase download speed of web pages.

Desktop extensions

 * Blogger Web Comments (Extension to: Firefox)
 * Displays related comments from other Blogger users.


 * Browser Sync (Extension to: Firefox)
 * Saves browser settings for backup and use on other installations of Mozilla Firefox.


 * Dashboard Widgets for Mac (Extension to: Mac OS X Dashboard)
 * Collection of mini-applications including Gmail, Blogger and Search History.


 * Send to Phone (Extension to: Firefox)
 * Allows users to send text messages to their mobile phone (US only) about web content.


 * Toolbar (Extension to: Firefox and Internet Explorer)
 * Internet browser toolbar with features such as a google search box, phishing protection, pop-up blocker as well as the ability for website owners to create buttons.

Web applications
These products must be accessed via a web browser.

Advertising

 * AdSense
 * Advertisement program for Website owners. Adverts generate revenue on either a per-click or per-thousand-ads-displayed basis, and are adverts shown are from AdWords users, depending on which adverts are relevant.


 * AdWords
 * 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.


 * 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 program.


 * Audio Ads
 * Radio advertising program for US businesses, available by contacting Google sales offices.


 * Click-to-Call
 * Calling system so users can call advertisers for free at Google's expense from search results pages.


 * Grants
 * Scheme for non-profit organizations to benefit from free Cost-Per-Click advertising on the AdWords network.


 * Website Optimizer
 * Tool for testing 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.

Aggregation

 * Personalized Home
 * 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.


 * Reader
 * 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.

Communication & Publishing

 * Apps for Your Domain and Apps for Education
 * Business and educational institution service that combines Google products, which are associated and controlled through a domain name. Features include Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Page Creator and a Google Start Page. Following a partnership with GoDaddy and eNom, domains can also be purchased through the service.


 * Blogger
 * Weblog publishing tool. Users can create a custom, hosted blogs with features such as photo publishing, comments, group blogs, blogger profiles and mobile-based posting with little technical knowledge.


 * Calendar
 * 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.


 * Docs & Spreadsheets
 * Collaborative spreadsheets and writer application, combining Google Spreadsheets and Writely into a single interface. It was released on October 11, 2006.


 * Dodgeball
 * 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.


 * Gmail (Also known as Google Mail)
 * Free Webmail and POP e-mail service provided by Google, known for its abundant storage and advanced interface. It was first released in an invitation-only form on April 1, 2004. Mobile access and Google Talk integration is also featured.


 * Joga Bonito
 * Soccer community site, 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.


 * JotSpot
 * 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.


 * Measure Map
 * Statistics for blog writers. It was launched on February 2, 2006.


 * Notebook
 * Web clipping application for saving online research. 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.


 * Orkut
 * Social networking service, where users can list their personal and professional information, create relationships amongst friends and join communities of mutual interest. In November 2006, Google opened Orkut registration to everyone, instead of being invitation only.


 * Page Creator
 * Webpage-publishing program, which can be used to create pages and to host them on Google's servers.


 * Picasa Web Albums
 * Online photo sharing, with integration with the main Picasa program.


 * YouTube
 * Popular free video sharing Web site which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. In October 2006, Google, Inc., announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for $1.65 billion USD in Google's stock, the deal closed on 13 November 2006.

Development

 * Code
 * Google's site for developers interested in Google-related development. The site contains Open Source code and lists of their API services.


 * Code Search
 * Search engine for programming code found on the Internet.


 * Co-op
 * Platform for users to expand and apply Google Search to specific sites and topics, using Custom Search Engine, Subscribed Links and Topics.


 * Related Links
 * Script that places units for related Web content, including pages, searches and videos, on the owner's Website, through embedded code.


 * Webmaster Tools
 * Collection of services, designed to assist Website owners with search ranking, indexing and general site maintenance. Google Sitemaps was merged into this product.

Mapping

 * Maps
 * Mapping service that indexes streets and satellite imagery, and provides 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.


 * 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.


 * 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 currently available in six cities.

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 the are new results. Alerts include web results, Groups results and news.


 * 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 continiously-updated search index. Results include all blogs, not just those published through Blogger. Results can be viewed and filtered by date.


 * Bookmarks
 * Bookmark storage service available to, which organizes bookmarks with labels.


 * Book Search
 * 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.


 * Directory
 * Collection of links arranged into hierarchical subcategories. The links and their categorization are from the Open Directory Project, but are sorted using PageRank.


 * 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.


 * Froogle
 * Price engine that searches online stores, including auctions, for products. It is also offered in Wireless Markup Language (WML) form as Froogle Mobile.


 * 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. . 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.


 * Mobile
 * Collection of applications for mobile phoness and PDAs, including Gmail Mobile and Mobile Web Search.


 * Music Trends
 * Music 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.


 * 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.


 * 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.


 * Personalized Search
 * Personalized search service, including Search History and Bookmarks storage, as wel as showing trends within searches, and recommended items based on your history. Search results are modified, depending on what you have searched for.


 * Public Service Search
 * Non-commercial organization service, including free SiteSearch, traffic report and unlimited search queries.


 * 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, except those published by Elsevier, the world's largest scientific publisher.


 * 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.


 * 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, 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.


 * Suggest
 * Auto-completion in search results while typing to give popular searches.


 * 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.


 * 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.


 * 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.


 * 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.


 * 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.

Previous products

 * Answers
 * Question and answer service, allowing users to pay researchers to answer questions. Google announced the closing of service on Nov. 28, 2006. All past discussions have been publicly archived.


 * 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.


 * Print
 * Google Book Search's previous name.


 * Sitemaps
 * Google Webmaster Tool's previous name, before new features such as robots.txt file checking and query statistics were added.


 * Spreadsheets
 * Spreadsheet management application, before it was integrated with Writely to form Google Docs & Spreadsheets. It was announced on 6 June 2006.


 * 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 &amp; Spreadsheets.


 * Google X
 * Re-designed Google search homepage, using a Mac OS style interface. It appeared in Google Labs, but was removed the day after.