Downloadable mobile products
These products must be downloaded and run from a mobile device.
A downloadable application that has many advantages over accessingGmail through a web interface on a mobile such as the ability tointeract with Gmail features including labels and archiving. Requires aproperly configured Java Virtual Machine, which is not available bydefault on some platforms (such as Palm's Treo).
Mobile application for viewing maps on a mobile device, availablefor BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, J2ME and Palm OS smartphonesor any phone with a properly configured Java Virtual Machine.
- Mobile Updater (BlackBerry only)
Keeps all Google mobile products up-to-date. Also allows installation or uninstallation of these products.
- Sync for BlackBerry Synchronizes a BlackBerry calendar with multiple Google calendars using a Google Account.
- Talk (BlackBerry only) VoIP application exclusively for BlackBerry smartphones.
- YouTube A downloadable application for viewing YouTube videos on selected devices.
Web products:
These products must be accessed via a Web browser.
Advertising
Advertisement program for Website owners. Adverts generate revenue on either a per-click orper-thousand-ads-displayed basis, and are adverts shown are fromAdWords users, depending on which adverts are relevant.
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.
- AdWords Website Optimizer
Integrated AdWords tool for testing different website content, in order to gain to the most successful advertising campaigns.
Radio advertising program for US businesses. Google began to roll this product out on 15 May 2007 through its existing AdWords interface.
- Click-to-Call Calling system so users can call advertisers for free at Google's expense from search results pages.
- DoubleClick Internet ad serving provider.
- Grants Scheme for non-profit organizations to benefit from free Cost-Per-Click advertising on the AdWords network.
- TV Ads
CPM-driven television advertising scheme available on a trial basis, currently aimed towards professional advertisers, agencies and partners.
Communication & Publishing:
Google 3D Warehouse is an online service that hosts 3D models of existing objects, locations (including buildings) and vehicles created in Google SketchUp by the aforementioned application's users. The models can be downloaded into Google SketchUp by other users or Google Earth.
Custom domain and service integration service for businesses, enterprise and education, featuring Gmail and other Google products.
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 technicalknowledge.
Free online calendar.It includes a unique "quick add" function which allows users to insertevents using natural language input. Other features include Gmail integration and calendar sharing. It is similar to those offered by Yahoo! and MSN.
Document, spreadsheet and presentation application, with document collaboration and publishing capabilities.
Social networking site built specifically for use on mobile phones.Users text their location to the service, which then notifies them ofcrushes, friends, friends' friends and interesting venues nearby.
News feed management services, including feed traffic analysis and advertising facilities.
Google Friend Connect
Mini-applications designed to display information or provide afunction in a succinct manner. Available in Universal or Desktop format.
- Gmail (Also known as Google Mail)
Free Webmail IMAP and POP e-mail service provided by Google, known for its abundantstorage and advanced interface. It was first released in aninvitation-only form on April 1, 2004. Mobile access and Google Talk integration is also featured.
Free voice communications product that includes a POTS telephone number. It includes a follow-me service that allows the userto forward their GrandCentral phone number to simultaneously ring up to6 other phone numbers. It also features a unified voice mail service.
- iGoogle (Previously Google Personalized Homepage)
Customizable homepage, which can contain Web feeds and Google Gadgets, launched in May 2005. It was renamed to iGoogle on April 30, 2007 (previously used internally by Google).
- Notebook Web clipping application for saving online research. The toolpermits users to clip text, images, and links from pages whilebrowsing, save them online, access them from any computer, and sharethem with others.
- Jaiku Jaiku is mobile micro blogging and presence service.
- Knol A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic.
Web conferencing software, used internally by Google's employees. Google acquired the software from creator Marratech on April 19, 2007. Google has not yet stated what it will do with the product.
Social networking service, where users can list their personal and professionalinformation, create relationships amongst friends and join communitiesof mutual interest. In November 2006, Google opened Orkut registrationto everyone, instead of being invitation only.
Webpage-publishing program, which can be used to create pages and to host them on Google's servers.
Online photo sharing, with integration with the main Picasa program.
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.
- Sites (Previously Jotspot)
Website creation tool for private or public groups, for both personal and corporate use.
Web page sharing system, incorporating a Share bookmarklet to share pages, as well as a page for viewing the most popular shareditems. Pages can also be shared through third party applications, suchas del.icio.us or Facebook.
- SMS Channels (Google India Only)
Launched September 2008, allows users to create and subscribe to channels over SMS. Channels can be based on RSS feeds.
- Questions and Answers (Google Russia Only)
Community-driven knowledge market website. Launched on June 26,2007 that allows users to ask and answer questions posed by otherusers.
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:
- 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.
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.
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.
An open source Java software development framework that allows web developers to create Ajax applications in Java.
Mapping:
Mapping service that indexes streets and displays satellite andstreet-level imagery, providing driving directions and local businesssearch.
Imagery of Mars using the Google Maps interface. Elevation, visibleimagery and infrared imagery can be shown. It was released on March 13, 2006, the anniversary of the birth of astronomer Percival Lowell.
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.
An Internet tool for viewing the stars and galaxies, you can now access this tool through a browser version of "Google Sky".
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")
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.
E-mail notification service, which sends alerts based on chosensearch terms, whenever there are new results. Alerts include webresults, Groups results news, and video.
- Base
- Google submission database, that enables content owners to submitcontent, have it hosted and make it searchable. Information within thedatabase is organized using attributes.
- Book Search (Previously Google Print)
Search engine for the full text of printed books. Google scans andstores in its digital database. The content that is displayed dependson the arrangement with the publishers, ranging from short extracts toentire books.
Search engine for over 6,600 print catalogs, which are acquired through Optical character recognition.
Online payment processing service provided by Google aimed atsimplifying the process of paying for online purchases. Webmasters canchoose to implement Google Checkout as a form of payment.
- Code Search Search engine for programming code found on the Internet.
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.
Options for testing new interfaces whilst searching with Google, including Timeline views and keyboard shortcuts.
Searchable US business news, opinion, and financial data. Featuresinclude company-specific pages, blog search, interactive charts,executives information, discussion groups and a portfolio.
Web and e-mail discussion service and Usenet archive. Users can join a group, make a group, publish posts, tracktheir favorite topics, write a set of group web pages updatable bymembers and share group files. .In January, 2007, version 3 of Google Groups was released. New featuresinclude the ability to create customised pages and share files.
Game that induces participants to submit valid descriptions(labels) of images in the web, in order to later improve Image Search.
Image search engine, with results based on the filename of theimage, the link text pointing to the image and text adjacent to theimage. When searching, a thumbnail of each matching image is displayed.
Collection of linguistic applications, including one that allowsusers to translate text or web pages from one language to another, andanother that allows searching in web pages located in a specificcountry or written in a specific language.
- Life Search (Google China)
Search engine tailored towards everyday needs, such as train times, recipes and housing.
A specialised search engine that obtains Film showing times near auser-entered location as well as providing reviews of films compiledfrom several different websites.
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 lyricdownloads, and in most cases legal MP3 downloads. The archive isprovided by Top100.cn (i.e. this service does not search the wholeInternet) and is only available in mainland China. It is intended to rival the similar, but illegal, service provided by Baidu.
Automated news compilation service and search engine for news. There are versions ofthe aggregator for more than 20 languages. While the selection of newsstories is fully automated, the sites included are selected by humaneditors.
Feature within Google News, that allows users to browse articles from over 200 years ago.
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.
Google China's search trend site, similar to Google Zeitgeist. Currently part of Google Labs.
Search engine for the full text of scholarly literature across anarray of publishing formats and scholarly fields. Today, the indexincludes virtually all peer-reviewed journals available online.
List of items generated when the user enters a few examples. Forexample, entering "Green, Purple, Red" produces the list "Green,Purple, Red, Blue, Black, White, Yellow, Orange, Brown."
Mobile phone short message service offered by Google in several countries, including the USA, Japan, Canada, India and Chinaand formerly the UK, Germany and Spain. It allows search queries to besent as a text message. The results are sent as a reply, with nopremium 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.
Search engine and Personalized Homepage that exclusively draws from sites with a .gov TLD.
Video search engine and online store for clips internally submittedby companies and the general public. Google's main video partnershipsinclude agreements with CBS, NHL and the NBA. Also searches videos posted on YouTube.
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, searchtrends and item recommendations.
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.
Statistics:
Traffic statistics generator for defined websites, with strongAdWords integration. Webmasters can optimize their ad campaigns, basedon 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.
Data trend viewing platform to make nations' statistics accessible on the internet in an animated, interactive graph form.
Graph plotting application for Web Search statistics, showing thepopularity of particular search terms over time. Multiple terms can beshown at once. Results can also be displayed by city, region orlanguage. Related news stories are also shown.
Collection of lists of the most frequent search queries. There areweekly, monthly and yearly lists, as well as topic and country specificlists. Closed 22 May 2007 and replaced by "Hot Trends, a dynamicfeature in Google Trends".
