Hardware Products

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.

Other products:

• GOOG-411

Google's directory assistance service, which can be used free of charge from any telephone in the US and Canada.

Previous products:

Applications that have been discontinued by Google, either becauseof 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 wasdiscontinued when a very similar feature was added to Google desktop.Some people preferred Google deskbar for its ability to add customsearching and the mini-browser so you wouldn't have to open an actualwindow. The last release, version 9.95, had a .NET plugin.

• Free Search

Free code to embed either web search or site search into anotherwebsite. 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 onshared interests. The service allowed a user to meet other fans, creategames and clubs, access athletes from Nike, and watch and upload videoclips and photos.

• Lively (Windows XP/Vista) 3D animated chat program launched on July 9, 2008 and closed December 31, 2008.

• Local Local listings service, before it was integrated with mapping. Themerged service was then called Google Local, which was further renamedto 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 freeSiteSearch, traffic reports and unlimited search queries. Discontinuedin 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 samepage as web results, feedback about features, and continuous scrollingresults. Aside from its privacy policy and terms of service, there isno 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 theGoogle 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.