Resources: Google's Kingdom
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SEARCH VERTICALS
Google Web Search
- 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.
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Google 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.
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Google Music Search (US Only)
Search results which will include links to an audio preview of songs provided by Google's search partners.
Google 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 book.
Google Code Search
- Search engine for programming code found on the Internet.
Google 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.
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Google News Archive Search
- Feature within Google News, that allows users to browse articles from over 200 years ago.
Google Patent Search
- Search engine to search through millions of patents, each result with its own page, including drawings, claims and citations.
Google Product Search
- Price engine that searches online stores, including auctions, for products.
Google Scholar Search
- 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.
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Google Images
Allows users to search the Web for image content. The keywords for the image search are based on the filename of the image, the link text pointing to the image, and text adjacent to the image. When searching for an image, a thumbnail of each matching image is displayed. When clicking on a thumbnail, the image is displayed in a frame at the top of the page and the website on which that image was found is displayed in a frame below it.
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Google 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.
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Google Commerce Search
A search solution designed specifically with online retailers in mind.
Google 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.
Google U.S. Government Search
- Search engine and Personalized Homepage that exclusively draws from sites with a .gov TLD.
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SEARCH & KEYWORD ANALYSIS
Google 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.
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- Similar to Google Trends , providing insights into the search terms people have been entering into the Google search engine. Unlike Google Trends, Google Insights for Search provides a visual representation of regional interest on a map.
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LANGUAGE
Google 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.
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Google Dictionary
Once part of Google Translate, it is now a standalone service that allows searching of words and phrases from over 22 languages.
Google Directory
Collection of links arranged into hierarchical subcategories. The links and their categorization are from the Open Directory Project, but are sorted using PageRank.
Google 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.
ADVERTISING
Google Adwords
Google's flagship advertising product and main source of revenue. Google's total advertising revenues were USD$23 billion in 2009 . AdWords offers pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and site-targeted advertising for both text, banner, and rich-media ads. The AdWords program includes local, national, and international distribution. Google's text advertisements are short, consisting of one headline and two additional text lines. Image ads can be one of several different Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) standard sizes.
AdMob
AdMob is one of the world's largest mobile advertising platforms and claims to serve more than 7.1 billion mobile banner and text ads per month across mobile Web sites and handset applications.
Google AdSense
- Advertisement program for Website owners. Adverts generate revenue on either a per-click or per-thousand-ads-displayed basis, and adverts shown are from AdWords users, depending on which adverts are relevant.
Google Advertising Professionals
- Google's AdWords partner certification program, providing AdWords qualifications to agencies that pass exams and other criteria
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Google Ad Planner
- An online tool that allows users to view traffic estimates for popular web sites and create media plans.
WEBSITE UTILITIES
Google Analytics
Traffic statistics generator for defined websites, with strong AdWords integration. Webmasters can optimize their ad campaigns, based on the statistics that are given.
AdWords Website Optimizer
- Integrated AdWords tool for testing different website content, in order to gain to the most successful advertising campaigns.
Google Gadgets
Mini-applications designed to display information or provide a function in a succinct manner. Available in Universal or Desktop format.
Google Webmaster Tools
- Sitemap submission and analysis for the Sitemaps protocol. Renamed from Google Sitemaps to cover broader features, including query statistics and robots.txt analysis.
FeedBurner
News feed management services, including feed traffic analysis and advertising facilities.
GEOSPATIAL
Google Earth
Virtual 3D globe that uses satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS from Google's repository.
Google Maps
- Mapping service that indexes streets and displays satellite and street-level imagery, providing driving directions and local business search.
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- Edit the map in more than a hundred countries and watch your edits go into Google Maps. Become a citizen cartographer and help map your world.
Google Map Maker
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- Web Based building and editing tool to create 3D buildings for Google Earth.
Google Building Maker
Google 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.
Google 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.
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Google Sky Map (for Android)
- An Internet tool for viewing the stars and galaxies, you can now access this tool through a browser version of "Google Sky"
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Google 3D Warehouse
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.
Google SketchUp
Modelling application to sketch simple 3D structures for integration into Google Earth.
PERSONAL UTILITIES
Google Dashboard
- Dashboard is an online tool that allows Google Account holders to view all their personal information Google is storing on their servers.
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Google Web History
- Web page tracking, which records Google searches, Web pages, images, videos, music and more. It also includes Bookmarks, search trends and item recommendations. Google released Search History in April 2005, when it began to record browsing history later expanding and renaming the service to Web History in April 2007.
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Google Profiles
- Allows you to control how you appear on Google and tell others a bit more about who you are.
Gmail
- A free, advertising-supported webmail, POP3, and IMAP service. Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004. As of December 2009[update] it has 176 million users monthly.
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Knol
- Knol is a service that enables subject experts and other users to write authoritative articles related to various topics.
Google Talk
Application for VoIP and instant messaging. It consists of both a service and a client used to connect to the service, which uses the XMPP protocol.
Google Gears
- A browser plug-in that enables development of off-line browser applications.
iGoogle
A customizable AJAX-based startpage or personal web portal (much like Netvibes, Pageflakes, My Yahoo!, and Windows Live Personalized Experience). Google originally launched the service in May 2005. Its features include the capability to add web feeds and Google Gadgets (similar to those available on Google Desktop).
Google Calendar
- Free online calendar. It includes a unique "quick add" function which allows users to insert events using natural language input. Other features include Gmail integration and calendar sharing. It is similar to those offered by Yahoo! and MSN.
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Google Docs
Document, spreadsheet and presentation online application, with document collaboration and publishing capabilities.
Google 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.
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Google Sites
Website creation tool for private or public groups, for both personal and corporate use.
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Google Voice
Known as "GrandCentral" before 2009-03-11, this is a free voice communications product that includes a POTS telephone number. It includes a follow-me service that allows the user to forward their Google voice phone number to simultaneously ring up to 6 other phone numbers. It also features a unified voice mail service, SMS and free outgoing calls via Google's "click2call" and 3rd party dialers.
YouTube
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.
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Google Sidewiki
Google Sidewiki is a browser sidebar that enables you to contribute and read helpful information alongside any web page.
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Google Transit
Public transport trip planning through the Google Maps interface.
IMAGERY
Picasa
- Photo organisation and editing application, providing photo library options and simple effects. Also includes Facial Recognition and GeoTagging features.
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Picasa Web Albums
Online photo sharing, with integration with the main Picasa program.
Picnik
An online photo editing service. Currently it can import photos natively from Facebook, Myspace, Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, Yahoo Image search and also offers options to upload from a computer or to upload from a website.
Panoramio
a geolocation-oriented photo sharing website. Accepted photos uploaded to the site can be accessed as a layer in Google Earth and Google Maps, with new photos being added at the end of every month. The site's goal is to allow Google Earth users to learn more about a given area by viewing the photos that other users have taken at that place. The website is available in several languages.
Google Image Labeler
- Game that induces participants to submit valid descriptions (labels) of images in the web, in order to later improve Image Search
SOCIAL
Google Buzz
A social networking and messaging tool that is integrated into the company's web-based email program, Gmail. Users can share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments organized in "conversations" and visible in the user's inbox.
Google Latitude
- Google Latitude is a mobile geolocation tool that lets your friends know where you are via Google Maps.
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Blogger
Weblog publishing tool. Users can create custom, hosted blogs with features such as photo publishing, comments, group blogs, blogger profiles and mobile-based posting with little technical knowledge.
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.
Aardvark
Social search utility which allows people to ask and answer questions within their social networks. It uses people's claimed expertise to match askers with good answerer
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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.
MOBILE
Google Sync For Mobile
- Synchronizes a mobile phone with multiple Google calendars as well as contacts using a Google Account.
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Google Goggles (for Android)
- A downloadable application that uses image recognition for triggering searches based on pictures taken with the device's built-in camera. For example, taking a picture of a famous landmark will search for information about it or taking a picture of a product's barcode will search for information on the product.
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Google 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.
MISC
Google Labs
A website demonstrating and testing new Google projects.
Google Apps (for Businesses or Educational Institutions.
Custom domain and service integration service for businesses, enterprise and education, featuring Gmail and other Google products.
Google Chrome Browser
A web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework.
Google Fast Flip
Online news aggregator that mimics the experience of flicking through a newspaper or magazine, allowing visual search of stories in manner similar to microfiche.
Google 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.
Google 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."
Google Health
- Puts you in charge of your health information. It claims to be safe, secure, and free. Organize your health information all in one place.
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