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List of Google products 1 List of Google products This list of Google products includes all major desktop, mobile and online products released or acquired by Google Inc. This list also includes prior products, that have been merged, discarded or renamed. Web-based products These products must be accessed via a web browser: Search tools • Google 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 100 billion search queries per month and is the most used search engine on the Internet. Google also offers regional search by its regional level domains. It has 189 different regional domains. (see List of Google domains) • Hummingbird - Expanded query analysis. For example, if you search for 'best pie place in Seattle' Google will also search for 'best pie restaurant in Seattle'. • PageRank – link analysis algorithm. • Snapshots – mechanism that indexes PDFs, Word documents, and more. • Search engine optimization – process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines. • Google Search functionality – Google Search includes Boolean logical operators, wildcards, and more, to help users refine their searches. • Multiple languages – Google Search is supported by a large number of different languages. • Encrypted Search - In May 2010 Google rolled out SSL-encrypted web search.[1] The encrypted search can be accessed at encrypted.google.com [2] • Accessible Search – search engine for the blind and visually impaired. It prioritizes usable and accessible web sites in the search results, so users incur minimal distractions when browsing. • Author Rank - The idea that an online author can have topical authority within Google Search Results. • Google Alerts – email notification service, which sends alerts based on chosen search terms, whenever there are new results. Alerts include web results, Groups results news, and video. • 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. • Google Books (formerly 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. • Google Custom Search – allows a user to create a customized search experience for his/her own website. Renamed from Google Co-op, which in turn replaced Google Free Search. • Directory – navigation directory, specifically for Chinese users. • Experimental Search – options for testing new interfaces whilst searching with Google, including Timeline views and keyboard shortcuts. • 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. • Google Groups – web and email 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 up datable by members and share group List of Google products 2 files. In January, 2007, version 3 of Google Groups was released. New features include the ability to create customised pages and share files. • Google Hotel Finder - Provides searches similar to other Online Travel Agencies (Travel website) that searchers can search for check-in and check-out dates. • Google 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. You can also make a search by uploading a picture from your computer.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 – specialised search engine that obtains show times of films near a user-entered location and provides reviews of films compiled from several different websites. • 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. • Google News archive – 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 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. • Google Shopping (was Google Product Search and Froogle): price engine that searches online stores, including auctions, for products. Beginning in Fall of 2012, it will become a fully commercial product, only indexing paid listings. • Suggest – auto-completion in search results while typing to give popular searches. • Google 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, Metacafe, Daily Motion, and other popular video hosting sites. Google Video will no longer host video content after August 20, 2012 • Voice Local Search – non-premium phone service for searching and contacting local businesses • Web History (was 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. 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. • Knowledge Graph – a knowledge base used to enhance search results with semantic information gathered from several sources. • Google Trader – a free online classifieds service that allows people to post or find jobs and buy or sell goods and services. Currently available in Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Thailand and Nigeria • Zagat – a source of consumer survey-based information for restaurants and other leisure activities. List of Google products 3 Advertising services • AdMob – Mobile advertising network. • Google AdSense – Offers a contextual advertising solution to web publishers, and delivers text-based Google AdWords ads that are relevant to site content pages. • Google Ad Planner • Google AdWords – advertise with Google AdWords ads in the Sponsored Links section next to search results to boost website traffic and sales. • Adwords Express – Local online advertising made easy • Google Certification Program – Google AdWords partner certification program, providing AdWords qualifications to agencies that pass exams and other criteria. Replaced Google Advertising Professionals in April 2010. • DoubleClick – ad management and ad serving technology foundation for buyers, creators and sellers of digital media. • DoubleClick for Publishers by Google – Set of tools for driving direct sales revenue and maximizing yield on non-guaranteed inventory. • Google Grants – in-kind donation program awarding free AdWords advertising to select charitable organizations. • Google Think Insights • Wildfire by Google - Social media marketing software. Communication and publishing tools • Google Cultural Institute • Google Art Project • Feed Burner – news feed management services, including feed traffic analysis and advertising facilities. • Google Keep – Note Keeping (Like Evernote) • Google 3D Warehouse – online service that hosts 3D models of existing objects, locations (including buildings) and vehicles created in Google Sketch Up by the aforementioned application's users. The models can be downloaded into Google Sketch-up by other users or Google Earth. • Google Apps – service for businesses, enterprise and education providing independently customizable versions of several Google products under a custom domain name. Features included are Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites, Google Contacts, Google Video, Google Groups, Google Buzz, G Talk, Google Maps, Google Mars, Google Moon, and Google Earth. • 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. • Google Bookmarks – free online bookmark storage service, available to Google Account holders[3] launched on October 10, 2005.[4] • Boutiques.com – personalized shopping experience that let users find and discover fashion goods. Boutiques.com was launched in November 2010, and consolidated with Google Product Search on October 14, 2011. • Google Business Solutions – collection of services offered by Google specifically directed at webmasters and businesses. Products included are Feedburner, Google AdWords, Google AdSense, Google Analytics, Google Enterprise Search solutions, Google Apps,