List of Google products

Google offers a range of services. According to the company, these are financed through the sale of advertising space on the World Wide Web to its owned and leased space. The services are, firstly, to search in different data sources, on the other hand to find solutions to the organization 's own data. Frequently new single services are included in the offer, sometimes as a result of corporate purchases. Since 2011, however, some less successful services have been set.

Many of the Web-based products are also available in a mobile version, and over an encrypted connection. Furthermore, sometimes smartphone apps or browser extensions are offered. For most products, the contents can be customized through the use of a personal account with other services such as mail or Docs registration is essential. The following overview will list most of the services respectively in the order of their creation.

Search Tools

  • Web search by looking next to HTML pages, PDF, PostScript and Microsoft Office files and Flash elements on the World Wide Web. The search algorithm PageRank evaluates over 200 factors such as link popularity or public information from social contacts. Other features include suggestion with auto-completion and instant search, where results of each letter will be delivered immediately when typing. In Web History, you can view a history getätigter searches; as site search into your own website can be integrated Custom Search.
  • Images in the bitmap, GIF, JPG, PNG, WebP and SVG formats will be found based on the context in which they are used. Similarly, one can start the search with an image that will be displayed for the most relevant search results. There are filters on the size, content and color.
  • Customers can find the product search goods in different online stores and create a personal shopping list and share. The necessary product data give a seller in the Merchant Center, which is also be used for AdWords or Commerce Search.
  • Scientific texts can be searched using Scholar. The search service enables research in public journals and articles.
  • The search engine for videos on the net has filtering options for length and quality. They started in 2005 originally as a platform on which users could publish their own videos.
  • Patent makes the seven million patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office searchable.
  • The search finds blogs and search blogs. Found articles may be restricted by time period.
  • Goggles is a smartphone app that objects such as bar - codes and QR codes, text, landmarks, business cards, artwork, books, products and logos detects by means of image recognition and investigates relevant information on the Internet.

Web applications

In this section you will find services that are available mainly through a browser. Such applications are also referred to as web applications.

Data Organization

  • With Blogger, you can run our own blog and this make with various formatting options personally.
  • YouTube is a video sharing website, upload your own videos on the videos can be searched and viewed in YouTube trends, find the most popular. The uploads and activities of other users can be subscribed to their channels.
  • The platform code is used to organize and publish software projects and their source code.
  • Bookmarks is a service that can be stored and managed by the Internet bookmarks online.
  • In the Calendar application you can organize events in different calendars and this enabled when needed. In addition, receive a complimentary reminder for appointments via SMS.
  • Use Drive with Google Docs word processing, spreadsheets, slide shows and drawings in your browser. These and any other files can be uploaded, edit it online, released and edited together; when using Cloud Connect locally with Microsoft Office. For developers interfaces are available, so other applications can store their data. Access to the free 15 GB of storage is possible next to the site also has a Mac, Windows or smart client. Additional space can be booked free of charge.
  • In the Picasa Web Albums that have been integrated into Google photos, photos can be stored, organized into albums, released, edit and add effects. An association of persons, location, tags, camera and license information for each image is possible.
  • The photo service Panoramio specializes in geographically localized images. The photographs, the User will be published after an examination in Earth, Maps and Street View.
  • FeedBurner helps with call statistics managing their own news feeds. Articles can be added to the advertisements and links to various social web offers.
  • With sites own web pages can be created and published. To this end, the opportunity to build your own pages by means of prefabricated elements quickly.
  • With the Latitude service, it is possible to release its geographic location to others. So you can locate friends and get notified when it Known randomly stop nearby.
  • The mobile wallet payment system running on a cell phone with Near Field Communication and manage credit, debit and gift cards. With the integrated Offers discounts and coupons from some U.S. partners are mediated by Groupon type.
  • On the sales platform Play Android apps, music, movies and books are available. The media can streamed consumed with any Internet- enabled device, when required but also be kept offline.
  • Keep is a service that allows you to manage text, voice and picture notes.

Communication

  • Access to Usenet offers groups, with an extensive archive of newsgroup articles, which date back to 1981. The contributions of the different languages ​​discussion forums can be searched using key words and authors. In addition, custom groups can be set up that can be subscribed to via a web interface or as a mailing list.
  • Orkut is a social network, the conversations and sharing of photos, videos and messages between friends, family members and co-workers allows.
  • The e -mail service Gmail offers plenty of storage space and a search function. E -mails can be organized with labels and filters, the inbox can be automatically sorted by importance. The messages that you can read in the browser or pick up via POP3 and IMAP with your own e- mail program. Furthermore, a task scheduler is integrated, which interacts with the calendar.
  • Your contacts can manage separately account owner. On it can then be accessed, for example, by mail and Android.
  • The text, audio and video chat Talk is integrated into Mail, iGoogle, Google and Orkut, but can also be used with external clients.
  • The moderator questions, suggestions and ideas can be discussed freely among all Internet users. To this end, each user can set up a " series" on a particular topic. Other people can then to write comments, or vote on the issue.
  • The available only in the U.S. service Voice forwards telephone calls for its own voice number to other phones. In addition to many control options provides voice audio and video calls from PC to PC calls between your PC and normal connections, sending SMS messages and voice mail with text previews of voice recognition. Sometimes the service has already been introduced in Germany as part of mail.
  • The URL shortening service URL Shortener shortens long web addresses after the goo.gl / ... scheme and provides statistics on the number of calls, the countries in which the link was clicked, the browser and operating system used and the side of which was forwarded. Simultaneously, a QR code is still generated.
  • The social network Google organizes contacts in circles so that information can be shared differentiated. Incorporated are a group chat called Huddle, Hangouts for video chats to ten people and a games section. With the button you can 1 other Internet users to specific content on the web point because the " 1 s" appear then with friends in their web search results. In addition, each user has a public profile.

Information services

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  • Using the AdWords platform, companies can advertise their own offers switch, which are then distributed in the search results or on the AdSense project. This offer is Google's main financial source of income.
  • With AdSense is a program in which content providers by adding ads from the AdWords program to its own offerings can make money. The decision which advertisements will appear in which users at the end, is optimized after its interests by automatic procedures.
  • By the statistics of Analytics, webmasters can track the traffic to their website. The Website Optimizer can then be optimized the design of the site with the help of A / B testing. The webmaster tools, however, help in search engine optimization.
  • About Apps organizations such as businesses, educational institutions and governments to their employees Google websites under your own domain provide.
  • The App Engine is an offer to develop and host Web applications.
  • The tool Page Speed ​​is used to measure the performance of web pages.
  • reCAPTCHA is a Captcha service that will distinguish human users from bots. This instrument is simultaneously used to digitize books.
  • Commerce Search manages the product database and search options for an online shop. Operators can integrate fee-based service into their existing page.
  • In the Dashboard, users can see exactly what data are linked to their own account.
  • The Web Fonts are a collection of fonts that can be uploaded to a website, which do not rely on installed on the visitor writings.
  • AdMob specializes in the placement of advertising on mobile phones.
  • For takeout, you can export your own data from different applications. Behind the project Data Liberation Front is.
  • With VirusTotal can be files and web pages with a variety of online virus scanners can browse.

Google All Access is a new music streaming service from Google. The user has a fee unlimited access to the music of the three major music publishers Universal, Sony and Warner. The service has been started in May 2013 in the U.S..

Software

This software is registered, which is tied to specific operating systems or devices.

  • SketchUp any three-dimensional models for architecture and design can be created. Finished models can be seen in the 3D Warehouse and, if it is realistic buildings, publish in Earth. There are versions for Mac OS X and Windows.
  • The toolbar expands Internet Explorer is a toolbar for translation of web pages, spell checking in text fields, auto fill forms and accessing bookmarks.
  • The 3D globe Earth provide satellite imagery and extensive geographical information for the Earth, the Moon, Mars and the sky available. There are versions for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
  • Functions of image management Picasa are direct import from the camera, simple image processing, face detection, geotagging, print preview, creating photo collages, films, " Face Movies", posters, slide shows and gift CDs, search with filters, online print ordering, synchronization with Picasa Web Albums and sending images via e -mail. Current versions are available for Mac OS X and Windows.
  • The Chrome browser can be personalized with extensions and themes. All settings are synchronized on demand via multiple installations of time. For safety, the sandboxing of Flash and PDF plug-in provides. There are versions for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows available, the source code has been released under an open source license. In Microsoft's Internet Explorer can install Chrome Frame to retrofit various functions there.
  • Android is an operating system for smartphones and tablets, whose source code has been released under an open source license. Apps can be purchased and downloaded the Play Store.
  • The TV platform for televisions and set- top boxes, offers a regular program access to Internet television, local media files, the World Wide Web and Android apps.

Hardware and Miscellaneous

  • The Search Appliance is a 19 -inch rack for indexing intranets, document management systems or websites. Companies can or browse with the reduced output mini their data.
  • About SMS available in some countries outside of Germany, the Web search, mail, calendar, voice and bloggers are available: The seeker sends SMS queries to GOOGLE and get the results immediately via SMS.
  • Postini for businesses filters spam and malicious programs via the e -mail traffic, the correspondences archived and can be integrated into existing structures there.
  • The Java framework Guice is open source.
  • The free programming language Go is distinguished by its object orientation and support of multi-core processors. Go With hardware-related system programs can be created.
  • The HTTP -like protocol SPDY will place special emphasis on speed.
  • A Chromebook is a netbook with Chrome OS, which consists only of a browser: Personal files are stored in the cloud and on-premise applications replaced by Web applications, for example, from the Chrome Web Store. For stationary operation with external screen a Chromebox is intended.
  • With Public DNS is a free and uncensored DNS server for public ownership, which is to work very quickly.
  • In the Nexus series devices with the in-house operating system Android will be published, which are produced by various hardware partners. So far, the smartphone Nexus One, Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 from HTC or Samsung or LG, the 7 -inch tablet from Asus Nexus 7 and the 10 -inch Nexus 10 Samsung also appeared. The launch of the Streaming Client Nexus Q for consuming Google Play content on a TV or speaker system has been postponed until further notice.
  • The video file format WebM and WebP image format were both published under free licenses. Through strong compression they should be particularly suitable for use in the Internet.
  • The Service Cloud Print is to link the own printer with a Google account so as to print without installing drivers directly from the Docs application or smartphone via the internet allows.
  • Darts is a scripting language for web pages, similar to JavaScript.
  • In Project Glass video goggles is designed which superimposes its users a variety of information in his field of vision. Currently the project is still in the development phase.
  • Chrome Cast is a produced by Google streaming media adapters. The associated programming Quantcast Google API is still in beta stage.

Completed

The following projects have been discontinued due to lack of success or outdated technology.

About Google

  • In Store Merchandise the online brand are sold.
  • The Googleplex is the corporate headquarters of Google, Inc. in Mountain View.
  • The way to large files and data throughput -optimized file system is a distributed file system that is used on its own servers.
  • The Summer of Code is a project that supports students in the development of free software with scholarships and mentoring programs.
  • At Google.org, the same foundation their philanthropic commitment to environmental protection and renewable energy; they order to achieve independence from the electricity market, one has entered with its subsidiary Google Energy in the energy industry.
  • Under the name of research, the research department is coordinated in the field of computer science.
  • The I / O is in May annual two - or three-day developer conference, will be presented on the new ideas and products.
  • About Google Ventures invests in technology-based start -ups.
  • With the initiative Fiber access to high-speed Internet via fiber-optic network in the United States is removed. First selected city with a end-user data rate of over 1 Gigabit per second is Kansas City, KS.
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