Standalone applications

 AdWords Editor (Mac OS X, Windows 2000 SP3+/XP/Vista)

 Desktop application to manage a Google AdWords account. The application allows users to make changes to their

account and advertising campaigns before synchronizing with the online service.

 Chrome (Windows XP/Vista, GNU/Linux (Beta), Mac OS X (Beta))

 Web browser.
 Desktop (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows 2000 SP3+/XP/Vista)

 Desktop search application, that indexes e-mails, documents, music, photos, chats, Web history and other files. It

allows the installation of Google Gadgets.

 Earth (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows 2000/XP/Vista, iPhone)

 Virtual globe that uses satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS over a 3D globe.
 Gmail/Google Notifier (Mac OS X, Windows 2000/XP)
 Alerts the user of new messages in their Gmail account.

 Pack (Windows XP/Vista)

 Collection of computer applications -- some Google-created, some not -- including Google Earth, Google

Desktop, Picasa, Google Talk, and Google Chrome.

 Photos Screensaver
 Slideshow screensaver as part of Google Pack, which displays images sourced from a hard disk, or

through RSS and Atom Web feeds.
 Picasa (Mac OS X, Linux and Windows 2000/XP/Vista)

 Photo organization and editing application, providing photo library options and simple effects.
 Picasa Web Albums Uploader (Mac OS X)
 An application to help uploading images to the "Picasa Web Albums" service. It consists of both an iPhoto plug-in and

a stand-alone application.
  Quick search box (Windows, Mac OS X)
 A tool box like run in windows from where you can avail all the features of the run dialog, type a keyword and search

google, type an application name (on your computer) to launch it, type a web URL and launch it from the default web
client. This tool box is very user friendly. Based on Quicksilver (software).
 Secure Access (Windows 2000/XP)

 VPN client for Google WiFi users, whose equipment does not support WPA or 802.1x protocols

 SketchUp (Mac OS X and Windows 2000/Windows XP)

 Simple 3D sketching program with unique dragging interface and direct integration with Google Earth.
 Talk (Windows 2000/Windows XP/Server 2003/Vista)

 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.

 Visigami (Mac OS X Leopard)
 Image search application screen saver that searches files from Google Images, Picasa and Flickr.

 Pinyin IME (Windows 2000/Windows XP/Windows Vista) (Google China)

 Input Method Editor that is used to convert Chinese Pinyin characters, which can be entered on Western-style

keyboards, to Chinese characters.

Desktop extensions
These products created by Google are extensions to software created by other organizations.

 Blogger Web Comments (Firefox only)

 Displays related comments from other Blogger users.

 Dashboard Widgets for Mac (Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets)

 Collection of mini-applications including Gmail, Blogger and Search History.

 Gears (Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari)

 A browser plug-in that enables development of off-line browser applications.
 Send to Mobile (Firefox)
 Allows users to send text messages to their mobile phone (US only) about web content.
  Toolbar (Firefox and Internet Explorer)
 Web browser toolbar with features such as a Google Search box, phishing protection, pop-up blocker as well as the

ability for website owners to create buttons.

Mobile products
Online mobile products
These products can be accessed through a browser on a mobile device or a standard desktop web browser such as Firefox.

 Blogger Mobile
 Only available on some US networks. Allows you to post to your Blogger blog from a mobile device.

 Calendar
 Read a list of all Google Calendar events from a mobile device. There is also the option to quickly add events to your

personal calendar.
 Gmail
 Access a Gmail account from a mobile device using a standard mobile web browser. Alternatively, Google provides a

specific mobile application to access and download Gmail messages quicker.

 News
 Access Google News on a mobile device using a simpler interface compared to the full online application.

 Google Mobilizer
 Makes any web page mobile-friendly.
 iGoogle
 Simple version of iGoogle - you must visit the information page to choose which modules to display on your personal

mobile version as not all modules are compatible.

 Product Search
 Updated version of the previous Froogle Mobile
 Reader
 View Google Reader on a mobile device.

 Mobile search
  Search web pages, images, local listings and mobile-specific web pages through the Google search engine. If a
webpage is not tailored for a mobile device Google will provide a simple text version of the webpage generated using
an algorithm.
 Picasa Web Albums
 Lets you view photo albums that you have stored online.
 Google Latitude
 Google Latitude is a mobile geolocation tool that lets your friends know where you are via Google Maps.

 Google Maps Navigation (Mobile, Android only)

 A GPS navigation system, like 3D views, turn-by-turn voice guidance and automatic rerouting.
Downloadable mobile products
 Some of these products must be downloaded and run from a mobile device.

 Gmail
 A downloadable application that has many advantages over accessing Gmail through a web [interface] on a mobile
such as the ability to interact with Gmail features including labels and archiving. Requires a properly configured Java
Virtual Machine, which is not available by default on some platforms (such as Palm's Treo).
 Maps
 Mobile application for viewing maps on a mobile device, available for Android (also includes navigation), BlackBerry,
Windows Mobile, iPhone OS, Symbian, J2ME and Palm OS smartphones or 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
 Synchronizes a mobile phone with multiple Google calendars as well as contacts using a Google Account.
 Talk (BlackBerry only)
 VoIP application exclusively for BlackBerry smartphones.
 Talk (Android only)
  Text chat application, lacking the VoIP function present in BlackBerry version.
 Sky Map (Mobile, Android only)
 Augmented reality program displaying a star map which is scrolled by moving the phone.
 YouTube
 A downloadable application for viewing YouTube videos on selected devices.
 Listen (Mobile, Android only, from Google Labs)
 A downloadable application for subscribing to and streaming podcasts and Web audio.
Web products
 These products must be accessed via a Web browser.
Account management
 Dashboard
 Dashboard is an online tool that allows Google Account holders to view all their personal information Google is storing

on their servers.
Advertising
 Ad Planner
 An online tool that allows users to view traffic estimates for popular web sites and create media plans.
 Ad Manager
 A hosted ad management solution
 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.
 AdWords

 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.
 Audio Ads
 Radio advertising program for US businesses. Google began to roll this product out on 15 May 2007 through its

existing AdWords interface, however has been discontinued.

 Click-to-Call

 Calling system so users can call advertisers for free at Google's expense from search results pages. This service was
discontinued.
 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 and publishing
 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.
 Apps
 Custom domain and service integration service for businesses, enterprise and education, featuring Gmail and other

Google products.
 Blogger
 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 technical knowledge.
 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.
 Docs
 Document, spreadsheet and presentation application, with document collaboration and publishing capabilities.
 Feed Burner
 News feed management services, including feed traffic analysis and advertising facilities.

 Friend Connect
 Friend Connect is an online service that empowers website and blog owners to add social features to their websites. It
also allows users to connect with their friends on different websites that have implemented Google Friend Connect on
their website.
 Gadgets
 Mini-applications designed to display information or provide a function in a succinct manner. Available in Universal or
Desktop format.
 Profiles
 It is simply how you present yourself on Google products to other Google users. It allows you to control how you
appear on Google and tell others a bit more about who you are.
 Gmail (Also known as Google Mail)
 Free Webmail IMAP and POP e-mail service provided by Google, known for its abundant storage and advanced

interface. It was first released in an invitation-only form on April 1, 2004. Mobile access and Google Talk integration is
also featured.
 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 tool permits users to clip text, images, and links from pages
while browsing, save them online, access them from any computer, and share them with others. Google recently
stopped development on Notebook and no longer accepts sign-ups, while old users can still access their notebooks,
newcomers are offered to try other services such as Google Docs and Google Bookmarks.
 Knol

 Knol is a service that enables subject experts and other users to write authoritative articles related to various topics.
 Marratech e-Meeting
 Web conferencing software, used internally by Google's employees. Google acquired the software from

creator Marrakech on April 19, 2007. Google has not yet stated what it will do with the product.
 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.
 Panoramio

 Photos of the world.

 Picasa Web Albums

 Online photo sharing, with integration with the main Picasa program.
 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. 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.
 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 (Chinese / Russian / Thai / Arabic Only)
 Community-driven knowledge market website. Launched on June 26, 2007 that allows users to ask and answer
questions posed by other users. 
 Voice

 Known as "Grand Central" 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.
 Wave

 Still in early developmental stages, Google Wave is a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the
web. A "wave" is equal parts conversation and document, where users can almost instantly communicate and work
together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. 
 YouTube

 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.
 Google Sidewiki

 Google Sidewiki is a browser sidebar that enables you to contribute and read helpful information alongside any web
page. The service came to be online since Sep 23, 2009. 
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.
 Code
 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 (Deprecated, since
January 14, 2009).
 Open Social

 A set of common APIs for building social applications on many websites.

 Subscribed Links

 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.

 Web Toolkit

 An open source Java software development framework that allows web developers to create Ajax applications in Java.
 Google Chrome OS

 An Operating System utilizing the Linux kernel and a custom Window manager.

 Google Go

 A compiled, concurrent programming language developed by Google.

 Google Closure Tools

 JavaScript tools used by Google products such as Gmail, Google Docs and Google Maps
Mapping
 Maps
 Mapping service that indexes streets and displays satellite and street-level imagery, providing driving directions and
local business search.
 Map Maker
 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.
 Building Maker
 Web Based building and editing tool to create 3D buildings for Google Earth.
 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.
 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.

 Sky Map
 An Internet tool for viewing the stars and galaxies, you can now access this tool through a browser version of "Google
Sky".
 Ride Finder
 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 (discontinued as of October
2009).
 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
 Accessible 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.

 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.
 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.
 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.

 Book Search (Previously Google 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.
 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.
 Code Search

 Search engine for programming code found on the Internet.

 Dictionary

 Once part of Google Translate, it is now a standalone service that allows searching of words and phrases from over

22 languages.
 Directory
 Collection of links arranged into hierarchical subcategories. The links and their categorization are from the Open

Directory Project, but are sorted using Page Rank.

 Directory (Google China)

 Navigation directory, specifically for Chinese users.

 Experimental Search
 Options for testing new interfaces whilst searching with Google, including Timeline views and keyboard shortcuts.
 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.
 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.
 Groups
 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.In January, 2007,
version 3 of Google Groups was released. New features include the ability to create customized pages and share files.
 Image Labeler

 Game that induces participants to submit valid descriptions (labels) of images in the web, in order to later improve
Image Search.
 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. 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
 A specialized search engine that obtains Film showing times near a user-entered location as well as providing reviews
of films compiled from several different websites.
 Music (Google China)

 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 lyric downloads, and in most cases legal MP3 downloads. The archive is
provided by Top100.cn (i.e. this service does not search the whole Internet) and is only available in mainland China.
It is intended to rival the similar, but containing links to illegal music, service provided by Baidu.
 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.
 News Archive Search
 Feature within Google News, which allows users to browse articles from over 200 years ago.
 Patent Search

 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.

 Rebang (Google China)

 Google China's search trend site, similar to Google Zeitgeist. Currently part of Google Labs.

 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.
 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."
 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.
 Squared

 Creates tables of information about a subject from unstructured data

 Suggest
 Auto-completion in search results while typing to give popular searches.
 University Search
 Listings for search engines for university websites.
 U.S. Government Search
 Search engine and Personalized Homepage that exclusively draws from sites with a .gov TLD.
  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.
 Voice Local Search
 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, 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.
 Web 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 1 billion requests a day and
is the most used search engine on the Internet.
Statistics
 Analytics
 Traffic statistics generator for defined websites, with strong AdWords integration. Webmasters can optimize their ad

campaigns, based on 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.
 Gapminder
 Data trend viewing platform to make nations' statistics accessible on the internet in an animated, interactive graph
form.
 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.

 Zeitgeist
 Collection of lists of the most frequent search queries. There are weekly, monthly and yearly lists, as well as topic and

country specific lists. Closed 22 May 2007 and replaced by "Hot Trends, a dynamic feature in Google Trends".
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.
 Google MK-14
 A 4U rack mounted server for Google Radio Automation system.
Other products
 GOOG-411
 Google's directory assistance service, which can be used free of charge from any telephone in the US and Canada.

 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.
Previous products
 Applications that have been discontinued by Google, either because of 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 onNovember 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 was discontinued when a very similar feature was added to
Google desktop. Some people preferred Google deskbar for its ability to add custom searching and the mini-browser
so you wouldn't have to open an actual window. The last release, version 5.95, had a .NET plug-in.
 Free Search
 Free code to embed either web search or site search into another website. 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 on shared interests. The service allowed a user to meet other fans, create games and clubs, access athletes
from Nike, and watch and upload video clips 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. The merged service was then called Google Local, which
was further renamed to 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.
 Page Creator

 Webpage-publishing program, which can be used to create pages and to host them on Google's servers. However, to

focus on another Google Webpage-publishing service called Google Sites, the new sign-up are not longer accepted
since 2008. And all existing content on Page Creator will be transferred to Google Sites in 2009.
 Personalized Search
 Search results personalization, now fully merged with Google Accounts and Web History.

 Public Service Search

 Non-commercial organization service, which included free SiteSearch, traffic reports and unlimited search queries.

Discontinued in 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
 SearchMash.com Search engine that means to "test innovative user interfaces." Among its features are the ability to

display image results on the same page as web results, feedback about features, and continuous scrolling results.
Aside from its privacy policy and terms of service, there is no Google branding on the site. Discontinued November
2008.

 Shared Stuff
  Web page sharing system, incorporating a Share bookmarklet to share pages, as well as a page for viewing the most
popular shared items. Pages can also be shared through third party applications, such as del.icio.us or Facebook. It
was discontinued in March 30, 2009.

 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 the Google Mobile web site.

 Web Accelerator (Windows 2000 SP3+/XP/Vista)

 Uses various caching technologies to increase load speed of web pages. (Accelerator is no longer available for
download.)

 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.

 Dodgeball
 Social networking site built specifically for use on mobile phones. User’s text their location to the service, which then

notifies them of crushes, friends, friends' friends and interesting venues nearby. (Discontinued January 2009). Google
Latitude now provides most of Dodgeball's functionality integrated into the Google Maps service.

Catalogs
 Search engine for over 6,600 print catalogs, which are acquired through Optical character recognition.

 Google Notebook
 View and add notes to your Google Notebook. (Discontinued January 2009)