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Google - Features and Products
List of all Google Services
Google Web Search
Google is a search engine owned by Google, Inc. whose mission statement
is to, "organize the world's information and make it universally
accessible and useful." The largest search engine on the web,
Google receives over 200 million queries each day through its various
services.
In addition to its tool for searching WebPages, Google also provides
services for searching images, Usenet newsgroups, news websites,
videos, searching by locality, maps, and items for sale online.
In 2006, Google has indexed over 25 billion web pages, 1.3 billion
images, and over one billion Usenet messages - in total, approximately
12 billion items. It also caches much of the content that it indexes.
Google operates other tools and services including Google News,
Google Suggest, Froogle, and Google Desktop Search.
http://www.google.com
Google Web Search Features
In addition to providing easy access to more than 8 billion web
pages, Google has many special features to help you to find exactly
what you're looking for. These features are following:
- Cached Links: View a snapshot of each page as it looked when
we indexed it.
- Calculator: Use Google to evaluate mathematical expressions.
- Currency Conversion: Easily perform any currency conversion.
- Definitions: Use Google to get glossary definitions gathered
from various online sources.
- File Types: Search for non-HTML file formats including PDF documents
and others.
- Froogle: To find a product for sale online, use Froogle - Google's
product search service.
- I'm Feeling Lucky: Bypass our results and go to the first web
page returned for your query.
- Images: See relevant images in your regular web search results.
- News Headlines: Enhances your search results with the latest
related news stories.
- Phonebook: Look up U.S. street address and phone number information.
- Q&A - New: Use Google to get quick answers to straightforward
questions.
- Search By Number: Use Google to access package tracking information,
US patents, and a variety of online databases.
- Similar Pages: Display pages that are related to a particular
result.
- Site Search: Restrict your search to a specific site.
- Spell Checker: Offers alternative spelling for queries.
- Stock Quotes: Use Google to get stock and mutual fund information.
- Street Maps: Use Google to find U.S. street maps.
- Travel Information: Check the status of an airline flight in
the U.S. or view airport delays and weather conditions.
- Weather - New: Check the current weather conditions and forecast
for any location in the U.S.
- Web Page Translation: Provides English speakers access to a
variety of non-English web pages.
- Who Links To You?: Find pages that point to a specific URL.
http://www.google.com/help/features.html
Google Writely
Writely is a web-based word processor currently in beta, and soon
to be integrated into Google's suite of web applications (following
a 2006 acquisition). It can be used as a collaborative text editing
suite, and features access controls. Writely's user interface is
a WYSIWYG word processor that appears within a web browser. Menus,
keyboard shortcuts, and dialogue boxes show up in a way similar
to what you would expect on a GUI-driven word processor, such as
Microsoft Word.
Writely is, simply put, a word processor embedded into a Web browser.
It's still in a nascent beta form and is no longer freely distributed.
http://www.writely.com/
Google Zeitgeist
Google uses the information it gathers by tracking search results
to compile a list of the most frequent search queries. Google then
summarizes weekly, monthly, and yearly statistics to the public
through a service called Zeitgeist. Google claims, though, that
the data used to compile the reports is completely anonymous.
http://www.google.com/press/intl-zeitgeist.html
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