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Google's Products Milestones
A quick look on google products and their feature's milestones.
What's next from Google? It's hard to say. "We
don't talk much about what lies ahead, because we believe one of
our chief competitive advantages is surprise."--By Google.
And then there's innovation, and an almost fanatical devotion to
our users. These are the things that fuel them and their dreams.
Take a peek at some of the ideas their engineers are currently kicking
around by visiting them at play in Google Labs. Have fun, but be
sure to wear your safety goggles.
Google
takes the same algorithms that power Google.com and packages them
in a ready-to-run system for in-house use. Although the initial
cost is higher than Thunderstone, maintenance costs are included
in the price. The solution delivers highly relevant results and
requires next to no IT intervention to set up and keep running.
Google plays on its technical reputation even though, if you look
closely, it isn't always deserved. Many Google products haven't
been revved since they were introduced. And while some Google products
are excellent, some aren't, too.
Google likes to play the Black Box game. What are they DOING in
all those buildings with all those PhDs? I'm sure they are doing
a lot that will change the world, but just as much that will never
even be seen by the world. For the moment, though, it doesn't matter
because Google can play the spoiler. They offered a gigabyte of
e-mail storage, for example, at a time when they had perhaps one
percent the number of e-mail users as a Hotmail or Yahoo. And by
limiting the Gmail beta, they avoided the suffering of both those
other companies when they, too, had to increase their storage allocations,
but for tens of millions of real users.
Now Google will do something similar for chat and VoIP with Gtalk,
pushing the others toward an interoperability that undermines the
hold each company thinks it has on its users.
Google likes being a mystery, too. They are famously paranoid,
sure, but they'd be a lot less paranoid if it didn't make them famous.
Google, like Microsoft, is a brand built at least partially on envy,
which you know is a sin. But at Google, at least, they seem to get
a lot of pleasure from that sin.
So are they really buying-up all the dark fiber in an effort
to build their own Internet? Are they really going to build a data
center in Oregon that uses so much power it needs to be next to
a hydroelectric dam? Who knows? Who cares? Google needs
ever more bandwidth, sure, so dark fiber makes sense to buy when
it is probably as cheap as it is ever going to get. And those 30
acres on the Columbia River don't ever have to become anything since
they've already paid for themselves by driving Microsoft and the
others a little crazy with wondering.
Service |
Summary |
Launch Year |
AdSense |
AdSense
is a site monetization program run by Google. Website owners
can enroll in this program to enable text, image and, more
recently, video advertisements on their sites. These ads are
administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click
or per-thousand-ads-displayed basis. |
2003 |
Alerts |
Google Alerts are emails automatically sent by Google when there are new Google results for a user's chosen search terms. The service offer four types of alerts: News, Web, News & Web, and Groups. Alerts can be configured to be mailed daily or as soon as news is discovered. |
NA |
Analytics |
Google Analytics is a free
service that generates detailed statistics about traffic to
a website. The service is mainly aimed at webmasters who can
optimize their ad campaigns through the analysis of where
visitors came from, how long they stayed on the website, and
their geographical locations. The service is based on the
Urchin software that Google acquired when it acquired Urchin
Software Corporation. |
November 18 2005 |
Answers |
Google Answers allows users to pay approved researchers to answer questions for them. Customers ask questions, offer a price for an answer, and researchers answer them. Past questions can be browsed or searched for free. |
NA |
Base |
Google Base is a free service, currently in beta, that enables content owners to submit content, have it hosted and make it easily searchable via google. Information within the database is described using labels and attributes. |
November 2005 |
Blog Search |
Google Blog Search is a search engine for blogs. Results include all blogs, not just those published through Blogger. Users can currently search in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Brazilian Portuguese. |
September 14 2005 |
Bookmarks |
Google Bookmarks is a free online bookmark storage service available to Google Account holders which organizes bookmarks with tags. Bookmarks labelled homepage will be displayed on the users Personalized Homepage. |
NA |
Book Search
Formerly Google Print |
Google Book Search is a search engine for the full text of books that Google scans and stores in its digital database. Depending on the arrangement agreed with the publishers, users may view: a short extract with their search terms highlighted, sample pages of the book, a limited number of pages, or the entire text. Links to buy the book online are provided. The legality of Google's scanning texts without the author's consent is still an open question.
|
December 2005 |
Blogger |
Blogger is a weblog publishing
tool. Google acquired Pyra Labs, and with it Blogger services,
in 2003. Blogger allows users to create a highly-customisable
weblog with features such as photo publishing, comments, group
blogs, blogger profiles and mobile-based posting with little
technical knowledge. Blogger also provides free weblog hosting. |
2003 |
Browser Sync |
Google Browser Sync for
Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your
browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent
cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers.
It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across
different machines and browser sessions. |
NA |
Calendar |
Google Calendar is a free
online calendar. It is similar to those offered by Yahoo!
and MSN. Google Calendar can export calendar files in iCal
and XML formats. It can import calendar files from Microsoft
Office Outlook, Yahoo! Calendar and iCal. Features include:
simple google-style interface, calendar sharing, Gmail integration,
and "Quick Add". |
April 13 2006 |
Catalogs |
Google Catalogs is a search
engine for over 6,600 print catalogs (acquired through Optical
character recognition). |
December 2001 |
Code |
Google Code is Google's site for developers interested in Google-related development. The site contains Open Source code and lists of their API services. |
NA |
Click-to-Call |
Click-to-Call is a service which allows users to call advertisers for free at Google's expense from search results pages. |
NA |
Compute |
Google Compute is a feature of the Google Toolbar that enables your computer to help solve challenging scientific problems when it would otherwise be idle. |
2002 |
Co-Op |
Google Co-op allows experts to create a list of sites about a particular topic and users to subscribe to these lists. Google launched the service on 10 May 2006. When users subscribe to links and labels provided by a Google Co-op contributor this information is incorporated into that user's web search results when they search for a related topic. |
10 May 2006 |
Desktop |
Google Desktop a desktop search application that runs locally on a Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP3+ PC. The desktop search program allows a user to search their e-mail, computer files, music, photos, chat, and web history. It is allows the installation of Google Gadgets, which are similar to Mac OS X's widgets. |
August 2005 |
Directory |
Google Directory is a collection
of links arranged into hierarchical subcategories. It was
launched in April 2000. The links and their categorization
are from the Open Directory Project (ODP), but are sorted
by PageRank. The directory can be searched or browsed. |
April 2000 |
dodgeball.com |
Dodgeball.com is a social networking site built specifically for use on mobile phones. Google purchased the website in 2005. Users text their location to the service, which then notifies them of crushes, friends, friends' friends and interesting venues nearby. |
Google purchased the website in 2005 |
Earth |
Google Earth is a free, downloadable virtual globe application. It maps the entire earth by pasting images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS over a 3D globe. |
June 2005 |
Finance |
Google Finance features searchable US business news, opinion, and financial data. Features include: company-specific pages, blog search, interactive charts (with prices and news stories), information about executives, discussion groups and a portfolio. |
March 21 2006 |
Froogle |
Froogle is a price engine
that searches online stores, including auctions, for products.
It is also offered in Wireless Markup Language (WML) form. |
December 2002 in test mode |
Gmail |
Gmail is a free webmail
and POP e-mail service provided by Google, known for its abundant
storage and advanced interface (based on Ajax technology).
It is known as Google Mail in the United Kingdom and Germany.
Its competitors include AIM Mail, MSN Hotmail / Windows Live
Mail (beta), and Yahoo! Mail. Gmail Notifier runs in the Windows
system tray and informs users when they have new mail. |
April 1,2004 |
Groups |
Google Groups (formerly
an independent site known as Deja News) is a searchable Usenet
archive. Google is currently testing a new version of its
Groups service, which archives mailing lists hosted by Google
in addition to Usenet posts, using the same interface as Gmail.
As well as searching, users can join a group, make a group,
publish posts, and track their favorite topics. |
December 2004 |
Hello |
Hello is a free application that allows users to send images across the Internet and publish them to their blogs. |
NA |
Images |
Google Images is a search engine for images. It was launched in 2003. Results are 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. When clicking on a thumbnail, the image is displayed in a frame at the top of the page and the URL of the website on which that image was found is displayed in a frame below it. |
2003 |
Joga.com |
Joga.com is an Internet
community for those interested in soccer. It is in the mold
of services such as MySpace, in that each member has their
own page, and can join groups based on shared interests. The
service allows a user to meet other fans, create games and
clubs, access athletes from Nike, and watch and upload video
clips and photos. Joga.com is a joint venture of Nike Football
and Google. |
NA |
Labs |
Google Labs consists of all of Google's experimental technologies. Google Labs is akin to a directory page that links to all Google technologies under development or in beta that have not yet been made widely available. From the Google Labs home page, a user can access Google Suggest, Google Desktop Search, and other web technologies. |
2006 |
Language Tools
Including Google Translate |
Google Language Tools allows users to translate text or web pages from one language to another. It also allows searching in web pages located in a specific country or written in a specific language. It currently supports: English to German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Korean, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified) and vice versa, and French to German and vice versa. |
NA |
Maps
Formerly Local |
Google Maps provides maps, satellite imagery, driving directions and local search for the USA, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia and New Zealand. It is also available as a mobile service. |
February 8 2005 |
Mars |
Google Mars provides imagery
of Mars through the Google Maps interface. Elevation, visible
imagery and infrared imagery can be shown. The anniversary
of the birth of astronomer Percival Lowell. |
March 13 2006 |
Measure Map |
Measure Map provides statistics for blog writers. |
NA |
Mobile |
Google Mobile allows users
to search using Google from wireless devices such as mobile
phones and PDAs. |
NA |
Moon |
Google Moon provides NASA
imagery of the moon through the Google Maps interface. In
honor of the first manned Moon landing on July 20 1969. As
a joke, the closest zoom level features an image of cheese
instead of the moon surface. Six moon landings are marked
on the map. |
July 20 2005 |
News |
Google News is an 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. |
launched in April 2002 and left beta testing on January 26 2006 |
Notebook |
Google Notebook is a free service that provides a simple way to save and organize information when conducting research online. 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. |
May 15 2006 |
Oorkut |
Orkut is a social networking
service, where users can list their personal and professional
information, create relationships amongst friends and join
communities of mutual interest. New Orkut accounts are by
invite only from an existing member. Affinity Engines, a company
based in Palo Alto, has filed a lawsuit alleging that their
co-founder Orkut Büyükkökten illegally re-used
Affinity Engines software code when he moved to Google. |
NA |
Pack |
Google Pack allows users to download the following programs in a single package: Google Earth, Google Desktop, Picasa, Google Toolbar, Google Talk, Google Video Player, Google Pack Screensaver, Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar, Ad-Aware SE Personal, Norton Antivirus Special Edition 2005 (with 6 month trial), Adobe Reader 7, RealPlayer and GalleryPlayer. |
NA |
Page Creator |
Google Page Creator is a
beta release of a web-publishing program which creates pages
and hosts them on Google's servers. The URL given to members
is http://username.googlepages.com/ |
NA |
Personalized Home |
Google Personlized Home is a customizable, modular page which a user can access through their Google Account. It was launched in May 2005. The user selects the content of the page from RSS feeds as well as specialized modules offering services such as: language translation, recipe databases, new emails, wikipedia search and weather forecasts. |
May 2005 |
Personalized Search |
Google Personalized Search
prioritizes googles search results based on previous search
habits. It makes use of Google's Search History feature. |
NA |
Picasa |
Picasa is a free, downloadable photo-organisation application. It allows users to organise photos into albums and collections, view in various orders, apply simple effects, create slidshows, print and order physical prints. |
NA |
Picasa Web Albums |
Picasa Web Albums is Picasa’s newest feature, designed to help users post and share their photos quickly and easily on the web. |
NA |
Print |
|
December 2004 |
Reader |
Google Reader is a web-based
feed reader, or "news aggregator", capable of reading
Atom and RSS feeds. It allows the user to subscribe to feeds
by URL, import/export subscription lists using OPML, and search
for new feeds. The service also embeds audio enclosures in
the page. |
October 7 2005 |
Ride Finder |
Google Ride Finder is a
service that allows users to find a taxi, limousine or shuttle
using real time position of vehicles in 14 US cities. Ride
Finder uses the Google Maps interface and cooperation with
any car service that wishes to participate. |
NA |
Scholar |
Google Scholar a 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, except those published by Elsevier, the world's largest
scientific publisher. Google Scholar is comparable in function
to Elsevier's Scopus and Thomson ISI's subscription-based
Web of Science service, though more inclusive in sources and
languages. |
November 2004 |
Search History
Part of Personalized Search |
Google Personalized Search History keeps a record of all searches and clicked results while a user is logged into a Google Account and allows this to be accessed and searched. This also tracks queries made to Google Images and Google News. |
NA |
Sets |
Google Sets attempts to make a list of items 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. It is currently part of Google Labs. |
NA |
Sitemaps |
Google Sitemaps allows Webmasters to generate a file that lists the URLs on the site for better indexing. |
released as a beta in June 2005 |
SketchUp |
Google SketchUp is a simple 3D sketching program with many of the tools a professional 3D program has. SketchUp models can be directly imported into Google Earth and can be skinned with various premade colours and textures. |
NA |
SMS |
Google SMS allows users
to send text message queries from mobile phones to get information
such as stock quotes, movie listings, and driving directions. |
NA |
Special Searches |
Google Special Searches
allows users to perform special searches such as U.S. Government
Search, Linux Search, BSD Search, Apple Macintosh Search,
and Microsoft Windows Search. |
NA |
Spreadsheets |
Google Spreadsheets allows the creation and editing of spreadsheets online, as well as real-time chat collaboration and editing. Users were granted access on a first-come, first-serve basis after requesting to signup. |
June 06, 2006 |
Store |
Google Store sells a range of physical google-branded products. These include clothes, toys, office equipment and lava lamps. |
NA |
Suggest |
Google Suggest uses auto-complete while typing to give popular searches. |
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Talk |
Google Talk is a windows
application for VoIP and instant messaging. It consists of
both a service and a client used to connect to the service.
It is integrated with Gmail. |
August 24, 2005 |
Toolbar |
Google Toolbar is an internet browser toolbar available for Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox (with slightly different features). The two versions together include: a Google search box (for different google sites, the current site, or other added sites), phising protection, feed subscription, spellcheck, autolink, autofill, translator, pagerank display, address bar browse by name and pop-up blocker. |
NA |
Transit |
Google Transit provides
public transport trip planning through the Google Maps interface.
Only for the Portland, Oregon area. |
December 7 2005 |
Trends |
Google Trends shows, as a graph, 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. |
10 May 2006 |
University Search |
Google University search allows users to search within a large number of educational institution domains. |
NA |
Video |
Google Videos allows users
to search, buy, watch and upload videos. Users can also see
stills and closed caption transcripts of some videos. |
January 25 2005 |
Web Accelerator |
Google Web Accelerator is a download that uses various strategies to increase the speed of browsing. |
NA |
Web API |
The Google Web API (or Google
Web Services) is Google's public interface for registered
developers. Using Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), a
programmer can write services for search and data mining that
rely on Google's results. Also, users can view cached pages
and make suggestions for better spelling. |
NA |
Web Search |
Google Search is an internet
search engine. It was the company's first creation, and remains
their most popular and famous: it receives 200 million requests
a day and is the largest search engine on the Internet. |
NA |
Web Toolkit |
Google Web Toolkit allows
users to create AJAX interfaces for their websites. Google
claimed it could be used to create similar interfaces to that
of Gmail and Google Calendar. |
15 May 2006 |
Writely |
Writely is an online word-processor. Google acquired Upstartle, the maker of Writely. It is still in beta and is not available to new users. |
March 9 2006 |
Zeitgeist |
Google Zeitgeist is a collection of lists of the most frequent search queries. There are weekly, monthly and yearly lists, as well as topic and country specific lists. |
NA |
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