05 July, 2010

Google All The Way : List of All Google Websites

Google, we can't imagine our day without this word. Google is present in various online service businesses and delivering an unprecedented value to the users.
Here is list of all the Google websites:
Online services:
  • Google Books: Search for books, libraries and publishers.
  • Google Base: Renamed as Google Merchant. It was used to upload products.
  • BumpTop: 3D desktop service. It was bought by Google in May 2010. It supports gesture interface and multitouch. You can view a demo video here.
  • Google Code: Hosting for code/scripts by google. In a way its similar to SourceForge.net. The code is generally open source.
  • Google Docs: Online office suite by Google.
  • Google Dictionary: Online dictionary and translation service.
  • Google Earth: Provides satellite images of geographical locations. User has to download a software with the same name which connects him to a database of photos and 3D images.
  • Episodic: Video broadcasting service bought by Google in March 2010.
  • Google Reader: RSS feed aggregator
  • Google Sites: Site Creator which replaced Google Pages
  • Google Squared: Google search engine that presents results in squared or tabular form. e.g. if you will search for an animal it will show its class, family, genus and species in squared blocks.
  • Google Store: Google's own store; you can get accessories like ball pens and shirts marked with the Google logo and e-goods like YouTube videos.
  • Google Video: Google's video search engine.
  • YouTube: Video sharing website, originally created by former PayPal employees it was bought by Google in November 2006.
Google's blogs
Blogging and Social Networking
  • Blogger: Free blogging platform originally created by Pyra Labs and bought by Google in 2003. Blogs are hosted with .blogspot.com subdomain name. Users can use their Google accounts for logging in the Blogging accounts.
  • Orkut: Started in 2004 by a Google employee of the same name. Currently more than 51% of the traffic comes from Brazil followed by India (21%). In August Google announced that Orkut would be operated from Brazil.
  • Knol: Wikipedia's competitor. It was opened for the public in July 2008.
Web design and development
  • Experiments: Started by Google in 2009 to test Javascript compatibility of various browsers to test their speed.
  • HTML5Rocks: Tutorials, documentation and inforation about HTML5.

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