All Google Sites

List of sites and services of Google listed in alphabetical order

All Google services are free, only few have a more professional version requiring fee. The list illustrates that, through the services and tools offered, a strong trend is emerging, that is replacing the operating system and desktop software for browser running Web applications offline. One area in which Google is becoming the main actor.

The sites are hosted on domains or subdomains of Google: It is considered a sub-domain is a site where it has an activity different from the main site. Such as Knol, Gmail, Earth, and more.
This list is completed by the List of Google Tools.

Click on images to access the sites.

Blogger

Platform of blog hosting. It allows you to avoid paid hosting site.
A domain name may be associated with a blog. The site is blogger.com but the blogs are hosted on subdomains of blogspot.com.

Earth

Download a software to be linked to a geographic database made of photos and 3D images built with Sketchup.
The product has been bought by Google in 2004 and made free.

Experiments

To end the quarrels of authors of browsers each boasting a gear its product, Google created in 2009 a site where you can run JavaScript across browsers to compare their speed.

Gmail

Hosting of email addresses set up in 2004 and opened to the public in 2006.
It offers many features such as chat, filtering, off-line.

Knol

Collaborative online encyclopedia competitor to Wikipedia with different operating rules. The articles are written by authors (who can open them to contributions), and they can write articles on the same subject.
It was open to the public in July 2008.

Maps

Worldwide mapping service on which you move with the mouse.
Webmasters can integrate a Web service through the API to associate an address to its geographical position on a map.

Moderator

Established in 2008, Moderator is a question and answer service where users vote for the questions to bring them forward and have more chance to get an answer.
It is used by Google to communicate with webmasters.

Orkut

Social network competitor to Friendster or MySpace. Half of users comes from Brazil and it is now hosted in this country. The goal is to create a community through invitations.
The name is that of an employee of Google who developed the software in 2004.

Reader

RSS aggregator created in 2005. Users have a journal online (or offline), composed of feeds from various sites.
To add feeds they are assisted by a specialized search engine.

Tipjar

On the model of Answers or Digg, a site where you can offer tips to save money.
Tips are ranked by the votes of surfers.

Web Elements

This site offers elements provided by Google to be added to your own site: Calendar, Conversation, Custom Search, Maps, News, Presentations, Speadsheet, Youtube News.
Example: How to add a map to your site.

Youtube

Sharing video website that uses Flash for display videos on any website. Bought by Google in 2006, its expansion is still continuing while the service develops.
Many sites have tried to imitate it with little success except Dailymotion.

Other sites and online services

Google blogs

See also

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