All Google Sites
List of sites of Google listed in categories
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.
Many acquisitions have been integrated into the Google site and its services. The sites are redirected to a subdomain of Google. Only the acquisition of which the domain is still active are listed here.
This list is completed by the List of Google Tools.
Graphics and video
- Episodic. Online videos site bought en March 2010.
- On2. The creator of the VP8 codec.
- Omnisio. Adding comment to videos.
- Panoramio. Geolocation-oriented photo sharing site. Works with Earth and Maps.
- Picnik. Online photo editing.
- 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.
Web design and development
- 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. - Html5rocks.
Dedicated to HTML 5, provides tutorials, demonstrations and tests for browsers. - Instantiation. Java development for the Web.
Social networks and hosting
- All For Good. Find and share volunteer activities. Browse the site for activities near your location.
- Angstro. Tools for social networks (August 2010).
- 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. - FreeBase.
A graph of persons, places and things built by a free community. - Genius Labs. Distributed applications technologies.
- Jaiku. A twitter-like.
- Jambool. Virtual bank with an API to manage virtual currency exchanges.
- 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. - MetaWeb.
Offers to webmasters to enrich their sites with encyclopedical data, by aggregating entities or within a search engine. - 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. - SocialDeck.
Social games for mobiles (August 2010).
- Textcube. Korean blogging platform, similar to Wordpress.
Mobiles
- Admob. Acquired for US$ 750 millions, it is a mobile advertising network.
- Android. Site of the mobile operating system.
- Labpixies. Editor of widgets and games for mobiles.
- Plinkart. By buying Plink in April 2010, Google acquired the PlinkArt software that searches and displays information on the images displayed on a mobile screen.
Advertising and e-commerce
- Double Click. Advertising was bought in 2007 for $ 3 billion.
- Invite media. On-line buying platform.
- Teracent. Take control of the look and feel of online adverts.
Search engine
- Aardvark. Intelligent search engine. Ask a question...
- Like.com. Acquired in August 2010, produced a system of image recognition and visual search.
Other sites and online services
- BumpTop. A 3D desktop for Windows and Mac. It supports the multitouch and gesture interfaces.
See a démonstration vidéo.
- Dictionary. Online dictionary and translation service that displays related expressions and URL of sites for a definition. From non-english countries it acts as a translation service while it is set up as a definition tool in english browsers.
- DocVerse. Edition en groupe et en ligne de documents aux formats de Microsoft.
- Google Apps. (Article). Hosting for mashups.
- Google Code. Hosting for open source project, similar to Sourceforge.
- Google Base. Reference to any type of content by Google.
- Google News. Selection of news taken automatically from registered websites.
- ITA Software.
Travel information software, acquired by Google on July 1, 2010 for US $ 700 million. - Labpixies. Gadgets for the Web, for iGoogle mainly.
- Google sites. Hosting service. Replaces Page Creator.
- Slide. Virtual pets and widgets to represent itself usable on blogs or social networks.
- Store. Online shop. There is also a specialised search engine to it, Google Commerce Search.
Google's blogs
- Official Google Blog. Blog of the company.
- Analytics blog. Announcements about the statistics Web service.
- Adwords API. Information on the Adwords API.
- Base Blog. Information by the team of Google Base.
- Blogger Buzz. Dedicated to Blogger.
- Chromium Blog. Dedicated to the Chrome browser and its development.
- Code Blog. Sharing information on the code of applications from Google.
- Docs. For the online word processor.
- Enterprise. About Google Apps and enterprise in relation with Google.
- Inside AdSense. Information about the Adsense program.
- Inside AdWords. Information on the Adwords program.
- Maps API Blog. For the Maps API.
- Reader Blog. News, tips and techniques about Reader.
- Research Blog. Scientific research and Google.
- Google Talkabout. Voice and Google Talk.
- Webmaster Central Blog. Official news on the search engine.
See also
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