Hardware products,Services,Previous products

Hardware products

• Google Search Appliance

Hardware device that can be hooked to corporate intranets for indexing/searching of company files.

• Google Mini

Reduced capacity and less expensive version of the Google Search Appliance.

• Nexus One

Smartphone that runs the Android open source mobile operating system

[edit]Services

• GOOG-411

Google's directory assistance service, which can be used free of charge from any telephone in the US and Canada.

• Google Public DNS

A publicly accessible DNS server run by Google.

[edit]Previous products

Applications that have been discontinued by Google, either because of integration with other Google products, or through lack of support.

• Answers

Question and answer service, allowing users to pay researchers to answer questions. Google announced the closing of service on November 28, 2006. All past discussions have been publicly archived.

• Browser Sync

Saved browser settings for backup and use on other installations of Mozilla Firefox.

• Co-op

Search can be defined to specified web sites or areas of a site. Free to set up Google Co-op renamed Google Custom Search.

• Deskbar

Bar on your desktop with a minibrowser built into it. It was discontinued when a very similar feature was added to Google desktop. Some people preferred Google deskbar for its ability to add custom searching and the mini-browser so you wouldn't have to open an actual window. The last release, version 5.95, had a .NET plugin.

• Free Search

Free code to embed either web search or site search into another website. Discontinued in favour of Google Co-op Custom Search Engine.

• Hello

Allowed users to send images across the Internet and publish them to blogs.

• Joga Bonito

Soccer community site, similar to services such as MySpace, in that each member had a profile, and could join groups based on shared interests. The service allowed a user to meet other fans, create games and clubs, access athletes from Nike, and watch and upload video clips and photos.

• Lively (Windows XP/Vista)

3D animated chat program launched on July 9, 2008 and closed December 31, 2008.^[6]

• Local

Local listings service, before it was integrated with mapping. The merged service was then called Google Local, which was further renamed to Google Maps due to popular demand.

• Google MK-14

A 4U rack mounted server for Google Radio Automation system. Google Inc. has sold its Google Radio Automation business to WideOrbit Inc.

• Music Trends

Music ranking of the songs played with iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player and Yahoo Music. Trends were generated by Google Talk's "share your music status" feature.

• Page Creator

Webpage-publishing program, which can be used to create pages and to host them on Google's servers. However, to focus on another Google Webpage-publishing service called Google Sites, the new sign-up are not longer accepted since 2008. And all existing content on Page Creator has been transferred to Google Sites in 2009.

• Personalized Search

Search results personalization, now fully merged with Google Accounts and Web History.

• Public Service Search

Non-commercial organization service, which included free SiteSearch, traffic reports and unlimited search queries. Discontinued in February 2007 and re-directed to Google Co-op.

• Related Links

Script that places units for related Web content, including pages, searches and videos, on the owner's Website, through embedded code. Discontinued in July 2007.

• SearchMash

SearchMash.com Search engine that means to "test innovative user interfaces." Among its features are the ability to display image results on the same page as web results, feedback about features, and continuous scrolling results. Aside from its privacy policy and terms of service, there is no Google branding on the site. Discontinued November 2008.

• Shared Stuff

Web page sharing system, incorporating a Share bookmarklet to share pages, as well as a page for viewing the most popular shared items. Pages can also be shared through third party applications, such as del.icio.us or Facebook. It was discontinued in March 30, 2009.

• Spreadsheets

Spreadsheet management application, before it was integrated with Writely to form Google Docs & Spreadsheets. It was announced on 6 June 2006.

• Video Player (Mac OS X/Windows 2000/XP)

Standalone desktop application that allowed you to view videos from Google Video.

• Voice Search

Automated voice system for searching the Web using the telephone. Now called Google Voice Local Search, it is currently integrated on the Google Mobile web site.

• Web Accelerator (Windows 2000 SP3+/XP/Vista)

Uses various caching technologies to increase load speed of web pages. (Accelerator is no longer available for download.)

• Writely

Web-based word processor created by software company Upstartle, who were acquired by Google on March 9, 2006. On October 10, 2006, Writely was merged into Google Docs & Spreadsheets.

• Google X

Re-designed Google search homepage, using a Mac OS style interface. It appeared in Google Labs, but was removed the following day for undisclosed reasons.

• Dodgeball

Social networking site built specifically for use on mobile phones. Users text their location to the service, which then notifies them of crushes, friends, friends' friends and interesting venues nearby. (Discontinued January 2009). Google Latitude now provides most of Dodgeball's functionality integrated into the Google Maps service.

• Catalogs

Search engine for over 6,600 print catalogs, which are acquired through Optical character recognition. (Discontinued January 2009)

• Google Notebook

View and add notes to your Google Notebook. (Discontinued January 2009)