Google and Its Products
3.6. Statistics
Analytics : Traffic statistics generator for defined websites, with strong AdWords integration. Webmasters can optimize their ad campaigns,
based on the statistics that are given. Analytics is based on the Urchin software and the new version released in May 2007 integrates improvements based
on Measure Map.Gapminder : Data trend viewing platform to make nation’s statistics accessible on the internet in an animated, interactive graph form.
Trends : Graph plotting application for Web Search statistics, showing 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.Zeitgeist : Collection
of lists of the most frequent search queries. There are weekly, monthly and yearly lists, as well as topic and country specific lists.
4. 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.
5. 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.Deskbar : Bar on your desktop with a minibrowser build 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 9.95, had a .NET plugin for it.
Free Search : Free code to embed either web search or site search into another website. Discontinued in favour of Google Co-op's Custom Search Engine.
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.
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.
Spreadsheets : Spreadsheet management application, before it was integrated with Writely to form Google Docs & Spreadsheets. It was announced on 6 June 2006.
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.
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.
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