Some unfamiliar Google products
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Google provides a lot of services and products online,which keeps on increasing according to current trend and needs. Google also had discontinued from various products and tools, due to lack of support, or due to lack of popularity in the market.
But there remains some products that are worthy, though they remain unfamiliar or less popular among people. Here, I list a few of them:
1.AngularJS:
A JavaScript framework, used to reduce the amount of JavaScript needed to make web applications.
2.Dart:
A programming language developed by google and introduced as an opensource. It was mainly developed to replace JavaScript, and to have a much flexible language to get implemented in large scale projects, and also with an intention that it should become an universal client side script.
3.Map Maker:
Lets you update Google Maps & Google Earth data of over 200 countries with relevant information. You can add new places, edit details of existing places or review information submitted by other users. The changes made by you will be reviewed by moderators — once approved, they will get added and accessible to anyone in the world.
4.Google Currents:
It is a mobile app available for iOS and Android devices, to get updated with various news channels and magazines.
5.Building Maker:
Web based building and editing tool to create 3D buildings, much useful for engineers and house designers. Its important feature is that, the created one can be imported and get integrated to Google Earth.
6.Moderator:
It is an open forum by Google where anyone can initiate a discussion about anything. Once you submit a question or start a topic, other users vote if the question or idea is good or not. Visitors can also post comments or questions in the discussion, which can also be voted upon, marked as useful or flagged as inappropriate. You can share an entire discussion or a specific comment via email, Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus to elicit more responses.
7.Go:
a compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language developed by Google. Its syntax is similar to that of C. It supports Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,Plan 9, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
8.Schemer:
Its a Google service that allows you to make a list of activities to do around you (according to your interests). You can add friends (called accomplices) to your schemer account and it will automatically find and recommend common activities that you and your friends can do. You can also browse schemes recommended by people for various places and add those to your list.
9.SketchUp:
Modeling application to sketch simple 3D structures for integrating into Google Earth. It Supports Mac OS X, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.
10.Page Speed:
Used to analyse and have an online insight on our website’s speed, and to get suggestions to improve our page speed. It also provides a score for better analysis.
11.Visigami:
Image search application screen saver that searches files from Google Images, Picasa and Flickr. It Supports Mac OS X Leopard.
12.Google Mars:
Imagery of Mars using the Google Maps interface. Elevation, visible imagery and infrared imagery can be shown. It was released on March 13, 2006, the anniversary of the birth of astronomer Percival Lowell.
13.Google Moon:
NASA imagery of the moon through the Google Maps interface. It was launched on July 20, 2005, in honor of the first manned Moon landing on July 20, 1969.
14.Google Sky:
Internet tool to view stars and galaxies, can be used via browser version of “Google Sky”.
15.Zygote Body:
It is used to render manipulable 3D anatomical models of the human body. Several layers from muscle tissues down to blood vessels could be made transparent to allow better study of individual body parts.
16.Scholar:
This is a customized search for articles, theses, books, court opinions and other documents. It can help you with locating the entire document on the web if available, and articles are ranked according to quality of content, the author and how often has it been used as a reference in other documents. It holds almost all IEEE, Elsevier, Springer papers, useful for students under research and projects.
17.Google Insights for Search:
Google Insights for Search is a service by Google similar to Google Trends, providing insights into the search terms people have been entering into the Google search engine.
18.Google Refine:
Tool for data cleansing and processing.
19.Trendalyzer:
Data trend viewing platform to make nation’s statistics accessible on the internet in an animated, interactive graph form.
20.Google 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. Has “Google Trends for Websites” sub-section which shows popularity of websites over time.
21.Zeitgeist:
Collection of lists of the most frequent search queries. Gives weekly, monthly and yearly lists, and topic and country specific lists.
22.Google Squared:
Takes a category and creates a starter ‘square‘ of information, automatically fetching and organizing facts from across the web.
23.Google Tasks :
Keep track of what you need to do. Your task list stays up to date no matter how you access it. It’s a simple list that’s with you everywhere you go.
24.Jaiku:
Create your own microblog and connect with your friends.
25.reCAPTCHA :
A captcha system that uses successful decoding to helps digitize books for online use.
26.Textcube :
Korean blogging platform.
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