Google Labs
Google Labs is a website demonstrating new Google projects "that aren't quite ready for prime time". It serves as a testing ground for new services being developed.
Tools currently available at Google Labs are:
- Personalized Home Page
- Google Extensions for Firefox
- Personalized search
- My Search History
- Google Web Accelerator
- Google Ride Finder
- Google Suggest in Japanese
- Google Maps: Maps and driving directions
- Google Suggest: The standard Google search with predictive input
- Google Scholar: Search of journal articles, abstracts and other scholarly works
- Site Flavored Google Search Box
- Froogle Wireless
- Google Compute: Help science by giving away your free processing cycles, currently supporting the Folding at home project.
- Google Sets: Finds more members of a set you provide
A number of tools that have previously been at Google Labs have become more widely available. These are:
- Google SMS: Search for and receive results on a mobile phone via SMS
- Google Desktop Search 2.0 (Beta): A program that searches through the text of files on a computer and on the net
- Google Groups 2
- Google Deskbar
- Web Alerts
- Search by Location
- Google Glossary
- Google News Alerts
- Google Toolbar 3
[edit]
See also
[edit]