A selection of the best google tools and services

Google used to only answer simple questions like "who's the prime minister of Canada?" or "what's the population of China?". Thanks to the Knowledge Graph project, a RDF schema algorithm, Google can answer even more complicated questions like "who played Batman?", "what's the latest album of Celine Dion?", "what are the main attractions in Spain?". The "Hummingbird" update to the Google search engine was announced in September 2013. The update was introduced over the month prior to the announcement and allows users ask the search engine a question in natural language rather than entering keywords into the search box

Google's corporate philosophy includes principles such as "you can make money without doing evil," "you can be serious without a suit," and "work should be challenging and the challenge should be fun." New employees are called "Nooglers," and are given a propeller beanie cap to wear on their first Friday.

GOOGLE TOOLS REVISITED

Google Translate now supports 80 languages and that's impressive !

Google Music Timeline (new)

Global Forest Watch (new)

Google Goggles is a mobile application available on Android and iOS used for image recognition and non-text-based search. In addition to scanning QR codes, the app can recognize historic landmarks, import business cards, and solve Sudoku puzzles.

Google Exacycle for Visiting Faculty, a new academic research awards program donating one billion core-hours of computational capacity to researchers. Google Scholar

Google Patent Search – search engine to search through millions of patents, each result with its own page, including drawings, claims and citations.

Google Finance – searchable US business news, opinion, and financial data. Features include company-specific pages, blog search, interactive charts, executives information, discussion groups and a portfolio.

Google Grants – in-kind donation program awarding free AdWords advertising to select charitable organizations.

Wildfire by Google - Social media marketing software.

Google Bookmarks – free online bookmark storage service, available to Google Account holders^[9] launched on October 10, 2005

Orkut – Social networking service, where users can list their personal and professional information, create relationships amongst friends and join communities of mutual interest. In November 2006, Google opened Orkut registration to everyone, instead of being invitation only.

Panoramio – Photos of the world

Sightsmap - A heatmap which reflects the popularity of place.

Google Fonts – interactive directory of free hosted web font-API's.

Google App Engine – tool that allows developers to write and run web applications.

Google Code – Google's site for developers interested in Google-related development. The site contains Open Source code and lists of their API services. Also provides project hosting for any free and open source software.

OpenSocial – set of common APIs for building social applications on many websites.

Google Web Toolkit – open source Java software development framework that allows web developers to create Ajax applications in Java.

Webmaster Tools (was Google Sitemaps): Sitemap submission and analysis for the Sitemaps protocol. Renamed from Google Sitemaps to cover broader features, including query statistics and robots.txt analysis.

Google Developers – a documentation site dealing with the platforms provided by Google.

Google Map Maker – a map editor.

Google Maps Coordinate – an enterprise-only "workforce management tool".^[15] introduced on June 21, 2012.

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.

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.

Google Sky – Internet tool to view stars and galaxies, can be used via browser version of "Google Sky".

Google Transit – Public transport trip planning through the Google Maps interface, now fully integrated with maps. Released on December 7, 2005.

Zygote Body (previously Google Body) – 3D anatomical model of human body.

Google Correlate – Search patterns relating to real world trends.

Freebase is an open, Creative Commons Attribution licensed collection of structured data, and a Freebase platform for accessing and manipulating that data via the Freebase API.

Google Fusion Tables – Tool for gathering and visualizing arbitrary data.

Google Public Data Explorer - Provides public data and forecasts from a range of international organizations and academic institutions including the World Bank, OECD, Eurostat and the University of Denver. These can be displayed as line graphs, bar graphs, cross sectional plots or on maps.

Trendalyzer – data trend viewing platform to make nations' statistics accessible on the Internet in an animated, interactive graph form. Acquired from the Gapminder Foundation in 2007.

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.

Zeitgeist – Collection of lists of the most frequent search queries. There used to be weekly, monthly and yearly lists, and topic and country specific lists. Closed 22 May 2007 and replaced by "Hot Trends, a dynamic feature in Google Trends". An annual Zeitgeist summary for the US and other countries is still produced.

Google Web Designer - WYSIWYG editor for making rich HTML5 pages and ads intended to run on multiple devices

Field Trip – Is a new application for discovering new nearby places and events.

Google Crisis Response – public project, which covers ongoing and past disasters, turmoils and other emergencies and alerts.

Google Ideas – a cross-sector, inter-disciplinary "think tank" or "think/do tank" based in New York City, dedicated to understanding global challenges and applying technological solutions.

Google Person Finder - an open source tool that helps people reconnect with others in the aftermath of a disaster.