From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article or section contains information about computer software currently in development. The content may change as the software development progresses.

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. This is a way for Google to gain feedback on the products before releasing the final versions. Google's services do not always appear on the Labs page; some are beta tested by invitation-only, such as Gmail and Google Calendar.

Contents 1 Current products 2 Logo 3 See also 4 External link

Google Accessible Search 

Google Accessible Search is a search engine, aimed at the blind and visually impaired. It prioritises usable and accessible web sites in the search results, so the user incurs minimal distractions when browsing.

Blogger Web Comments 

Blogger Web Comments is a Mozilla Firefox browser extension, that displays related comments from Blogger weblogs, and gives access to add a new post to Blogger.

Google Browser Sync 

Google Browser Sync is a Firefox extension. It synchronizes bookmarks, cookies and browser settings across multiple computers, controlled via a Google Account.

Google Code Search 

Google Code Search is a search engine for programming code found on the Internet.

Google Dashboard Widgets for Mac 

Google Macintosh Dashboard Widgets are mini-applications. Widgets for Blogger, Gmail and Search History are available.

Froogle Mobile 

Froogle Mobile is a version of Google's Froogle price engine, optimized for mobile devices. It allows users to search hundreds of stores for the product they want.

Google Mars 

Google Mars is a web application that displays satellite and infrared imagery from Mars.

Google Music Trends 

Google Music Trends Google Music Trends is an opt-in service that displays the music most listened to by users of Google Talk, in the form of the 'Week's top songs'. Trends can also be filtered by Genre and Countries.

Google Notebook 

Google Notebook is a web application that allows users to create online notes, in order to conduct research.

Google Page Creator 

Google Page Creator is a WYSIWYG editor that allows users with a Google Account to create simple web pages. Features include 100MB of storage, premade page design templates.

Picasa for Linux 

Picasa for Linux is a photo organization and editing application, that runs the similar Windows version of Picasa. To make it available on Linux, Google used Wine, an open-source implementation of the Windows API.

Google Reader 

Google Reader is a web-based news aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds. It allows the user to search, import and subscribe to feeds. The service also embeds audio enclosures in the page. Major revisions to Google Reader were made in October 2006.

Google Related Links 

Google Related Links are websites, searches, news and videos, placed in a single unit on a webpage. The unit's size, content type and colours are customizable.

Google Ride Finder 

Google Ride Finder is a service that allows users to find a taxi, limousine or shuttle using real time position of vehicles in 14 US cities. Ride Finder uses the Google Maps interface and cooperates with any car service that wishes to participate.

Google Send to Phone 

Google Send to Phone is a Firefox extension that allows users to send text messages including web content to their mobile phone. This is currently only available in the US.

Google Sets 

Google Sets attempts to make a list of items when the user enters a few examples. For example, entering "Green, Purple, Red" produces the list "Green, Purple, Red, Blue, Black, White, Yellow, Orange, Brown.

Google Suggest 

Google Suggest uses auto-complete while typing to give popular searches. It is also available in Japanese.

Google Transit 

Google Transit provides public transport trip planning through the Google Maps interface. Google Transit was released on December 7, 2005, and is currently available in six cities.

Google Trends 

Google Trends is a search analysis web application, that lets users seek information about previous searches conducted on Google Web Search. Several keywords can be entered, to compare different queries and their popularity. Google Trends is also available in Chinese.

Google Web Accelerator 

Google Web Accelerator is a download that uses various strategies to increase the speed of browsing.

In 2006, all Google Labs products had a consistent logo, using the flask, and a gray title, as opposed to other color-coded Google products, such as Google News and Google Maps. This warns users that the product may contain bugs, and could be unfit for general use.

• List of Google products
• Windows Live Ideas
• Yahoo! Next

• Google Labs website