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Google Analytics

Google Analytics, also known as Universal Analytics for its earlier version, is a Google service tracking website traffic and user behavior, based on Urchin Software, acquired in 2005.

Google Antigravity

Google Antigravity is Google's agent-first development platform, launched in November 2025 alongside Gemini 3, combining an AI code editor with a surface for supervising autonomous agents.

Google App Engine

Google App Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform for developing and hosting web applications at scale, offered as part of Google Cloud since 2008.

Google Assistant was a virtual assistant from Google, introduced in May 2016 as a conversational successor to Google Now, running on phones, speakers, and displays until Gemini replaced it starting in 2025.

Google Authenticator

Google Authenticator is a Google mobile app that generates one-time codes for a second sign-in step, working offline and syncing to a Google Account since 2023.

Google Axion

Google Axion is Google's first custom Arm-based data center CPU, announced in April 2024, with up to 72 Neoverse V2 cores powering Google Cloud's C4A virtual machines.

Google Bard launch error

The Google Bard launch error was a factual mistake in Bard's first public demo on 6 February 2023 that helped erase roughly $100 billion of Alphabet's market value.

Google Books

Google Books, launched as Google Print in October 2004, is Google's full-text search service for over 20 million scanned books from the Partner Program and Library Project, upheld as fair use in Authors Guild v. Google.

Google Brain

Google Brain was an artificial intelligence research team at Google, started in 2011 at X to explore deep learning, which produced TensorFlow and the Transformer architecture before merging with DeepMind in 2023.

Google Calendar

Google Calendar is a free web-based time-management and scheduling service from Google, launched in 2006 and estimated to serve more than 1.5 billion accounts as of 2025.

Google Cardboard

Google Cardboard: fold-out cardboard VR viewer launched at Google I/O 2014, using a smartphone and two lenses as a 3D headset; 5 million shipped by 2016, open-sourced in 2019, later discontinued.

Google China (谷歌中国)

Google China (谷歌中国) is Google's Beijing-founded mainland subsidiary, established April 2006. It ran censored Google.cn until the March 2010 withdrawal to google.com.hk; mainland blocking since 2014 leaves R&D, ad sales, and overseas-expansion support.

Google Chrome

Google Chrome, also known as the Chrome web browser, is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google. It is the world's most-used browser, with about 66% market share in 2025.

Google Classroom

Google Classroom is a free web-based learning management service developed by Google and launched in 2014, letting teachers manage classes, distribute and grade assignments, and communicate with students.

Google Cloud Composer

Google Cloud Composer, now Managed Service for Apache Airflow, is Google's fully managed Apache Airflow orchestration service; Python DAGs, beta May 2018, GA July 2018, $0.06 per DCU-hour.

Google Cloud Data Fusion

Google Cloud Data Fusion (Cloud Data Fusion) is Google Cloud's fully managed, code-free ETL/ELT and streaming data integration service, built on the open source CDAP platform from Cask Data, announced in beta April 2019 and generally available December 3, 2019, running pipelines on ephemeral Dataproc Spark clusters.

Google Cloud Dataflow

Google Cloud Dataflow is a fully managed, serverless batch and streaming data processing service built on Apache Beam, generally available since 2015, with autoscaling, exactly-once processing, FlexRS discounts, and Dataflow Prime DCU billing.

Google Cloud Dataproc

Google Cloud Dataproc (now Managed Service for Apache Spark) is Google Cloud's managed service for Apache Hadoop, Spark, Hive, and Pig, launched in beta September 2015, GA February 2016, known for 90-second cluster startup and per-vCPU pricing.

Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is Google's public cloud computing platform, offering computing, storage, analytics, and AI services rented over the internet on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Google Cloud Pub/Sub

Google Cloud Pub/Sub is Google's fully managed publish/subscribe messaging service (topics, subscriptions, at-least-once delivery, optional regional exactly-once delivery), launched GA in August 2015, with ~100 ms latency, 31-day retention, and no partitions.

Google Cloud Robotics

Google Cloud Robotics is Google's set of cloud tools for managing robot fleets, anchored by Cloud Robotics Core, an open-source Kubernetes-based platform released in May 2019.

Google Code Jam

Google Code Jam was an annual international programming competition organized by Google from 2003 to 2023, drawing over a million participants who solved algorithmic problems in any language.

Google Colab

Google Colab, short for Colaboratory, is a hosted Jupyter Notebook service run by Google that offers free GPU and TPU access for machine learning, data science, and education.

Google Contacts

Google Contacts, also known as Contacts.google.com, is Google's contact management service, a web address book and preinstalled Android app that stores contacts in the user's Google Account and syncs them across Gmail and Android devices.

Google Coral Dev Board

The Google Coral Dev Board is a single-board computer built around Google's Edge TPU coprocessor for local machine learning, introduced in 2019 within the Coral platform.

Google data centers

Google data centers are warehouse-scale buildings Google owns and operates worldwide to run Search, YouTube, Google Cloud, and its AI systems, with 99 owned locations listed in 2023.

Google Dataplex

Google Dataplex, renamed Knowledge Catalog on April 10, 2026, is Google Cloud's AI-powered data catalog and governance service, providing metadata harvesting, lineage, data quality, and agent context retrieval across BigQuery and other estates.

Google Datastream

Google Datastream is Google Cloud's serverless change data capture and replication service, launched in preview May 26, 2021 and GA December 1, 2021, streaming log-based changes from Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, and Spanner into BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Iceberg tables.

Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind, also known as DeepMind Technologies, is Alphabet's artificial intelligence research unit, formed in 2023 and led by Demis Hassabis; it builds the Gemini models and AlphaFold.