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Google Nest Audio
Google Nest Audio is a smart speaker developed by Google, released in October 2020 as the successor to the original Google Home, with built-in Google Assistant.
Google Nest Hub
Google Nest Hub is a 7-inch smart display made by Google, debuting in October 2018 as the Google Home Hub and renamed when Google folded Home into the Nest brand.
Google Neural Machine Translation
Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) is the deep-learning system Google announced in 2016 to replace phrase-based translation in Google Translate, cutting errors by about 60%.
Google News
Google News, found at news.google.com, is a news aggregation service Google launched in 2002 after engineer Krishna Bharat found searches on the September 11 attacks returned only old stories.
Google Nexus
Google Nexus was a line of smartphones and tablets, built with partners like HTC, Samsung, and LG, that served as reference hardware for Android from 2010 to 2016.
Google Now
Google Now was an intelligent personal assistant developed by Google for Android and iOS, launched in 2012, known for answering voice questions and proactively showing predictive cards.
Google One
Google One is a Google subscription service launched in 2018 that replaces paid Google Drive plans, bundling storage for Drive, Gmail, and Photos with family sharing and Gemini AI tiers.
Google Panda
Google Panda, also known as the Panda algorithm, is a Google search-ranking change launched in February 2011 that lowered low-quality content-farm sites in results, affecting 11.8% of queries.
Google Pay (payment method)
Google Pay, also known as Android Pay or Pay with Google, is Google's contactless tap-to-pay and online checkout payment method, formed in 2018 and now the processing layer behind Google Wallet.
Google Performance Max
Google Performance Max, or PMax, is a goal-based, automated campaign type in Google Ads, launched in 2021, reaching YouTube, Search, Gmail, Maps, and Display from one campaign.
Google Photos
Google Photos, also known as Photos.google.com, is a photo and video storage, organization, and sharing service from Google that launched in 2015, offering automatic backup, search, and AI-assisted editing features.
Google Pixel
Google Pixel is a line of Android smartphones and related devices designed and marketed by Google, first announced in October 2016 as the successor to the Nexus program.
Google Pixel 8
The Google Pixel 8 is a smartphone Google released on October 12, 2023, running the Tensor G3 chip with AI features like Magic Editor and seven years of updates.
Google Pixel Watch
The Google Pixel Watch is a line of Google smartwatches launched in 2022, pairing Wear OS with Fitbit health and fitness features across annual generations.
Google Play
Google Play, formerly Android Market (launched 22 October 2008, rebranded 6 March 2012), is Google's digital store for Android apps, games, and media, serving 3 billion+ monthly users; reshaped by Epic Games litigation and 2026 fee and billing reforms.
Google Play Books
Google Play Books, formerly Google eBooks, is Google's ebook and audiobook store and reading platform, launched in the United States in 2010 and offering nearly 7 million titles.
Google Play Music
Google Play Music was a music and podcast streaming service operated by Google, launched in 2011 and replaced by YouTube Music at the end of 2020.
Google Play Services
Google Play Services is a proprietary background service and software platform on Google-certified Android devices, introduced in 2012, that provides shared, automatically updated implementations of Google's APIs to Android apps.
Google Public DNS
Google Public DNS is a free, global DNS resolution and caching service operated by Google since 2009 as an alternative to ISP DNS servers, reached through the addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
Google Quantum AI
Google Quantum AI is the quantum computing research team at Google, founded in 2012 and based in Santa Barbara, California, known for the Sycamore and Willow superconducting processors.
Google Santa Tracker
Google Santa Tracker, santatracker.google.com, is Google's annual Christmas Eve Santa-tracking site and December Santa's Village of games and education. Launched 2004 via Keyhole, partnered with NORAD 2007-2011, standalone since 2012, open-sourced on GitHub.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar, at scholar.google.com, is a free Google search engine that indexes scholarly literature across disciplines and publishers, with citation tracking, author profiles, and an index estimated near 390 million records.
Google Search
Google Search, also known as Google.com, is the web search engine operated by Google that crawls and ranks hundreds of billions of webpages for user queries.
Google Search Console
Google Search Console, formerly Google Webmaster Tools, is a free Google service that reports which search queries show a site's pages, plus indexing status and page performance data.
Google Sheets
Google Sheets is a free, web-based spreadsheet application from Google, first launched in 2006, that lets users create and edit spreadsheets collaboratively in real time.
Google Sites
Google Sites is a structured wiki and web-page creation tool included with Google Workspace, launched in February 2008 as a relaunch of JotSpot, which Google acquired in 2006.
Google Slides
Google Slides, also known as Google Presentations, is a web-based presentation program by Google, launched in 2007 and part of the Google Docs Editors suite alongside Docs and Sheets.
Google Stadia
Google Stadia was Google's cloud gaming service, announced March 2019 and launched November 2019, streaming games from data centers with custom AMD Radeon GPUs at up to 4K/60; shut down January 18, 2023 with refunds.
Google Store
Google Store is Google's retail channel for its own hardware, selling Pixel phones, Nest products, and Fitbit wearables online and in physical stores since 2015.
Google Street View
Google Street View is a Google Maps feature of 360-degree street-level panoramas, launched May 2007 in five US cities, now over 220 billion images in 100+ countries, with automatic face and license plate blurring.