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Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global, online mentoring program run by Google since 2005 that pairs new contributors with mentors from open source organizations for paid coding projects.
Google Takeout
Google Takeout is a Google tool that lets account holders download a copy of their data, launched in June 2011 and covering more than 70 products.
Google Talk
Google Talk, also known as Gchat, was Google's instant messaging and free voice chat service launched in 2005, built on XMPP and shut down in 2022.
Google Tensor
Google Tensor is a series of mobile system-on-chip processors designed by Google for its Pixel smartphones, debuting in 2021 with the Pixel 6 and focusing on on-device AI and computational photography.
Google TPU Ironwood
Google TPU Ironwood, marketed as TPU7x, is Google's seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit, announced in April 2025 as its first TPU designed for inference, scaling to 9,216-chip pods.
Google Translate
Google Translate is Google's machine translation service, launched in 2006, which translates text, documents, and websites between nearly 250 languages for more than a billion users.
Google Trends
Google Trends is a free Google service that shows the relative popularity of search queries and topics over time and across geographic regions, down to city level.
Google Video
Google Video was a video search and hosting service run by Google from 2005 to 2012, launched as a TV transcript search and wound down after Google bought YouTube.
Google Vids
Google Vids is an AI-powered video creation app in Google Workspace, positioned as a fourth productivity app alongside Docs, Sheets, and Slides, and made generally available in November 2024.
Google Voice
Google Voice is a Google telephone service that gives users one number for calls, texts, and voicemail across web and mobile apps, offered free and in paid plans.
Google Voice Search
Google Voice Search, also called Search by Voice, is a Google Search feature letting users speak queries instead of typing, first launched on iPhone in November 2008.
Google Wallet
Google Wallet is Google's digital wallet app for Android and Wear OS, holding payment cards, tickets, boarding passes, loyalty cards, car keys, and digital IDs.
Google Workspace
Google Workspace, formerly G Suite and before that Google Apps for Your Domain, is Google's subscription suite of cloud productivity apps for organizations, including Gmail, Drive, Docs, and Meet.
Google–Anthropic investment
The Google–Anthropic investment is Google's equity stake in AI company Anthropic, grown from $300 million in 2023 to a commitment of up to $40 billion announced in 2026.
Google's Ideological Echo Chamber
Google's Ideological Echo Chamber, also called the Damore memo, is a 2017 internal Google memo by engineer James Damore arguing biological sex differences partly explain women's underrepresentation in tech; he was fired August 7, 2017.
Google+
Google+ (Google Plus) was a Google social network launched in 2011 as a Facebook competitor and shut down for consumers in 2019 over low usage.
Googlebook
Googlebook is a laptop category announced by Google in 2026 as the Chromebook's successor, merging Android's Google Play apps with ChromeOS concepts and built around the Gemini AI assistant.
GoogLeNet
GoogLeNet is a 22-layer convolutional neural network introduced by Google in 2014, built around Inception modules and the winner of the ILSVRC 2014 classification and detection tasks.
Googleplex
Googleplex: Google and Alphabet's headquarters campus at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California; a remodeled former Silicon Graphics office park, later expanded with the BIG- and Heatherwick-designed Bay View and Charleston East campuses.
Googly
Googly, also called wrong 'un or bosie: a cricket leg-spinner's disguised delivery, an off break bowled with a leg break action, turning opposite to the batter's expectation; invented by Bernard Bosanquet in the late 1890s.
Googol
A googol, ten duotrigintillion, is the number 10 to the 100th power, named in 1938 by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, whose uncle Edward Kasner popularized it.
Googoosh (گوگوش)
Googoosh (گوگوش), born Faegheh Atashin in Tehran in 1950, is Iran's most celebrated pop singer, banned from singing for 21 years after the 1979 revolution, exiled since her 2000 Toronto comeback, author of a 2025 memoir.
Gook
Gook is an English ethnic slur for East and Southeast Asian people, first recorded as U.S. military slang for Filipinos in 1899 and extended through successive wars to Koreans, Vietnamese, and Asians generally.
Goolagong (miniseries)
Goolagong is a three-part ABC drama miniseries about tennis champion Evonne Goolagong Cawley, made by Werner Film Productions (BBC Studios), directed by Wayne Blair, starring Lila McGuire, premiered 4 January 2026 on ABC TV and iview.
Goole
Goole is an inland port town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, founded in the 1820s by the Aire and Calder Navigation around its canal and docks; known for Tom Puddings coal hoists, the Grade II Lowther Hotel, and current Siemens Mobility rail manufacturing.
Goomba
Goomba: mushroom-shaped enemy of Nintendo's Super Mario franchise, debuting in Super Mario Bros. (1985). Shiitake-based design, defeated by one jump, Bowser's traitor minion, playable in several spinoffs.
Goombah
Goombah: Italian-American slang from Neapolitan cumpà (compare, "godfather"), meaning a close friend, mentor, or godfather; also an ethnic slur implying Mafia ties; distinct from goomah (mistress).
Goon (film)
Goon (2011) is a Canadian hockey comedy directed by Michael Dowse, written by Jay Baruchel and Evan Goldberg, starring Seann William Scott as bouncer-turned-enforcer Doug Glatt, loosely based on Doug Smith's book, with a 2017 sequel.
Goon (musician)
Goon is a heavy dubstep artist from South Florida, active from 2023 onward, who has appeared on every edition of the bass festival Forbidden Kingdom since 2022.
Goon: Last of the Enforcers
Goon: Last of the Enforcers is a 2017 Canadian sports comedy, Jay Baruchel's directing debut and sequel to Goon (2011), starring Seann William Scott as injured enforcer Doug Glatt facing Wyatt Russell's Anders Cain.