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Good manufacturing practice

Good manufacturing practice (GMP), also called current good manufacturing practice, is quality assurance ensuring medicinal products are consistently produced and controlled to standards fit for their intended use.

GoodbyeDPI

GoodbyeDPI is a free, open-source Windows utility by ValdikSS that manipulates TCP packets to bypass Deep Packet Inspection systems that Internet service providers use to block websites.

GoodData

GoodData, rebranded GoodData.AI in April 2026, is a San Francisco company founded in 2007 by Roman Stanek offering a cloud platform for embedded business intelligence, dashboards, metrics, and AI-assisted analytics.

Gooderham Building

Gooderham Building, also called Toronto's Flatiron Building, is a five-storey wedge-shaped 1891/1892 red-brick office building at 49 Wellington Street East, designed by David Roberts Jr. for George Gooderham, with a 1980 Besant mural and historic Otis elevator.

Goodfire

Goodfire is a San Francisco AI startup, founded in 2024, that applies mechanistic interpretability to understand and steer frontier AI models; it was valued at $1.25 billion in 2026.

Goodfire AI

Goodfire AI, formerly ClearLine AI, is a San Francisco AI interpretability company founded in 2024; its tools include Ember and Silico, and it has raised over $200 million.

Goodman Networks

Goodman Networks Incorporated was a Texas telecommunications infrastructure company founded in 2000 by the Goodman brothers, serving AT&T and DIRECTV before its 2016 asset sale.

Goodreads

Goodreads, launched in January 2007 by Otis Chandler, is a social cataloging website for books where members shelve, rate, and review books; Amazon has owned it since 2013.

Goodrich Corporation

Goodrich Corporation, formerly the B.F. Goodrich Company, was an American aerospace manufacturer founded in Akron, Ohio, in 1870 as a rubber and tire maker and acquired by United Technologies in 2012.

GoodRx

GoodRx is an American digital healthcare company in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2011, that lets consumers compare prescription drug prices and redeem discount codes at pharmacies.

Goods-to-person

Goods-to-person (G2P), also written goods-to-picker or product-to-person, is an order-fulfillment method in which shuttles, mobile robots, or automated storage systems bring items to stationary pickers.

Goodwyn Oil and Gas Field

Goodwyn is a gas and condensate field in the North Carnarvon Basin on Australia's North West Shelf, discovered in 1972 and produced since 1995 through the Goodwyn A platform.

Goodyear Blimp

The Goodyear Blimp is the branded fleet of airships operated by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, since 1925 for advertising and aerial television coverage of sporting events.

Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company

The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is an American tire manufacturer founded in Akron, Ohio, in 1898, named for vulcanization inventor Charles Goodyear and known for the Goodyear Blimp.

Googie architecture

Googie architecture is a Space Age style of roadside commercial building, marked by upswept roofs, glass walls, and starburst neon signs, that flourished in Southern California from about 1945 to 1970.

Google Account

A Google Account is a single email address and password giving unified sign-in across Google products including Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, and Google Ads, with syncing between services.

Google Ads

Google Ads, launched as Google AdWords in 2000, is Google's online advertising platform where advertisers bid in real-time auctions to place ads on search results, YouTube, and partner websites.

Google AdSense

Google AdSense is a self-service Google advertising program, launched in 2003, that places ads on third-party websites and pays publishers a share of the revenue from clicks and impressions.

Google Agent Development Kit

The Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) is an open-source, code-first Google framework for building, evaluating, and deploying AI agents and multi-agent systems, introduced in April 2025.

Google AI fellowships and research programs

Google AI fellowships and research programs are Google's named schemes funding academic AI research: the PhD Fellowship, DeepMind postdoctoral fellowships and scholarships, and the AI Residency.

Google AI Overviews errors

Google AI Overviews errors refers to the inaccurate AI-generated search answers after the broad US launch in May 2024, including advice to add glue to pizza.

Google AI Studio

Google AI Studio is Google's free web-based tool for prototyping with Gemini models and building with the Gemini Developer API. Also known simply as AI Studio; distinct from Vertex AI and consumer Gemini apps; offers Build mode full-stack app generation, 1M-token context models, and a no-cost API key.

Google Allo

Google Allo was a smart messaging app for Android and iOS developed by Google, released in 2016 and discontinued in 2019 as its features moved to Google Messages.

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

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 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.