Technology and the built world

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.

Google Dictionary

Google Dictionary is a dictionary service operated by Google in two forms: a dictionary box in Google Search results and a Chrome extension that defines selected words on any page.

Google Docs

Google Docs, also known as Google Documents, is a free web-based word processor from Google that saves automatically and lets multiple people edit documents simultaneously in a browser.

Google Drive

Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service operated by Google, launched in 2012 as an evolution of Google Docs, offering cloud storage, device syncing, and real-time collaboration.

Google Duo

Google Duo was a video calling mobile app developed by Google, launched in 2016 for simple one-to-one calls and rebranded as Google Meet in 2022, with legacy calling retired in January 2026.

Google Earth Engine

Google Earth Engine (GEE) is a Google cloud service combining a multi-petabyte catalog of satellite imagery with planetary-scale computation, launched at a 2010 climate conference and free for noncommercial use.

Google Edge TPU

The Google Edge TPU is a small Google ASIC for machine learning inference on low-power devices, delivering 4 TOPS at 2 watts and powering the Coral product line.

Google Fi

Google Fi Wireless, originally Project Fi, is an American mobile virtual network operator owned by Google that resells T-Mobile's network, known for no-contract plans and international coverage.

Google Fiber

Google Fiber, also known as GFiber, is a fiber-to-the-home internet service provider Google launched in Kansas City in 2012 and sold to Stonepeak in 2026.

Google File System

The Google File System is the proprietary distributed file system Google built for its indexing system, described publicly in a 2003 SOSP paper by Ghemawat, Gobioff, and Leung.

Google Flights

Google Flights is an online flight search and price-comparison service operated by Google, launched in 2011 and built on ITA Software, acquired for $700 million in 2010.

Google Flow

Google Flow is an AI filmmaking tool built for Google's Veo video model, evolving from the VideoFX experiment and launched for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the United States.