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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 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 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 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+

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.

Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station

Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station, also known as Goonhilly Earth Station, is a satellite communications and deep-space tracking complex on Cornwall's Lizard Peninsula, opened in 1962.

Goonyella-Riverside Coal Mine

The Goonyella-Riverside Coal Mine is a large open-cut coking coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, 30 kilometers north of Moranbah, operated by the BHP Mitsubishi Alliance.

Gopalji Kaniha Coal Mine

Gopalji Kaniha Coal Mine is an operating surface coal mine in Angul district, Odisha, India, owned by Coal India subsidiary Mahanadi Coalfields Limited and opened in 2010.