Top 10 Google Products You Forgot All About
Living in the shadow of Gmail, Reader and Calendar's got to be tough, but that's what a slew of useful Google products do every day. We give Google's front-running applications a lot of ink (or pixels, as it were), and the rest a passing mention in the fast-flowing river of news. Today's top 10 pays homage to the little brother and sister Google products that you forgot all about.
10. Google Code Search
Mostly of interest only to programmers,Google Code Search is a pretty incredible mechanism for finding and browsing the innards of countless open source projects. Use the
lang:
operator to limit your results to a certain language, and search by developer name, file name, or comments. Here's a search for the words "nasty hack" in PHP code—lang:PHP nasty hack
—and here's a search for Javascript authored by Gmail Macros developer Mihai Parparita.9. Google Base
Easily publish and find recipes, classifieds, vacation rentals and job listings at Google Base, a no-web site way to get data online and into Google's search results. What's great about Base is that it offers data type-specific search operators. For example, you can search recipes by ingredient, or vacation rentals by location and features like how many bedrooms, and what type of property it is (cabin, cottage, hotel, villa, house, etc.)
8. Google Trends
7. Google Alerts
wildfire AND "San Diego"
.6. Google Book Search
5. Google Page Creator
4. Google Notebook
3. Flight Simulator in Google Earth
2. Keyboard Shortcuts Experimental Web Search
1. SketchUp
This was a tough list to winnow down, asGoogle's full product list is long and prodigious. In fact, we're still having regrets about leaving Patent Search, Google Moon, and Google Mars off the list. Update: I'm particularly regretful about not includingGrand Central or Google SMS, too.
What's your top lower-profile Google app? Shout it out in the comments.
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