10 Google products you don’t know about

This post lists 10 interesting Google products that you are likely to either have forgotten about or simply never knew existed.

Google Mobilizer

Via the Google Mobilizer page you can make any Web page mobile-friendly.

Audio Ads

A radio advertising program available through the AdWords interface. It reaches 1,600 FM and AM radio stations in the US.

Mashup Editor

An editor incorporating syntax highlighting and debugging for creating Web mashups and simple applications.

Ride Finder

A taxi, limousine and shuttle search service that uses the real-time position of vehicles in 14 US cities. It uses the Google Maps interface and any car service that wishes to participate.

Accessible Search

A specialized search engine for the blind and visually impaired that prioritizes accessible web sites.

Movies

A specialized search engine for finding film show times near a user-defined location as well as film reviews compiled from several different sources.

SMS

A text messaging service that Google offers in several countries, including the US, Japan, Canada, India and China. It lets you send search queries and receive results via SMS.

Gapminder

An online application for viewing data trends for countries and geographic regions in an interactive, visual manner.

Special Searches

Search within these special topics: Linux, BSD, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft, or the US Government.

GOOG-411

Google’s directory assistance service, available free of charge from any telephone in the US and Canada.

These products are just the tip of the iceberg. You can view a list of Google’s regular products hereand Google Labs products here, and then there’s the list of Google products on Wikipedia to round things off. Happy browsing, there’s a LOT to go through!

Any other cool or useful, almost unknown Google products that you like but we didn’t include here? Let me know in the comments!


Source : http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/10/15/10-interesting-google-products-you-don’t-know-about/

Google Phone Service

You may wish to store the following google service number in your cell phone, and  your home phone speed dial: 

Phone:  1-800-466-4411 

This is another great service from Google, and free at that, Very useful when you are  on the road driving with no pen, pencil or paper handy. Don't waste your money on information calls and don't waste your time manually dialing the number..

Let us say you are driving along in your car and need to call the golf course. You don't have their number handy. Access and dial above 800 phone number.

Listen and communicate with the recorded voice on the other side. It will deliver and connect you to the Golf course as per your responses.

This is nationwide and it is absolutely free.

For Demo click on the link below and 

http://www.google.com/goog411/index.html

watch the short clip.