Basically, when you search for an image results such as the one below will be show. All similar images or images in the same category are grouped together in stacks as you can see.

When you click on one of these stacks, it’s expanded into a wheel format with the main images being at the centre. When you click on one of the related images it gets moved into the centre along with images related to it. The original batch of images is then moved away to the side in a new circle but is still connected by a line. You can see this in the screenshot below.

By constantly clicking images, more subsequent circles and related images are created. As you keep clicking, you search is then narrowed down to the point where just one image will be left in the main circle with the rest ‘swirling down’ in a spiral behind it. When you click on that image the Google Images page is opened as it would in normal search results.

Think of this as a huge family tree for images on the internet.

• Search Results in ‘Stacked’ style.
• Narrow them down using Swirl.
• Similar and related images grouped together.

Check it out at image-swirl.googlelabs.com (by Dean Sherwin from ArtofStinginess)

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When you search for an artist, album, song or lyrics, Google quickly throws up song previews and other relevant artist/band information in the first few results. For the song previews, Google has partnered with sites like Pandora, MySpace, Lala, Rhapsody and Imeem.

Hence it is about giving music lovers a faster access to their favorite songs and albums instead of having them find their way through the search results.

Features:

• Discover music faster in Google.
• Get song previews via partner sites.
• Partner sites include Imeem, MySpace and Pandora.
• Search by album, song, artist or song lyrics.
• Currently available in US only.

Check out Google Music Search @ www.google.com/landing/music/ (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• AudioRaider : Find Free MP3s on Google
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• YouScrobble: YouTube and Last.fm Combined
• YouLicence: Discover Music Based on Your Weather Preferences
• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player

The next is translation bookmarklets for a huge number of different languages. Just drag them to your browser toolbar and click when you need to translate a page. And finally, Google toolbar’s translation feature which isn’t new. Overall, some nice tools, especially for those whose first language isn’t English.

Features:

• Translate your website using Google.
• Includes Google’s website translator, translation bookmarklets and the toolbar.
• Add Google translation to your site using the website translator.
• Use bookmarklets and the Google toolbar to quickly translate pages and words.
• Free and simple to use.

Check out Google Translate tools @ translate.google.com/translate_tools (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• GoogleTranslatorToolkit: Online Document Translator
• Woxikon: Online Dictionary And Translation
• What Language is This: Online Language Identifier
• NiceTranslator: Translate Text To & From 36 Languages
• Mobile Translator : Free Online Dictionary for your Mobile Phone

To add it to your browser drag the provided bookmarklet onto your browser toolbar. When you come across a PDF file link, first click on the bookmarklet and then the link pointing to a PDF document. Almost simultaneously the PDF file will be loaded in Google’s online PDF viewer. The viewer can also open PowerPoint files (PPT and TIFF).

Features:

• View PDF files in Google’s online PDF viewer.
• Also supports PowerPoint files in PPT and TIFF formats.
• Simple and really easy to use.
• Similar tools: Issuu, PDFMeNot and Vuzit.

Get Google Docs Viewer Bookmarklet @ www.noscope.com/journal/view-pdfs-with-google-docs-viewer-bookmarklet via (blogoscoped)

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• WebMarkers : Print Documents To Web
• Vuzit : Online PDF Document Viewer
• ViewDocsOnline: Open Documents Online
• Verbosus: Web Based LaTex Editor
• SplitMergePDF : Online PDF Splitting and Merging Tool

Features:

• Learn to how to backup your Google data.
• A site by Google Chicago engineers. Thus can be considered reliable.
• Simple user interface with search option.
• Share your own suggestions and tips on moderator page.

Check out The Data Liberation Front @ www.dataliberation.org (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• ZYB : BackUp Your Mobile Online
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Featured:

• Check web statistics across different sectors.
• Simple and interesting stats in just 2-3 lines.
• Data sourced from a huge number of media vendors.
• Search the stats and also submit a stat.
• Similar sites: InternetWorldStats.

Check out Google Internet Stats @ www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats/ (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• InternetWorldStats: Find Out Internet Usage Stats For Any Country
• WorldClock: Displays Interesting Real Time World Statistics
• KmlFactBook: Maps CIA World Factbook Data on Google Maps
• Google Trends
• Google Insights: See What the World is Searching For

The store has a clean and friendly interface. You can search for items, browse by categories (Accessories, Fun, Wearables etc.), sort items by prize range, and check out most popular and newly listed items.

Features:

• Online store to purchase Google souvenirs and accessories.
• Search for items or browse by categories.
• Buy Accessories, Fun, Kids, Office, Wearables and Software.
• Sort items by prize.
• View most popular and newly added items.
• Also see 8 Swag Stores From The Biggest Web Brands.

Check out GoogleStore @ www.googlestore.com (via TechCrunch)

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Features:

• Android podcast app by Google.
• Easily subscribe to, search, download and stream podcasts/audio.
• Create a listen audio queue based on programs and search terms you subscribed to.
• Currently only supports English language.

Check out Google Listen @ http://listen.googlelabs.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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It was only a matter of time until someone would create a website to compare Caffeine with calssic Google Search. Now you can compare these two on CompareGoogle.com. It is a simple comparison app that allows you compare search results from both engines on a single page. Simply enter the keyword an click on the “brew” button to get results side by side.

Check out CompareGoogle @ www.comparegoogle.com

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Features:

• Allows to search Google and Wolfram Alpha at the same time.
• Compare search results side-by-side.
• Another similar website is Wolfram Alpha Google.

Check out Goofram @ www.goofram.com

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Currently Google offers Web Elements for the following services.

• Calendar
• Conversation
• Custom Search
• Maps
• News
• Presentations
• Spreadsheets
• YouTube News

Check out Google Web Elements @ www.google.com/webelements (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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It usually plans with a 3 day trip in mind and shows the major tourist attractions of the city you need to visit over that 3 day period and the exact timings of the visit.

Since Google City Tours has just been launched and currently a labs project, it isn’t perfect and there is scope for improvement in the tour plans which it comes up with. However, as it evolves it could turn out to be an extremely useful service for travelers and tourists.

Check out Google City Tours@ www.citytours.googlelabs.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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All guides are properly categorized under the headings ‘ Query Input ‘, ‘ Understanding Results ‘, ‘ Search Tools ‘, ‘ Services ‘ and ‘ Developing a Website ‘. To start simply pick the category you want and browse, you can search the site as well.

It also provides PDF cheat sheets of Google search shortcuts.

Features :

• Informative tutorials on how to make Google search better.
• Learn how to use Google faster with shortcuts.
• Helpful for beginners, experts and everyone else.
• Information properly categorized.
• Available in German, Hebrew and Dansk apart from English.
• PDF cheat sheets available.

Check out Google Guide @ www.googleguide.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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As you can see in the above screenshot, our site is being translated from English to Hindi.

Google’s document translator can translate variety of document types including HTML, Microsoft Word, Rich Text, OpenDocument Text and Plain Text.

Features :

• Translate any article or document to nearly 50 languages.
• Very simple and easy to use.
• Translated article can be edited as well as saved and shared.
• Supports a large number of document formats.
• You can also enter the URL for a file on the web or input a direct link to a Wikipedia article or Knol entry.
• Can be helpful in learning other languages.

Check out Translate Toolkit @translate.google.com/toolkit/list (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Mobile Translator : Free Online Dictionary for your Mobile Phone

Once you have signed in, you can include personal information about yourself including photos, short bio, interests, links to your social profiles and other info and offer people a way to contact you without revealing your real email address. You can publish your contact info (phone numbers, emails, addresses) and specify the list of people who can view it.

Features:

• Find yourself on Google and control what information people see when they search for you on Google.
• Include personal info about yourself (photos, short bio, links to social profiles etc).
• Publish and update your contact details and specify the list of people who can view it.
• Receive messages without revealing your email address.
• To create and customize your Google profile, sign in with your Google Account credentials.

Check out Google Profiles @ www.google.com/profiles

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You can customize the columns by adding or eliminating one or more columns according to your need. You can also save and share these tables(or squares) with others.

Features :

• Facts organized as a table of items and attributes
• Easy comparison between different items of same category
• Customizable, hence you can see only those items or features you are interested in
• Source of information mentioned in the blocks
• You can save and share the squares

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Moreover it provides you with two additional buttons. First is to show or hide the Wolfram Alpha results from the page. And the other one is a link that opens in a new tab and shows full search results from Wolfram Alpha.

Features:

• Get Wolfram Alpha search results in Google.
• Options to show or hide the Wolfram Aplha results.
• A quick link to redo the search in Wolfram Alpha, in a different browser tab.
• Enable or disable  Firefox Addon with just one click.

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But when you search with a picture, you are likely to get mostly relevant results since it will search for images similar to the picture you selected.

To make use of similar image search feature, first you have to search for an image using keywords. When you found an image relevant to what you expected, click on “Similar images” below it to find other similar pictures.

For more info watch demo video below:

Features:

• Search and find similar images using other pictures instead of keywords.
• Get more relevant image results.
• To use, search for images with a keyword, find a relevant image and click “Similar image” below to find other similar pictures.

Check out Google Similar Images @ http://similar-images.googlelabs.com

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“Sites” tab displays sites with the most relevant information about your search term. Click on a site to limit your results to that domain. To disable the plugin and return to traditional search interface click on the “Off” tab.

Apart from Google, you can use the extension to search on Yahoo and Twitter.

To see how it works watch the demo video below:

Features:

• Firefox extension that inserts tag clouds into Google, Yahoo and Twitter search pages to help you search more effectively.
• Refine your search results by clicking on related tags and sites.
• Click “Off” to disable plugin and return to traditional search interface.
• Adjust extension settings for number of cloud items in search results, font size of cloud items and level of integration with Google, Yahoo and Twitter services.
• Free just Install plugin onto your Firefox to start using.

Check out Search Cloudlet @ www.getcloudlet.com

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Features:

• Free mobile sync service from Google.
• Lets you sync mobile contacts with google.
• Lets you sync phone with google calendar
• Get calendar alerts on phone.
• Customized service depending on the type of phone you have.
• Works for iPhone, Windows Mobile based phones and for phones that support SyncML.
• Note: depending on your mobile plan your carrier might charge you data transfer fees.

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It also shows a man standing at the location and you can click on it to get the exact address of the place. You may also drag him around the map to repeat the process and get updated search results. Other features include ability to email an address easily and a local business locator app for iPhone users.

Features

• Easily search local business listings for any city without knowing the exact address.
• Free to use.
• Based on Google Maps API.
• Embed on your website using the widget.
• iPhone app available.

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You just need to add your search keyword after http://Gog.is/ and the URL will take you to the required Google search query page. Multiple keywords can be separated by a comma (,) or a plus sign (+). For example: http://Gog.is/make,use,of will redirect you to the longer query http://www.google.com/search?q=make+use+of+

Features:

• Shorten long Google links for easy sharing on IM, Twitter and Email.
• Simple and very easy to use.
• No sign up required. Free

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GooglUpon lets you search and refine results from Google web search, Google image search, Google news, Google blog search and Google book search.

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As you can see, the site creates a link which can be shared with others. When someone clicks on this link it shows an animation of how a google search is performed. So if you are in the habit of asking too many simple questions, make sure you google it first before someone points you to this.

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You could either directly select politicians from US, Canada, India and UK or select the custom option from the drop down menu and type in the name of your favorite politicians whose quotes you’d like to compare. Considering the current US election season, this tool has the potential to become a blockbuster tool at least in the US.

When selecting a topic to get quotes on you can either type something out your head or just choose a couple from hot topics list.

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It helps you by giving logical recommendations as you type the search query. Reommendations are usually quite relelvant and also include 3-4 sentence long descriptions that popup when you mouse hover over the items.

To get started, first go and install SemantiFind Firefox extension (addon for Internet Explorer coming soon). Once installed, navigate to Google and try searching for something. Almost instantly SemantiFind should start showing suggestions

At the moment SearchFind works only with Google but support for Yahoo and Microsoft Live search is on the way.

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I personally feel (and as the Google Maps team points out) this could be extremely beneficial for people in countries where roads and other location specific information isn’t well organized and hence it’s hard to create a comprehensive map which would accurately display the information about a region. In such cases, maps created by local citizens could come in handy and later could be included in the general map of that region.

If you look at the 2′nd screenshot above, it points out certain features of this map maker tool which are explained below as described by Google.

(1) My MapMaker – Vview your changes and moderate features.
(2) Moderate / Neighborhoods – Moderate features for other users.
(3) Map Search – Search for places, business and anything else that has already been added.
(4) Edit Toolbar – Use this to find features you can edit.
(5) Add Toolbar – Click these to draw a point, line, or add a polygon region.
(6) Views – Click these to switch between different views, including aerial images.
(7) Settings – Control and manage your user settings here.
(8) Link to this page – Get a web address (URL) for your map that you can share with others.
(9) Stats – See how many features you’ve added to the map.
(10) Left Panel – Shows lots of data like Search Results, My Changes and Moderation.
(11) Navigation Controls – Use these to navigate maps.
(12) Map – Displays the map as well as items you are editing.
(13) Info Window – See the details of a feature live. There are two kinds of info windows: Basic and Detailed.

Google Map Maker demo video (by Google)

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• NearPostOffice: Find The Nearest Post Office
• MeetWays: Find a Meeting Point in The Middle

The data can be easily filtered by a variety of factors such as time, location and categories. To get a better idea about the whole thing check out the popularity comparison for following search terms: oil prices vs. electric car, call of duty 2 vs. battlefield 2142 or yankees vs. red sox.

Features:

• Compare search keyword popularity across regions, categories, and time frames.
• Filter obtained data by region, time period and category.
• The result are presented with easy to grasp charts and maps.
• Export and download data in .CSV format.
• Also see related news headlines.
• For more information on how you can make use of Google Insights go here.

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• Google Web History
• Google Trends
• Google Patents : Comprehensive Patent Search Engine

Using Archive Search you can search for events, people or ideas and see how often they have been mentioned in the news over time. Additionally, you can get a historical overview of the results on an automatically created timeline, drill into particular period and see results for that time period, read news archives and so on.

Features:

• Search diverse news archive sources from one place
• Browse timelines of events and stories related to specific queries.
• No sign-up or registration needed.

Check out ArchiveSearch @ news.google.com/archivesearch

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There are 6 types available: News, Blogs, Web, Comprehensive, Groups and Video. News alert monitors news sources, Blogs for tracking blogs, and so on.

Some ways to use Google Alerts:

• Stay up to date on a developing news story.
• Get latest news on a celebrity, your favorite sports team or event.
• Be the first to know when you or your website make the news.
• Stay current on a competitor.

What makes Google Alerts particularly useful is the ability to use standard Google Operands like quotation marks, OR and AND connectors. For instance setting up an alert for Clinton AND Obama will bring you all news stories that mentions both of them.

Registration is not required, all it needs is an email address where you want to receive the alerts. Though if you subscribe you will be able to manage and edit their alerts from one place.

Check out Google Alerts @ www.google.com/alerts

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• Web-Alerts: Text Alerts for Your Favorite Websites

Currently the service supports only 10 major cities in the US. These are:

• Atlanta, GA
• Austin, TX
• Baltimore, MD
• Chicago, IL
• Dallas, TX
• Los Angeles, CA
• New York, NY
• Phoenix, AZ
• San Francisco, CA
• Washington, DC

There is nothing to install or download, simply enter a zipcode, the name of a city or your exact location and it will give you an area map along with the location of each vehicle. Vehicles are shown as little balloons (see screenshot below). Once you have located the vehicle you need, just call the service provider to reserve it. The company phone numbers are provided as well.

The Google Ride Finder is still a beta product and being constantly improved. So expect a wider coverage in the near future. For additional details see their FAQ section.

Check out Google Ride Finder @ http://labs.google.com/ridefinder

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• PrimoSpot: Find a Parking Spot in New York City (NYC)
• ZimRide: Carpooling Website To Find & Share Rides
• Trapster: Get Alerted About Speed Traps On Your Way
• The Route Planner: Get Route Map & Directions Online
• SpeedTrap : Locate Road Speed Traps in your Area

We have already profiled a patent search tool earlier, it’s called FreePatentsOnline. However Google Patents is a lot better. It’s a lot more than just a patent search tool, and is more like a massive patent information database. On each patent page you can see:

(1) Patent summary: All important details summarizing the patent. These includes dates of interest, associated parties and classifications.

(2) Patent Claims: Lists the specific claims made by the patent.

(3) Drawings and Pictures: Thumbnail shots of pictures found in the the patent.

(4) Option to search within that specific patent.

(5) Citations: List of patents that are cited by the patent.

(6) References: List of patents that reference the given patent.

Furthermore, you can read the full patent contents online or download and save it to your PC as PDF document. And another really useful fetaure is the advanced patent search. Using this search option you can find almost any patent you need by applying a whole bunch of filters.

Check out Google Patents @ www.google.com/patents

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• Trademarkia: Search US Registered Trademarks
• Search Cloudlet: Google Tag Search
• Patents.com: Search Through Patents Effectively
• Mashspots: Cool Local Business Locator on Google Maps
• Groovle : Custom Google Search Page

Create pages, allow others to edit existing pages or create new ones, add file attachments, add photo slideshows, embed widgets, allow viewers to leave comments and lots more.

Check out more features and demo video below.

Quick Feature Overview:

• Easily create and manage group websites (family, friends, colleagues, club members etc.).
• Create and add as many web pages as you want.
• Insert links, add tables, add images, add photo albums, embed videos etc.
• Make your website public or private (only accessible to people you invite).
• Choose who can view and/or edit the website.
• Allow viewers to leave comments and upload images.
• Sign-up wih your existing Google account.

How to Create a Website with Google Sites (Video Tutorial)

Go to Google Sites @ www.google.com/sites/

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• Wolfram Alpha Google: Adds Wolfram Alpha Search Results Next To Google’s
• Wishpot: Create Wish Lists by Adding Items From Any Website
• Whyzz: Get Answers to Tough Questions From Kids
• What A Lovely Name: Baby Name Finder
• Webgiftr: Giving And Receiving Gifts Made Easy

Overall, seems like a good bookmark to have on your mobile browser.

Check out Google Mobilizer @ [ google.com/gwt/n]

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• Wolfram Alpha Google: Adds Wolfram Alpha Search Results Next To Google’s
• WireNode : Create your Own Mobile Startpages
• Wapipedia : Browse Wikipedia from Mobile Phone
• Ubik: Create a Mobile-Friendly Website
• Swirl: Cool Image Search From Google Labs

How DocSyncer Works

First you need to allow DocSyncer to access your Google Docs account. Next you need to download and install DocSyncer client on your Windows PC. Once installed, it will automatically find and start syncing your documents to Google Docs. As document changes, DocSyncer updates its online version as well.

DocSyncer Features

• Synchronize office files from all of your computer to one Google Docs account.
• Automatic Synchronization: Automatically keeps the latest copy of all office documents across all of your computers.
• Document History: Keep track of all previous versions for any document.
• Track all documents in your DocSyncer account.
• From DocSyncer account: (a) launch document on your PC, (b) launch document at Google Docs, (c) view document properties, (d) view document editing history.
• ‘File Association’: Optional feature that allows you to auto-launch office documents on your PC (ex. Word files) directly in Google Docs. However, if the file isn’t on Google Docs yet then it will be opened with the default program (i.e. Microsoft Word). File association supports following formats: DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX, ODT, ODS, TXT, RTF, HTML, and CSV.
• Google Docs Mobile: By using DocSyncer to sync your documents, you’ll be able to see any of your documents across all computers from your cell phone.
• Windows only: At the moment DocSyncer works only on Windows PCs. Mac support coming soon.
• Note: While in beta DocSyncer synchronizes files from only ‘My Documents’ and ‘Desktop’ folders.
• Coming Soon : Send documents straight to your desktop by emailing them to your special DocSyncer email.

Check out DocSyncer @ www.docsyncer.com

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• ViewDocsOnline: Open Documents Online
• Google Docs: Online Word, Spreadsheet and Powerpoint
• DocStoc: Free Online Document Templates
• ThinkFree: Web Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Peepel: Online Word and Spreadsheet

Note from AudioRaider: Under no circumstances is this site to be used to download copyrighted content. All results are pulled directly from Google. None of the files in the results are hosted on this server.

Check out AudioRaider @ www.audioraider.com

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• Woonz : Find, Play and Download Music Tracks
• FilesTube : ‘File Sharing’ Search Engine
• Cr3ation B3ta : Meta MP3 Search
• AirMP3 : Free MP3 Search Engine
• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player

Google Pack programs (English version)

• Google Desktop: powerful desktop search + widget platform.
• Google Earth
• Google Screensaver: Set web/PC photos as screensaver. Collate photos.
• Google Talk: VoIP and Instant Messaging client
• Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer
• Adobe Reader
• Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar
• Norton Antivirus: comes with 6 month free access to virus definitions.
• Picasa: Find, edit, fix, and share your photos in seconds.
• Real PLayer
• StarOffice: free office suite (word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and more).
• Spyware Doctor: Spyware removal and detection program.
• Skype

pack.google.com

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• Zoogmo – P2P Backup Network
• VersionDownload: Archive Of Old Software Versions
• SnapFiles
• OSLiving: Archive for Top Open Source Software
• OldVersion: Find Older Versions of Software

Feature Overview

• Save and Share favorite webpages by posting them to ‘Shared Stuff’
• Share link by emailing it. Option to choose contacts from Gmail Address book.
• Share link on other social bookmarking/news websites: Facebook, Furl, del.icio.us, Social Poster, Reddit, Digg.
• Share your ‘Shared Stuff’ with others via link or RSS feed.
• Use tags to organize and browse through links in your ‘Shared Stuff’.
• See what’s most shared stuff (among all users) at any given moment.

Go to Google Shared Stuff [www.google.com/s2/sharing/stuff]

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• ReadBag : Save Links to Read them Later
• PaperSpan: Save Webpages To Read Later
• PageSlider: Put Your Favorite Sites on a Single Page
• InstaPaper: Simple Way to Bookmark ‘Must Read’ Stories for Later
• INeedToReadThis: Save Webpages For Later Viewing

Google Translate Features:

• Translate partial text OR browse and translate complete webpages (eg. translate MakeUseOf.com to German).
• Translated search: search among different language websites (Arabic, Chinese, etc.) and translate search results to English (or other).
• Standard dictionary service.
• Translate English to/from: Arabic, Chinese(Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese.
• Browser bookmarklets: One-click translate for the complete webpage or piece of text on any website.

Visit GoogleTranslate [http://www.google.com/translate_t]

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• Woxikon: Online Dictionary And Translation
• Mobile Translator : Free Online Dictionary for your Mobile Phone
• Lingro : Translate Words on any Web Page
• GoogleTranslatorToolkit: Online Document Translator
• GoogleTranslateTools: Translate Your Site Using Google

Groovle Features

• Browse user-created search pages by category (Animals, Athletes, Celebrities, Nature, Space, Sports) or Popularity.
• Maximum file size is limited to 1 MB (1024 KB).
• Supported image formats: Upload .JPG, .GIF or .PNG images.

Check out Groovle @ [www.groovle.com]

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• Search Cloudlet: Google Tag Search
• Google Web History
• Google Patents : Comprehensive Patent Search Engine
• Google Insights: See What the World is Searching For
• AudioRaider : Find Free MP3s on Google