Time for another MakeUseOf Poll, so get ready to vote. The goal of this poll is to discover those little known yet very useful web apps from Big Brother Google you didn’t know about. So make sure to vote on your Top 5.
We deliberately left out the popular ones including Youtube, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Orkut, Blogger and obviously Google Search.
Please Vote!
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- Google Alerts (see MakeUseOf review)
- Google Analytics (see MakeUseOf review)
- Blog Search
- Advanced Search Features
- Book Search
- Google Checkout
- Google Custom Search
- Google Code
- Google Desktop
- Google Earth
- Google Finance
- GOOG – 411 (see MakeUseOf review)
- GrandCentral (see MakeUseOf review)
- Google Groups
- Google Health
- iGoogle
- Knol
- Google Labs
- Google Maps / Maps Mobile
- Google Mobile
- News
- NoteBook
- Google Pack (see MakeUseOf review)
- Patent Search (see MakeUseOf review)
- Google Picasa (see MakeUseOf review)
- Product Search
- Ride Finder (see MakeUseOf review)
- Google Scholar
- SendToPhone Firefox Extension (see MakeUseOf review)
- Google Shared Stuff (see MakeUseOf review)
- Google Sites (see MakeUseOf review)
- SketchUp
- Google SMS (see MakeUseOf review)
- Special Searches
- Google Talk
- Google Toolbar
- Google Translate (see MakeUseOf review)
- Google Trends (see MakeUseOf review)
- Web Accelerator
- Web History (see MakeUseOf review)
There is no doubt we might have missed a few, so if you’re aware of any other Google service that wasn’t listed here let us know in the comments. Make sure to include the link as well. But DON’T vote for one of the popular services mentioned at the beginning! This poll is for the lesser known Google services.
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Maximum of 5 allowed choices is a little less out of so many. That too Google services
Interesting results so far. Would have expected blog search to be higher. Please keep the polls coming, we’re all learning here.
Yeah I too feel blog search should have been in the top five
hello i am a student i am 19
I also would have chosen Google Site Search that visitors use to search my website had it been listed as a choice.
It’s listed, see Google CO-OP (Custom Search)
why limit it to “top 5″?
I also thought Google Reader would be on this list… I use that more than anything
Google reader was deliberately left out, read the first 2 paragraphs.
Since when is Google Maps “little known”? I thought it was pretty much the de facto map/location application used by the masses. (The day my mom uses something, I pretty much assume the rest of the world knows about it. :-) )
My bad, The maps should have been left out as well.
What about Adsense? Isn’t that a google service? I second Google Reader too.
Ooops, I missed this one as well.
I forgot about Maps until after I voted D:
I use the translator all the time, I’ve found it works best for me comparatively.
Google’s translations always seem very odd to me. I use Dictionary.com
And where in the ether did my comment go? I said I found it hard to pick 5 because I had to think hard about “I’ve heard of that, have I ever used it? Um, maybe once…yeah, I think something was hosted on Google Code…”
* So Google Apps, Google Reader, News Archive and Adsense are missing
* 10 Choices minimum please
* Maybe include advanced labs views that cross two sections — like timeline view
DKebb
Oh, and also Webmaster Tools
Oh man, I missed this one as well. My bad
And Google Docs! This survey wasn’t really well expedited was it?
Google Docs was left out deliberately, read the first two paragraphs.
By the pint of the poll, I would have left out maps, earth, iGoogle, and Picasa, as I know more people who use those then use Reader (although I love Reader, but many people don’t know/understand RSS, but every one needs directions).
The restriction of ‘five’ made this too difficult to respond to. I use many of these on a daily basis: “Advanced Search”, Notebook, Alerts (do I use this continually?), News, etc
I don’t understand RSS things… but I understand google reader! lol
OH.. I use google calendar sync with my outlook calendar… I like that since I can glance at my calendar even when away from my computers. I also have a lap top…. and I sync both my desktop and laptop calendar w/ the google sync… I’m sure there are other ways i could sync the two, but this is so easy.. it sync’s every 120 mins or so on both.. so I don’t even have to think about it…