Google Labs

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Google Labs is a website demonstrating new Google projects "that aren't quite ready for prime time". It serves as a testing ground for new services being developed.

Tools currently available at Google Labs are:

• Personalized Home Page

• Google Extensions for Firefox

• Personalized search

• My Search History

• Google Web Accelerator

• Google Ride Finder

• Google Suggest in Japanese

• Google Suggest: The standard Google search with predictive input

• Google Scholar: Search of journal articles, abstracts and other scholarly works

• Site Flavored Google Search Box

• Froogle Wireless

• Google Compute: Help science by giving away your free processing cycles, currently supporting the Folding at home project.

• Google Sets: Finds more members of a set you provide

A number of tools that have previously been at Google Labs have become more widely available. These are:

• Google Maps: Maps and driving directions

• Google SMS: Search for and receive results on a mobile phone via SMS

• Google Desktop Search 2.0 (Beta): A program that searches through the text of files on a computer and on the net

• Google Groups 2

• Google Deskbar

• Web Alerts

• Search by Location

• Google Glossary

• Google News Alerts

• Google Toolbar 3

See also

• List of Google services and tools

External links

• Google Labs website

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