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

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