Google Tools List Did you know Google has...

Google has a Tools Library? Most web surfers and site owners do not even know that Google offers a wide range of gadgets and tools to make your online time easier and better. I wanted to put together a list of these tools for easier access, and figured I would share the list with our visitors. I hope you find something useful here. Please note that Google may change their URL's, and drop or add new program gadgets. We may not have had time to update the page, but Google is pretty good with adding links to bring people to an updated page.

Webmaster Tools Tools of the trade

• Google Webmaster Central - A one-stop shop of resources that will help you have a successful website.

• Add URL to Google - Enter your full URL example: http://www.mydomain.com/. Add keywords or comments that describe the content of your page. Only the top-level page from a host is necessary; you do not need to submit each individual page.

• Webmaster Blogspot - Great place to get the latest news and updates on how Google crawls and indexes website's

• Site Status Wizard - Find out if your site is being indexed by Google.

• Google Analytics- A great tool that shows you which sites, search engines, keywords refer your traffic and how visitors interact with your site.

• Google Cloud - Popular for blog's and website's. Enter search terms as you would on Google. Searches will show up in the tag cloud below.

• Custom Search Engine - Help visitors find what they're looking for by getting Google-powered site search.

• Google Code Developer Tools - Learn Google API's and developer tools to put technologies like Google Maps and AJAX Search on your website.

• Google Gadgets - Enhance your website with Google Gadgets to make your site even more interesting and useful to your visitors.

• Google Webmaster Help - Get in touch with your fellow webmasters and share your feedback.

• Webmaster Support FAQ - View answers to frequently asked questions about crawling, indexing, ranking and other webmaster issues.

• Sitemap Generator (Python script) - Creates a Sitemap for your site using the Sitemap Protocol. The script can create Sitemaps from URL lists, web server directories, or from access logs.

• Google Website Optimizer - A free multivariate and A/B testing tool, helps online marketers increase visitor conversion rates and overall visitor satisfaction by continually testing different combinations of site content (text and images).

Business Tools Google Tools

• Adwords - Advertise on Google with AdWords. Your ads appear on Google search results and website's. Reach your target audience across our network of partner sites and there's no minimum cost requirements.

• Website Search - Include a search box that will search all of your website's and blog's.

• Adsense - Earn revenue from your website. Google AdSense delivers ads that are precisely targeted to your site.

• Google Maps - Use the Local Business Center to create your free listing.

• Google Base - A place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content, which Google makes searchable on Google (if your content isn't online yet, they put it there).

• Google geospatial solutions - Allow your organization's employees to visualize and model corporate information. Each solution adapts the consumer products you know and love and adds the ability to integrate your company's data in a private, secure manner. Google Earth Pro - Google Earth Enterprise - Google Maps - Google Sketch Up Pro

Business Website Payment Processing Shopping Carts & Checkouts

	Google Checkout - This has to be one of the best new features yet. Google Checkout is a fast, convenient checkout process that brings you more customers and allows them to buy from you with a single login and you can process their orders and charge their credit or debit cards for free. »
	Increase sales » Increase traffic to your site and convert traffic into sales by offering a streamlined checkout process to buyers in over 140 countries. read more
	Process sales for free » Get free credit card processing until 2008 and pay no monthly, setup or gateway fees. read more
	Protect yourself from fraud » Checkout's Payment Guarantee protects 98% of Checkout orders on average -- when an order is guaranteed, you get paid even if it results in a charge back. read more

U.S. Government Searches

• Google U.S. Government Search - Google U.S. Government Search offers a single location for searching across U.S. government information. Keep up to date on government news. You can choose to search for content located on either U.S. federal, state and local government website's or the entire Web -- from the same search box

• Google's University Search - Enables you to narrow your search to a specific school website. Search for things like admissions information, course schedules, or alumni news. Choose from a list of target schools.

Google Applications

With Google App's, you can give employees powerful communication and collaboration tools that will help bring their productivity to the next level. Google App's includes email with professional addresses like billing@your-company.com and up to 10 gigabytes of storage per account. And the publishing tools make it easier to deliver important information to employees and customers alike.

Tools for multiple organizations • Google Small Businesses  •  Enterprises  •  Schools  •  Families or Groups

   Communicate and connect » Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar
   Collaborate and publish » Start Page, Google Documents, Page Creator
   Manage your services » Control Panel, Help & support
   Link to set up these Google applications » Google Tools set-up

Google's Main Special Search Features

• Google - The most popular global search engine on the Internet.

• Advanced Search - Search with specific parameters such as language, file formats, dates, domains, and more.

• Google Suggest - As you type into the search box, Google Suggest guesses what you're typing and offers suggestions. This is similar to Google's "Did you mean?" feature that offers alternative spellings for your search.

• Google Directory Search - Search via categories. This helps weed out non specifics returns relevant pages according to category.

• Google Web History Search - The Web History, while logged into Google, you can view and search across the full text of the pages you've visited, including Google searches, web pages, images, videos and news stories. You can also manage your web activity and remove items from your web history at any time.

• Blog Search - Blog Search is Google's search technology focused on blog's.

• Advanced Blog Search - Find options to specify titles, authors, languages and more.

• Find a RIDE! - Find taxi or shuttle locations in select areas.

Special Feature Searches:

• Book Search - Search the full text of books to find ones that interest you and learn where to buy or borrow them.

• Catalog Search - Browse and search merchant provided catalogs right on your computer. Go through any catalog to find what interests you, or simply type in what you're looking for, and you'll find every place that your search term appears in the catalog.

• Product Search - Search for things to buy with a product search.

• Video Search - Search the Google video archive for relevant results on your video search term.

• Code Search (new) - Search public source code.

• Scholar Search - Broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

• News Search - An easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods.

• Image Search - The most comprehensive image search on the web. Great tool for any type of project you can think of. Please be sure to note images may hold copyrights to respectful owners.

• Patent Search - With Google Patent Search, you can now search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you.

Helpful Google Search Operator's for Web Designers & SEO:

Example: In the Google search box you would type cache:www.michelespaintshop.com

• cache: View a cached version of the web page.

• related: View web pages that are related to a URL.

• phonebook: Will show phonebook listings for the search term (example phonebook:best buys NY)

• rphonebook: Will show you resident phonebook listings for the search term (example rphonebook:jane doe NJ)

• allintitle: Find specific words or terms is page titles. (example allintitle:Fat Black Cats)
  

Google Base Searches:

• Google Base Search - Simply describe your items on Base to make them as easy as possible for people to find when they search. You don't even need a website to put your stuff online. *you will need a google base account

	One Time Upload » Have 10 or fewer items? Fill out our web form for each item you would like to post. * read more
	Process sales for free » Get free credit card processing until 2008 and pay no monthly, setup or gateway fees. *read more
	Protect yourself from fraud » Checkout's Payment Guarantee protects 98% of Checkout orders on average -- when an order is guaranteed, you get paid even if it results in a charge back.*read more

Google Mobile Search:

• Google SMS - Google SMS is a service that lets you send queries to Google by SMS. Check to see what country Google SMS is currently active in. U.S. and Canada is active.
  
  

  Example searches you can do with Google SMS.

  Local - Weather - Glossary - Sports - Movies - Stocks - Zip Codes - Directions - Maps - Flights - Area Codes - Products - Q&A - Airlines - Translation - Web Snippets - Calculator - Currency Conversion - Airports - Help




• Google Mobile on the GO - Get Search, Maps, Gmail and more. This service has been designed especially for your mobile.

	Search A better way to search with Google from your mobile
	Maps Locate nearby businesses and services
	Gmail A faster way to get Gmail on the go
	Picasa View photo albums on your mobile
	YouTube Watch and upload videos from anywhere
	GOOG-411 Use voice to find local businesses on the go
	Calendar View and add to your calendar
	News Read up on the latest news from anywhere
	SMS Get quick info from Google
	Blogger Post photos and share experiences from your mobile device
	Reader Read your favorite blog's and news feeds on the go

Google Toolbars:

• Google Desktop - Search Google right from the computer desktop.

• Google Browser Toolbar - Browser Google Toolbar

• Google for Firefox - Custom toolbar for Firefox browser users.

• Enterprise Toolbar - Provides powerful productivity features including easy access to Google, customized search buttons, instant search suggestions, and a pop-up blocker.

Google Tools for Firefox:

• Google Preview - Inserts preview images (thumbnails) of web sites and Amazon products into the Google and Yahoo search results pages

• Customize Google in Firefox - Firefox extension that enhance Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam).

• Advanced Operations Toolbar - This toolbar provides a shortcut to some of Google's advanced search functions. It is designed to provide quick, efficient and fast access to some of Google's advanced features.

• Firefox Feeling Lucky - Performs Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" search with any selected text and opens the random result in new a tab.

• Firefox Advanced Dork - Advanced Dork: gives quick access to Google's Advanced Operators directly from the context menu. *view link to see all options

Apple Macintosh, BSD Unix, Linux, Microsoft Searches:

• Apple Mac Search - Google Software Downloads for the Mac. Multiple tools for the Mac user can be found here

• BSD Unix - Search BSD libraries.

• Google Linux - Search Linux libraries.

• Google Microsoft - Search Microsoft libraries.