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Google Labs Gets Aardvark as Latest Search Experiment

Google Labs Gets Aardvark as Latest Search Experiment
Written By
Clint Boulton
Clint Boulton
Feb 22, 2010
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Google Labs Gets Aardvark as Latest Search Experiment

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Google Labs Gets Aardvark as Latest Search ExperimentBy Clint Boulton


Aardvark

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Google Squared

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Google Squared automatically constructs a table of facts about any category you specify.


Google Image Swirl

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Google Image Swirl organizes image search results based on their similarity to other images and presents them in a creative manner.


Fusion Tables

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An uber spreadsheet, Fusion Tables let users manage large collections of table data in the cloud.


Google News Timeline

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Google News Timeline lets users see news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, and other content more on a graphical timeline.


In Quotes

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Google in Quotes lets users search and compare quotes from political figures found in stories on Google News from the United States, Canada, India and the U.K.


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Chrome Experiments

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A showcase of experiments for JavaScript and Web browsers created by designers around the world.


Google Audio Indexing

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Google Audio Indexing uses speech technology to find spoken words inside YouTube videos, letting users jump to the right portion of the video where these words are spoken.


Google Listen

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Designed for smartphones based on Google’s Android operating system, this app provides an audio news-magazine loaded with new content.


Google Moderator

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Google Moderator lets users suggest questions and vote on others’ questions. This app was used for the Google’s Q3 financial earnings call, but abandoned in Q4.


Google Transliteration

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Use Google Transliteration to type phonetically using an English keyboard.


Browser Size

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This cool tool/a> lets users see which important parts of their Web page can’t be seen by users without scrolling. This is a great tool for apps developers.


Google Fast Flip

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This feature provides a microfiche-style reading interface for magazine and newspaper readers.


Google Living Stories

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Developed by Google, The New York Times and The Washington Post, Living Stories lets users read newspapers in a more interactive fashion.


Google Goggles

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Profiled extensively by eWEEK, Google Goggles lets users search Google by taking pictures from their camera phones. Google believes this is the next frontier of computer vision.


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Places Directory

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This is a directory for Android-powered phones to look up points of interest coming from Google Local.

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