Google Tools

• Adsense Monitor – Scripts to track Google Adsense ads in PHP, ASP and Javascript.
• AdSense Preview Tool – Tool to preview sample AdSense ads with inputed URL.
• Compare Google’s Web Search to Google Accessible Search – Tool for comparing the standard search results of Google and its special search for accessible sites in the same page. Provided by Google Blogoscoped.
• DentedReality: XooMLe – Allows access to the API via a REST-like interface, with results returned in XML.
• DevilFinder – Search tool which shows Google results arranged 100 per page. Also has an image search which displays images full size, and a choice of news headlines from a variety of sources.
• FireFox SpamReport – Offering a FireFox extension for simplifying the Google spam reporting process.
• Floogle – Uses the Web API to allow users to search through Google’s entire database with results displayed in a Flash interface.
• Geoff’s GoogleDuel – Takes two search terms and shows which one is the most popular according to Google. Implementation using PHP with source code available.
• Geographic Search – This software, that won the 2002 Google Programming Contest, allows Google users to find web pages that are located within a specific geographic locale. Source code is distributed under the GNU GPL.
• GooFresh – Interface for restricting searches to sites added recently to the Google index.
• Google – Yahoo Comparison – Tool for comparing the search results of Google and Yahoo in the same page.
• Google Alert – Monitors professional interests online. Tracks the web for topics and sends new Google results by daily email. Not affiliated with Google.
• Google Dance Machine – Facilitates searching of all Google servers simultaneously. Includes additional options for German speakers. Requires frames.
• Google Dance Tool – Designed to help webmasters determine when Google is spidering the internet. Offers Google Web API help as well.
• Google Dance Tool – Checks Google servers to determine if there is an update in progress.
• Google Datacenter Tool – Offering a free tool to monitor specific Google data centers.
• Google Hacks – Collection of tools including Google News headlines projected onto a world map.
• Google Preview – A Firefox browser extension that inserts preview images (thumbnails) of web sites, Amazon products and stock charts into the Google search results page.
• Google Rankings – Online tool for checking any domain position for a given keywords in the Google’s search results for free.
• Google Relatedness – Calculates how related two given words are by using the API. Requires the Mozilla browser.
• Google SearchTool – Floating toolbar for Windows allowing you to conduct searches with Google. Includes an FAQ, screenshots and system requirements.
• Google Tool – Facilitates searching of all four Google servers (www www1 www2 and www3) simultaneously. Requires frames.
• Google Tool – Search www/www2/www3 or the five google datacenters simultaneously. Can be used to check if the dance has begun.
• Googlebar – Created to be used with Netscape 6/Mozilla, this unofficial software emulates many features of the Google Toolbar. Screenshots, downloads, and wishlist.
• GoogleJack – Play a variation of BlackJack, with a target of 101 instead of 21. Google API key required.
• Googolplex – A Python library to retrieve Google results without Google API.
• 2KRT: Keyword Ranking Tool – A free Microsoft Excel VBA application that can be used to check Google for keyword ranking and to track search engine rankings for various keywords over time. Uses Google API and API Web Service.
• Live PageRank – Displays the current PageRank value in the Google index for different data centers.
• Mangle Random Link Generator – Displays a random web site from Google’s archive. Powered by the Web API.
• OnFocus.com: Google Smackdown – Takes two words or phrases as input, queries Google via its API, and receives the estimated total results for each word or phrase to show which one is most popular.
• Page Rank Calculator – Webmaster tool for calculating the PR of a web site. Includes description of how PageRank works and related links.
• PageRank Calculator – Online graphic PR calculator.
• Pagerankstatus – Browser extension that displays the Google Pagerank in the browser’s status bar (Firefox and Mozilla only).
• Random Google Page – Uses a given amount of terms to select a ‘random’ page from the index.
• Random Google Search Thing – Generates random search queries for a user-defined number of search terms. The PHP source code is available.
• Random Web Search – Generates random words, then allows searching for them on Google.
• Scroogle – An ad-free Google search proxy which prevents the searcher’s data being stored by Google, a Firefox plugin, and tools for webmasters.
• Search Engine Engine – A PageRank and backlinks tool that parses the Google XML report of a URL for values that are different from the toolbar, with source code.
• Search Engine Position Tool – Utility based on the Google API to track keyword placement and back link data for an infinite number of keywords/URLs.
• Search Engine Results Personalisation – Tool to show the effects of filters are on the algorithmic results returned by the Google API. Personal white and blacklist capability.
• SEO Count – A Web based ranking reporting tool.
• SEO Tools: PageRank Search – Shows the Google results with their PageRank.
• SiteAll – Provides a Froogle data feed generator tool and a PageRank analysis tool for download. Includes articles and news.
• Stadtaus: Google Dance Tool PHP Script – A PHP script to compare the results of the three Google servers www, www2 and www3 at a glance. The tool can be downloaded and used without charge or registration.
• Stagger Nation – Offering various tools based on the Google API. Includes source code.
• TouchGraph GoogleBrowser – Java application that uses the Web API to produce graphs of related pages by running «similar-to» queries on Google.
• Yahoo Store Feed to Google Product Search – Offers a web-based datafeed submission to Google Product Search for a Yahoo store.
• YIMGoogle – Java-based bot on Yahoo IM that searches Google for a given search term and returns the first five results.

http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_Engines/Google/Tools/

Google Reveals 2008 Plans For Google Apps

Google is usually fairly tight lipped about future product releases. But they were surprisingly revealing about upcoming plans for Google Apps at an event in Ann Arbor earlier this week. Blogger Andrew Miller took some great notes from a presentation by Googler Scott Johnston, the VP of Product Development at wiki startup Jotspot prior to their acquisition by Google a little over a year ago.

First, Google Sites, an evolution of Google Page Creator, will launch in 2008. Google Sites will be based on JotSpot collaboration tools and will allow businesses to create intranets, project management tracking, extranets and other custom sites.

We should also expect Google Docs, Gmail and Calendar to soon work offline via Google Gears. This has been widely predicted, but it’s good to see it coming more formally from Google (note that Zoho, a Google Docs competitor, already has offline functionality via Google Gears).

Some of the other stuff is more speculative, but worth the read (pivot tables on Google Spreadsheets? I doubt it).

* Google Sites: Scheduled to be launched sometime next year (2008), Google Sites will expand upon the Google Page Creator already offered within Apps. Based on JotSpot collaboration tools, Sites will allow business to set up intranets, project management tracking, customer extranets, and any number of custom sites based on multi-user collaboration.

* Will users be able to edit docs, spreadsheets and presentation offline? Scott’s answer was yes, and that the Google Gears plugin would handle the offline work. In addition, Google Gears support is in the works for Gmail and Google Calendar.

* What happens when somebody edits a document offline at the same time another user is editing the online version? The same algorithm that reconciles simultaneous editing will apply here when the offline version is merged back into the online version. Changes will be versioned the same way, so basically in chronological order.

* Will Google docs have OCR capabilities for importing .pdfs or other graphical files? Not yet, but perhaps someday. Scott couldn’t comment on the “roadmap” for future enhancements. However, the collaborative Google Sites (based on JotSpot) will allow for upload and storage of any file type.

* Will GrandCentral be integrated into Google Apps? If so, when? Again, Scott didn’t comment on the timing but said they are working on it and it is a “huge priority” for them.

* Will Google Spreadsheets ever have advanced features like pivot tables, macros or offline database integrations? (This was actually my question) Scott said they are constantly trying to find the balance between speed and utility. It will never be a heavy duty analytics program because that would be too heavy and bulky for the average user.

* Will Google Apps support video conferencing in addition to Google Talk and Chat? Scott’s answer, “Not yet”. I got the impression from his body language that it’ll come