326 ideas we could build and sell: 18 SaaS ideas for small businesses and all 308 products Google shut down (from killedbygoogle.com). Every idea is rated 1 to 5 on seven things, and each one says how easy it is to build.
On iPhone: tap Share, then Add to Home Screen to install.
Each rating is 1 to 5, where 5 is always best. Score is the sum, so 35 is the maximum.
CallJoy was an Area 120 project that provided phone automation for small-to-medium businesses allowing them to train the bot agent with...
AI answers SME phones, books appointments, texts links; Danish Caller already does the hard part.
Punchd was a digital loyalty card app and service targeted towards small businesses that originated as a student project at Cal Poly in...
Digital stamp cards via QR; Goldcard already has loyalty.
Real Estate on Google Maps enabled users to find places for sale or rent in an area they were interested in.
Listings on a map; we already run the Cebu real estate portal.
SMS/email after a visit asking for a Google or Trustpilot review, alert on bad ratings
Who buys: Clinics, garages, restaurants
Why: Visible marketing ROI.
SMS/email after visit, Google review link, alert on bad ratings.
Trained on the company's own documents, in Danish, with handoff to a person
Who buys: E-commerce, SaaS, utilities
Why: Replaces first-line support staff.
RAG on company docs in Danish with handoff; Danish Caller AI stack.
Google Optimize was a web analytics and testing tool that allowed users to run experiments aimed at increasing visitor conversion rates...
A/B testing snippet + visual editor + stats; gap since Google quit, VWO is costly.
Automatic payment reminders, late fees, MobilePay/GCash payment links
Who buys: Any business that invoices
Why: Gets money in faster, and the result is easy to measure.
Reminders via e-conomic/Dinero APIs + payment links (MobilePay/GCash).
G Suite Training (previously known as Synergyse) provided interactive and video-based training for 20 Google G Suite products in nine...
Tutorials for Workspace/M365 + quizzes; PassCheck quiz engine.
Grand Central was a Voice over IP service that was acquired by Google, and turned into Google Voice.
One business number ringing all phones + voicemail transcripts; Twilio + Danish Caller.
Wildfire by Google was a social marketing application that enabled businesses to create, optimize and measure their presence on social...
Social contests/giveaways + scheduling for SMEs; fits the Facebook groups dashboard.
Google Maps Coordinate was a service for managing mobile workforces with the help of mobile apps and a web-based dashboard.
Live map of field workers + job dispatch PWA (Leaflet + phone GPS); fits tradesman work.
Google Hire was an applicant tracking system to help small to medium businesses distribute jobs, identify and attract candidates, build...
Small-business ATS: job posts, pipeline board, email templates; reuse Siteboard boards.
(also known as Google Short Links) was a URL shortening service.
go/name shortlinks for teams: tiny Laravel app + browser extension.
Google Click-to-Call allowed a user to speak directly over the phone to businesses found in search results.
Website button that calls the business back via Twilio; Danish Caller stack.
Google's Site Search was a service that enabled any website to add a custom search field powered by Google.
Hosted site search widget (Meilisearch); clear Google CSE replacement.
Urchin was a web statistics analysis program developed by Urchin Software Corporation.
Cookie-free self-hosted analytics (Plausible model); GDPR angle.
Analytics platform for Google's Dialogflow chatbot & others, started by the Google-funded Area120 incubator then retired and partially...
Chatbot analytics: log ingest, funnels, failed questions; pairs with the AI inbox idea.
Google My Business was an app that allowed businesses to manage their Google Maps Business profiles.
Multi-location Google Business Profile manager for agencies; needs API approval.
Job sheet, photos, customer signature, materials used → invoice
Who buys: Tradesmen (fits with the tradesman sites)
Why: Cuts admin per job and stops billable hours going missing.
Job sheet PWA with photos + signature, then invoice; fits tradesman sites.
Answers the sustainability questionnaires big customers send their suppliers
Who buys: Subcontractors to large companies
Why: Their big customers must report under the new EU rules (CSRD) and pass the questions down. Without answers, the SME loses the deal.
Questionnaire answers from invoices + energy data; templates for the EU VSME standard.
Google Maps Engine was an online tool for map creation.
Business map data platform (layers, sharing) on Leaflet + PostGIS.
Google Search Appliance was a rack-mounted device that provided document indexing functionality.
Enterprise search over drives/SharePoint with AI answers; Glean at the top end.
Google URL Shortener, also known as goo.gl, was a URL shortening service.
Short links + QR + click stats; Bitly competes.
Google Moderator was a service that used crowdsourcing to rank user-submitted questions, suggestions, and ideas.
Audience Q&A + upvoting for meetings; Slido competes.
YouTube Community Contributions allowed users to contribute translations for video titles or submit descriptions, closed captions or...
AI subtitles + translation (Whisper); our video pipelines.
Records and transcribes Danish, decisions and tasks go out to the team
Who buys: Boards, municipalities, consultants
Why: Saves time on every meeting.
Whisper Danish transcription + Claude summary + task list.
Google Offers was a service offering discounts and coupons.
Local deals/coupons for shops; the Goldcard network can push it.
Portfolios was a feature available in Google Finance to track personal financial securities.
Portfolio tracker + news; World Investor has market code.
Price lists, branded PDF, customer accepts online, turns into an order
Who buys: Tradesmen, B2B services, agencies
Why: Faster quotes win more jobs.
Price list + branded PDF + accept link; fits tradesman sites.
Tour Creator allowed users to build immersive, 360° guided tours that could be viewed with VR devices.
360 photo tours with hotspots (Pannellum) for real estate/hotels.
Google One Pass was an online store developed by Google for media publishers looking to sell subscriptions to their content.
Paywall + subscriptions for small publishers; Memberful competes.
Google Photos Print was a subscription service that automatically selected the best ten photos from the last thirty days which were...
Monthly auto-picked prints: AI picks best photos, print partner API ships.
Google Surveys was a business product by Google aimed at facilitating customized market research.
Form builder + paid panel; PassCheck quiz engine is a start. Paying respondents is the hard part.
Google Translator Toolkit was a web application which allowed translators to edit and manage translations generated by Google Translate.
AI translation memory for agencies (Danish/English); Smartcat competes.
Collects insurance, certificates and tax documents, warns before they expire
Who buys: Main contractors, facility management
Why: Covers the main contractor's legal liability for its subcontractors.
Document upload + expiry reminders + subcontractor portal.
Watches public tender sites (udbud.dk, EU's TED, PhilGEPS), with AI summary, fit score and draft answer
Who buys: Builders, IT and consulting firms
Why: Missing one tender can cost millions.
Scrape udbud.dk/TED/PhilGEPS, AI summary + fit score.
Google Page Creator was a website creation and hosting service that allowed users to build basic websites with no HTML knowledge.
Simple website builder for SMEs; we already build tradesman sites.
Google Sites (Classic) allowed users to build and edit websites and wiki portals for private and public use.
Easy team/intranet site builder; we build sites.
Tables was a collaborative database platform and competitor to Airtable, focused on making project tracking more efficient with automation.
Airtable-style database; Siteboard boards are a start.
AngularJS was a JavaScript open-source front-end web framework based on MVC pattern using a dependency injection technique.
Legacy AngularJS migration service; consulting, not SaaS.
Google Chart API was an interactive Web service that created graphical charts from user-supplied data.
URL in, chart image out (QuickChart model); small steady API income.
Dark Web Reports was a dark web scanner that searched for personal info leaks.
Breach alerts via HIBP API for SMEs and staff.
Tablet check-in, NDA signing, notifies the host, evacuation list
Who buys: Offices, factories, labs
Why: Security and fire safety rules.
Tablet PWA check-in, NDA signature, host SMS, evacuation list.
Areo was a mobile app that allowed users in Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Gurgaon, and Pune to order meals from nearby restaurants or...
Home services booking; myservice + laundry app already do this.
Threadit was a tool for recording and sharing short videos.
Async video messages (Loom model).
Google Helpouts was an online collaboration service where users could share their expertise through live video.
Paid expert video calls + booking; Jumbobooking/Calma booking code.
Google Reader was an RSS/Atom feed aggregator.
RSS reader with AI summaries (FreshRSS base); Feedly competes.
Needlebase was a point-and-click tool for extracting, sorting and visualizing data from across pages around the web.
Point-and-click scraper with AI; Browse AI competes.
Risk assessment (Denmark's APV), incident and near-miss reporting, safety rounds with photos
Who buys: Construction, production, logistics
Why: Required by law, and the work environment authority inspects.
APV forms, incident reports, safety rounds with photos.
Google Commerce Search was an enterprise search service that powered online retail stores and e-commerce websites that improved speed...
Webshop search on Meilisearch + AI synonyms; Algolia competes.
Hangouts on Air allowed users to host a multi-user video call while recording and streaming the call on YouTube.
Webinars/live streaming with recording; StreamYard competes.
Mobile check-in, swapping shifts, payroll export (e.g. to Danløn)
Who buys: Restaurants, shops, cleaning firms, care
Why: They schedule every week, and wrong payroll is expensive.
Schedule grid, shift swap, clock-in PWA, Danløn export; Planday competes.
BebaPay was a form of electronic ticketing platform in Nairobi, Kenya that was developed by Google in partnership with Equity Bank.
QR/NFC fares for Cebu jeepneys and buses; needs operator buy-in.
Postini was an e-mail, Web security, and archiving service that filtered e-mail spam and malware (before it was delivered to a client's...
Email security gateway; spam filtering is an arms race.
Streams was a "clinician support app" which aimed to improve clinical decision-making and patient safety across hospitals in the United...
Clinical alerts app; medical device regulation.
Enhanced 404 Pages was a JavaScript library that added suggested URLs and a search box to a website's 404 Not Found page.
JS snippet suggesting pages on 404s; small add-on for SEO tools.
QR labels, service and inspection reminders, damage reports
Who buys: Rental firms, municipalities, construction
Why: Fewer breakdowns, and audits are easier.
QR labels, service reminders, damage reports.
Flix Cloud was a high-capacity online video encoding service.
Video encoding API on ffmpeg workers (we run these); Mux competes.
Socratic was a free educational app that helped students with homework by scanning questions with a smartphone camera and offering...
AI homework helper; ChatGPT competes.
Cookie banner, processing records, data processor agreements, data access request workflow
Who buys: All SMBs
Why: Avoids fines. Low effort for the buyer, so they keep paying.
Cookie banner + processing records + DPA templates; Cookiebot competes.
Google Domains was a domain name registrar operated by Google.
Resell via Namecheap API (we already use it); thin margins.
Low-stock alerts, multiple locations, stock counts on a phone
Who buys: Retail, small warehouses, workshops
Why: Prevents running out of stock and tying up money in too much.
Barcode scanning PWA, locations, stock counts.
Kormo Jobs was an app that allowed users in primarily India, Indonesia, and Bangladesh to help them find jobs nearby that match their...
Entry-level job board for the Philippines; JobStreet competes.
Checklists, equipment, accounts, e-learning on day 1
Who buys: Companies with 20–500 employees
Why: Saves HR time and reduces security gaps when people leave.
Checklists, equipment, e-learning (PassCheck quiz engine).
Prices per customer, quick reorder, credit limits
Who buys: Wholesalers, food suppliers
Why: Moves phone and email orders online.
Customer prices, quick reorder, credit limits; WooCommerce B2B plugins compete.
Backup and Sync was a desktop software tool for Windows and macOS that allowed users to sync files from Google Drive to their local machine.
Folder backup to S3 with a desktop agent; Backblaze.
YouTube Video Editor was a web-based tool for editing, merging, and adding special effects to video content.
Browser video editor (ffmpeg.wasm); we have video pipelines. CapCut is free.
App Maker was a tool that allowed its users to build and deploy custom business apps easily and securely on the web without writing much...
Low-code builder; huge effort, Retool/Glide compete.
Web hosting in Google Drive allowed users to publish live websites by uploading HTML, CSS, and other files.
Drop a folder, get a website; Netlify Drop competes.
Google Directory was an Internet website directory organized into 14 main categories that allowed users to explore the web.
Local business directory (Cebu, Danish trades); SEO + paid listings.
Material Gallery was a collaboration tool for UI designers, optimized for Google's Material Design, with mobile preview apps and a...
Design review board with comments for agencies.
Trendalyzer was a data trend viewing platform.
Animated bubble charts from CSV; pairs with Annual Report Video.
Conversational Actions extended the functionality of Google Assistant by allowing 3rd party developers to create custom experiences, or...
Voice/chat agents for businesses; overlaps Danish Caller.
Google Jamboard was a web app, native whiteboard app, and standalone whiteboard hardware that offered a collaborative experience.
Online whiteboard on tldraw/Excalidraw; Miro competes.
YouTube Video Annotations allowed video creators to add interactive commentary to their videos containing background information,...
Interactive video with clickable hotspots for courses/sales; video pipeline fit.
Google Audio Ads service allowed advertisers to run campaigns on AM/FM radio stations in the US using the AdWords interface.
Radio/podcast ad booking marketplace for local stations.
Google Mini was a smaller version of the Google Search Appliance.
Document search box for small firms as a Docker image.
Google PowerMeter was a software project of Google's philanthropic arm that helped consumers track their home electricity usage.
Energy dashboard from smart meter data (Eloverblik in DK).
Grasshopper was a free mobile and web app for aspiring programmers that taught introductory JavaScript and coding fundamentals using...
Mobile coding lessons; content heavy.
Templates, MitID signing, renewal and notice-period alerts
Who buys: Property managers, agencies, HR
Why: Stops missed renewals and lost paperwork.
Templates + MitID signing via a broker (Criipto) + renewal alerts.
Google Cloud Print allowed users to 'print from anywhere;' to print from web, desktop, or mobile to any Google Cloud Print-connected...
Print-anywhere: agent on local PC + cloud queue; PaperCut competes.
The Google Web APIs were a free SOAP service for doing Google searches so that developers could use the results in almost any way they...
Search API needs its own index. Skip.
Message Center was a web console where Gmail users could view and manage spam email messages.
Email quarantine viewer for IT admins; pairs with a Postini-type product.
Doppl was an early experimental AI app launched by Google Labs in June 2025 to create a "digital twin" or virtual model of yourself for...
AI virtual try-on for clothing shops.
Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) was a notification service that enabled developers to send messages between servers and client apps running...
Push notification service (OneSignal model); FCM is free.
Google Notebook allowed users to save and organize clips of information while conducting research online.
Web clipper + notes; Notion/Evernote compete.
Your News Update was a service that offered an audio digest of a mix of short news stories chosen at that moment based on a user's...
AI audio news digest; our Danish TTS work fits.
Google Catalogs was a shopping application that delivered the virtual catalogs of large retailers to users.
PDF to flipbook catalogs for shops; Issuu competes.
Google Cloud Prediction API was a PaaS for machine learning (ML) functionality to help developers build ML models to create application...
AutoML on CSV; crowded.
Google Currents was a service that provided social media features similar to Google+ for Google Workspace customers.
Intranet social feed; Workplace by Meta also closed, so a gap.
Fabric was a platform that helped mobile teams build better apps, understand their users, and grow their business.
Crash reporting SDKs; Sentry dominates.
Fitbit Coach (formerly Fitstar) was a video-based bodyweight workout app that used AI to personalize workouts based on user feedback.
Bodyweight video workouts; filming content is the work.
Fitstar Yoga was a video-based yoga app that created unique yoga sessions based on user preference and skill level.
Yoga video sessions; filming content is the work.
Google Compare allowed consumers to compare several offers ranging from insurance, mortgage, and credit cards.
Insurance/loan comparison; licensing + partner feeds, lead fees pay well.
SlickLogin was an Israeli start-up company which developed sound-based password alternatives, was acquired by Google and hasn't released...
Passwordless login (passkeys); Auth0/Clerk compete.
Google Cloud IoT Core was a managed service designed to let customers securely connect, manage, and ingest data from globally dispersed...
MQTT device platform; AWS IoT/EMQX.
Google Radio Automation was a hardware and software service used by radio operators to automate song playing among other radio station...
Radio playout + ad scheduling; niche, local stations pay.
Inbox by Gmail aimed to improve email through several key features.
Smart client on Gmail API (bundles, snooze); Google security review; Superhuman competes.
Google Bookmarks was a private web-based bookmarking service not integrated with any other Google services.
Cloud bookmarks + tags; Raindrop competes.
Google Public Service Search provided governmental, non-profit and academic organizational search results without ads.
Cheap site search for NGOs and municipalities.
My Maps was an Android application that enabled users to create custom maps for personal use or sharing on their mobile device.
Custom map builder on Leaflet (as in the real estate portal); freemium.
Google Fusion Tables was a web service for data management that provided a means for visualizing data in different charts, maps, and graphs.
Spreadsheet to map/charts; Datawrapper competes.
Timeful was an iOS to-do list and calendar application, developed to reinvent the way that people manage their most precious resource of...
AI schedules todos into the calendar; Motion/Reclaim compete.
VPN by Google One was a virtual private network service that provided users encrypted transit of their data and network activity and...
WireGuard servers in a few countries + app; the hard part is out-marketing NordVPN.
BufferBox was a Canadian startup that provided consumers 24/7 convenience of picking up their online purchases.
Parcel lockers; hardware + locations.
Google Checkout was an online payment processing service that aimed to simplify the process of paying for online purchases.
Payment processor license. Skip.
A service that Google developed for long-tail travel clients.
Flight search needs airline GDS deals. Skip.
G Suite (Legacy Free Edition) was a free tier offering some of the services included in Google's productivity suite.
Cheap custom-domain email; hosting margins.
Blog Compass was a blog management tool that integrated with WordPress and Blogger available only in India.
Blog stats + comment manager for WordPress; small market.
Google Bulletin was a hyperlocal news service where users could post news from their neighborhood and allow others in the same areas to...
Hyperlocal news posting PWA; local ad money.
iGoogle was a customizable Ajax-based start page or personal web portal.
Custom start page with widgets; small freemium.
Tour Builder allowed users to create and share interactive tours inside Google Earth with photos and videos of locations.
Map-based story tours on Leaflet.
Google Answers was an online knowledge market.
Paid expert Q&A with escrow; AI makes it harder.
Google Code Search was a free beta product which allowed users to search for open-source code on the Internet.
Code search over repos; open source alternatives.
Google Insights for Search was a service used to provide data about terms people searched in Google and was merged into Google Trends.
Keyword trend tool; needs paid data (DataForSEO).
Google Nearby Notifications were a proximity marketing tool using Bluetooth beacons and location-based data to serve content relevant to...
Beacon/QR proximity offers for shops.
Google Code Jam, Kick Start, and Hash Code were competitive programming competitions open to programmers around the world.
Judge sandbox (Judge0) + leaderboard; money from sponsors and recruiters.
Google Realtime API provided ways to synchronize resources between devices.
Realtime sync backend; Firebase/Liveblocks.
Google Video Marketplace was a service that included a store where videos could be bought and rented.
Sell your own videos (Vimeo OTT model).
Expeditions was a program for providing virtual reality experiences to school classrooms through Google Cardboard viewers, allowing...
VR field trips for schools; content production.
Google Health was a personal health information centralization service that provided users a merged health record from multiple sources.
Personal health records; heavy compliance.
Zync render was a cloud render platform for animation and visual effects.
GPU render farm; hardware rental and software licensing.
GOOG-411 (or Google Voice Local Search) was a telephone service that provided a speech-recognition-based business directory search.
Call a number, AI finds a local business; Danish Caller stack.
Google Flu Vaccine Finder was a maps mash-up that showed nearby vaccination places across the United States.
Find nearby clinics/pharmacies; BloodDonor map is similar.
Reply was a mobile app that let users insert Smart Replies (pre-defined replies) into conversations on messaging apps.
AI quick replies; built into phones now.
Google Album Archive was a platform that allowed users to access and manage their archived photos and videos from various Google...
Upload + gallery + export; storage costs grow with users.
Google Crisis Map was a website that allowed to create, publish, and share maps by combining layers from anywhere on the web.
Disaster map layers on Leaflet; NGOs and cities pay little.
Google Trader was a classifieds service run by Google in Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, and Nigeria to help customers trade goods and services...
Classifieds for Ghana/PH; Facebook Marketplace dominates.
Material Theme Editor was a plugin for Sketch App which allowed you to create a material-based design system for your app.
Theme/design token generator as a Figma plugin; small paid niche.
MyTracks was a GPS tracking application for Android which allowed users to track their path, speed, distance, and elevation.
GPS track recorder PWA; Strava dominates.
One Today was an app that allowed users to donate $1 to different organizations and discover how their donation would be used.
$1 a day donations; Stripe + charity vetting.
Science Journal was a mobile app that helped you run science experiments with your smartphone using the device's onboard sensors.
Phone sensor lab notebook for schools.
Trusted Contacts was an app that allowed users to share their location and view the location of specific users.
Emergency location sharing; phones have SOS.
Google Refine was a standalone desktop application for data cleanup and transformation to other formats.
AI data cleaning SaaS; OpenRefine is free.
Gizmo5 was a VOIP communications network and a proprietary freeware soft phone for that network.
VoIP softphone on Twilio; crowded.
Google Ride Finder was a service that used GPS data to pinpoint and map the location of taxis, limos, and shuttle vehicles available for...
Live taxi/tricycle finder for Cebu; needs drivers.
Duplex on the Web was a Google Assistant technology that automated tasks on the web on behalf of a user; such as booking movie tickets...
AI browser agent filling forms; fragile.
ZygoteBody, formerly Google Body, was a web application by Zygote Media Group that rendered manipulable 3D anatomical models of the...
3D anatomy for students; 3D model licensing.
Sparrow was an email client for OS X and iOS.
Native mail client on 3 platforms.
Google Code was a service that provided revision control, an issue tracker, and a wiki for code documentation.
Code hosting; GitHub won.
Google Play Music was a music and podcast streaming service, and online music locker.
Music licensing. Not for us.
Google Showtimes was a standalone movie search result page.
Cinema times per city; scraping, ad money only.
Google SMS let you text questions- including weather, sports scores, word definitions, and more- to 466453 and get an answer back.
SMS questions answered by AI for weak-data areas (PH); carrier costs.
Google Blog Search API was a way to search blogs utilizing Google.
Index RSS feeds, sell a search API; crawling cost.
Picnik was an online photo editing service that allowed users to edit, style, crop, and resize images.
Photo editor; Canva/Photopea won.
Touring Bird was an Area 120 incubator project which helped users compare prices, book tours, tickets, and experiences, and learn about...
City tour comparison; affiliate margins only.
Google Contributor was a program run by Google that allowed users in the Google Network of content sites to view the websites without...
Pay-to-remove-ads micropayments; needs a publisher network.
Google Real-Time Search provided live search results from Twitter, Facebook, and news websites.
Social listening search; X API is expensive.
Pie was a work-centric group chat website and app comparable to Slack.
Work chat; Slack won.
Marratech was a Swedish company that made software for e-meetings (e.g., web conferencing, videoconferencing).
Video meetings; Zoom/Teams won.
Google Earth Pro was a desktop app that gave users access to Google Earth with more advanced features.
Desktop GIS; QGIS is free.
Google Mashup Editor was an online web mashup creation service with publishing, syntax highlighting, and debugging.
Zapier/Make won. Skip.
Google Station was a service that gave partners an easy set of tools to roll out Wi-Fi hotspots in public places.
Public WiFi with captive portal ads; needs ISP partners.
Google Video was a free video hosting service from Google, similar to YouTube, that allowed video clips to be hosted on Google servers...
Bandwidth heavy; YouTube/Bunny.
Pixate was a platform for creating sophisticated animations and interactions, and refining your designs through 100% native prototypes...
Prototyping tool; Figma won.
Writely was a Web-based word processor.
Word processor; Google Docs is free.
Glass Enterprise Edition was a head-up display for enterprise customers.
Skip.
Tez was a mobile payments service by Google, targeted at users in India.
Needs a payments license. Skip.
Pixel Studio allowed users to quickly generate AI images using a prompt and provided a library of past generative images.
AI image generator wrapper; crowded.
Google Latitude was a location-aware feature of Google Maps, a successor to an earlier SMS-based service Dodgeball.
Family location sharing; Life360 + phones do it.
Cameos on Google allowed celebrities and other public figures to record video responses to the most common questions asked about them...
Video request marketplace + Stripe; Cameo owns it, needs celebrities.
Google Podcasts was a podcast hosting platform and an Android podcast listening app.
Podcast app/hosting; crowded.
Google Public Alerts was an online notification service owned by Google.org that sends safety alerts to various countries.
Pull public warning feeds (DMI, PAGASA) and push to subscribers; buyers are governments.
Google Specialized Search allowed users to search across a limited index of the web for specialized topics like Linux, Microsoft, and...
Vertical search portal; SEO play.
Google Trips was a mobile app that allowed users to plan for upcoming travel by facilitating flight, hotel, car, and restaurant...
AI trip planner; affiliate income.
Neighbourly was a mobile app designed to help you learn about your neighborhood by asking other residents, and find out about local...
Neighbourhood Q&A; myservice already has community parts.
Firebase Studio is an agentic, cloud-based development environment that gives you powerful tools and AI agents directly in your browser.
AI dev environment; Replit/Lovable.
Dropcam was a line of Wi-Fi video streaming cameras acquired by Google in 2014.
Camera hardware + cloud video. Not for us.
Google Stadia was a cloud gaming service combining a WiFi gaming controller and allowed users to stream gameplay through web browsers,...
GPU data centers and game licensing. Not for us.
Nest Secure was a security system with an alarm, keypad, and motion sensor with an embedded microphone.
Skip.
Posts on Google allowed notable individuals with knowledge graph panels to author specific content that would appear in Google Search...
Skip.
YouTube Streams allowed users to watch a YouTube video together while chatting about the video in real-time.
Watch-together rooms with WebSockets; Discord/Teleparty exist.
Field Trip was a mobile app that acted as a virtual tour guide by cross-referencing multiple sources of information to provide users...
Location-triggered local stories; ads only.
Google Base was a database provided by Google into which any user can add almost any type of content, such as text, images, and...
Skip.
Google Correlate was a service that provided users information about how strongly the frequency of multiple search terms correlates with...
Find search trends matching a dataset; needs a trend data source.
Google Hotpot was a local recommendation engine that allowed people to rate restaurants, hotels, etc.
Local ratings; Google Maps owns it.
Google Squared was an information extraction and relationship extraction product that compiled structured data into a spreadsheet-like...
AI tables from web data; Perplexity-type tools compete.
Poly was a distribution platform for creators to share 3D objects.
3D asset library; Sketchfab.
Picasa was an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos.
Desktop photo organizer.
Google Wave was an online communication and collaborative real-time editor tool.
Real-time collaboration; Notion/Slack won.
Google Fiber TV was an IPTV service that was bundled with Google Fiber.
Skip.
Google Wallet Card was a prepaid debit card that let users pay for things in person and online using their Wallet balance at any...
Card issuing license. Skip.
Loon was a service to provide internet access via an array of high-altitude balloons hovering in the Earth's stratosphere
Skip.
AdSense (mobile app) allowed users to manage their AdSense accounts in a native app for iOS and Android.
Skip.
Follow Your World allowed users to register points of interest on Google Maps and receive email updates whenever the imagery was updated.
Alerts when satellite imagery of a place changes; imagery costs.
Password Checkup provided a warning to users if they were using a username and password combination checked against over 4 billion...
HaveIBeenPwned extension; browsers do this now.
Apture was a service that allowed publishers and bloggers to link and incorporate multimedia into a dynamic layer above their pages.
Skip.
Aardvark was a social search service that connected users live with friends or friends-of-friends who were able to answer their questions.
Skip.
AdSense for Feeds was an RSS-based service for AdSense that allowed publishers to advertise on their RSS Feeds.
Skip.
Google Goggles was used for searches based on pictures taken by handheld devices.
Photo search via vision AI; Google Lens is free.
Google Spaces was an app for group discussions and messaging.
Group chat. Skip.
Google Flu Trends was a service attempting to make accurate predictions about flu activity.
Skip.
Google Play Newsstand was a news aggregator and digital newsstand service.
Skip.
Pigeon Transit was a transit app that used crowdsourced information about delays, crowded trains, escalator outages, live entertainment,...
Crowdsourced transit delays (Cebu jeepneys); ad-funded.
Google Desktop allowed local searches of a user's emails, computer files, music, photos, chats and Web pages viewed.
Local search app; OS does it.
Game Builder was a multiplayer 3D game environment for creating new games without coding experience.
Skip.
Google Script Converter was an online transliteration tool for transliteration (script conversion) between Hindi, Romanagari, and...
Free tools exist.
Personal Blocklist was a Chrome Web Extension by Google that allowed users to block certain websites from appearing in Google search...
Browser extension. Skip.
reCAPTCHA Mailhide allowed users to mask their email address behind a captcha to prevent robots from scraping the email and sending spam.
Free tools exist.
Google Swiffy was a web-based tool that converted SWF files to HTML5.
Flash is dead, Ruffle exists. Skip.
Together was a watch face for Android Wear that let two users link their watches together to share small visual messages.
Couples watch face; tiny.
Google Cloud Connect was a free cloud computing plugin for multiple versions of Microsoft Office that automatically stored and...
Office plugin. Skip.
Knol was a Google project that aimed to include user-written articles on a range of topics.
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Shoelace was an app used to find group activities with others who share your interests.
Group activity finder; needs local critical mass.
Word Lens translated text in real time on images by using the viewfinder of a device's camera without the need of an internet...
Camera translation; Google Lens is free.
Google Cache was a tool to view cached/older versions of a website.
Page archive; Wayback Machine exists.
Measure allowed users to take measurements of everyday objects with their device's camera utilizing ARCore technology.
WebXR measuring; phones already ship this.
Building Maker enabled users to create 3D models of buildings for Google Earth on the browser.
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The Google Shopping Mobile App, which had absorbed Google Express when it launched, provided a native shopping experience with a...
Price comparison needs feeds from thousands of shops.
Quickoffice was a productivity suite for mobile devices which allowed the viewing, creating and editing of documents, presentations and...
Mobile office suite. Skip.
Google Hands Free was a mobile payment system that allowed users to pay their bill using Bluetooth to connect to payment terminals by...
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Google Play Movies & TV, originally Google TV, was an app used to view purchased and rented media and was ultimately replaced with YouTube.
Film studio licensing. Not for us.
Androidify allowed users to create a custom Android avatar for themselves and others.
AI avatar maker; ads only.
Google Schemer was a Google service for sharing and discovering things to do.
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Timely Alarm Clock was an Android application providing an alarm, stopwatch, and timer functionality with synchronization across devices.
Alarm app. Skip.
Google Zeitgeist was a weekly, monthly, and yearly snapshot in time of what people were searching for on Google all over the world.
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Dodgeball was a location-based social network where users texted their location to the service, and it notified them of friends and...
Location check-ins; Foursquare tried.
Tenor API was used for searching up and sharing GIFs in Tenor's database on other websites (notably Discord).
GIF API; Giphy.
Google Earth Browser Plug-in allowed developers to embed Google Earth into web pages and included a JavaScript API for custom 3D drawing...
Cesium exists. Skip.
Google Now was a feature of Google Search that offered predictive cards with information and daily updates in Chrome and the Google app...
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Freebase was a large collaborative knowledge base consisting of structured data composed mainly by its community members, developed by...
Wikidata exists. Skip.
Google Lively was a web-based virtual environment that provided a new way to access information.
3D virtual world. Skip.
Songza was a free music streaming service that would recommend its users' various playlists based on time of day and mood or activity.
Music licensing. Skip.
Tilt Brush was a room-scale 3D-painting virtual-reality application available from Google, originally developed by Skillman & Hackett.
VR 3D painting; open source exists, VR market small.
Chromecast was a line of digital media players that allowed users to play online content on a television.
Hardware: factory, chips, certification, retail. Not for us.
Google Nexus was Google's line of flagship Android phones, tablets, and accessories.
Phones. Skip.
Revolv was a monitoring and control system that allowed users to control their connected devices from a single hub.
Smart home hub hardware. Skip.
Save to Google Chrome Extension enabled you to quickly save a page link with image and tags to a Pocket-like app.
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Google Send to Phone was an add-on to send links and other information from Firefox to their phone by text message.
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Google Dictionary was a standalone online dictionary service.
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Google Fast Flip was an online news aggregator, something of a high tech microfiche.
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Google News & Weather was a news aggregator application available on the Android and iOS operating systems.
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Google Listen was an Android application that let you search, subscribe, download, and stream podcasts and web audio.
Podcast app. Skip.
Google Questions and Answers was a free knowledge market that allowed users to collaboratively find answers to their questions.
Free Q&A site. Skip.
Panoramio was a geo-location tagging and photo sharing product.
Geo photo sharing; ads only.
Encrypted Search provided users with anonymous internet searching.
Search engine. Skip.
Google Map Maker was a mapping and map editing service where users were able to draw features directly onto a map.
OpenStreetMap does it. Skip.
Orkut was a social network designed to help users meet new and old friends and maintain existing relationships.
Social network. Skip.
Android Things was an Android-based embedded operating system (originally named Brillo) aimed to run on Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
Embedded OS. Not for us.
Google Glass Explorer Edition was a wearable computer with an optical head-mounted display and camera that allows the wearer to interact...
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Google OnHub was a series of residential wireless routers manufactured by Asus and TP-Link that were powered by Google software, managed...
Router hardware. Not for us.
fflick was a review, information, and news website that used information from aggregated Tweets to rate movies as positive or negative.
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Google Labs was a technology playground used by Google to demonstrate and test new projects.
Not a product.
Mr.
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Google Notifier alerted users to new emails on their Gmail account.
Email tray notifier. Skip.
Google Pack was a collection of software tools offered by Google to download in a single archive.
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Rebang was a Zeitgeist-like service centered on providing service to a Chinese audience.
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Google Shared Stuff was a web page sharing system that allowed users to bookmark pages and share them.
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Google Toolbar for Firefox
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Google Gesture Search allowed users to search contacts, applications, settings, music, and bookmark on their Android device by drawing...
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Google Toolbar was a web browser toolbar that provided a search box in web browsers like Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Browser extension, no money.
Datally (formerly Triangle) was a smart app by Google that helped you save, manage, and share your mobile data.
Phones do data saving now.
Google Assistant Snapshot was the successor to Google Now that provided predictive cards with information and daily updates in the...
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Google Currents was a social magazine app by Google, which was replaced by Google Play Newsstand.
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Google Duo was a video calling app that allowed people to call someone from their contact list.
WebRTC calls are easy; winning users from WhatsApp is not.
Keen was a Pinterest-style platform with ML recommendations.
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Playground AR (aka AR Stickers) allowed users to place virtual characters and objects in augmented reality via the Camera App on Pixel...
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Chromebook Pixel was a first-of-its-kind laptop built by Google that ran Chrome OS, a Linux kernel-based operating system.
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Chromecast Audio was a device that allowed users to stream audio from any device to any speaker with an audio input.
Hardware. Skip.
Google TV was a smart TV platform that integrated Android and Chrome to create an interactive television overlay.
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Google Image Swirl was an enhancement to the image search tool that came out of Google Labs.
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Google Sets generates a list of items when users enter a few examples.
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The Google Video Player plays back files in Google's own Google Video File (.gvi) media format and supported playlists in 'Google Video...
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Polymer was an open-source JS library for web components
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Bump! was an iOS and Android mobile app that enabled smartphone users to transfer contact information, photos, and files between devices.
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Google Deskbar was a small inset window on the Windows toolbar and allowed users to perform searches without leaving the desktop.
Windows search box. Skip.
Google Friend Connect was a free social networking site from 2008 to 2012.
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Google Related was introduced to be an experimental navigation assistant launched to help people find useful and interesting information...
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SearchWiki was a Google Search feature which allowed logged-in users to annotate and re-order search results.
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Google Sidewiki was a browser sidebar tool that allowed users to contribute information to any web page.
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Hello was a service by Picasa that let users share pictures "like you're sitting side-by-side."
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Slide was a photo sharing software for social networking services such as MySpace and Facebook.
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YouTube Leanback was an optimized version of YouTube used for television web browsers and WebView application wrappers.
TV UI for YouTube. Skip.
YouTube Messages was a direct messaging feature that allowed users to share and discuss videos one-on-one and in groups on YouTube.
Platform feature only.
Meebo was a browser-based instant messaging application which supported multiple IM services.
Web IM. Skip.
Build with Chrome was a collaboration between Chrome and the LEGO Group that allowed users to build and publish LEGO creations to any...
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Google Browser Sync was a Firefox extension that synced information like passwords and browsing history.
Browsers sync now. Skip.
Jaiku was a social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service comparable to Twitter.
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YouTube Stories (originally YouTube Reels) allowed creators to post temporary videos that would expire after seven days.
Only works inside a big platform; no standalone business.
Google Allo was an instant messaging mobile app for Android, iOS, and Web with special features like a virtual assistant and encrypted mode.
Messaging; no way to win users.
Google Cardboard was a low-cost, virtual reality (VR) platform named after its folded cardboard viewer into which a smartphone was inserted.
Cardboard VR viewers. Skip.
YouTube Go was an app aimed at making YouTube easier to access on mobile devices in emerging markets through special features like...
Offline video app; no business without content.
Android Auto for phone screens was an app that allowed the screen of the phone to be used as an Android Auto interface while driving,...
Needs car APIs that Google/Apple own.
Google Street View app was an Android and iOS app that enabled people to get a 360 degree view of locations around the world.
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YouTube Gaming was a video gaming-oriented service and app for videos and live streaming.
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Focals were a custom-built smart glasses product with a transparent, holographic display that allowed users to read and respond to text...
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Glass OS (Google XE) was a version of Google's Android operating system designed for Google Glass.
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Google Clips was a miniature clip-on camera that could automatically capture interesting or relevant video clips determined by machine...
Camera hardware. Skip.
Google Daydream was a virtual reality platform and set of hardware devices that worked with certain Android phones.
VR headset hardware. Skip.
Google Home Max was a large, stereo smart speaker with two tweeters and subwoofers, aux input, and a USB-C input (for wired ethernet)...
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Google Jump was a cloud-based VR media solution that enabled 3D-360 media production by integrating customized capture solutions with...
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Google Play Edition devices were a series of Android smartphones and tablets sold by Google.
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Jacquard was a small tag to make it easier and more intuitive for people to interact with technology in their everyday lives, without...
Wearable hardware with textile partners. Not for us.
Pixel Pass was a program that allowed users to pay a monthly charge for their Pixel phone and upgrade immediately after two years.
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Project Ara was a modular smartphone project under development by Google.
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Project Tango was an API for augmented reality apps that was killed and replaced by ARCore.
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YouTube Originals was a variety of original content including scripted series, educational videos, and music and celebrity programming.
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YouTube for PlayStation Vita was a native YouTube browsing and viewing application for the PS Vita and PSTV game consoles.
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YouTube for Nintendo Wii was an app that let Wii and Wii U users stream YouTube videos on their TVs.
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YouTube for Nintendo 3DS allowed users to stream YouTube videos on the portable gaming console.
Dead console. Skip.
Data Saver was an extension for Chrome that routed web pages through Google servers to compress and reduce the user's bandwidth.
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Gears (aka Google Gears) was utility software that aimed to create more powerful web apps by adding offline storage and other additional...
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Google Buzz was a social networking, microblogging and messaging tool that integrated with Gmail.
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Google Chrome Apps were hosted or packaged web applications that ran on the Google Chrome browser.
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Google Chrome Frame was a plugin for Internet Explorer that allowed web pages to be displayed using WebKit and the V8 JavaScript engine.
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Often remembered as 'Gchat', Google Talk was a messaging service for both text and voice using XMPP.
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Google Web Accelerator was a client-side software that increased the load speed of web pages.
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SearchMash was an experimental, non-branded search engine that Google used to be able to play around with new search technologies,...
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VR180 Creator allowed users to edit video taken on 180-degree and 360-degree devices on multiple operating systems.
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BumpTop was a skeuomorphic desktop environment app that simulates the normal behavior and physical properties of a real-world desk and...
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Google Hangouts was a cross-platform instant messaging service.
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Google Pinyin IME was an input method that allowed users on multiple operating systems to input characters from pinyin, the romanization...
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SoundStage was a virtual reality music sandbox built specifically for room-scale VR.
VR music toy. Skip.
uWeave (pronounced “micro weave”) was an implementation of the Weave protocol intended for use on microcontroller-based devices.
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Works with Nest was an API that allowed external services to access and control Nest devices.
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YouTube VR allowed you to easily find and watch 360 videos and virtual reality content with SteamVR-compatible headsets.
No content. Skip.
Noop was a project by Google engineers Alex Eagle and Christian Gruber aiming to develop a new programming language that attempted to...
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Android @ Home allowed a user’s device to discover, connect, and communicate with devices and appliances in the home.
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Google Spotlight Stories was an app and content studio project which created immersive stories for mobile and VR.
Animated VR film studio. Skip.
Google+ was an Internet-based social network.
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ChromeOS was an operating system that powered Chromebooks, Chromeboxes, tablets, and other devices.
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Dragonfly was a search engine designed to be compatible with China's state censorship provisions.
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Nexus Player was a digital media player that allowed users to play music, watch video originating from Internet services or a local...
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Nexus Q was a digital media player that allowed users with Android devices to stream content from supported services to a connected...
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Steam for Chromebooks is an beta initiative that allowed users to install and run PC games via the Steam client.
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Swift for TensorFlow (S4TF) was a next-generation platform for machine learning with a focus on differentiable programming.
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