Google tools

This blog is about useful tools from the google stable

1. http://www.google.com/transliterate/ - Use Google Transliteration to type phonetically using an English keyboard. Type a word in English and press SPACE to transliterate. Press CTRL+G to switch between English and Hindi

2. http://livingstories.googlelabs.com/ - Living Stories provide a new, experimental way to consume news, developed by a partnership between Google, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. In Living Stories, you can read the same reporting and analysis that you expect from the Times and the Post, delivered on a highly interactive platform.

3. http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/ - Google Image Swirl organizes image search results based on their visual and semantic similarity and presents them in an intuitive exploratory interface.

4. http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/ - Blindingly fast overviews of headline pages of top newspapers.

5. http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/ - Search for images using pictures rather than words. Similar images helps you narrow your search by finding images that are visually similar to an existing result. (Updated with image-specific related searches!)

6. http://citytours.googlelabs.com/ - Identify points of interest and plan multi-day trips to most major-cities.

7. http://tables.googlelabs.com/Home - Google Database tool - Database on a cloud

8. http://www.google.com/squared - Fetch and organize facts from across the web. Google Squared automatically constructs a table of facts about any category you specify.

9. http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/ - A web application that organizes information chronologically. Google News Timeline allows users to view news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and more on a zoomable, graphical timeline.

10. http://moderator.appspot.com/ - Collaborative Q&A for group events. Google Moderator will help keep discussions on track by allowing users to both suggest questions and vote on others' questions.

11. http://labs.google.com/gaudi - Search what people are saying inside YouTube videos. Google Audio Indexing uses speech technology to find spoken words inside videos and lets you jump to the right portion of the video where these words are spoken.

12. http://labs.google.com/inquotes/ - Search and compare quotes from political figures found in stories on Google News from the United States, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom.

13. http://docs.google.com/#all - Create, store and share documents and spreadsheets on the web.

14. http://www.google.com/trends - See what the world is searching for. Google Trends allows you to enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched on Google over time.

15. http://www.google.com/mars/ - View some of the most detailed maps of Mars created by NASA scientists. Explore the Red Planet's surface, keep track of orbiters and see the 'face' in the planet's surface.

16. http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/transit/#mdy - Get step-by-step transit directions in your web browser or mobile phone, find transit stops in your area, and view station information and schedules.

17. http://www.google.com/reader/view/ - Use Google's web-based feed reader to keep track of your favorite web sites.

18. http://www.google.com/alerts - Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.