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=== Search products === {{Main|List of Google products}} {{Redirect|Google Videos}} {{Infobox website | name = Google Videos | collapsible = Yes | screenshot = File:Google Videos search engine screenshot.png | screenshot_size = 300px | logo = Google Videos logo.png | logo_size = 250px | caption = Google Videos homepage as of 2025 | url = {{URL|https://www.google.com/videohp}} | commercial = Yes | type = [[Video search engine]] | language = Multilingual | registration = Recommended | owner = [[Google]] | launch_date = {{start date and age|2012|8|20}} | revenue = }} In addition to its tool for searching [[webpage|web pages]], Google also provides services for searching images, [[Usenet]] [[newsgroup]]s, news websites, videos ('''Google Videos'''), [[Local search (Internet)|searching by locality]], maps, and items for sale online. '''Google Videos''' allows searching the [[World Wide Web]] for video clips.<ref name=":0g">{{Cite web |last=Sullivan |first=Danny |date=August 5, 2010 |title=Let's Celebrate Google's Biggest Failures! |url=https://searchengineland.com/lets-celebrate-googles-biggest-failures-48165 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405045443/https://searchengineland.com/lets-celebrate-googles-biggest-failures-48165 |archive-date=April 5, 2019 |access-date=April 5, 2019 |website=Search Engine Land}}</ref> The service evolved from [[Google Video]], Google's discontinued video hosting service that also allowed to search the web for video clips.<ref name=":0g" /> In 2012, Google has indexed over 30 trillion web pages, and received 100 billion queries per month.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 8, 2012 |title=Google: 100 Billion Searches Per Month, Search To Integrate Gmail, Launching Enhanced Search App For iOS |url=http://searchengineland.com/google-search-press-129925 |access-date=February 18, 2013 |publisher=Searchengineland.com |archive-date=March 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303134243/http://searchengineland.com/google-search-press-129925 |url-status=live }}</ref> It also [[web cache|caches]] much of the content that it [[web indexing|indexes]]. Google operates other tools and services including [[Google News]], [[Google Shopping]], [[Google Maps]], [[Google Custom Search]], [[Google Earth]], [[Google Docs]], [[Picasa]] (discontinued), [[Panoramio]] (discontinued), [[YouTube]], [[Google Translate]], [[Google Blog]] Search and [[Google Desktop]] Search (discontinued<ref name="spring-clean">{{Cite web |last=Alan Eustace |date=September 2, 2011 |title=A fall spring-clean |url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html |access-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-date=September 7, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110907013015/http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html |url-status=live }}</ref>). There are also products available from Google that are not directly search-related. [[Gmail]], for example, is a [[webmail]] application, but still includes search features; [[Google Browser Sync]] does not offer any search facilities, although it aims to organize your browsing time.
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