Google products you may not know about

Lifehacker has listed 10 Google products which many people may not be aware of. Even I have not used a few among the list.

Top 10 Google Products You Forgot All About

Backlinks to your site

I just came accross a web site especially useful for web masters. Its Backlink Watch.

We can type the URL into Backlink Watch and get complete detailed information about the quality and quantity of backward links pointing to the website. It shows anchor text, Google Toolbar PageRank, total outbound links on that page and nofollow flag for each of the inbound links available.

I compared the 'backlink watch' results for my site with the results from Google 'web master tools'; This site had provided a more complete and accurate information.

Web Browsers - timeline

The timeline of web browsers shown here seems to be very useful. I can think about the following ways, the information can be utilized.

1. Details of all the existing / non-existing web browsers and their version release periods
   
2. The ways in which different web browsers have evolved and their ancestors
3. Maturity levels of the browsers
4. etc. (there may be more)
   

I couldn't find the famous text based 'lynx' browser (found in Linux OS) in the timeline. May be it was not considered as a web browser?

Backtrack the history of websites

How long have you been on the internet? How long you have been accessing a famous web site like Yahoo or Google? Can you tell how those popular web sites have developed over the time (last 10 years or so)?

I'm using the internet since late 99, but now I couldn't backtrack my memory to get a clear picture of their look and feel at that time. I think this would be case for everybody out there. It is difficult because the internet is intangible and people rarely save even the screen shots of these sites.

Don't you feel excited to see how the famous Yahoo! web site looked like in 1996, 2000, 2004 and today (2007).






How about the Google home page in 98? Thats when Google first appeared as a search engine on internet.









A wonderful web site Wayback Machine, powered by Internet Archive, is the magic behind all these screen captures. It provides browsable archive of the web sites since 1996. The archive consists of multiple versions of the web site arranged in yearly basis and whenever the web site is updated a new version is created.

If a web site is missing there, its possible to submit manually too. They claim that it will be available within next 6 months.