General discussion about Google, our favorite search engine. This includes PageRank, GoogleBot, deep crawls, the Google Personalized Homepage, and any suggestions you have for Google's present and future products.

Discuss Google's revolutionary new email service!

Discuss Google's online payment service.

Discuss Google AdWords and AdSense advertising services.

Discuss Google's desktop software available for download, including Google Earth, Google Desktop, Google Toolbar, Google Talk, and the Google Video Player.
Sub Forums: Google Desktop Search Forum, Google Talk, and 1 more.

Picasa is Google's free photo organization software for Windows and Linux. Discuss Picasa and its online companion, Picasa Web Albums. What suggestions do you have for improving these products?

Discuss Google as a company and as a place to work. Also, post comments on the official Google Friends Newsletter and the Official Google Blog.

Recommend your favorite videos from Google Video (beta) and discuss them!
Sub Forums: Online Video Services, Revver Videos

Discuss Google Reader, a Web-based aggregator capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds. "With Google Reader, keeping up with your favorite websites is as easy as checking your email." Also, discuss any of the posts on the Google Reader Blog.

News about Google
Sub Forums: Google Employee Blogs

Discuss Open Source, including Google Summer of Code 2007 (GSoC: info)

Interested in working for Google? Post about what you want to work on, along with your qualifications, here.

Discuss SEO techniques and tricks, as well as any problems or pitfalls you may have encountered.

The book forum for discussion of all books, including Harry Potter. Also, with Google Book Search, search the full text of books (and discover new ones).

Technical discussion regarding usage of the Google APIs. The Google API developer kits can be found here.

Google's commercial product search engine (once known a Froogle).

This is the place for everything regarding Google Sitemaps.

Discuss social networking services such as Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Orkut, and Joga. Formerly the Orkut & Joga forum.

Discuss Google News, Froogle, Answers, Groups 2, Hello, and Blogger. Also, talk about Google Page Creator, Google Finance, Writely, and SketchUp. Use the Picasa forum to discuss Google's photo organizer.
Sub Forums: Google for Educators, Google Acquisitions, and 1 more.

With their new emphasis on MSN Search and contextual advertising, Microsoft is preparing to be a major competitor directly in Google's field of expertise.

General discussion about Yahoo!

Discuss YPN, Yahoo's competitor to AdSense.

General alk about on other search engines

Discuss web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera. We recommend . Also, discuss web tracking and statistics. Formerly Google Analytics.

On-topic mature discussion; no nonsense.