Google: The Mission 2009

Although still the year not over yet and who knows that if Google still has many things in its bag, but as my recent many articles have gone in updates from Google, I was really serious about compiling a list that what made news for Google in year 2009, but look like, I was not needed to take that pain as Lifehacker already has compiled the list for me early on.

Google’s 2009 Product Release Calendar

This has been a pretty busy year for Google and back-to-back announcement from Google really came to our life better and better. Take a ride through the last four seasons at Google in this list of 2009 product releases and updates, listed in chronological order, month by month.

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January

• Offline Gmail gets released with Google Gears
• Picasa for Mac released

February

• Google Latitude and search by voice for Android launch
• Google Sync for your mobile phone launches

March

• Google Calendar goes offline with Google Gears

April

• Google Profiles show up at the bottom of search results
• Updated mobile Gmail and Google Calendar webapps for iPhone and Android launch
• Google Maps mashup tracks swine flu
• GV Mobile makes Google Voice the default for your iPhone (later, Apple pulled this app from the iTunes Store for reasons that are still unclear)

May

• Engineers demo Google Wave at the Google I/O conference, give developers access to the Wave "sandbox"

June

• Google Apps Sync syncs Microsoft Outlook with Gmail, Google Contacts, and Calendars (updates with push Gmail in September)
• Google Squared puts your search results into a spreadsheet
• Gmail, Google Calendar, Docs, and Talk leave beta

July

• FeedDemon, NetNewsWire sync exclusively with Google Reader
• Google announces Chromium OS (but doesn’t release any code, doctored screenshots and fan-made versions start popping up)
• Apple rejects all Google Voice applications from the iTunes Store
• Gmail Tasks graduates from Google Labs (where it first appeared in December of 2008)

August

• Gmail makes importing mail and contacts from old email accounts easy
• PubSubHubbub gets baked into Google Reader

September

• Google Wave Preview opens to 100,000 users
• GrandCentral closes its doors, transitions entirely to Google Voice
• Google Sidewiki launches

October

• Google offers voicemail storage and transcriptions for your existing phone number (part of Google Voice)
• Google Voice gives existing users invitations to send to their friends

November

• Chrome OS announced, Chromium build demo’ed and source code released (here’s how you can try out a Chromium build yourself)
• Google Chrome adds bookmark sync
• Google releases Go, a new programming language

December

• Chrome browser hits Mac/Linux with extensions enabled (Chrome for Windows left beta in December of 2008)
• Google’s new real-Time search includes Twitter streams
• Google Public DNS launches
• Google Says Adios to Gears, Hola to HTML5
• Google Goggles for Android searches the web by photo
• Google Favorite Places puts a barcode on restaurants and shops you can scan with your mobile phone

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All credits for this post goes to Life Hacker. I am just taking article from them to convey the info to readers.