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Project Shield

Project Shield uses Google’s infrastructure to protect independent news sites from distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), a type of digital attack that exploits thousands or even millions of computers to overwhelm a website’s servers and take it offline.

New York City
Google

Google Public Data Explorer

The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate

2010
Google

Google Colab

Colab notebooks allow you to combine executable code and rich text in a single document, along with images, HTML, LaTeX and more.

Google

Google Person Finder

Google Person Finder helps people reconnect with friends and loved ones in the aftermath of natural and humanitarian disasters.

2010
Google

Google Digital News Initiative

The Digital News Innovation Fund (DNI Fund) is a European programme that's part of the Google News Initiative, an effort to help journalism thrive in the digital age.

Europe
2018
Google

Google Analytics

It gives you the free tools you need to analyse data for your business in one place, so you can make smarter decisions.

Mountain View, CA, USA
commercial, Google

Google Trends

Explore what the world is searching

Mountain View, CA, USA
commercial, Google

North America Google Policy Fellowship

Our fellowship gives undergraduate and graduate students a paid opportunity to spend 10-weeks diving head first into Internet policy at leading nonprofits, think tanks and advocacy groups.

Washington, DC
Google

Waze Connected Citizens

Over a thousand cities and other public sector partners are already working with Waze to gain better data and insights; reduce driving alone with Waze Carpool; and to make their communities safer with Waze's Beacons and Crisis programs.

Waze, Yigal Alon Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
2014
Waze, mobility, civic features, Google