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Order by the year each Google product or service launched. Drag or tap it onto the line
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Order by the year each Google product or service launched. You place all 33 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
33
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How to play the Google products timeline
Each card is a Google product or service, from search tools to phones, gadgets and AI, with a short label saying what it is. You order them by the year each one launched. One product starts on the line, year showing. Then pick a gap for each new card in turn: if it fits, the year appears, and if it doesn't, the card is moved to where it belongs and one of your three lives goes.
The deck starts with the search engine and follows the company out into email, maps, mobile, hardware and cloud services. The middle stretch is packed, back when new services seemed to arrive every few months, many of them in long public betas. Shut-down projects sit among the survivors, and they are easy to misplace if you never used them. The everyday tools are oddly hard too, because they feel like they have always been there.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 33 cards you might be dealt, with 5 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Google Search Web search engine
- AdWords Search advertising
- Google Images Picture search
- Google News News aggregator
- Gmail Email service
- Google Scholar Academic paper search
- Google Maps Web maps and directions
- Google Earth 3D virtual globe
- Google Analytics Website traffic stats
- Google Translate Machine translation
- Google Calendar Online calendar
- Google Docs Online word processor
- Android Mobile operating system
- Google Chrome Web browser
- Google Voice Phone number service
- Google Wave Real-time collaboration platform
- Nexus One Google-branded smartphone made by HTC
- Google+ Social network
- Google Drive Cloud file storage
- Google Fiber Fiber broadband
- Chromecast TV streaming dongle
- Google Keep Note-taking app
- Google Photos Photo storage and sharing
- Google Assistant Voice assistant
- Google Home Smart speaker
- Google Lens Visual search
- Stadia Cloud gaming service
- Pixel Watch Smartwatch
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