14 DAY TRIAL // Google's main page received one more product among the ones included under the "more" option that allowed users to search for blogs, books, products, groups and patents. The visitors are now enabled to search for Scholar content straight from the main page. Google Scholar is a service powered by the Mountain View company that provides scholarly literature to students from all around the world. "According to my neighbor, a PhD candidate who lives for Google Scholar, this option has long been available on the front page to those using a university network," Wired Blog Network reported today.
Every once in a while, the search giant updates one of its services and displays it on the official page of the company to allow users to use the technology with ease. Although most of the products are still in beta stages, they are all well-developed and represent important search functions provided by the giant Google.
Take the example of Patent Search. This function was rarely promoted by the search giant but it is also included in the "more" menu displayed on the Google homepage. The service was first launched on December 14, 2006 and is based on the information provided by USPTO (the United States Patent and Trademark Office). Since the release of the service, Google updated it only a few times and promoted it rarely.
However, there is no official criterion to include a Google product on the official homepage of the company. If we talk about the popularity, YouTube is surely one of the services displayed on Google's page. If we refer to the functionality, Gmail is an important part of the homepage as more users are attracted by the antispam filters provided by the mail solution.