Glossary T

Twave is a Google Wave robot that integrates Twitter feeds with Google Wave. Twave can be used to either tweet items from waves or insert filtered Twitter searchers into waves.

Google Trends is a Google Labs tool that lets you compare the popularity of search terms over time. Recently they've released Google Trends for Websites. This lets you compare the relative popularity of entire websites.

TestTube is YouTube's area for experimental tools that are still in development. You can use any of the tools and give Google feedback on how well they work.

Tonic Systems was an online presentation software company that Google purchased in 2007 in order to add presentation capability to Google Docs & Spreadsheets.

Torrents or BitTorrents are files shared with the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network. Peer-to-peer means that the files are shared by individual computers on the network rather than stored on one central server.

Google Talk is an instant messaging service, which is integrated with Gmail. Windows users can download the Google Talk application, and Mac and Linux users can use other instant messaging services with their Google Talk accounts. Google Talk also supports some voice conversation.

Title stacking is a deceptive practice designed to elevate the search engine ranking of a Web page. Rather than adding a single HTML <title> tag, title stacking adds multiple tags. Web browsers will ignore the extra tags, but search engine

Google Toolbar is an add-on program for Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. It allows for instant Google web searches from the toolbar an other features, depending on which version you install.

Google Transit is a Google Labs service which provides information on public transit with the Google Maps interface. Currently the service is only available for Portland, Oregon.

Google Trends is a Google Labs service that allows you to see what others have been searching for with Google. Trends graphs how often a term is used over time and where geographically most people are searching for a given term.

The Tricorder app by Moonblink is a fan-created app that emulates the Star Trek Tricorder with sensors that actually do sense things on the phone, such as geolocation and sound waves.