Google Forums



Introduction


This document contains a list of some of the official and unofficial
Google forums and newsgroups. The official forums mentioned here have
been gathered from various official Google services, mostly from the
help center pages. With many Google services you should be able to
find the appropriate discussion group by going to the main page of
that Google service, clicking the link for the help pages and then the
link for the discussion group. You can find links to most of the
Google Help Centers here: http://www.google.com/support/.

Official Forums


Android
http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers
http://groups.google.com/group/android-internals
http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge
http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss

Blogger
http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help

Blogger Data API
http://groups.google.com/group/bloggerDev

Gmail
http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Discussion

Google AdWords
http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-help

Google AJAX Search API
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-AJAX-Search-API

Google Analytics
http://groups.google.com/group/analytics-help

Google Apps
http://groups.google.com/group/apps-discuss   

Google Base
http://groups.google.com/group/base-help-discussion

Google Calendar
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Calendar-Help

Google Checkout
http://groups.google.com/group/google-checkout-merchants-forum

Google Code
http://groups.google.com/group/codesite-discuss

Google Code Search
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Code-Search

Google Custom Buttons
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Custom-Buttons

Google Custom Search Engine (Google Co-op)
http://groups.google.com/group/google-custom-search   

Google Dashboard Widgets for Mac
http://groups.google.com/group/macwidgets

Google Desktop
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Desktop   

Google Docs & Spreadsheets
http://groups.google.com/group/GoogleDocsSpreadsheets   

Google Earth
http://groups.google.com/group/earth-help
http://bbs.keyhole.com

Google Finance
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Finance

Google Firefox Extensions
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Firefox-Extensions

Google for Educators
http://groups.google.com/group/google-for-educators   

Google Gears
http://groups.google.com/group/google-gears

Google Groups
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Groups-Guide   

Google Mail
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-mail-help-discussion-group-uk

Google Maps
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps

Google Maps API
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API

Google Maps for mobile
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-for-mobile

Google Mars
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Mars

Google Mini
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Mini

Google Mobile
http://groups.google.com/group/google-mobile-help

Google Music Trends
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Music-Trends

Google News
http://groups.google.com/group/googlenews-help

Google Notebook
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Notebook

Google Pack
http://groups.google.com/group/google-pack

Google Page Creator
http://groups.google.com/group/GPCDiscussionGroup   

Google Reader
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Reader-Help   

Google Related Links
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Related-Links

Google Ride Finder
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Google-Ride-Finder

Google Scholar
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Google-Scholar

Google Site Flavored Search
http://groups.google.com/group/google-labs-site-flavored

Google Sites
http://groups.google.com/group/sites-help

Google SketchUp
http://groups.google.com/group/sketchup

Google SMS
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-SMS

Google Suggest
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Google-Suggest

Google Talk
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Talk-Help-Discuss

Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer
http://groups.google.com/group/IEToolbar-Group

Google Toolbar for Mozilla Firefox
http://groups.google.com/group/FFToolbar-Group

Google Transit
http://groups.google.com/group/googletransit

Google Translate
http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate

Google Trends
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Trends

Google Video
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Video-Help

Google Voice Local Search / GOOG-411
http://groups.google.com/group/goog411

Google Web Accelerator
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Accelerator

Google Webmaster
http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help

Google Web Search
http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Web_Search_Help   

Google Web Toolkit
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit

Google WiFi
http://groups.google.com/group/WiFi-Help-Discussion

Joga
http://groups.google.com/group/Joga-Help

Macs Inside Google
http://groups.google.com/group/google-mac

OpenSocial
http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial

orkut
http://groups.google.com/group/orkut-help

Picasa
http://groups.google.com/group/picasa

Picasa for Linux
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux

YouTube APIs
http://groups.google.com/group/youtube-api


Official Newsgroups


Before people could create Google Groups discussion groups, in the
past Google used Usenet newsgroups. E.g. google.public.support.general
was created in year 2001. Some of the products don't even exist
anymore, but you might find some info about them by using Google
Web Search:

google.public.labs.compute
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.labs.compute

(google.public.labs.frooglewml)
(http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.labs.frooglewml)

google.public.labs.glossary
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.labs.glossary

google.public.labs.google-deskbar
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.labs.google-deskbar

google.public.labs.google-viewer
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.labs.google-viewer

google.public.labs.keyboard-shortcuts
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.labs.keyboard-shortcuts

google.public.labs.location
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.labs.location

google.public.labs.newsalerts
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.labs.newsalerts

google.public.labs.personalized
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.labs.personalized

google.public.labs.sets
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.labs.sets

google.public.labs.voice-search
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.labs.voice-search

google.public.labs.webquotes
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.labs.webquotes

google.public.programming-contest
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.programming-contest

google.public.support.general
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.support.general

google.public.web-apis
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.web-apis

Unofficial Forums


Forums not hosted by Google:

EmailDiscussions.com: Google Gmail Forum
http://www.emaildiscussions.com/forumdisplay.php?f=30

Google Community
http://www.googlecommunity.com/

SearchEngineWatch.com: Google
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/forumdisplay.php?f=29

WebmasterWorld: The Google World
http://www.webmasterworld.com/category30.htm


Forums hosted by Google Groups:

Gmail down
http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-down

Gmail-Users
http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Users

Google Calendar Users
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Calendar-Users

Google Helpers
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Helpers

Google Page Creator Guide
http://groups.google.com/group/GooglePagesGuide

Google Problems
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Problems


Unofficial Newsgroups


Below are some unofficial Usenet newsgroups about Google:

alt.comp.google
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.google

alt.fan.dejanews   (DejaNews was acquired by Google in 2001)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.dejanews

comp.internet.services.google
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.internet.services.google


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Copyright (C) 2007—2008: Tomi Häsä (tomi.hasa@gmail.com).

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Last modified: March 18th, 2008

Author: Tomi Häsä (tomi.hasa@gmail.com)

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