The following is a list of products, services, and apps provided by Google. Active, soon-to-be discontinued, and discontinued products, services, tools, hardware, and other applications are broken out into designated sections. Web-based products Search tools Google Search – a web search engine and Google's core product. Google Alerts – an email notification service that sends alerts based on chosen search terms whenever it finds new results. Alerts include web results, Google Groups results, news and videos. Google Assistant – a virtual assistant. Google Books – a search engine for books Google Dataset Search – allows searching for datasets in data repositories and local and national government websites. Google Flights – a search engine for flight tickets. Google Images – a search engine for images online. Google Shopping – a search engine to search for products across online shops. Google Travel – a trip planner service Google Videos – a search engine for videos Groupings of articles, creative works, documents, or media Google Arts & Culture – an online platform to view artworks and cultural artifacts. Google Books – a website that lists published books and hosts a large, searchable selection of scanned books. Google Finance – searchable US business news, opinion, and financial data. Google News – automated news compilation service and search engine for news in more than 20 languages. Google Patents – a search engine to search through millions of patents, each result with its own page, including drawings, claims and citations. Google Scholar – a search engine for the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and scholarly fields. Includes virtually all peer-reviewed journals. YouTube – a video hosting website. Advertising services Google Ads – an online advertising platform. AdMob – a mobile advertising network. Google AdSense – a contextual advertising program for web publishers that delivers text-based advertisements that are relevant to site content pages. Google Ad Manager – an advertisement exchange platform. Google Marketing Platform – an online advertising and analytics platform. Google Tag Manager (2012) – a tag management system to manage JavaScript and HTML tags, including web beacons, for web tracking and analytics. Communication and publishing tools Blogger – a weblog publishing tool. FeedBurner – a tool in news feed management services, including feed traffic analysis and advertising facilities. Google Chat – an instant messaging software with a capability of creating multi-user "rooms". Google Collections – a collections app