Google transliteration (formerly Google Indic Transliteration) is a transliteration typing service for Hindi and other languages. This tool first appeared in Blogger, Google's popular blogging service. Later on, it came into existence as a separate online tool. Its popularity got it embedded in GMail and Orkut. In December 2009, Google released its offline version named Google IME. For transliteration between scripts, there was, until July 2011, a separate service named Google Script Converter.