Has anyone watched the 'Current' channel on satellite TV? I was shocked the first time I saw it! (It has probably been 6 months since I've watched it now).
Participation TV: You click on Google, do a, or some, search(es)- and as part of the "clan of Google" they then direct their programming on Current TV to (YOUR) viewer interest.
It amazed me, really. That TV would follow requested information. I guess I was impressed at first. I mean, TV sucks- but they actually had some pretty cool human interest shorts.
Then I was scared. They really do know so much, (and at the time I was thinking 'Oh No! I'm gonna get international junk mail!). I am not surprised the gov't would ask THEM for info.
So I can see how any one from Washington, who stays up late surfing the TV in a motel, would say, "Hey. Some guys are thinking something clever over there!" and then "can we use that?".
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Well looks like the Senate is going to try and spank Google for doing buisness the way they are doing it in China. I dont have the link and I dont have time to look it up at the moment cause I gotta get out of here in about 15 minutes, but I find it amazing that the Senate is going to go through this much trouble about how Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and other companies do buisness in China and not complain about George Bush Senior doing a 200 million dollar a year buisness in China.
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for you 3D artists and artists that want to get an idea of how your art may look on the playa, Google has a new program out in beta you can download that seems pretty neat so far:
http://sketchup.google.com
SketchUp is a simple but powerful tool for quickly and easily creating, viewing and modifying your 3D ideas.
Not trying to promote commerce. I was just thinking about the "Yes" project.
http://sketchup.google.com
SketchUp is a simple but powerful tool for quickly and easily creating, viewing and modifying your 3D ideas.
Not trying to promote commerce. I was just thinking about the "Yes" project.
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Google seen making bid for YouTube
Google seen making bid for YouTube
Bloomberg News, The Associated Press
Published: October 6, 2006
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California The Internet search leader, Google, is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube for about $1.6 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Google and YouTube are still at a sensitive stage in the discussion, the newspaper reported Friday on its Web site. The Web blog TechCrunch has also reported on rumors of the acquisition talks.
A purchase by Google of YouTube would give the most-used Internet search engine a Web site of video clips that is visited by more than 34 million Americans each month.
Google already has a video service that lets everyday users post clips, but unlike YouTube, Google also gives them the choice of selling video. All YouTube clips are free.
"They are buying audience," said Charlene Li, an analyst at Forrester Research in San Francisco. "It totally makes sense. The biggest problem Google Video has had is that they started with a business plan, not a user model."
A Google spokesman, David Krane, said the company did not comment on "rumor and speculation." Julie Supan, a spokeswoman for YouTube, based in San Mateo, California, did not return a call and e-mail seeking comment.
Google's pursuit of YouTube would underscore the scramble by established Internet companies to keep pace with the surging popularity of new sites.
YouTube, started in February 2005, attracts users who download more than 100 million video snippets each day, most of them homemade.
YouTube was founded by three former employees of PayPal, an online- payment company owned by eBay. YouTube is surging because of increased availability of high-speed Internet connections and gadgets like camera phones and digital cameras capable of taking video.
Most YouTube offerings are short amateur clips, although professional filmmakers, television networks and even political campaigns have posted material.
YouTube's market share tops that of similar services offered by Google and other popular Web sites, according to some research companies.
When rumors circulated this year that major media companies were interested in buying YouTube, the company's chief executive, Chad Hurley, said the company was not for sale.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California The Internet search leader, Google, is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube for about $1.6 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Google and YouTube are still at a sensitive stage in the discussion, the newspaper reported Friday on its Web site. The Web blog TechCrunch has also reported on rumors of the acquisition talks.
A purchase by Google of YouTube would give the most-used Internet search engine a Web site of video clips that is visited by more than 34 million Americans each month.
Google already has a video service that lets everyday users post clips, but unlike YouTube, Google also gives them the choice of selling video. All YouTube clips are free.
"They are buying audience," said Charlene Li, an analyst at Forrester Research in San Francisco. "It totally makes sense. The biggest problem Google Video has had is that they started with a business plan, not a user model."
A Google spokesman, David Krane, said the company did not comment on "rumor and speculation." Julie Supan, a spokeswoman for YouTube, based in San Mateo, California, did not return a call and e-mail seeking comment.
Google's pursuit of YouTube would underscore the scramble by established Internet companies to keep pace with the surging popularity of new sites.
YouTube, started in February 2005, attracts users who download more than 100 million video snippets each day, most of them homemade.
YouTube was founded by three former employees of PayPal, an online- payment company owned by eBay. YouTube is surging because of increased availability of high-speed Internet connections and gadgets like camera phones and digital cameras capable of taking video.
Most YouTube offerings are short amateur clips, although professional filmmakers, television networks and even political campaigns have posted material.
YouTube's market share tops that of similar services offered by Google and other popular Web sites, according to some research companies.
When rumors circulated this year that major media companies were interested in buying YouTube, the company's chief executive, Chad Hurley, said the company was not for sale.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California The Internet search leader, Google, is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube for about $1.6 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Google and YouTube are still at a sensitive stage in the discussion, the newspaper reported Friday on its Web site. The Web blog TechCrunch has also reported on rumors of the acquisition talks.
A purchase by Google of YouTube would give the most-used Internet search engine a Web site of video clips that is visited by more than 34 million Americans each month.
Google already has a video service that lets everyday users post clips, but unlike YouTube, Google also gives them the choice of selling video. All YouTube clips are free.
"They are buying audience," said Charlene Li, an analyst at Forrester Research in San Francisco. "It totally makes sense. The biggest problem Google Video has had is that they started with a business plan, not a user model."
A Google spokesman, David Krane, said the company did not comment on "rumor and speculation." Julie Supan, a spokeswoman for YouTube, based in San Mateo, California, did not return a call and e-mail seeking comment.
Google's pursuit of YouTube would underscore the scramble by established Internet companies to keep pace with the surging popularity of new sites.
YouTube, started in February 2005, attracts users who download more than 100 million video snippets each day, most of them homemade.
YouTube was founded by three former employees of PayPal, an online- payment company owned by eBay. YouTube is surging because of increased availability of high-speed Internet connections and gadgets like camera phones and digital cameras capable of taking video.
Most YouTube offerings are short amateur clips, although professional filmmakers, television networks and even political campaigns have posted material.
YouTube's market share tops that of similar services offered by Google and other popular Web sites, according to some research companies.
When rumors circulated this year that major media companies were interested in buying YouTube, the company's chief executive, Chad Hurley, said the company was not for sale.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California The Internet search leader, Google, is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube for about $1.6 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Google and YouTube are still at a sensitive stage in the discussion, the newspaper reported Friday on its Web site. The Web blog TechCrunch has also reported on rumors of the acquisition talks.
A purchase by Google of YouTube would give the most-used Internet search engine a Web site of video clips that is visited by more than 34 million Americans each month.
Google already has a video service that lets everyday users post clips, but unlike YouTube, Google also gives them the choice of selling video. All YouTube clips are free.
"They are buying audience," said Charlene Li, an analyst at Forrester Research in San Francisco. "It totally makes sense. The biggest problem Google Video has had is that they started with a business plan, not a user model."
A Google spokesman, David Krane, said the company did not comment on "rumor and speculation." Julie Supan, a spokeswoman for YouTube, based in San Mateo, California, did not return a call and e-mail seeking comment.
Bloomberg News, The Associated Press
Published: October 6, 2006
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California The Internet search leader, Google, is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube for about $1.6 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Google and YouTube are still at a sensitive stage in the discussion, the newspaper reported Friday on its Web site. The Web blog TechCrunch has also reported on rumors of the acquisition talks.
A purchase by Google of YouTube would give the most-used Internet search engine a Web site of video clips that is visited by more than 34 million Americans each month.
Google already has a video service that lets everyday users post clips, but unlike YouTube, Google also gives them the choice of selling video. All YouTube clips are free.
"They are buying audience," said Charlene Li, an analyst at Forrester Research in San Francisco. "It totally makes sense. The biggest problem Google Video has had is that they started with a business plan, not a user model."
A Google spokesman, David Krane, said the company did not comment on "rumor and speculation." Julie Supan, a spokeswoman for YouTube, based in San Mateo, California, did not return a call and e-mail seeking comment.
Google's pursuit of YouTube would underscore the scramble by established Internet companies to keep pace with the surging popularity of new sites.
YouTube, started in February 2005, attracts users who download more than 100 million video snippets each day, most of them homemade.
YouTube was founded by three former employees of PayPal, an online- payment company owned by eBay. YouTube is surging because of increased availability of high-speed Internet connections and gadgets like camera phones and digital cameras capable of taking video.
Most YouTube offerings are short amateur clips, although professional filmmakers, television networks and even political campaigns have posted material.
YouTube's market share tops that of similar services offered by Google and other popular Web sites, according to some research companies.
When rumors circulated this year that major media companies were interested in buying YouTube, the company's chief executive, Chad Hurley, said the company was not for sale.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California The Internet search leader, Google, is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube for about $1.6 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Google and YouTube are still at a sensitive stage in the discussion, the newspaper reported Friday on its Web site. The Web blog TechCrunch has also reported on rumors of the acquisition talks.
A purchase by Google of YouTube would give the most-used Internet search engine a Web site of video clips that is visited by more than 34 million Americans each month.
Google already has a video service that lets everyday users post clips, but unlike YouTube, Google also gives them the choice of selling video. All YouTube clips are free.
"They are buying audience," said Charlene Li, an analyst at Forrester Research in San Francisco. "It totally makes sense. The biggest problem Google Video has had is that they started with a business plan, not a user model."
A Google spokesman, David Krane, said the company did not comment on "rumor and speculation." Julie Supan, a spokeswoman for YouTube, based in San Mateo, California, did not return a call and e-mail seeking comment.
Google's pursuit of YouTube would underscore the scramble by established Internet companies to keep pace with the surging popularity of new sites.
YouTube, started in February 2005, attracts users who download more than 100 million video snippets each day, most of them homemade.
YouTube was founded by three former employees of PayPal, an online- payment company owned by eBay. YouTube is surging because of increased availability of high-speed Internet connections and gadgets like camera phones and digital cameras capable of taking video.
Most YouTube offerings are short amateur clips, although professional filmmakers, television networks and even political campaigns have posted material.
YouTube's market share tops that of similar services offered by Google and other popular Web sites, according to some research companies.
When rumors circulated this year that major media companies were interested in buying YouTube, the company's chief executive, Chad Hurley, said the company was not for sale.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California The Internet search leader, Google, is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube for about $1.6 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Google and YouTube are still at a sensitive stage in the discussion, the newspaper reported Friday on its Web site. The Web blog TechCrunch has also reported on rumors of the acquisition talks.
A purchase by Google of YouTube would give the most-used Internet search engine a Web site of video clips that is visited by more than 34 million Americans each month.
Google already has a video service that lets everyday users post clips, but unlike YouTube, Google also gives them the choice of selling video. All YouTube clips are free.
"They are buying audience," said Charlene Li, an analyst at Forrester Research in San Francisco. "It totally makes sense. The biggest problem Google Video has had is that they started with a business plan, not a user model."
A Google spokesman, David Krane, said the company did not comment on "rumor and speculation." Julie Supan, a spokeswoman for YouTube, based in San Mateo, California, did not return a call and e-mail seeking comment.
Google's pursuit of YouTube would underscore the scramble by established Internet companies to keep pace with the surging popularity of new sites.
YouTube, started in February 2005, attracts users who download more than 100 million video snippets each day, most of them homemade.
YouTube was founded by three former employees of PayPal, an online- payment company owned by eBay. YouTube is surging because of increased availability of high-speed Internet connections and gadgets like camera phones and digital cameras capable of taking video.
Most YouTube offerings are short amateur clips, although professional filmmakers, television networks and even political campaigns have posted material.
YouTube's market share tops that of similar services offered by Google and other popular Web sites, according to some research companies.
When rumors circulated this year that major media companies were interested in buying YouTube, the company's chief executive, Chad Hurley, said the company was not for sale.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California The Internet search leader, Google, is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube for about $1.6 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Google and YouTube are still at a sensitive stage in the discussion, the newspaper reported Friday on its Web site. The Web blog TechCrunch has also reported on rumors of the acquisition talks.
A purchase by Google of YouTube would give the most-used Internet search engine a Web site of video clips that is visited by more than 34 million Americans each month.
Google already has a video service that lets everyday users post clips, but unlike YouTube, Google also gives them the choice of selling video. All YouTube clips are free.
"They are buying audience," said Charlene Li, an analyst at Forrester Research in San Francisco. "It totally makes sense. The biggest problem Google Video has had is that they started with a business plan, not a user model."
A Google spokesman, David Krane, said the company did not comment on "rumor and speculation." Julie Supan, a spokeswoman for YouTube, based in San Mateo, California, did not return a call and e-mail seeking comment.
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Belgian Court Deals Copyright Blow to Google News
www.technewsworld.com/story/55739.html
By Keith Regan
E-Commerce Times
Part of the ECT News Network
02/13/07 10:35 AM PT
A court in Belgium ruled on Tuesday that the search giant must refrain from publishing copyrighted content on Google News without prior approval. The case, which has moved in stops and starts since last summer, may open an expensive can of worms for the company if content owners see the possibility of licensing content directly to Google.
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) suffered a legal setback Tuesday as a Belgian court ruled that the search giant violated copyright law by publishing portions of a newspaper's stories on Google News without prior authorization.
In a closely watched case that has moved in stops and starts since last summer, a higher court upheld an earlier ruling requiring Google to remove snippets of copyrighted news stories from the Google News version available in Belgium.
Belgian newspapers, represented by the trade group Copiepresse, had argued that Google profited from posting those extracts and selling advertising alongside them. The group had also complained because the content could remain available even after newspapers stopped displaying them for free.
"Google cannot claim to be an exception under copyright law," the court said in its decision.
Penalties Reduced
Copiepresse had brought the case on behalf of the French and German language publications in Belgium. It has also pursued action against Yahoo France on the same grounds.
The higher court ruling was not a complete loss for Google. Though it upheld the injunction, the court dramatically reduced the daily penalties Google would face if it published material from the copyright-protected sources.
The original ruling had provisions for penalties of more than US$1 million per day for violations; the new ruling reduces that penalty to about $33,000 per day.
To License or Not to License
The Belgian ruling should have a limited impact on Google and its shares were up even after word of the ruling reached the United States.
However, the decision serves as a reminder of Google's sometimes contentious relationship with content owners, highlighting the pitfalls involved in balancing content providers' needs against its desire to publish as much print and video content as possible.
"The honeymoon period is over for Google when it comes to content owners," search engine expert John Battelle told the E-Commerce Times. As it brings in billions a year in revenue, "every step it takes now is viewed in a different light by media companies."
Copiepresse, meanwhile, said it was pleased with the ruling and that it would be willing to discuss licensing protected stories to Google, but said Google should initiate any such talks.
Google complied with the original order to remove content, although it appealed the decision on the basis of exemptions in copyright law that allowed for publishing synopses or abstracts of copyrighted work.
Google indicated Tuesday that it would appeal the Belgian court's latest ruling. "Search tools such as Google Web Search and Google News are of real benefit to publishers because they drive valuable traffic to their Web sites and connect them to a wider global audience," the search company said in a statement.
In the United States, Google and other search engines enjoy the protection of the Fair Use provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
That law allows search engine sites to display material that's freely available online, though they must comply with requests to remove material that can be shown to be copyright protected.
Google's Balancing Act
The relationship between Google News and original news sources has long been considered a symbiotic one, with news outlets gaining visibility on the portal's site and benefiting from increased traffic to their pages when users click through.
The Belgian case could have wider ramifications, however, if content owners see the possibility of licensing content directly to Google. Nearby European countries, in particular, are seen as likely next-stage battlegrounds as many have similar copyright laws.
In fact, the European Commission said Tuesday that it might consider taking up the matter to create a standard that would apply across the European Union.
Google and other search engines rely on free content from third parties to make their business models work, claimed Sterling Market Intelligence analyst Greg Sterling, noting that both Yahoo and MSN have been warned by Copiepresse on this same issue although only Google was sued.
"The various legal challenges Google faces are partially about its market power and the desire of some parties to use the judicial system to create better negotiating conditions for themselves," Sterling said. "Google's global brand power, revenues and market position are now causing some to act in aggressive, shrewd or desperate ways to try and protect their businesses."
www.technewsworld.com/story/55739.html
By Keith Regan
E-Commerce Times
Part of the ECT News Network
02/13/07 10:35 AM PT
A court in Belgium ruled on Tuesday that the search giant must refrain from publishing copyrighted content on Google News without prior approval. The case, which has moved in stops and starts since last summer, may open an expensive can of worms for the company if content owners see the possibility of licensing content directly to Google.
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) suffered a legal setback Tuesday as a Belgian court ruled that the search giant violated copyright law by publishing portions of a newspaper's stories on Google News without prior authorization.
In a closely watched case that has moved in stops and starts since last summer, a higher court upheld an earlier ruling requiring Google to remove snippets of copyrighted news stories from the Google News version available in Belgium.
Belgian newspapers, represented by the trade group Copiepresse, had argued that Google profited from posting those extracts and selling advertising alongside them. The group had also complained because the content could remain available even after newspapers stopped displaying them for free.
"Google cannot claim to be an exception under copyright law," the court said in its decision.
Penalties Reduced
Copiepresse had brought the case on behalf of the French and German language publications in Belgium. It has also pursued action against Yahoo France on the same grounds.
The higher court ruling was not a complete loss for Google. Though it upheld the injunction, the court dramatically reduced the daily penalties Google would face if it published material from the copyright-protected sources.
The original ruling had provisions for penalties of more than US$1 million per day for violations; the new ruling reduces that penalty to about $33,000 per day.
To License or Not to License
The Belgian ruling should have a limited impact on Google and its shares were up even after word of the ruling reached the United States.
However, the decision serves as a reminder of Google's sometimes contentious relationship with content owners, highlighting the pitfalls involved in balancing content providers' needs against its desire to publish as much print and video content as possible.
"The honeymoon period is over for Google when it comes to content owners," search engine expert John Battelle told the E-Commerce Times. As it brings in billions a year in revenue, "every step it takes now is viewed in a different light by media companies."
Copiepresse, meanwhile, said it was pleased with the ruling and that it would be willing to discuss licensing protected stories to Google, but said Google should initiate any such talks.
Google complied with the original order to remove content, although it appealed the decision on the basis of exemptions in copyright law that allowed for publishing synopses or abstracts of copyrighted work.
Google indicated Tuesday that it would appeal the Belgian court's latest ruling. "Search tools such as Google Web Search and Google News are of real benefit to publishers because they drive valuable traffic to their Web sites and connect them to a wider global audience," the search company said in a statement.
In the United States, Google and other search engines enjoy the protection of the Fair Use provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
That law allows search engine sites to display material that's freely available online, though they must comply with requests to remove material that can be shown to be copyright protected.
Google's Balancing Act
The relationship between Google News and original news sources has long been considered a symbiotic one, with news outlets gaining visibility on the portal's site and benefiting from increased traffic to their pages when users click through.
The Belgian case could have wider ramifications, however, if content owners see the possibility of licensing content directly to Google. Nearby European countries, in particular, are seen as likely next-stage battlegrounds as many have similar copyright laws.
In fact, the European Commission said Tuesday that it might consider taking up the matter to create a standard that would apply across the European Union.
Google and other search engines rely on free content from third parties to make their business models work, claimed Sterling Market Intelligence analyst Greg Sterling, noting that both Yahoo and MSN have been warned by Copiepresse on this same issue although only Google was sued.
"The various legal challenges Google faces are partially about its market power and the desire of some parties to use the judicial system to create better negotiating conditions for themselves," Sterling said. "Google's global brand power, revenues and market position are now causing some to act in aggressive, shrewd or desperate ways to try and protect their businesses."
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Here is the timeline what has happened over the past 10 years with Google
1995-1997
1995
* Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford. (Larry, 24, a U Michigan grad, is considering the school; Sergey, 23, is assigned to show him around.) According to some accounts, they disagree about most everything during this first meeting.
1996
* Larry and Sergey, now Stanford computer science grad students, begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub.
* BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year -- eventually taking up too much bandwidth to suit the university.
1997
* Larry and Sergey decide that the BackRub search engine needs a new name. After some brainstorming, they go with Google -- a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
1998
August
* Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check for $100,000 to an entity that doesn't exist yet: a company called Google Inc.
September
* Google sets up workspace in Susan Wojcicki's garage at 232 Santa Margarita, Menlo Park.
* Google files for incorporation in California on September 4. Shortly thereafter, Larry and Sergey open a bank account in the newly-established company's name and deposit Andy Bechtolsheim's check.
* Larry and Sergey hire Craig Silverstein as their first employee; he's a fellow computer science grad student at Stanford.
December
* "PC Magazine" reports that Google "has an uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results" and recognizes us as the search engine of choice in the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998.
1999
February
* We outgrow our garage office and move to new digs at 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto with just 8 employees.
May
* Omid Kordestani joins to run sales -- the first non-engineering hire.
June
* Our first press release announces a $25 million round from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins; John Doerr and Michael Moritz join the board. The release quotes Moritz describing "Googlers" as "people who use Google."
August
* We move to our first Mountain View location: 2400 E. Bayshore. Mountain View is a few miles south of Stanford University, and north of the older towns of Silicon Valley: Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose.
November
* Charlie Ayers joins as Google's first chef. He wins the job in a cook-off judged by the company's 40 employees. Previous claim to fame: catering for the Grateful Dead.
2000
April
* On April Fool's Day, we announce the MentalPlex: Google's ability to read your mind as you visualize the search results you want. Thus begins our annual foray in the Silicon Valley tradition of April 1 hoaxes.
May
* The first 10 language versions of Google.com are released: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish.
* We win our first Webby Awards: Technical Achievement (voted by judges) and Peoples' Voice (voted by users).
June
* We forge a partnership with Yahoo! to become their default search provider.
* We announce the first billion-URL index and therefore Google becomes the world's largest search engine.
September
* We start offering search in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, bringing our total number of supported languages to 15.
October
* Google AdWords launches with 350 customers. The self-service ad program promises online activation with a credit card, keyword targeting and performance feedback.
December
* Google Toolbar is released. It's a browser plug-in that makes it possible to search without visiting the Google homepage.
2001
January
* We announce the hire of Silicon Valley veteran Wayne Rosing as our first VP of engineering operations.
February
* Our first public acquisition: Deja.com's Usenet Discussion Service, an archive of 500 million Usenet discussions dating back to 1995. We add search and browse features and launch it as Google Groups.
March
* Eric Schmidt is named chairman of the board of directors.
* Google.com is available in 26 languages.
April
* Swedish Chef becomes a language preference.
July
* Image Search launches, offering access to 250 million images.
August
* We open our first international office, in Tokyo.
* Eric Schmidt becomes our CEO. Larry and Sergey are named presidents of products and technology, respectively.
October
* A new partnership with Universo Online (UOL) makes Google the major search service for millions of Latin Americans.
December
* Keeping track: Our index size grows to 3 billion web documents.
2002
February
* Klingon becomes one of 72 language interfaces.
* The first Google hardware is released: it's a yellow box called the Google Search Appliance that businesses can plug into their computer network to enable search capabilities for their own documents.
* We release a major overhaul for AdWords, including new cost-per-click pricing.
April
* For April Fool's Day, we announce that pigeons power our search results.
* We release a set of APIs, enabling developers to query more than 2 billion Web documents and program in their favorite environment, including Java, Perl and Visual Studio.
May
* We announce a major partnership with AOL to offer Google search and sponsored links to 34 million customers using CompuServe, Netscape and AOL.com.
* We release Google Labs for users to try out beta technologies fresh from our R&D team.
September
* Google News launches with 4000 news sources.
October
* We open our first Australian office in Sydney.
December
* Users can now search for stuff to buy with Froogle (later called Google Product Search).
2003
January
* American Dialect Society members vote "google" the "most useful" Word of the Year for 2002.
February
* We acquire Pyra Labs, the creators of Blogger.
March
* We announce a new content-targeted advertising service, enabling publishers large and small to access Google's vast network of advertisers. (Weeks later, on April 23, we acquired Applied Semantics, whose technology bolsters the service named AdSense.)
April
* We launch Google Grants, our in-kind advertising program for nonprofit organizations to run in-kind ad campaigns for their cause.
October
* Registration opens for programmers to compete for cash prizes and recognition at our first-ever Code Jam. Coders can work in Java, C++, C# or VB.NET.
December
* We launch Google Print (which later becomes Google Book Search), indexing small excerpts from books to appear in search results.
2004
January
* orkut launches as a way for us to tap into the sphere of social networking.
February
* Larry Page is inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.
* Our search index hits a new milestone: 6 billion items, including 4.28 billion web pages and 880 million images.
March
* We move to our new "Googleplex" at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, giving 800+ employees a campus environment.
* We formalize our enterprise unit with the hire of Dave Girouard as general manager; reporters begin reporting in April about our vision for the enterprise search business.
* We introduce Google Local, offering relevant neighborhood business listings, maps, and directions. (Later, Local is combined with Google Maps.)
April
* For April Fool's we announce plans to open the Googlunaplex, a new research facility on the Moon.
May
* We announce the first winners of the Google Anita Borg Scholarship, awarded to outstanding women studying computer science. Today these scholarships are open to students in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe.
August
* Our Initial Public Offering of 19,605,052 shares of Class A common stock takes place on Wall Street on August 18. Opening price: $85 per share.
September
* There are more than 100 Google domains (Norway and Kenya are #102 and #103). The list has since grown to more than 150.
October
* We formally open our office in Dublin, Ireland, with 150 multilingual Googlers, a visit from Sergey and Larry, and recognition from the Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland, Mary Harney.
* Google SMS (short message service) launches; send your text search queries to GOOGL or 466453 on your mobile device.
* Larry and Sergey are named Fellows by the Marconi Society, which recognizes "lasting scientific contributions to human progress in the field of communications science and the Internet."
* We spotlight our new engineering offices in Bangalore and Hyderabad, India with a visit from Sergey and Larry.
* Google Desktop Search is introduced: users can now search for files and documents stored on their own hard drive using Google technology.
* We launch the beta version of Google Scholar, a free service that helps users search scholarly literature such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports.
* We acquire Keyhole, a digital mapping company whose technology will later become Google Earth.
November
* Our index of web pages reaches 8 billion.
December
* We open our Tokyo R&D (research & development) center to attract the best and brightest among Japanese and other Asian engineers.
* The Google Print Program (since renamed Google Book Search) expands through digital scanning partnerships with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, University of Michigan, and Oxford plus the New York Public Library.
2005
February
* We hit a milestone in Image Search: 1.1 billion images indexed.
* Google Maps goes live.
March
* We launch code.google.com, a new place for developer-oriented resources, including all of our APIs.
* Some 14,000 programmers from six countries compete for cash prizes and recognition at our first coding competition in India, with top scores going to Ardian Kristanto Poernomo of Singapore.
* We acquire Urchin, a web analytics company whose technology is used to create Google Analytics.
April
* Our first Google Maps release in Europe is geared to U.K. users.
* For April Fool's, we announce a magical beverage that makes its imbibers more intelligent, and therefore better capable of properly using search results.
* Google Maps now features satellite views and directions.
* Google Local goes mobile, and includes SMS driving directions.
* My Search History launches in Labs, allowing users to view all the web pages they've visited and Google searches they've made over time.
* We release Site Targeting, an AdWords feature giving advertisers the ability to better target their ads to specific content sites.
May
* We release Blogger Mobile, enabling bloggers to use their mobile phones to post and send photos to their blogs.
* Google Scholar adds support for institutional access: searchers can now locate journal articles within their own libraries.
* Personalized Homepage (now iGoogle ) is designed for people to customize their own Google homepage with content modules they choose.
June
* We hold our first Summer of Code, a 3-month $2 million program that aims to help computer science students contribute to open source software development.
* Google Mobile Web Search is released, specially formulated for viewing search results on mobile phones.
* We unveil Google Earth: a satellite imagery-based mapping service combining 3D buildings and terrain with mapping capabilities and Google search.
* We release Personalized Search in Labs: over time, your (opt-in) search history will closely reflect your interests.
* API for Maps released; developers can embed Google Maps on many kinds of mapping services and sites.
August
* Google scores well in the U.S. government's 2005 machine translation evaluation. (We've done so in subsequent years as well.)
* We launch Google Talk, a downloadable Windows application that enables Gmail users to talk or IM with friends quickly and easily talk using a computer microphone and speaker (no phone required) for free.
September
* Overlays in Google Earth illuminate the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina around New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Some rescue teams use these tools to locate stranded victims.
* DARPA veteran Vint Cerf joins Google to carry on his quest for a global open Internet.
* Dr. Kai-Fu Lee begins work at our new Research and Development Center in China.
* Google Blog Search goes live; it's the way to find current and relevant blog postings on particular topics throughout the enormous blogosphere.
October
* Feed aficionados rejoice as Google Reader, a feed reader, is introduced at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.
* Googlers volunteer to produce the first Mountain View book event with Malcolm Gladwell, author of "Blink" and "The Tipping Point." Since then, the Authors@Google program has hosted more than 480 authors in 12 offices across the U.S., Europe and India.
November
* We release Google Analytics, formerly known as Urchin, for measuring the impact of websites and marketing campaigns.
* We announce the opening of our first offices in São Paulo and Mexico City.
December
* Google Transit launches in Labs. People in the Portland, Oregon metro area can now plan their trips on public transportation at one site.
* Gmail for mobile launches in the United States.
2006
January
* Our first Code Jam in China concludes in Beijing. The winner, graduate student Chuan Xu, is one of more than 13,000 registrants.
* We announce the acquisition of dMarc, a digital radio advertising company.
* Google.cn, a local domain version of Google, goes live in China.
* We introduce Picasa in 25 more languages, including Polish, Thai and Vietnamese.
February
* We release Chat in Gmail, using the instant messaging tools from Google Talk.
* Eric Schmidt is inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.
* Dr. Larry Brilliant becomes the executive director of Google.org, our philanthropic arm.
* Google News for mobile launches.
March
* We announce the acquisition of Writely, a web-based word processing application that subsequently becomes the basis for Google Docs.
* A team working from Mountain View, Bangalore and New York collaborates to create Google Finance, our approach to an improved search experience for financial information.
April
* For April Fool's we unveil a new product, Google Romance: "Dating is a search problem."
* We launch Google Calendar, complete with sharing and group features.
* We release Maps for France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
May
* We release Google Trends, a way to visualize the popularity of searches over time.
June
* We announce Picasa Web Albums, allowing Picasa users to upload and share their photos online
* The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) adds "Google" as a verb.
* Gmail, Google News and iGoogle become available on mobile phones in eight more languages besides English: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Chinese and Turkish.
* Gmail launches in Arabic and Hebrew, bringing the number of interfaces up to 40.
July
* At Google Code Jam Europe, nearly 10,000 programmers from 31 countries compete at Google Dublin for the top prizes; Tomasz Czajka from Poland wins the final round.
August
* We launch free citywide WiFi in Mountain View.
* More than 100 libraries on 10 campuses of the University of California join the Google Books Library Project.
* Star Trek's 40th Anniversary Convention in Las Vegas features a Google booth showcasing tools appropriate for intergalactic use.
* Apps for Your Domain, a suite of applications designed for organizations of all sizes, and including including Gmail and Calendar, is released.
* Google Book Search begins offering free PDF downloads of books in the public domain.
September
* We add an archive search to Google News, with more than 200 years of historical articles.
* Featured Content for Google Earth includes overlays from the UN Environmental Program, Discovery Networks, the Jane Goodall Institute, and the National Park Service.
* The University Complutense of Madrid becomes the first Spanish-language library to join the Google Books Library Project.
October
* Together with LitCam and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning, we launch the Literacy Project, offering resources for teachers, literacy groups and anyone interested in reading promotion.
* We announce our acquisition of YouTube.
* We release web-based applications Docs & Spreadsheets: Word processor Docs is a reworking of Writely (acquired in March).
* We acquire JotSpot, a collaborative wiki platform, which later becomes Google Sites.
November
* The first nationwide Doodle 4 Google contest in the U.K. takes place with the theme My Britain. More than 15,000 kids in Britain enter, and 13-year old Katherine Chisnall is chosen to have her doodle displayed on www.google.co.uk. There have been Doodle 4 Google contests in several other years and countries since.
December
* We release Patent Search in the U.S., indexing more than 7 million patents dating back to 1790.
2007
January
* We announce a partnership with China Mobile, the world's largest mobile telecom carrier, to provide mobile and Internet search services in China.
February
* We release Google Maps in Australia, complete with local business results and mobile capability.
* Google Docs & Spreadsheets is available in eleven more languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Turkish, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil) and Russian.
* For Valentine's Day, we open up Gmail to everyone. (Previously, it was available by invitation only).
* Google Apps Premier Edition launches, bringing cloud computing to businesses.
* The Candidates@Google series kicks off with Senator Hillary Clinton, the first of several 2008 Presidential candidates, including Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain, to visit the Googleplex.
* We introduce traffic information to Google Maps for more than 30 cities around the US.
March
* Our first Latin American software coding contest ends with Fábio Dias Moreira of Brazil taking the grand prize. He scored more points than 5,000 other programmers from all over the continent.
* We sign partnerships to give free access to Google Apps for Education to 70,000 university students in Kenya and Rwanda.
April
* This April Fool's Day is extra busy: not only do we introduce the Gmail Paper Archive and TiSP (Toilet Internet Service Provider) -- we lose (and find) a real snake in our New York office!
* We add eight more languages to Blogger, bringing the total to 19.
May
* In partnership with the Growing Connection, we plant a vegetable garden in the middle of the Googleplex, the output of which is incorporated into our café offerings.
* We move into permanent space in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Governor Jennifer Granholm helps us celebrate. The office is an AdWords support site.
* At our Searchology event, we announce new strides taken towards universal search. Now video, news, books, image and local results are all integrated together in one search result.
* Google Hot Trends launches, listing the current 100 most active queries, showing what people are searching for at the moment.
* Street View debuts in Google Maps in five U.S. cities: New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami, and Denver.
* On Developer Day, we announce Google Gears (now known just as Gears), an open source technology for creating offline web applications.
June
* Google Maps gets prime placement on the original Apple iPhone.
* YouTube becomes available in nine more domains: Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Ireland and the U.K.
* We announce a partnership with Salesforce.com, combining that company's on-demand CRM applications with AdWords.
* We unveil several "green" initiatives: RechargeIT, aimed at accelerating the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, the completion of our installation of solar panels at the Googleplex, in Mountain View, and our intention to be completely carbon-neutral by the end of 2007. We also announce the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, in collaboration with Intel, Dell, and more than 30 other companies.
* Google Earth Outreach is introduced, designed to help nonprofit organizations use Google Earth to advocate their causes.
July
* We announce the acquisition of Postini.
* The first CNN/YouTube debate takes place between the eight U.S. Democratic Presidential candidates. (The Republicans get their turn in November 2007.)
* Google Finance becomes available for non-U.S. markets for the first time, in Canada.
* Google Apps is now available in 28 languages.
August
* We ask users for their interpretation of how Gmail travels around the world, and get more than 1,100 video responses from more than 65 different countries.
* To infinity and beyond! Sky launches inside Google Earth, including layers for constellation information and virtual tours of galaxies.
September
* AdSense for Mobile is introduced, giving sites optimized for mobile browsers the ability to host the same ads as standard websites.
* Together with the X PRIZE Foundation we announce the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a robotic race to the Moon for a $30 million prize purse.
* We add Presently, a new application for making slide presentations, to Google Docs.
* Google Reader becomes available in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, English (U.K.), Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Japanese and Korean.
October
* We partner with IBM on a supercomputing initiative so that students can learn to work at Internet scale on computing challenges.
November
* We announce OpenSocial, a set of common APIs for developers to build applications for social networks.
* Android, the first open platform for mobile devices, and a collaboration with other companies in the Open Handset Alliance, is announced. Soon after, we introduce the $10 million Android Developer Challenge.
* Google.org announces RE
December
* The Queen of England launches The Royal Channel on YouTube. She is the first monarch to establish a video presence this way.
2008
January
* Google.org announces five key initiatives: in addition to the previously-announced RE
* We bid in the 700 MHz spectrum auction to ensure that a more open wireless world becomes available to consumers.
February
* For people searching in Hebrew, Arabic, or other right-to-left languages, we introduce a feature aimed at making searches easier by detecting the direction of a query.
* Google Sites, a revamp of the acquisition JotSpot, debuts. Sites enables users to create collaborative websites with embedded videos, documents, and calendars.
March
* We finally complete the acquisition deal for DoubleClick.
* Together with Yahoo and MySpace, we announce the OpenSocial Foundation, an independent non-profit group designed to provide transparency and operational guidelines around the open software tools for social computing.
April
* We feature 16 April Fool's jokes from our offices around the world, including the new airline announced with Sir Richard Branson (Virgle), AdSense for Conversations, a Manpower Search (China), and the Google Wake-Up Kit. Bonus foolishness: all viewers linking to YouTube-featured videos are "Rickrolled."
* A new version of Google Earth launches, incorporating Street View and 12 more languages. At the same time, KML 2.2, which began as the Google Earth file format, is accepted as an official Open Geospacial Consortium standard.
* Google Website Optimizer comes out of beta, expanding from an AdWords-only product. It's a free website-testing tool with which users can continually test different combinations of their website content (such as images and text), to see which ones yield the most sales, sign-ups, leads or other goals.
* We launch Google Finance China allowing Chinese investors to get stock and mutual fund data as a result of this collaboration between our New York and Shanghai teams.
* We introduce a collection of 70+ new themes ("skins") for iGoogle, contributed by such artists and designers as Dale Chihuly, Oscar de la Renta, Kwon Ki-Soo and Philippe Starck.
May
* Following both the Sichuan earthquake in China and Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (Burma), Google Earth adds new satellite information for the region(s) to help recovery efforts.
* Reflecting our commitment to searchers worldwide, Google search now supports Unicode 5.1.
* At a developer event, we preview Google FriendConnect, a set of functions and applications enabling website owners to easily make their sites social by adding registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, plus applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.
* With IPv4 addresses (the numbers that computers use to connect to the Internet) running low, Google search becomes available over IPv6, a new IP address space large enough to assign almost three billion networks to every person on the planet. Vint Cerf is a key proponent of broad and immediate adoption of IPv6.
* Google Translate adds 10 more languages (Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish), bringing the total to 23.
* We introduce a series of blog posts detailing the many aspects of good search results on the Official Google Blog.
* California 6th grader Grace Moon wins the U.S. 2008 Doodle 4 Google competition for her doodle "Up In The Clouds."
June
* Real-time stock quotes go live on Google Finance for the first time.
* A new version of Maps for Mobile debuts, putting Google Transit directions on phones in more than 50 cities worldwide.
* For the first time, Google engineers create the problems for contestants to solve at the 7th Annual Code Jam competition.
July
* We provide Street View for the entire 2008 Tour de France route -- the first launch of Street View imagery in Europe.
* Our first downloadable iPhone app, featuring My Location and word suggestions for quicker mobile searching, debuts with the launch of the Apple 3G iPhone.
* We work with the band Radiohead to make a music video of their song "House of Cards," using only data, and not cameras.
* Our indexing system for processing links indicates that we now count 1 trillion unique URLs (and the number of individual web pages out there is growing by several billion pages per day).
August
* Street View is available in several cities in Japan and Australia - the first time it's appeared outside of North America or Europe.
* Google Suggest feature arrives on Google.com, helping formulate queries, reduce spelling errors, and reduce keystrokes.
* Just in time for the U.S. political conventions, we launch a site dedicated to the 2008 U.S. elections, with news, video and photos as well as tools for teachers and campaigners.
September
* Word gets out about Chrome a bit ahead of schedule when the comic book that introduces our new open source browser is released earlier than planned on September 1. The browser officially becomes available for worldwide download a day later.
* We get involved with the U.S. political process at the presidential nominating conventions for the Democratic and Republican parties.
* We release an upgrade for Picasa, including new editing tools, a movie maker, and easier syncing with the web. At the same time, Picasa Web Albums is updated with a new feature allowing users to "name tag" people in photos.
* Google News Archive helps to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives.
* Thanks to all of our users, Google celebrates 10 fast-paced years.
Timeline from : http://www.google.com/tenthbirthday/#start
1995-1997
1995
* Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford. (Larry, 24, a U Michigan grad, is considering the school; Sergey, 23, is assigned to show him around.) According to some accounts, they disagree about most everything during this first meeting.
1996
* Larry and Sergey, now Stanford computer science grad students, begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub.
* BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year -- eventually taking up too much bandwidth to suit the university.
1997
* Larry and Sergey decide that the BackRub search engine needs a new name. After some brainstorming, they go with Google -- a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
1998
August
* Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check for $100,000 to an entity that doesn't exist yet: a company called Google Inc.
September
* Google sets up workspace in Susan Wojcicki's garage at 232 Santa Margarita, Menlo Park.
* Google files for incorporation in California on September 4. Shortly thereafter, Larry and Sergey open a bank account in the newly-established company's name and deposit Andy Bechtolsheim's check.
* Larry and Sergey hire Craig Silverstein as their first employee; he's a fellow computer science grad student at Stanford.
December
* "PC Magazine" reports that Google "has an uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results" and recognizes us as the search engine of choice in the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998.
1999
February
* We outgrow our garage office and move to new digs at 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto with just 8 employees.
May
* Omid Kordestani joins to run sales -- the first non-engineering hire.
June
* Our first press release announces a $25 million round from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins; John Doerr and Michael Moritz join the board. The release quotes Moritz describing "Googlers" as "people who use Google."
August
* We move to our first Mountain View location: 2400 E. Bayshore. Mountain View is a few miles south of Stanford University, and north of the older towns of Silicon Valley: Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose.
November
* Charlie Ayers joins as Google's first chef. He wins the job in a cook-off judged by the company's 40 employees. Previous claim to fame: catering for the Grateful Dead.
2000
April
* On April Fool's Day, we announce the MentalPlex: Google's ability to read your mind as you visualize the search results you want. Thus begins our annual foray in the Silicon Valley tradition of April 1 hoaxes.
May
* The first 10 language versions of Google.com are released: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish.
* We win our first Webby Awards: Technical Achievement (voted by judges) and Peoples' Voice (voted by users).
June
* We forge a partnership with Yahoo! to become their default search provider.
* We announce the first billion-URL index and therefore Google becomes the world's largest search engine.
September
* We start offering search in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, bringing our total number of supported languages to 15.
October
* Google AdWords launches with 350 customers. The self-service ad program promises online activation with a credit card, keyword targeting and performance feedback.
December
* Google Toolbar is released. It's a browser plug-in that makes it possible to search without visiting the Google homepage.
2001
January
* We announce the hire of Silicon Valley veteran Wayne Rosing as our first VP of engineering operations.
February
* Our first public acquisition: Deja.com's Usenet Discussion Service, an archive of 500 million Usenet discussions dating back to 1995. We add search and browse features and launch it as Google Groups.
March
* Eric Schmidt is named chairman of the board of directors.
* Google.com is available in 26 languages.
April
* Swedish Chef becomes a language preference.
July
* Image Search launches, offering access to 250 million images.
August
* We open our first international office, in Tokyo.
* Eric Schmidt becomes our CEO. Larry and Sergey are named presidents of products and technology, respectively.
October
* A new partnership with Universo Online (UOL) makes Google the major search service for millions of Latin Americans.
December
* Keeping track: Our index size grows to 3 billion web documents.
2002
February
* Klingon becomes one of 72 language interfaces.
* The first Google hardware is released: it's a yellow box called the Google Search Appliance that businesses can plug into their computer network to enable search capabilities for their own documents.
* We release a major overhaul for AdWords, including new cost-per-click pricing.
April
* For April Fool's Day, we announce that pigeons power our search results.
* We release a set of APIs, enabling developers to query more than 2 billion Web documents and program in their favorite environment, including Java, Perl and Visual Studio.
May
* We announce a major partnership with AOL to offer Google search and sponsored links to 34 million customers using CompuServe, Netscape and AOL.com.
* We release Google Labs for users to try out beta technologies fresh from our R&D team.
September
* Google News launches with 4000 news sources.
October
* We open our first Australian office in Sydney.
December
* Users can now search for stuff to buy with Froogle (later called Google Product Search).
2003
January
* American Dialect Society members vote "google" the "most useful" Word of the Year for 2002.
February
* We acquire Pyra Labs, the creators of Blogger.
March
* We announce a new content-targeted advertising service, enabling publishers large and small to access Google's vast network of advertisers. (Weeks later, on April 23, we acquired Applied Semantics, whose technology bolsters the service named AdSense.)
April
* We launch Google Grants, our in-kind advertising program for nonprofit organizations to run in-kind ad campaigns for their cause.
October
* Registration opens for programmers to compete for cash prizes and recognition at our first-ever Code Jam. Coders can work in Java, C++, C# or VB.NET.
December
* We launch Google Print (which later becomes Google Book Search), indexing small excerpts from books to appear in search results.
2004
January
* orkut launches as a way for us to tap into the sphere of social networking.
February
* Larry Page is inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.
* Our search index hits a new milestone: 6 billion items, including 4.28 billion web pages and 880 million images.
March
* We move to our new "Googleplex" at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, giving 800+ employees a campus environment.
* We formalize our enterprise unit with the hire of Dave Girouard as general manager; reporters begin reporting in April about our vision for the enterprise search business.
* We introduce Google Local, offering relevant neighborhood business listings, maps, and directions. (Later, Local is combined with Google Maps.)
April
* For April Fool's we announce plans to open the Googlunaplex, a new research facility on the Moon.
May
* We announce the first winners of the Google Anita Borg Scholarship, awarded to outstanding women studying computer science. Today these scholarships are open to students in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe.
August
* Our Initial Public Offering of 19,605,052 shares of Class A common stock takes place on Wall Street on August 18. Opening price: $85 per share.
September
* There are more than 100 Google domains (Norway and Kenya are #102 and #103). The list has since grown to more than 150.
October
* We formally open our office in Dublin, Ireland, with 150 multilingual Googlers, a visit from Sergey and Larry, and recognition from the Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland, Mary Harney.
* Google SMS (short message service) launches; send your text search queries to GOOGL or 466453 on your mobile device.
* Larry and Sergey are named Fellows by the Marconi Society, which recognizes "lasting scientific contributions to human progress in the field of communications science and the Internet."
* We spotlight our new engineering offices in Bangalore and Hyderabad, India with a visit from Sergey and Larry.
* Google Desktop Search is introduced: users can now search for files and documents stored on their own hard drive using Google technology.
* We launch the beta version of Google Scholar, a free service that helps users search scholarly literature such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports.
* We acquire Keyhole, a digital mapping company whose technology will later become Google Earth.
November
* Our index of web pages reaches 8 billion.
December
* We open our Tokyo R&D (research & development) center to attract the best and brightest among Japanese and other Asian engineers.
* The Google Print Program (since renamed Google Book Search) expands through digital scanning partnerships with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, University of Michigan, and Oxford plus the New York Public Library.
2005
February
* We hit a milestone in Image Search: 1.1 billion images indexed.
* Google Maps goes live.
March
* We launch code.google.com, a new place for developer-oriented resources, including all of our APIs.
* Some 14,000 programmers from six countries compete for cash prizes and recognition at our first coding competition in India, with top scores going to Ardian Kristanto Poernomo of Singapore.
* We acquire Urchin, a web analytics company whose technology is used to create Google Analytics.
April
* Our first Google Maps release in Europe is geared to U.K. users.
* For April Fool's, we announce a magical beverage that makes its imbibers more intelligent, and therefore better capable of properly using search results.
* Google Maps now features satellite views and directions.
* Google Local goes mobile, and includes SMS driving directions.
* My Search History launches in Labs, allowing users to view all the web pages they've visited and Google searches they've made over time.
* We release Site Targeting, an AdWords feature giving advertisers the ability to better target their ads to specific content sites.
May
* We release Blogger Mobile, enabling bloggers to use their mobile phones to post and send photos to their blogs.
* Google Scholar adds support for institutional access: searchers can now locate journal articles within their own libraries.
* Personalized Homepage (now iGoogle ) is designed for people to customize their own Google homepage with content modules they choose.
June
* We hold our first Summer of Code, a 3-month $2 million program that aims to help computer science students contribute to open source software development.
* Google Mobile Web Search is released, specially formulated for viewing search results on mobile phones.
* We unveil Google Earth: a satellite imagery-based mapping service combining 3D buildings and terrain with mapping capabilities and Google search.
* We release Personalized Search in Labs: over time, your (opt-in) search history will closely reflect your interests.
* API for Maps released; developers can embed Google Maps on many kinds of mapping services and sites.
August
* Google scores well in the U.S. government's 2005 machine translation evaluation. (We've done so in subsequent years as well.)
* We launch Google Talk, a downloadable Windows application that enables Gmail users to talk or IM with friends quickly and easily talk using a computer microphone and speaker (no phone required) for free.
September
* Overlays in Google Earth illuminate the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina around New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Some rescue teams use these tools to locate stranded victims.
* DARPA veteran Vint Cerf joins Google to carry on his quest for a global open Internet.
* Dr. Kai-Fu Lee begins work at our new Research and Development Center in China.
* Google Blog Search goes live; it's the way to find current and relevant blog postings on particular topics throughout the enormous blogosphere.
October
* Feed aficionados rejoice as Google Reader, a feed reader, is introduced at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.
* Googlers volunteer to produce the first Mountain View book event with Malcolm Gladwell, author of "Blink" and "The Tipping Point." Since then, the Authors@Google program has hosted more than 480 authors in 12 offices across the U.S., Europe and India.
November
* We release Google Analytics, formerly known as Urchin, for measuring the impact of websites and marketing campaigns.
* We announce the opening of our first offices in São Paulo and Mexico City.
December
* Google Transit launches in Labs. People in the Portland, Oregon metro area can now plan their trips on public transportation at one site.
* Gmail for mobile launches in the United States.
2006
January
* Our first Code Jam in China concludes in Beijing. The winner, graduate student Chuan Xu, is one of more than 13,000 registrants.
* We announce the acquisition of dMarc, a digital radio advertising company.
* Google.cn, a local domain version of Google, goes live in China.
* We introduce Picasa in 25 more languages, including Polish, Thai and Vietnamese.
February
* We release Chat in Gmail, using the instant messaging tools from Google Talk.
* Eric Schmidt is inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.
* Dr. Larry Brilliant becomes the executive director of Google.org, our philanthropic arm.
* Google News for mobile launches.
March
* We announce the acquisition of Writely, a web-based word processing application that subsequently becomes the basis for Google Docs.
* A team working from Mountain View, Bangalore and New York collaborates to create Google Finance, our approach to an improved search experience for financial information.
April
* For April Fool's we unveil a new product, Google Romance: "Dating is a search problem."
* We launch Google Calendar, complete with sharing and group features.
* We release Maps for France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
May
* We release Google Trends, a way to visualize the popularity of searches over time.
June
* We announce Picasa Web Albums, allowing Picasa users to upload and share their photos online
* The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) adds "Google" as a verb.
* Gmail, Google News and iGoogle become available on mobile phones in eight more languages besides English: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Chinese and Turkish.
* Gmail launches in Arabic and Hebrew, bringing the number of interfaces up to 40.
July
* At Google Code Jam Europe, nearly 10,000 programmers from 31 countries compete at Google Dublin for the top prizes; Tomasz Czajka from Poland wins the final round.
August
* We launch free citywide WiFi in Mountain View.
* More than 100 libraries on 10 campuses of the University of California join the Google Books Library Project.
* Star Trek's 40th Anniversary Convention in Las Vegas features a Google booth showcasing tools appropriate for intergalactic use.
* Apps for Your Domain, a suite of applications designed for organizations of all sizes, and including including Gmail and Calendar, is released.
* Google Book Search begins offering free PDF downloads of books in the public domain.
September
* We add an archive search to Google News, with more than 200 years of historical articles.
* Featured Content for Google Earth includes overlays from the UN Environmental Program, Discovery Networks, the Jane Goodall Institute, and the National Park Service.
* The University Complutense of Madrid becomes the first Spanish-language library to join the Google Books Library Project.
October
* Together with LitCam and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning, we launch the Literacy Project, offering resources for teachers, literacy groups and anyone interested in reading promotion.
* We announce our acquisition of YouTube.
* We release web-based applications Docs & Spreadsheets: Word processor Docs is a reworking of Writely (acquired in March).
* We acquire JotSpot, a collaborative wiki platform, which later becomes Google Sites.
November
* The first nationwide Doodle 4 Google contest in the U.K. takes place with the theme My Britain. More than 15,000 kids in Britain enter, and 13-year old Katherine Chisnall is chosen to have her doodle displayed on www.google.co.uk. There have been Doodle 4 Google contests in several other years and countries since.
December
* We release Patent Search in the U.S., indexing more than 7 million patents dating back to 1790.
2007
January
* We announce a partnership with China Mobile, the world's largest mobile telecom carrier, to provide mobile and Internet search services in China.
February
* We release Google Maps in Australia, complete with local business results and mobile capability.
* Google Docs & Spreadsheets is available in eleven more languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Turkish, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil) and Russian.
* For Valentine's Day, we open up Gmail to everyone. (Previously, it was available by invitation only).
* Google Apps Premier Edition launches, bringing cloud computing to businesses.
* The Candidates@Google series kicks off with Senator Hillary Clinton, the first of several 2008 Presidential candidates, including Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain, to visit the Googleplex.
* We introduce traffic information to Google Maps for more than 30 cities around the US.
March
* Our first Latin American software coding contest ends with Fábio Dias Moreira of Brazil taking the grand prize. He scored more points than 5,000 other programmers from all over the continent.
* We sign partnerships to give free access to Google Apps for Education to 70,000 university students in Kenya and Rwanda.
April
* This April Fool's Day is extra busy: not only do we introduce the Gmail Paper Archive and TiSP (Toilet Internet Service Provider) -- we lose (and find) a real snake in our New York office!
* We add eight more languages to Blogger, bringing the total to 19.
May
* In partnership with the Growing Connection, we plant a vegetable garden in the middle of the Googleplex, the output of which is incorporated into our café offerings.
* We move into permanent space in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Governor Jennifer Granholm helps us celebrate. The office is an AdWords support site.
* At our Searchology event, we announce new strides taken towards universal search. Now video, news, books, image and local results are all integrated together in one search result.
* Google Hot Trends launches, listing the current 100 most active queries, showing what people are searching for at the moment.
* Street View debuts in Google Maps in five U.S. cities: New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami, and Denver.
* On Developer Day, we announce Google Gears (now known just as Gears), an open source technology for creating offline web applications.
June
* Google Maps gets prime placement on the original Apple iPhone.
* YouTube becomes available in nine more domains: Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Ireland and the U.K.
* We announce a partnership with Salesforce.com, combining that company's on-demand CRM applications with AdWords.
* We unveil several "green" initiatives: RechargeIT, aimed at accelerating the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, the completion of our installation of solar panels at the Googleplex, in Mountain View, and our intention to be completely carbon-neutral by the end of 2007. We also announce the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, in collaboration with Intel, Dell, and more than 30 other companies.
* Google Earth Outreach is introduced, designed to help nonprofit organizations use Google Earth to advocate their causes.
July
* We announce the acquisition of Postini.
* The first CNN/YouTube debate takes place between the eight U.S. Democratic Presidential candidates. (The Republicans get their turn in November 2007.)
* Google Finance becomes available for non-U.S. markets for the first time, in Canada.
* Google Apps is now available in 28 languages.
August
* We ask users for their interpretation of how Gmail travels around the world, and get more than 1,100 video responses from more than 65 different countries.
* To infinity and beyond! Sky launches inside Google Earth, including layers for constellation information and virtual tours of galaxies.
September
* AdSense for Mobile is introduced, giving sites optimized for mobile browsers the ability to host the same ads as standard websites.
* Together with the X PRIZE Foundation we announce the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a robotic race to the Moon for a $30 million prize purse.
* We add Presently, a new application for making slide presentations, to Google Docs.
* Google Reader becomes available in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, English (U.K.), Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Japanese and Korean.
October
* We partner with IBM on a supercomputing initiative so that students can learn to work at Internet scale on computing challenges.
November
* We announce OpenSocial, a set of common APIs for developers to build applications for social networks.
* Android, the first open platform for mobile devices, and a collaboration with other companies in the Open Handset Alliance, is announced. Soon after, we introduce the $10 million Android Developer Challenge.
* Google.org announces RE
December
* The Queen of England launches The Royal Channel on YouTube. She is the first monarch to establish a video presence this way.
2008
January
* Google.org announces five key initiatives: in addition to the previously-announced RE
* We bid in the 700 MHz spectrum auction to ensure that a more open wireless world becomes available to consumers.
February
* For people searching in Hebrew, Arabic, or other right-to-left languages, we introduce a feature aimed at making searches easier by detecting the direction of a query.
* Google Sites, a revamp of the acquisition JotSpot, debuts. Sites enables users to create collaborative websites with embedded videos, documents, and calendars.
March
* We finally complete the acquisition deal for DoubleClick.
* Together with Yahoo and MySpace, we announce the OpenSocial Foundation, an independent non-profit group designed to provide transparency and operational guidelines around the open software tools for social computing.
April
* We feature 16 April Fool's jokes from our offices around the world, including the new airline announced with Sir Richard Branson (Virgle), AdSense for Conversations, a Manpower Search (China), and the Google Wake-Up Kit. Bonus foolishness: all viewers linking to YouTube-featured videos are "Rickrolled."
* A new version of Google Earth launches, incorporating Street View and 12 more languages. At the same time, KML 2.2, which began as the Google Earth file format, is accepted as an official Open Geospacial Consortium standard.
* Google Website Optimizer comes out of beta, expanding from an AdWords-only product. It's a free website-testing tool with which users can continually test different combinations of their website content (such as images and text), to see which ones yield the most sales, sign-ups, leads or other goals.
* We launch Google Finance China allowing Chinese investors to get stock and mutual fund data as a result of this collaboration between our New York and Shanghai teams.
* We introduce a collection of 70+ new themes ("skins") for iGoogle, contributed by such artists and designers as Dale Chihuly, Oscar de la Renta, Kwon Ki-Soo and Philippe Starck.
May
* Following both the Sichuan earthquake in China and Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (Burma), Google Earth adds new satellite information for the region(s) to help recovery efforts.
* Reflecting our commitment to searchers worldwide, Google search now supports Unicode 5.1.
* At a developer event, we preview Google FriendConnect, a set of functions and applications enabling website owners to easily make their sites social by adding registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, plus applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.
* With IPv4 addresses (the numbers that computers use to connect to the Internet) running low, Google search becomes available over IPv6, a new IP address space large enough to assign almost three billion networks to every person on the planet. Vint Cerf is a key proponent of broad and immediate adoption of IPv6.
* Google Translate adds 10 more languages (Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish), bringing the total to 23.
* We introduce a series of blog posts detailing the many aspects of good search results on the Official Google Blog.
* California 6th grader Grace Moon wins the U.S. 2008 Doodle 4 Google competition for her doodle "Up In The Clouds."
June
* Real-time stock quotes go live on Google Finance for the first time.
* A new version of Maps for Mobile debuts, putting Google Transit directions on phones in more than 50 cities worldwide.
* For the first time, Google engineers create the problems for contestants to solve at the 7th Annual Code Jam competition.
July
* We provide Street View for the entire 2008 Tour de France route -- the first launch of Street View imagery in Europe.
* Our first downloadable iPhone app, featuring My Location and word suggestions for quicker mobile searching, debuts with the launch of the Apple 3G iPhone.
* We work with the band Radiohead to make a music video of their song "House of Cards," using only data, and not cameras.
* Our indexing system for processing links indicates that we now count 1 trillion unique URLs (and the number of individual web pages out there is growing by several billion pages per day).
August
* Street View is available in several cities in Japan and Australia - the first time it's appeared outside of North America or Europe.
* Google Suggest feature arrives on Google.com, helping formulate queries, reduce spelling errors, and reduce keystrokes.
* Just in time for the U.S. political conventions, we launch a site dedicated to the 2008 U.S. elections, with news, video and photos as well as tools for teachers and campaigners.
September
* Word gets out about Chrome a bit ahead of schedule when the comic book that introduces our new open source browser is released earlier than planned on September 1. The browser officially becomes available for worldwide download a day later.
* We get involved with the U.S. political process at the presidential nominating conventions for the Democratic and Republican parties.
* We release an upgrade for Picasa, including new editing tools, a movie maker, and easier syncing with the web. At the same time, Picasa Web Albums is updated with a new feature allowing users to "name tag" people in photos.
* Google News Archive helps to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives.
* Thanks to all of our users, Google celebrates 10 fast-paced years.
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Wow... that was a lot of information back there.
It got me thinking, do you think Sergey (& Larry?) have a button they can push, like a "find this fucker" button ?
LOL
Do you think they get email alerts everytime their name pops up in a link?
I'd build in a "you guys are dumb" button, too - just to mess with people.
It got me thinking, do you think Sergey (& Larry?) have a button they can push, like a "find this fucker" button ?
LOL
Do you think they get email alerts everytime their name pops up in a link?
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The Google-NSA Alliance: Questions and Answers
JR Raphael, PC World
Feb 4, 2010 3:04 pm
http://www.pcworld.com/article/188581/t ... swers.html
Google's facing a gaggle of questions over reports that it's working with the National Security Agency. According to a story first published by The Washington Post on Thursday, Google's enlisting the help of the NSA to better secure its electronic assets. The partnership is reportedly a response to the recent attack on Google's networks -- you know, the one that led to the whole "we're leaving China" debacle.
The news, not surprisingly, is generating a wave of reaction on the Web: Is this normal? Is our information still secure? Is Google really evil after all? And has the NSA been writing those crazy Google interview questions all along?
I'll leave those last two in your hands to decide. As for the rest, I spent some time sifting through the facts to find some answers.
Is the Google-NSA alliance really happening?
On the record, no one is saying much. The original story in The Post cites "sources with knowledge of the arrangement " for its information. A follow-up story by The New York Times refers to details provided by "a person with direct knowledge of the agreement."
An NSA spokesperson told me the following:
"NSA is not able to comment on specific relationships we may or may not have with U.S. companies. We can say as a general matter, however, that ... [the] NSA works with a broad range of commercial partners and research associates."
A Google spokesperson also declined to comment specifically on the claims, though he did point to the company's original blog posting about the cyberattacks. The blog states that Google is "working with the relevant U.S. authorities."
What would be the point of a Google-NSA partnership?
In theory, the NSA could help Google defend its systems (and thus your information) from future attacks. The newspapers' reports describe the arrangement as providing a kind of "technical assistance" that'd allow Google to better understand who breached its network and how they managed to pull it off.
Would the government gain access to my personal information?
Thus far, most signs point to no. Sources from both The Post and The Times say Google would not share user search data or e-mail information as part of the NSA partnership.
Why would Google work with the NSA instead of the Department of Homeland Security?
This is an interesting point: The Department of Homeland Security apparently has the legal authority to investigate criminal acts in America, while the NSA does not. The report in The New York Times suggests this distinction shows Google is trying to "avoid having its search engine, e-mail and other Web services regulated as part of the nation's 'critical infrastructure.'"
Has the NSA worked with Google before?
According to the anonymous sources, this would mark the first time Google has teamed up with the NSA for any type of "formal information-sharing relationship."
What about the NSA and other tech companies?
Back in 2006, reports suggested that the NSA used information provided by AT&T to secretly build detailed records of phone calls made by tens of millions of Americans.
"The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans, most of whom aren't suspected of any crime," USA Today reported at the time. "The spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity."
So is there cause for concern now?
Both sources who provided the Google-NSA information say this arrangement isn't about sharing user data, but rather analyzing Google's networks and the apparent weaknesses that were exploited. Google would more likely be sharing details about the attacks and the malicious code that was detected, the sources say.
Still, privacy advocates are expressing concern. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the NSA to try to obtain records about the organization's relationship with Google.
"We would like to see Google develop stronger security standards and safeguards for protecting themselves," EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg told PCWorld sister publication Computerworld. "But everyone knows the NSA has two missions. One is to ensure security and the other is to enable surveillance."
Where can I read more?
Since neither Google nor the NSA is formally acknowledging any partnership as of now, official information is tough to come by. You can, however, read Google's original blog post about the attacks and its relationship with China. You can also check out the NSA's Information Assurance Web site, which talks about the agency's focus on protecting information systems.
JR Raphael is a PCWorld contributing editor and the co-founder of eSarcasm. He's on Facebook: facebook.com/The.JR.Raphael
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JR Raphael, PC World
Feb 4, 2010 3:04 pm
http://www.pcworld.com/article/188581/t ... swers.html
Google's facing a gaggle of questions over reports that it's working with the National Security Agency. According to a story first published by The Washington Post on Thursday, Google's enlisting the help of the NSA to better secure its electronic assets. The partnership is reportedly a response to the recent attack on Google's networks -- you know, the one that led to the whole "we're leaving China" debacle.
The news, not surprisingly, is generating a wave of reaction on the Web: Is this normal? Is our information still secure? Is Google really evil after all? And has the NSA been writing those crazy Google interview questions all along?
I'll leave those last two in your hands to decide. As for the rest, I spent some time sifting through the facts to find some answers.
Is the Google-NSA alliance really happening?
On the record, no one is saying much. The original story in The Post cites "sources with knowledge of the arrangement " for its information. A follow-up story by The New York Times refers to details provided by "a person with direct knowledge of the agreement."
An NSA spokesperson told me the following:
"NSA is not able to comment on specific relationships we may or may not have with U.S. companies. We can say as a general matter, however, that ... [the] NSA works with a broad range of commercial partners and research associates."
A Google spokesperson also declined to comment specifically on the claims, though he did point to the company's original blog posting about the cyberattacks. The blog states that Google is "working with the relevant U.S. authorities."
What would be the point of a Google-NSA partnership?
In theory, the NSA could help Google defend its systems (and thus your information) from future attacks. The newspapers' reports describe the arrangement as providing a kind of "technical assistance" that'd allow Google to better understand who breached its network and how they managed to pull it off.
Would the government gain access to my personal information?
Thus far, most signs point to no. Sources from both The Post and The Times say Google would not share user search data or e-mail information as part of the NSA partnership.
Why would Google work with the NSA instead of the Department of Homeland Security?
This is an interesting point: The Department of Homeland Security apparently has the legal authority to investigate criminal acts in America, while the NSA does not. The report in The New York Times suggests this distinction shows Google is trying to "avoid having its search engine, e-mail and other Web services regulated as part of the nation's 'critical infrastructure.'"
Has the NSA worked with Google before?
According to the anonymous sources, this would mark the first time Google has teamed up with the NSA for any type of "formal information-sharing relationship."
What about the NSA and other tech companies?
Back in 2006, reports suggested that the NSA used information provided by AT&T to secretly build detailed records of phone calls made by tens of millions of Americans.
"The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans, most of whom aren't suspected of any crime," USA Today reported at the time. "The spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity."
So is there cause for concern now?
Both sources who provided the Google-NSA information say this arrangement isn't about sharing user data, but rather analyzing Google's networks and the apparent weaknesses that were exploited. Google would more likely be sharing details about the attacks and the malicious code that was detected, the sources say.
Still, privacy advocates are expressing concern. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the NSA to try to obtain records about the organization's relationship with Google.
"We would like to see Google develop stronger security standards and safeguards for protecting themselves," EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg told PCWorld sister publication Computerworld. "But everyone knows the NSA has two missions. One is to ensure security and the other is to enable surveillance."
Where can I read more?
Since neither Google nor the NSA is formally acknowledging any partnership as of now, official information is tough to come by. You can, however, read Google's original blog post about the attacks and its relationship with China. You can also check out the NSA's Information Assurance Web site, which talks about the agency's focus on protecting information systems.
JR Raphael is a PCWorld contributing editor and the co-founder of eSarcasm. He's on Facebook: facebook.com/The.JR.Raphael
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Google Advertisers Urged to Defect on Speculation of China Exit
March 15, 2010, 6:17 AM EDT
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By Mark Lee and Brian Womack
March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. advertisers in China are being advised to switch to rivals such as Baidu Inc. and business partners are exploring alternatives as speculation grows the U.S. company will shut its Web site in the country.
“When we talk to clients, we have been pushing them in the direction of Baidu more,â€
March 15, 2010, 6:17 AM EDT
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By Mark Lee and Brian Womack
March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. advertisers in China are being advised to switch to rivals such as Baidu Inc. and business partners are exploring alternatives as speculation grows the U.S. company will shut its Web site in the country.
“When we talk to clients, we have been pushing them in the direction of Baidu more,â€
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Those Special Google Logos, Sliced & Diced, Over The Years
May 8, 2010 at 9:00am ET by Danny Sullivan
I’ve been working on a project to classify all the special logos that Google has done over the years. Crazy? Perhaps a bit, but it’s interesting to see what Google has honored with special logos and the great increase in them recently. Besides, I like to organize things. Below, how Google’s special logos have evolved, including tips on which occupation to pursue if you hope to have your birthday immortalized by Google.
My project’s not done yet, but I presented some early findings at Ignite: SMX West in March. For those unfamiliar with Ignite, you have 5 minutes to present 20 slides on a particular topic. You can watch the video of my presentation at the end of this post, but I’ve also summarized my presentation in text, as well.
If you don’t recognize some of the logos below, that’s because in recent years, Google has targeted some logos to specific countries. Other ones are shown worldwide.
1998: First Doodle
In this year, the first ever Google “Doodleâ€
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More Egypt protesters turn out, drawn by Google's Wael Ghonim
Released Google executive Wael Ghonim emerges as an impassioned but reluctant symbol of resistance.
By Ned Parker and Doha Al Zohairy, Los Angeles Times
February 9, 2011
Reporting from Cairo —
Wael Ghonim stood on a tiny stage in a corner of Cairo's Tahrir Square, a spindly figure in a sea of tens of thousands of anti-government protesters, his shouts of "Long live Egypt!" rippling out before evaporating in the noisy squall.
As the head of Google marketing operations in the Middle East, the gaunt 30-year-old seemed an unlikely figure to command special attention Tuesday, a day when the movement to topple President Hosni Mubarak drew one of its biggest crowds yet.
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But his role in organizing online opposition to Mubarak, and his highly publicized release after 12 days in the custody of Egypt's security services, had turned Ghonim, temporarily at least, into an icon of Egyptian resistance.
"We will not abandon our demand, and that is the departure of the regime," Ghonim told the crowd.
The huge turnout showed that the anti-government protests retain enough oxygen to continue the fight. But it remains a disparate collection of forces that has not yet found a leader who fully personifies the struggle.
Be it former international nuclear regulatory chief Mohamed ElBaradei or the religious Muslim Brotherhood, no individual or group with a high public profile has come to be seen as the leader of the opposition.
For his part, Ghonim has become a symbol, however reluctant, for a generation of middle-class Egyptians seeking broader freedoms who are among those involved in the protests: computer geeks, market researchers, corporate executives and urban professionals.
The demonstrations he helped launch through a Facebook posting have yanked him from the anonymity of his keyboard to imprisonment by Egypt's security apparatus and back to the square, speaking before tens of thousands.
On Tuesday, he served as the center of attention.
"Wael," someone in a crowd of reporters blurted, "100,000 Egyptians on Facebook have asked you to be their spokesman. Will you do it?"
He shook his head, his eyes tearing. "I don't know," he said.
Ghonim seemed both elated and overwhelmed by the attention and by the upheaval the protests unleashed since he was locked away. But he seemed most moved by the deaths of about 300 demonstrators who human rights activists say have been killed since the demonstrations began late last month.
When he learned of the deaths after he was freed Monday, he abruptly ended an Egyptian television interview in tears, looking at pictures of the fallen.
Surrounded Tuesday by his family members and friends, Ghonim was rushed into a cramped travel agency behind the stage that has become a meeting place for political parties and organizers. He had begun the day huddled in his family's home with friends and fellow activists. Then came a round of meetings at another location to talk about how they should proceed against Mubarak's government
"People who are sitting here are dreamers; we are all dreamers," Ghonim told a small group of reporters in the travel agency.
On Jan. 27, the third day of the protests, Ghonim was picked up by plainclothes security men on a street as he was making his way home. He said he was blindfolded and taken to the state security offices.
When he emerged Monday night, the protests he had advertised on a Facebook page more than two weeks before had turned into a popular uprising. The scenes at Tahrir Square of Egyptian flags and shouts for democracy were sparked by his anti-Mubarak page, called "We are all Khaled Said," in memory of an Egyptian man beaten to death by police in June.
As he sat incommunicado, Ghonim told reporters, he remained convinced of the power of Egypt's youths. During his captivity, his interrogators kept accusing him of being part of a plot by the Muslim Brotherhood, the long-outlawed Islamist opposition group.
But what authorities didn't understand, he said, is that the current rebellion has been fueled by a technological revolution that has encouraged savvy young men to speak out.
"They could not believe the young guys were capable of doing this. They were telling me the Muslim Brotherhood was doing this and I told them this is a joke," he said.
But for every word about his hopes for his country, the violence that ensued during his detention still jarred him.
"[Our] dream needs to come true especially after 300 people died," he said, jabbing with his hand for emphasis. "These people deserve to be heroes today and if we stop right now we are all traitors."
Released Google executive Wael Ghonim emerges as an impassioned but reluctant symbol of resistance.
By Ned Parker and Doha Al Zohairy, Los Angeles Times
February 9, 2011
Reporting from Cairo —
Wael Ghonim stood on a tiny stage in a corner of Cairo's Tahrir Square, a spindly figure in a sea of tens of thousands of anti-government protesters, his shouts of "Long live Egypt!" rippling out before evaporating in the noisy squall.
As the head of Google marketing operations in the Middle East, the gaunt 30-year-old seemed an unlikely figure to command special attention Tuesday, a day when the movement to topple President Hosni Mubarak drew one of its biggest crowds yet.
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But his role in organizing online opposition to Mubarak, and his highly publicized release after 12 days in the custody of Egypt's security services, had turned Ghonim, temporarily at least, into an icon of Egyptian resistance.
"We will not abandon our demand, and that is the departure of the regime," Ghonim told the crowd.
The huge turnout showed that the anti-government protests retain enough oxygen to continue the fight. But it remains a disparate collection of forces that has not yet found a leader who fully personifies the struggle.
Be it former international nuclear regulatory chief Mohamed ElBaradei or the religious Muslim Brotherhood, no individual or group with a high public profile has come to be seen as the leader of the opposition.
For his part, Ghonim has become a symbol, however reluctant, for a generation of middle-class Egyptians seeking broader freedoms who are among those involved in the protests: computer geeks, market researchers, corporate executives and urban professionals.
The demonstrations he helped launch through a Facebook posting have yanked him from the anonymity of his keyboard to imprisonment by Egypt's security apparatus and back to the square, speaking before tens of thousands.
On Tuesday, he served as the center of attention.
"Wael," someone in a crowd of reporters blurted, "100,000 Egyptians on Facebook have asked you to be their spokesman. Will you do it?"
He shook his head, his eyes tearing. "I don't know," he said.
Ghonim seemed both elated and overwhelmed by the attention and by the upheaval the protests unleashed since he was locked away. But he seemed most moved by the deaths of about 300 demonstrators who human rights activists say have been killed since the demonstrations began late last month.
When he learned of the deaths after he was freed Monday, he abruptly ended an Egyptian television interview in tears, looking at pictures of the fallen.
Surrounded Tuesday by his family members and friends, Ghonim was rushed into a cramped travel agency behind the stage that has become a meeting place for political parties and organizers. He had begun the day huddled in his family's home with friends and fellow activists. Then came a round of meetings at another location to talk about how they should proceed against Mubarak's government
"People who are sitting here are dreamers; we are all dreamers," Ghonim told a small group of reporters in the travel agency.
On Jan. 27, the third day of the protests, Ghonim was picked up by plainclothes security men on a street as he was making his way home. He said he was blindfolded and taken to the state security offices.
When he emerged Monday night, the protests he had advertised on a Facebook page more than two weeks before had turned into a popular uprising. The scenes at Tahrir Square of Egyptian flags and shouts for democracy were sparked by his anti-Mubarak page, called "We are all Khaled Said," in memory of an Egyptian man beaten to death by police in June.
As he sat incommunicado, Ghonim told reporters, he remained convinced of the power of Egypt's youths. During his captivity, his interrogators kept accusing him of being part of a plot by the Muslim Brotherhood, the long-outlawed Islamist opposition group.
But what authorities didn't understand, he said, is that the current rebellion has been fueled by a technological revolution that has encouraged savvy young men to speak out.
"They could not believe the young guys were capable of doing this. They were telling me the Muslim Brotherhood was doing this and I told them this is a joke," he said.
But for every word about his hopes for his country, the violence that ensued during his detention still jarred him.
"[Our] dream needs to come true especially after 300 people died," he said, jabbing with his hand for emphasis. "These people deserve to be heroes today and if we stop right now we are all traitors."
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Thanks and I have to say, I am glad to be back on eplaya.TomServo wrote:Welcome back DVD Burner! Did you get bored?
But no, I've not been bored, tho I should have been.
I have to take a break every now and then to let most, if not all realize..........................my point!
Plus it's good for me to go and travel a bit!
Also I am on so many sites that are important to me to get my point out, including Google and all Android.........
Thanks for asking tho!
Miss you guys!
Hope I can continue to entertain you all the way I always have!
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Google seems to keep on getting bigger and stronger.
Maybe I missed your point though, I'm not sure. Curiosity killed the cat. Didn't google stock go up recently?
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Burning Man is a different, sacred animal, sacred.
I doubt it's going anywhere but bigger and better.
I'm guessin' even you know that DVD.
Maybe I missed your point though, I'm not sure. Curiosity killed the cat. Didn't google stock go up recently?
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Burning Man is a different, sacred animal, sacred.
I doubt it's going anywhere but bigger and better.
I'm guessin' even you know that DVD.
I'm the MAN in a truck, burner who is stuck, you're in luck! I'll whip out my BIG tow chain and not charge you, not even one lousy buck!
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I liked "The Orb" an interesting music vid you posted.
I like the abstract music, not sure what genre it is called though, haha, it'll take me a while to find out...a freind listened with me and she said "ambient background burning man music" and she's been a burner for a long, long time, lmao.
I'll try to send some links, after 2011 burn, maybe you can help me figure what it's called...we're stumped!
Back to Google, yup, they seem to be kicking ass...good for burning man too from what I gather.
I like the abstract music, not sure what genre it is called though, haha, it'll take me a while to find out...a freind listened with me and she said "ambient background burning man music" and she's been a burner for a long, long time, lmao.
I'll try to send some links, after 2011 burn, maybe you can help me figure what it's called...we're stumped!
Back to Google, yup, they seem to be kicking ass...good for burning man too from what I gather.
I'm the MAN in a truck, burner who is stuck, you're in luck! I'll whip out my BIG tow chain and not charge you, not even one lousy buck!
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Googles Egyptian executive!
This is for all of you that refuse to understand the Israeli/Arab thing!
It's really fucked up!
The Israelis /Zionists are FUCKED UP!
BAD!
The Zionists are HUGE RACISTS!
I am here to tell you this fact!
It's really that fucked up!
Israel is fucked up!
This is for all of you that refuse to understand the Israeli/Arab thing!
It's really fucked up!
The Israelis /Zionists are FUCKED UP!
BAD!
The Zionists are HUGE RACISTS!
I am here to tell you this fact!
It's really that fucked up!
Israel is fucked up!
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