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Google is 10 this year. So, to celebrate, here's a few things - good and bad - you may not know about Google but really should, together with our pick of some of the latest stories demonstrating why Google's become one of the most talked-about companies in the IT industry just a decade after starting up.
Five things you may not know about Google - but really should
1. According to Gartner, Google is one of the biggest makers of PC servers in the world, but it has just one customer: Google itself. By 2011, its Dallas data centre site will be using 103 megawatts of electricity, enough to power over 80,000 homes. It’s no wonder, Google is investigating cheap hydro-electric power to feed the world's insatiable appetite for online search.
2. In 2007, the most searched for term on Google US was "iPhone" - well, at least that's better than "Britney Spears Naked"
3. Thanks to the clever (cruel?) technique of Google bombing - which involves manipulating link and anchor text to influence search results - the search phrase "more evil than Satan himself" used to bring up the Microsoft homepage as the top search result on Google.
4. Though Google's corporate philosophy statement famously includes a wish to 'make money without doing evil', it has nevertheless been accused of barring certain sites and manipulating certain search terms in response to requests from represive regimes. For instance, the BBC news site is inaccessible via Google to browsers in China. And that's not the only kind of pressure to which Google has bowed, perhaps inappropriately: you may experience some difficulty searching for anti-scientology sites on Google, because the Church of Scientology has lodged copyright violation complaints under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
5. Google was the first search engine to use a cookie that expires in 2038.
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- Sony Vaios to ship with Google Chrome finishGoogle has stepped up plans to distribute its Chrome web browser released last year in a deal with Sony's PC making division.News Date: 01:00 01 Sep 2009
- Google to boost mobile advertising with AdMob acquisitionGoogle has announced plans to acquire mobile advertising network AdMob in a $750m stock deal to boost its position in the fast-growing industry.News Date: 09:30 10 Nov 2009
- Google explains itself after Michelle Obama insultpGoogle has a href=http://www.google.com/resultsinfo.htmlbought an advert/a to explain its search engine after an offensive picture of Michelle Obama.../pNews Date: 13:03 24 Nov 2009
- ComScore’s October 2009 Search Data: Google and Microsoft Up. Yahoo Down. | John Paczkowski |ComScore’s October search market analysis is in and it’s good news for two out of the big three search engines. Google and Microsoft both posted gains for the month, while Yahoo suffered a decline. --News Source: digitaldaily.allthingsd.com Date: 00:06 17 Nov 2009
- Google and Dell in spyware claimsA year-old deal between Google and Dell produces search results dominated by paid ads instead of the normal links and degrades users' experiences on the web, David Ulevitch said.News
- Google to challenge Microsoft with Chrome OSGoogle is developing a fast, simple and secure computer operating system that is designed to work well on the web.News Source: www.microscope.co.uk
- Yahoo's Search Share Slips; Microsoft, Google Gain - FOXBusiness.comSAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo Inc.'s share of the U.S. search market slipped to 18% in October from 18.8% in the prior month, while rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. each saw gains, according to data published by...News Source: www.foxbusiness.com Date: 21:44 17 Nov 2009
- Photos: Google Street View - A tour of LondonDesktop software news and updates about desktop productivity from ComputerWeekly.com. Stay ahead with the latest PC applications news, resources, case studies, comment and video.Photo Story Date: 10:00 20 Mar 2009
- Photos: Wolfram Alpha Vs GoogleTyping in company names brings back all sorts of useful information. You could probably find this out on Google but it would definately take some digging.Photo Story Date: 10:00 18 May 2009
- Google Apps makes its way into big businessEarlier this year, Google said that the number of organisations using Google...In Depth Date: 12:05 24 Jun 2008
- Photos: Celebrities caught on Google Street View!Hollywood Boulevard - Where else would you expect to see Darth vader and one of his Stormtroopers?Photo Story Date: 11:00 05 May 2009
- Google HomeWeb Images Maps News Shopping Google Mail more ▼ Video Groups Books Scholar Finance Blogs YouTube Calendar Photos Documents Reader Sites even more » iGoogle | Sign in Google Advanced Search Preferences Language...Whitepaper Source: www.google.co.uk Date: 14:39 02 Aug 2008
- Infosecurity (UK) - Google Docs leaks out private dataThe security rating of cloud computing has taken a battering with news that users of Google's online word processing service - Google Docs - may have shared their data with unauthorised users.Enterprise Source: www.infosecurity-magazine.com
- Google Checkout API BlogXML API Developer's Guide: stronger, faster, easier! Monday, October 1, 2007 5:47 PMAudio Source: googlecheckoutapi.blogspot.com Date: 15:39 16 Nov 2009
- Google WeblogLaunch Google running AdWords in newspapers Google is buying the leftover ad space in the _Chicago Sun-Times_ and filling it with AdWords ads related to the rest of the content. I wonder how they're going to ch...Web
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- Google Docs now offlineWhile Google Docs is in no way as functional as MS Word, let's face it, most people use only 10-20% of Word. So why pay £300 for the full MS Office Suite?Blog Date: 12:31 02 Apr 2008
- Video: The Cookie Monster created Google! Well, he sang about it 27 yrs agoWe all love the Cookie Monster and of course we also love Google so whenI heard that there was a video of the Cookie Monster singing about Google I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.Blog Date: 14:25 05 Nov 2009
- Google Maps Maniaat. In the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling, the Weasley family have a clock which, instead of telling the time, shows the location of each of member of the family.Blog Source: googlemapsmania.blogspot.com
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