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After february 10, this time the Google website is down. Seems to be some unannounced issue at youtube end.<br />
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1. Google<br />
There is a reason that Google is one of the top companies in the world — they produce useful products. These are a few of their innovations I found most helpful in my studies.<br />
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Google Chrome is surprisingly helpful for research projects. Booking marking sites under your Google Chrome account allows you to access them through any computer you use. So if you have done a ton of work finding helpful websites online for a research project, bookmark them all into a folder so when you go to campus you can access them on a campus computer or your laptop. I don’t use other browsers so they might be able to do the same thing on other browsers, but it is very simple to figure out in Google Chrome.<br />
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Google Calendar can help you plan your time, and share a schedule with other people to figure out a time to plan something.<br />
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Google Docs were oftentimes used in many of my classes to collaborate on study guides, and to put together groups projects. There are a lot of different formats you can create a document in Google Docs, and even makes it possible to avoid buying Microsoft Office.<br />
Obviously the Google search engine is helpful for basic research, and for finding just about any information you need.<br />
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Google voice is a free VoIP phone service which is helpful if you have to pay much to call home, or if you have a limited number of minutes, as you can use it over WiFi. If you get a number it will try to transcribe messages that people leave you (They’re kind of funny because they can be so wrong sometime). This can be helpful if you are doing an internship that requires a lot of time talking on the phone.<br />
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Google Translate can help out with language classes — Use the translation software as a guide, because unless they have improved a lot recently, it won’t be super accurate.<br />
So, if you have just started college and have avoided getting a Google account go ahead and get one now. You’ll probably have to do it eventually. One of my classes used Blogger as our method of composing and turning in assignments.<br />
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2. Quizlet<br />
Quizlet is a flashcard website. For most classes, someone has already created a list of flashcards on Quizlet that you can flip through. Generally they might not be exactly what you need, but they will be close enough. You can print them off. It can create practice tests. You can play games that make the learning more interactive. You can have it read the flashcards to you. Plus, you don’t have to buy anything and lug around a giant stack of flashcards. There are probably other sites like this one out there, but this is my favorite.<br />
note from Katie here: This is the only way I passed one of my classes this last semester, because someone had previously created an amazing study guide. Just sayin’.<br />
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3. SugarSync<br />
SugarSync is an online data storage site. However, you can create a file on multiple computers (including a smartphone) through the SugarSync app that will update if you make a change to the file on one of the devices. So, if I was working on a paper in Microsoft Word (or your program of choice) on my desktop at home I could simple save it as a SugarSync file, and I would be able to access it at another computer on campus in order to continue to work on it. This is especially nice if you don’t have a printer at your apartment, and you have to print from a campus printer. Instead of going to through the whole process of always emailing everything to yourself you can just have you computers sync your files.<br />
Sugarsync is a paid subscription, though you get 5 GB for free, which will probably be satisfactory for just occasionally using it.<br />
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4. Rate My Professor<br />
This is a classic site to see how other students viewed their professors. This can be very helpful when trying to put together a class schedule. They can even be rated with little chili peppers if students think the professor was attractive. Obviously every student has something different that they expect and want from a professor, so be careful how much importance you place on other people’s opinions. Teachers are ranked on a number of central attributes, plus students can write their own personal comments.<br />
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5. Wikipedia<br />
Wikipedia is becoming slightly more acceptable in academic circles, but it is by its nature not a high level source suited for higher education. It is user generated, and the users could be just about anyone. However, it is a helpful place to start a research project. It can introduce you to the general ideas and issues involved in a topic, and it can provide you with links to more credible sources. However, I would not cite Wikipedia in paper unless a profess or specifically says it is allowed.<br />
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6. School Library Websites<br />
Colleges and Universities generally pay for their students to be able to access different databases of scholarly journals, news articles, and books online. Through BYU I was able to access JSTOR which I used extensively during research projects to find those sources you actually could cite in a research paper. JSTOR allowed me to store a list of different articles I found that I wanted to return to easily in the future. I’m sure most schools and most majors have similar resources for students.<br />
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7. RefWorks<br />
Refworks and cites like it help you to attempt to skip the tedious and boring process of putting together your own citations. This may not seem like a very helpful resource if you have never written a paper like I have that required at least thirty sources. I was never able to figure out how to use RefWorks well myself, so I got very good at looking up the rules for all of the different types of citations.<br />
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8. Audible<br />
Audible.com is an audio book website. You can get a free audio book when you sign up.So if you have multiple email address you could potentially get multiple books for free. I had a job as a janitor for a while where having a audio book of an assigned book from one of my classes allowed me to essentially be studying while I was working. You could listen to books while you run or drive as well. Time is precious during college so anything you can do like this will help you stay on top of your classes. I’m sure there are not audio books for textbooks, so only certain types of books will work.<br />
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9. Half.com and Amazon.com<br />
Buying and selling textbooks online can make the cost of your books much cheaper. I generally used Half.com the most. It usually wasn’t too complicated, and if you ordered books from the same source you can save on shipping. If you have Amazon prime I believe shipping is free.<br />
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10. Fill My Team<br />
This applies specifically to BYU, but there may be equivalent sites for other schools. It is a site where people can try to put together intramural teams. Intramural sports can be a lot of fun, and it is a good, healthy way to blow off some steam and stay in shape. Sports help motivate me to exercise, and exercise is good for the mind and body. Basically, playing sports is probably good for you. However, being in charge of a team or finding a good team can be a bit of a pain. Fill my team makes it easy to put together a team so you don’t have to waste too much your precious time pestering people to play on your wheel chair rugby team – we really had that one year.<br />
With deadlines and all the things that I had to worry about as a college student who worked, got married and started a family before I graduated, time was very important. These sites made my life more manageable, and I probably got better grades because of them.<br />
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Are there any sites you’ve used in college that you found particularly helpful?</div>
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The MyGlass companion app requires Android 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich) or higher. MyGlass enables GPS and SMS messaging.</div>
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A Google representative has said Google intends to allow Glass to handle these features independent of the device the user has paired it to, TechCrunch reports.</div>
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Glass can work with any iPhone over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, but lacks access to features such as map navigation and text messages which would require access to APIs that Apple has restrictions on.</div>
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For Google Glass users to operate navigation and text messaging, the device has to paired with an Android phone with the Glass companion app installed. Users of Glass are currently limited to those involved in the Glass Explorers program - around 2,000 developers.</div>
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"It's worth nothing that one of the myths surrounding Glass is that it is independently connected to the Internet," TechCrunch reports. Glass needs to be connected to your phone's personal hotspot feature by pairing the two together.</div>
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The news shared with TechCrunch means that it can be expected that Glass will become fully functional on whichever device you use to connect it to the internet.</div>
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Google Glass tech specs were leaked last month, revealing features such as 16GB of total storage, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and a 5MP camera shooting in 720p video.</div>
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Sometimes you download some music and film files from torrent website. You may not understand how the up loaders make money with their torrent files.</div>
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You can make money in a variety of ways, you may develop your own private BitTorrent website with it’s own private trackers, which give users the illusion of privacy & security. You could do this buy requiring an “invite”, charging $x.xx for 2 invites, one for himself and one for a friend.If you can find an affiliate, you can always advertise by including a text or image file in your torrents about the affiliate. If your torrents get really popular, they will most likely pay you for your advertising.</div>
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Another possibility through an affiliate program, if you have a decent connection speed (especially upload) you could setup a computer on your network as a seed box. This is where the system’s main duty is simply to upload the torrent data to other users. You will usually need at least a consistent 2GB/upload speed.</div>
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You could use the CPA password method, which is generally frowned upon in the P2P community. This method involves password protecting an archieve and only giving a link to where the password is, the link itself is usually something like Share cash or some service that pays you for the amount of people who visit your link.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 24px;">Cathy is in need of a legitimate way to make money online fast. She writes in: “I was a nurse for almost 30 years when I became disabled from a car wreck. I am a very tough person (I’m a redhead!) I went out last October and bought a new PC to try and make money online, but all I have succeeded in doing is getting further in debt. I know you know what I mean by all the scams that I fell into.</span></div>
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I have been reading A LOT and trying to learn as much as I can. I have run into conflicting stories, though. I just don’t know where to start. I am not a computer tech, nor that knowledgeable about how to start. I am NOT asking for a handout; just a helping hand in the right direction.</div>
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I’m not expecting to make tons of money today, but ANYTHING to help me get started in the right direction. I have saved thousands of lives and now I can’t even get through the month without running out of food!”</div>
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Cathy has the right attitude — she’s not looking for a get-rich-quick scheme, but instead a legitimate way to make some extra money online.</div>
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Having been sucked into some scams myself in the past, I know how difficult it can be to find <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">real</em>ways to make money online fast. Thus, I’ve compiled this list. Some ways require knowledge of certain skills, but all these skills can be learned. If you don’t know where to start, I suggest picking one of these ways and learning more about it, then trying it out!<span id="more-1213" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Note:</strong> None of the 20 ways listed below contain affiliate links (that is, links that make me money if you click on them.) This list is for your benefit, not mine. Enjoy!</div>
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1. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.</h2>
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Mechanical Turk is a great way to make some extra cash. You probably won’t make much more than a few dollars an hour, but it’s also dead simple to complete many of the tasks. Most tasks take less than a minute to complete and pay a few pennies. If you do a lot of MTurk, it could add up to at least some fun spending money. <a href="https://www.mturk.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">Sign up for free</a>, then complete qualifications to earn access to higher-paying tasks.</div>
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2. Sell stock photos.</h2>
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<a href="http://www.istockphoto.com/sell-stock-photos.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">iStockPhoto</a> is just one site that allows you to sell stock photos; there are others. Before you decide to go crazy and upload your whole album, take note of what’s selling well and try your hand at doing something similar. iStockPhoto also works for those who know how to render images; some of their most popular images were created on a computer! Have three killer stock photos ready for iStockPhoto’s inspection; they will want them when you sign up.</div>
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3. Sell stuff on eBay.</h2>
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Start by selling your own extra stuff. Then, once you get a feel for selling your extra stuff, go door-to-door in nicer neighborhoods in your town. Develop an eye for what will sell and what won’t (old laptops, for instance, could be a gold mine–if you know how to format them to get rid of the previous owner’s personal data.) Sign a contract where you take 25-30% (or more) of the gross sale. Your customers will be happy to get cash for their old junk, and you’ll make some good money selling other people’s stuff. <a href="http://www.ebay.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">eBay</a></div>
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4. Become a freelance article writer.</h2>
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It may not pay well, but there is a growing demand for this. Write 200-300 word articles and submit them to article directories. Potential clients include bloggers, marketers, and small businesses. You can write articles in a niche in batches and sell them as a package to one or more clients, or you can offer your services for hire per word or article and let your client give you direction. A foundation of<a href="http://www.searchengineguide.com/lisa-barone/five-steps-to-effective-keywor.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">keyword research</a> is important to succeed at this job (unless you’re just taking direction from a client), but keyword research is learnable.</div>
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5. Write articles for magazines or other publications.</h2>
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If you have a background in journalism, or just a passion for it, you can try your hand at submitting articles to publications. Don’t just randomly fire off articles, however; have a plan and, preferably, a contact at the publication you wish to submit to. The good news is that there are publications in pretty much any niche you can think of. To see some publications that are hiring, visit <a href="http://www.online-writing-jobs.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">Online Writing Jobs</a>, <a href="http://www.poewar.com/freelance-jobs/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">PoeWar Freelance Jobs</a>, and <a href="http://www.writing.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">Writing.com.</a></div>
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An easy job; doesn’t pay well, but also a quick way to make some money. Sign up on <a href="http://www.elance.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">eLance</a> or<a href="http://www.odesk.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">oDesk</a> to start, and/or advertise your services in entrepreneur forums. Requires good hearing and a good command of the English language. You may also want to invest in a foot pedal if you plan to transcribe often. Make sure you know <a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_2169033_transcribe-interviews.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">how to transcribe interviews</a> before you start your first job.</div>
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There are entire books written on how to become a virtual assistant, so this job is definitely worthy of more research. My advice: Focus on one niche (I just hired Lisa Morosky of <a href="http://www.vaforbloggers.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">VA for Bloggers</a>, for instance.) Also, reach out to potential customers directly and let them know what you can do for them instead of hitting up freelance web sites. Finally, you may want to consider resources such as<a href="http://www.assistu.com/va/va_how.shtml" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">AssistU</a>, which provides training for up-and-coming virtual assistants.</div>
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8. Write articles on eHow.com.</h2>
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If you understand the basics of keyword research, you can make a good monthly income from eHow. eHow pays you a percentage of the ad revenue they make from each “How to” article you create. You can crank out a few articles a day with relative ease. Try this for a month; assuming your article titles match up with what people are searching for in Google, you can make a significant income. The great news is that you write your articles once and get paid month after month. I’ve seen figures of $100-$150/month for 30 articles. <a href="http://www.ehow.com/make-money-online.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">Make money writing for eHow.com.</a></div>
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9. Do some videos to promote affiliate products.</h2>
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Enjoy making silly videos? Even short, silly videos can sell products online. Find an product worth promoting that has an affiliate program, then target your video toward potential customers of that product. In your video summary on YouTube, place your affiliate link for the product, and after the video, do a 30-second still frame showing a short URL where people can buy the product. If your video is funny, informative, or useful, you may sell some products. Big tip: Try to promote a product that makes you a fair amount of money for each sale, but doesn’t cost a whole lot for the potential customer. You can find products on <a href="http://www.cj.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">Commission Junction</a>, for one.</div>
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10. Write an ebook targeted to people who need help.</h2>
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Alexis Dawes created a product called “Desperate Buyers Only”. I interview her for an upcoming case study on Inspiring Innovators, where she mentions that she is able to make up to $97 from ebooks as small as 12 pages. The key? Finding people who are incredibly desperate for the information you provide and then doing good research to find a real solution to their problems. The result? Happy customers whose problem is solved, and money for you — a win-win situation! Caveat: It may be tough to find a real desperate buyer niche (Alexis reveals some in her case study). Here are some hints: When were you last in a situation where information would have either saved you a lot of money or a lot of pain? Has someone else close to you been in a situation where they could have used information to avert pain? Think legal, medical, and financial niches.</div>
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11. Build a small niche website.</h2>
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<span style="line-height: 24px;">I run a few small niche websites. For instance,</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> </span><a href="http://howtoconvertpdf.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; line-height: 24px; text-decoration: none;">How to Convert PDF</a><span style="line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">is a tiny site that has free videos on how to convert other types of documents into PDF format. It sells a piece of software called PDF Creator, and I make a few dollars every time someone buys from that site. I promoted the site using pay-per-click ads and it was profitable. Don’t copy me directly, but do find the intersection of people needing help and a tool, ebook, or software program that will help them fix their problem. Then, create a website designed to get them to buy it!</span></div>
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12. Help local businesses develop an online presence.</h2>
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Local businesses are struggling. Many have websites, but aren’t getting any results from them. Others don’t have websites at all. You can help by learning search engine optimization, how to set up an email list, and more, and then implementing these for local businesses. If you typically hang around geeks, web marketers, or the Web 2.0 crowd, you may be surprised how many business owners are 10 years (or more) behind you! If you can deliver results, business owners will happily pay. Find customers by going door-to-door.</div>
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13. Learn WordPress, then offer to install plugins and upgrade it.</h2>
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I hired David from <a href="http://webgeek4hire.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">Web Geek 4 Hire</a> to upgrade my blogs and install new WordPress plugins. He charges $5 to upgrade a plugin…great for him, since most plugins only take a few minutes to upgrade, and great for me, since if anything breaks, David gets to clean up the mess! You can make this a <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">full time</em> position; there is a ton of demand for these services. Find customers by contacting bloggers directly. Get references from bloggers who understand the value of outsourcing these tasks.</div>
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14. Become the go-to person for installations of a particular piece of software.</h2>
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Anything from <a href="http://www.amember.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">Amember</a> to <a href="http://quickbooks.intuit.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">Quickbooks</a> is fair game here. In the hosting industry, <a href="http://www.idevdirect.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">iDevAffiliate</a> and<a href="http://www.modernbill.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">Plesk Billing</a> were the pieces of software we would have paid a lot of money to have someone else deal with. The more niche and more complex/annoying/frustrating the software, the better! Even if the software company offers free installation, you can make hundreds or thousands of dollars training business owners or their employees on its usage. Focus on one piece of software and become the trusted expert. Create videos and tutorials using screencast software like <a href="http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">Camtasia</a> to increase your profitability; this may also lead into a niche product that you can sell. (Amember offers “free installation”, but it took my boyfriend and I over 10 hours to configure it properly. That’s definitely something I would outsource next time!)</div>
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15. Interview other people and sell the interviews.</h2>
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I experimented with this in 2008 and made over $800 from one interview. The key here is to understand a pain point that people are experiencing, interview an expert, and ask the expert the questions that the people experiencing the problem are having. Then create a small website and sell the interview. There’s more to this, including having good copywriting skills so your website sells the interview well, and knowing where to advertise, so don’t expect to immediately pull in hundreds of dollars. That said, it’s a neat way to quickly create a product. Get the interviews transcribed, then string a few interviews in the same industry together as a membership site or bundle that you can sell for more money.</div>
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16. Become a freelance “web geek.”</h2>
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From configuring a shopping cart to installing and tweaking blog themes, there are virtually unlimited projects out there for geeks who enjoy working with small business owners to get them up and running online. Find people looking for web geeks on <a href="http://warriorforum.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">the Warrior Forum</a> or other places where entrepreneurs gather.</div>
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17. Enter logo and design contests.</h2>
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Fancy yourself a good designer? Try your hand at creating a logo or other design that a company loves! <a href="http://99designs.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">99 Designs</a> is the most popular marketplace. Beware, however; you won’t get paid unless your logo wins against many others, which makes many designers unhappy. In my opinion, this is a great way for a budding designer to build a portfolio and learn quickly what clients love.</div>
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18. Create Twitter backgrounds and e-covers.</h2>
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Competition is stiff, but if you are a savvy designer, this is a good way to pick up extra dollars. Even better, if you are an <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">artist</em>, this is a good way to make your art skills pay off. Consider that every design will need to have a reason why the customer should buy the book or follow that person on Twitter to have a real impact. Twitter backgrounds, in particular, are in hot demand right now. For measurements and caveats of Twitter backgrounds, read <a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/04/29/how-to-create-your-own-twitter-background/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">“How to create your own Twitter background.”</a></div>
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19. Submit websites or blog posts to social media websites.</h2>
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Not very exciting work, but in high demand from bloggers and small businesses. This involves setting up accounts on all of the social bookmarking services and then bookmarking your clients’ websites or latest blog posts to help them get more traffic. You may be competing against software that does this, but in many folks’ opinions, it’s better to have a real person do it. Even better is if you can goose your accounts with plenty of friends and become a star on a few of the services; then every site you bookmark has higher credibility and you can charge more. To get an idea of the social media sites you will need to sign up for, start at <a href="http://www.socialmarker.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">socialmarker.com.</a></div>
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20. Edit audio for others.</h2>
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This is something that is fairly easy to learn and also in high demand. On Windows, one good program to edit audio is <a href="http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/soundforgefamily.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">Sony Sound Forge.</a> I use Sound Forge Audio Studio, but if you are doing this professionally, you might consider the upgrade to Sound Forge 9. Get the hang of editing out “um”s and “ah”s from audio. Even better is understanding the “flow” of an interview conversation and editing out portions that don’t make sense. Finally, learning to find and add intro music really gives podcasts that professional touch. Advertise your services on <a href="http://www.odesk.com/w/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">oDesk</a> or <a href="http://www.elance.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5997af; text-decoration: none;">eLance</a>. I pay people to do this for the podcasts I am setting up on Inspiring Innovators, and it’s a job that can definitely be done from your house.</div>
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One of the most important criteria the YouTube guys will use to evaluate your application is the audience you reach on YouTube. They don’t reveal what are the requirements, but I’ve seen many people say these are the ballpark numbers you need to have before getting accepted:</div>
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This step is not essential, but I think it helps a lot on getting approve. You need to remember that, once you meet the technical guidelines, it will be a person on the other site deciding on whether you are a good fit for becoming a YouTube Partner or not. In other words, the more professional you look the higher your chances.</div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">During the 90's there is no big search engine except a few like Altavista.com, msn.com, tripod.com, yahoo.com and etc. Once Google came into the market it took sometime and vanishes the rest of the product and it became the Monopoly for Search Engine. Later it entered in various products and got success in most of them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford. (Larry, 22, a U Michigan grad, is considering the school; Sergey, 21, is assigned to show him around.) According to some accounts, they disagree about almost everything during this first meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Larry and Sergey, now Stanford computer science grad students, begin collaborating on a search engine called<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19971210065425/backrub.stanford.edu/backrub.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">BackRub</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year—eventually taking up too much bandwidth to suit the university.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google sets up workspace in Susan Wojcicki’s garage at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=232+santa+margarita,+menlo+park+ca&ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ll=37.457861,-122.163312&spn=0.008431,0.019999&z=16&iwloc=addr"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">232 Santa Margarita, Menlo Park</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We outgrow our garage office and move to new digs at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=165+university+avenue+palo+alto&ie=UTF8&ll=37.447726,-122.16254&spn=0.011073,0.015106&z=16&layer=c&cbll=37.444257,-122.163267&panoid=NAAqb_wE8QJiyl_qAmiinQ&cbp=1,356.7541855802814,,0,5"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">165 University Avenue</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in Palo Alto with just eight employees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://leonberger-hunde.org/dogs/yoshka.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Yoshka</span></a>, our first<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/06/yoshkas-weekend-amble.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">“company” dog</span></a>, comes to work with our senior vice president of operations, Urs Hoelzle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Omid Kordestani joins to run sales—the first non-engineering hire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20000309205910/http:/www.google.com/pressrel/pressrelease1.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">first press release</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>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”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We move to our first Mountain View location:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2400+bayshore+94043&ie=UTF8&layer=cx&cbll=37.425223,-122.097665&panoid=iIPU_ttBM7-z69WaLiLMpg&cbp=1,413.5735137569161,,0,7.622194391899804&sll=37.425281,-122.09771&sspn=0.006295,0.006295&ll=37.429973,-122.096944&spn=0.011076,0.015106&z=16"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">2400 E. Bayshore</span></a>. Mountain View is a few miles south of Stanford University, and north of the older towns of Silicon Valley: Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.chefcharlieayers.com/bio/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Charlie Ayers</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">On April Fools’ Day, we announce the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/mentalplex/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">MentalPlex</span></a>: 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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The first<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease22.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">10 language versions of Google.com</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>are released: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease23.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">win</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>our first<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=4"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Webby Awards</span></a>: Technical Achievement (voted by judges) and Peoples’ Voice (voted by users).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We forge a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease25.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">partnership with Yahoo!</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to become their default search provider.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We announce the first<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease26.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">billion-URL index</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and therefore Google becomes the world’s largest search engine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease34.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">start offering search</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, bringing our total number of supported languages to 15.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://adwords.google.com/select/Login"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">AdWords</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease39.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launches</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with 350 customers. The self-service ad program promises online activation with a credit card, keyword targeting and performance feedback.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease46.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">announce the hire</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of Silicon Valley veteran Wayne Rosing as our first VP of engineering operations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Our first public acquisition:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease48.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Deja.com’s Usenet Discussion Service</span></a>, an archive of 500 million Usenet discussions dating back to 1995. We add search and browse features and launch it as Google Groups.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Eric Schmidt is named<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/chairman.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">chairman of the board</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of directors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google.com is available in 26 languages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Swedish Chef</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>becomes a language preference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Image Search<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/googlefriends/jul2001.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launches</span></a>, offering access to 250 million images.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We open our first international office, in Tokyo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Eric Schmidt<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/ceo.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">becomes our CEO</span></a>. Larry and Sergey are named presidents of products and technology, respectively.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">A new<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/uol.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">partnership with Universo Online</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(UOL) makes Google the major search service for millions of Latin Americans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Keeping track: Our index size<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/3billion.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">grows to 3 billion</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>web documents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/intl/xx-klingon/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Klingon</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>becomes one of 72 language interfaces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The first Google hardware is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://news.cnet.com/Google-aims-search-device-at-companies/2100-1023_3-833905.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">released</span></a>: it’s a yellow box called the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Search Appliance</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that businesses can plug into their computer network to enable search capabilities for their own documents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We release a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/select.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">major overhaul</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://adwords.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">AdWords</span></a>, including new cost-per-click pricing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">For April Fools’ Day, we announce that<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">pigeons</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>power our search results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We announce a major<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/aol.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">partnership with AOL</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to offer Google search and sponsored links to 34 million customers using CompuServe, Netscape and AOL.com.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-919173.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">release</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Google Labs, a place to try out beta technologies fresh from our R&D team.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://news.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">News</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-958927.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launches</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with 4000 news sources.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We open our first Australian office in Sydney.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">You can now search for stuff to buy with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2161381"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Froogle</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(later called<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/products"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Product Search</span></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">American Dialect Society members vote “google” the “most useful”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.americandialect.org/index.php/amerdial/2002_words_of_the_y/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Word of the Year</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for 2002.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805E6D8113AF934A25751C0A9659C8B63&scp=1&sq=Pyra%20Labs&st=cse"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">acquire</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Pyra Labs, the creators of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Blogger</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We announce a new<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/advertising.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">content-targeted advertising service</span></a>, enabling publishers large and small to access Google’s vast network of advertisers. (Weeks later, on April 23, we acquire Applied Semantics, whose technology bolsters the service named<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.google.com/adsense?hl=en&sourceid=aso&subid=ww-en-et-ET211_GCorporate_History&medium=et"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">AdSense</span></a>.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We launch<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/grants/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Grants</span></a>, our in-kind advertising program for nonprofit organizations to run in-kind ad campaigns for their cause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Registration opens for programmers to compete for cash prizes and recognition at our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.topcoder.com/pl/?&d1=google&d2=google_overview"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">first-ever Code Jam</span></a>. Coders can work in Java, C++, C# or VB.NET.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3290351"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launch Google Print</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(which later becomes<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://books.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Book Search</span></a>), indexing small excerpts from books to appear in search results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.orkut.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">orkut</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3302741"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launches</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>as a way for us to tap into the sphere of social networking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Larry Page is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=02132004"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">inducted</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>into the National Academy of Engineering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Our search index hits a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/6billion.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new milestone</span></a>: 6 billion items, including 4.28 billion web pages and 880 million images.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">March<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We move to our new “Googleplex” at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=1600+amphitheatre+parkway+mountain+view&z=17&iwloc=addr"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">1600 Amphitheatre Parkway</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in Mountain View, giving 800+ employees a campus environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We formalize our enterprise unit with the hire of Dave Girouard as general manager; reporters begin reporting in April about our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/exclusives/33539.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">vision for the enterprise</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>search business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/09/journey-may-be-reward-but-so-is.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">introduce Google Local</span></a>, offering relevant neighborhood business listings, maps and directions. (Later, Local is combined with Google Maps.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">For April Fools’ we announce plans to open the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Googlunaplex</span></a>, a new research facility on the Moon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We announce the first winners of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/anitaborg/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Anita Borg Scholarship</span></a>, awarded to outstanding women studying computer science. Today these scholarships are open to students in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/ipo.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Initial Public Offering</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of 19,605,052 shares of Class A common stock takes place on Wall Street on August 18. Opening price: $85 per share.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">There are more than 100 Google domains (Norway and Kenya are #102 and #103). The list has since grown to more than 150.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We formally open<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/10/dublin-go-bragh.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">our office in Dublin</span></a>, Ireland, with 150 multilingual Googlers, a visit from Sergey and Larry, and recognition from the Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland, Mary Harney.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.ca/mobile/sms/index.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google SMS</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(short message service)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/10/get-411-with-46645.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launches</span></a>; send your text search queries to GOOGLE or 466453 on your mobile device.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Larry and Sergey are<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/10/they-might-be-giants-or-just-standing.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">named Fellows</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by the Marconi Society, which recognizes “lasting scientific contributions to human progress in the field of communications science and the Internet.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We spotlight our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.hindu.com/2004/10/13/stories/2004101303861400.htm"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new engineering offices</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in Bangalore and Hyderabad, India with a visit from Sergey and Larry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://desktop.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Desktop Search</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/10/and-now-search-for-your-own-computer.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">introduced</span></a>: You can now search for files and documents stored on your hard drive using Google technology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/10/scholarly-pursuits.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launch</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the beta version of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://scholar.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Scholar</span></a>, a free service for searching scholarly literature such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/keyhole.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">acquire Keyhole</span></a>, a digital mapping company whose technology will later become<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://earth.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Earth</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Our index of web pages<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/11/googles-index-nearly-doubles.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">reaches 8 billion</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We open our Tokyo R&D (research & development) center to attract the best and brightest among Japanese and other Asian engineers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Google Print Program (since renamed<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://books.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Book Search</span></a>) expands through<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/12/all-booked-up.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">digital scanning partnerships</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, University of Michigan and Oxford as well as the New York Public Library.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/02/get-picture.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">hit a milestone</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://images.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Image Search</span></a>: 1.1 billion images indexed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Maps</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>goes<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/02/mapping-your-way.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">live</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/03/codegooglecom-new-open-source.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launch</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://code.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">code.google.com</span></a>, a new place for developer-oriented resources, including all of our APIs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Some 14,000 programmers from six countries compete for cash prizes and recognition at our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.topcoder.com/pl/?&module=Static&d1=gicj05&d2=overview"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">first coding competition in India</span></a>, with top scores going to Ardian Kristanto Poernomo of Singapore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/urchin.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">acquire Urchin</span></a>, a web analytics company whose technology is used to create Google Analytics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">first Google Maps release in Europe</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is for the U.K.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">For April Fools’, we announce a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/googlegulp/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">magical beverage</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that makes its imbibers more intelligent, and therefore better capable of properly using search results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://maps.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Maps</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>now features<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/birds-eye-view.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">satellite views and directions</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google Local<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/mobile-get-local.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">goes mobile</span></a>, and includes SMS driving directions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/searchhistory"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">My Search History</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/from-lost-to-found.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launches</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in Labs, allowing you to view all the web pages you’ve visited and Google searches you’ve made over time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We release<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/annc/sitetargeting.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Site Targeting</span></a>, an<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://adwords.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">AdWords</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>feature giving advertisers the ability to better target their ads to specific content sites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">May<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/annc/blogger_mob.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">release</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/mobile-start.g"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Blogger Mobile</span></a>, enabling bloggers to use their mobile phones to post and send photos to their blogs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://scholar.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Scholar</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>adds support for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/05/library-access.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">institutional access</span></a>: Searchers can now locate journal articles within their own libraries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/05/method-to-our-madness.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Personalized Homepage</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(now<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/ig"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">iGoogle</span></a>) is designed for people to customize their own Google homepage with content modules they choose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">June<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We hold our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/06/summer-of-code.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">first Summer of Code</span></a>, a 3-month $2 million program that aims to help computer science students contribute to open source software development.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/mobile"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Mobile Web Search</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/06/world-in-your-pocket.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">released</span></a>, specially formulated for viewing search results on mobile phones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/06/cover-earth.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">unveil</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://earth.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Earth</span></a>: a satellite imagery-based mapping service combining 3D buildings and terrain with mapping capabilities and Google search.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/06/search-gets-personal.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">release Personalized Search</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in Labs: over time, your (opt-in) search history will closely reflect your interests.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://code.google.com/apis/maps/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">API for Maps</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/06/world-is-your-javascript-enabled_29.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">released</span></a>; developers can embed Google Maps on many kinds of mapping services and sites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">August<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/machines-do-translating.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">scores well</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in the U.S. government’s 2005 machine translation evaluation. (We’ve done so in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://nist.gov/speech/tests/mt/2006/doc/mt06eval_official_results.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">subsequent</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nist.gov/speech/tests/mt/2008/doc/mt08_official_results_v0.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">years</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>as well.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/google-gets-to-talking.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launch</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/talk/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Talk</span></a>, a downloadable Windows application that enables you to talk or IM with friends quickly and easily, as well as talk using a computer microphone and speaker (no phone required) for free.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">September<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Overlays in Google Earth<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/seeing-what-katrina-has-wrought.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">illuminate the devastation</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>wrought by Hurricane Katrina around New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Some rescue teams use these tools to locate stranded victims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">DARPA veteran<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/cerfs-up-at-google.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Vint Cerf joins Google</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to carry on his quest for a global open Internet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/judge-clears-way-for-dr-lee.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Dr. Kai-Fu Lee begins work</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>at our new Research and Development Center in China.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://blogsearch.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Blog Search</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>goes<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/find-out-whats-happening-with-blog.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">live</span></a>; it’s the way to find current and relevant blog postings on particular topics throughout the enormous blogosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">October<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Feed aficionados rejoice as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://reader.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Reader</span></a>, a feed reader, is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/feed-world.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">introduced</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Googlers volunteer to produce the first Mountain View book event with Malcolm Gladwell, author of “Blink” and “The Tipping Point.” Since then, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AtGoogleTalks"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Authors@Google program</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has hosted more than 480 authors in 12 offices across the U.S., Europe and India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">November<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/circle-of-analytics.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">release</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Analytics</span></a>, formerly known as Urchin, for measuring the impact of websites and marketing campaigns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/latam_office.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">announce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the opening of our first offices in São Paulo and Mexico City.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/transit"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Transit</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/public-transit-via-google.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launches</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in Labs. People in the Portland, Oregon metro area can now plan their trips on public transportation at one site.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/mobile/gmail/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Gmail for mobile</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/annc/gmail_mobile.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launches</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">January<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.topcoder.com/pl/?module=Static&d1=gccj05&d2=EN_overview"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">first Code Jam in China</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>concludes in Beijing. The winner, graduate student Chuan Xu, is one of more than 13,000 registrants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We announce the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/dmarc.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">acquisition of dMarc</span></a>, a digital radio advertising company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google.cn, a local domain version of Google,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/google-in-china.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">goes live</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in China.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We introduce<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://picasa.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Picasa</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/picasa-x-25_30.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">25 more languages</span></a>, including Polish, Thai and Vietnamese.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/chat-email-crazy-delicious.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">release</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Chat in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.gmail.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Gmail</span></a>, using the instant messaging tools from Google Talk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Eric Schmidt is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/eric-and-nae.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">inducted</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>into the National Academy of Engineering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Dr. Larry Brilliant becomes the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/googleorgs-new-director.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">executive director</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.org/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google.org</span></a>, our philanthropic arm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google News<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mobile.google.com/news/index.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">for mobile</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/choose-your-news.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launches</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">March<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We announce the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/writely-so.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">acquisition of Writely</span></a>, a web-based word processing application that subsequently becomes the basis for<a href="http://docs.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Docs</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">A team working from Mountain View, Bangalore and New York<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/spring-is-season-for-love-and-data.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">collaborates</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to create<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://finance.google.com/finance"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Finance</span></a>, our approach to an improved search experience for financial information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">April<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">For April Fools’ we unveil a new product,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/romance/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Romance</span></a>: “Dating is a search problem.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/its-about-time.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launch</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Google<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://calendar.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Calendar</span></a>, complete with sharing and group features.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/google-maps-in-europe.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">release</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://maps.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Maps</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for France, Germany, Italy and Spain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">May<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/yes-we-are-still-all-about-search.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">release</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Google<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/trends"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Trends</span></a>, a way to visualize the popularity of searches over time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">June<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/its-all-about-photos.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">announce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Picasa Web Albums</span></a>, allowing your to upload and share your photos online.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Oxford English Dictionary (OED)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.oed.com/help/updates/pimesic-pleating.html#oos"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">adds</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>“Google” as a verb.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/find-it-with-google-buy-it-with-google.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">announce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://checkout.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Checkout</span></a>, a fast and easy way to pay for online purchases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Gmail, Google News and iGoogle become<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/more-of-world-in-your-pocket.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">available on mobile phones</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in eight more languages besides English: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Chinese and Turkish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://gmail.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Gmail</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>launches in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/two-more-gmail-languages.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Arabic and Hebrew</span></a>, bringing the number of interfaces up to 40.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">July<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">At<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/codejam/press.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Code Jam Europe</span></a>, nearly 10,000 programmers from 31 countries compete at Google Dublin for the top prizes; Tomasz Czajka from Poland wins the final round.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">August<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We launch<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/free-citywide-wifi-in-mountain-view.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">free citywide WiFi</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in Mountain View.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">More than 100 libraries on 10 campuses of the University of California<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/welcome-to-university-of-california.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">join</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the Google Books<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://books.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Library Project</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Star Trek’s 40th Anniversary Convention in Las Vegas<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/stardate-081706.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">features a Google booth</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>showcasing tools appropriate for intergalactic use.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.google.com/a"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Apps for Your Domain</span></a>, a suite of applications designed for organizations of all sizes, and including Gmail and Calendar, is<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/get-your-people-talking.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">released</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://books.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Book Search</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>begins offering free<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/download-classics.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">PDF downloads</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of books in the public domain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">September<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/history-as-it-unfolds.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">add</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>an archive search to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://news.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google News</span></a>, with more than 200 years of historical articles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/best-stories-on-earth.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Featured Content</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://earth.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Earth</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>includes overlays from the UN Environmental Program, Discovery Networks, the Jane Goodall Institute and the National Park Service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The University Complutense of Madrid becomes the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/books_madrid.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">first Spanish-language library</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to join the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://books.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Books Library Project</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">October<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Together with LitCam and UNESCO’s Institute for Lifelong Learning, we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/celebrate-world-book-day-with-literacy.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launch the Literacy Project</span></a>, offering resources for teachers, literacy groups and anyone interested in reading promotion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We announce our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/google_youtube.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">acquisition of YouTube</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/better-together-docs-spreadsheets.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">release</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>web-based applications<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://docs.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Docs & Spreadsheets</span></a>: Word processor Docs is a reworking of Writely (acquired in March).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/eureka-your-own-search-engine-has.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Custom Search Engine</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/cse"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launches</span></a>, giving bloggers and website owners the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googlecustomsearch.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">ability</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to create a search engine tailored to their own interests.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/spot-on.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">acquire JotSpot</span></a>, a collaborative wiki platform, which later becomes<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://sites.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Sites</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The first nationwide<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.co.uk/doodle4google/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Doodle 4 Google contest</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We release<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/patents"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Patent Search</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in the U.S., indexing<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/now-you-can-search-for-us-patents.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">more than 7 million patents</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>dating back to 1790.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We announce a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/mobile_zh.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">partnership with China Mobile</span></a>, the world’s largest mobile telecom carrier, to provide mobile and Internet search services in China.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">February<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/google-maps-down-under.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">release</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Google<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://maps.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Maps</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in Australia, complete with local business results and mobile capability.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://docs.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Docs & Spreadsheets</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/voulez-vouscollaborateavec-moi-ce-soir.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">available</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in eleven more languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Turkish, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil) and Russian.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">For Valentine’s Day, we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/from-gmail-with-3.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">open up</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.gmail.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Gmail</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to everyone. (Previously, it was available by invitation only.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google Apps Premier Edition<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/google_apps.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launches</span></a>, bringing cloud computing to businesses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3412849248991F4A"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Candidates@Google series</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>kicks off with Senator Hillary Clinton, the first of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/presidential-campaign-trail-winds.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">several 2008 Presidential candidates</span></a>, including Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain, to visit the Googleplex.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/stuck-in-traffic.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">introduce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>traffic information to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://maps.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Maps</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for more than 30 cities around the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-code-jam-latin-america-2007.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">first Latin American software coding contest</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-apps-now-south-of-sahara.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">sign partnerships</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to give free access to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/a"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Apps for Education</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to 70,000 university students in Kenya and Rwanda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">This April Fools’ Day is extra busy: not only do we introduce the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/index.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Gmail Paper Archive</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/tisp/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">TiSP</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Toilet Internet Service Provider)—we lose (and find) a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/snakes-in-plain-old-office-building.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">real snake</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in our New York office!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We add<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/blogger-now-in-more-languages.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">eight more languages</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://blogger.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Blogger</span></a>, bringing the total to 19.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">In partnership with the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.thegrowingconnection.org/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Growing Connection</span></a>, we plant a vegetable garden in the middle of the Googleplex, the output of which is incorporated into our café offerings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We move into permanent space in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Governor Jennifer Granholm helps us celebrate. The office is an AdWords support site.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">At our Searchology event, we announce new strides taken towards<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/universal-search-best-answer-is-still.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">universal search</span></a>. Now video, news, books, image and local results are all integrated together in one search result.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Hot Trends</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/whats-hot-today.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launches</span></a>, listing the current 100 most active queries, showing what people are searching for at the moment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Street View<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/05/introducing-street-view.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">debuts</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://maps.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Maps</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in five U.S. cities: New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami and Denver.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">On Developer Day, we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/29-hours-of-code.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">announce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Google Gears (now known just as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://gears.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Gears</span></a>), an open source technology for creating offline web applications.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google Maps gets prime placement on the original Apple iPhone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">YouTube becomes<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=ktewBXNbyTw"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">available in nine more domains</span></a>: Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Ireland and the U.K.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We announce a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/salesforce_alliance.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">partnership with Salesforce.com</span></a>, combining that company’s on-demand CRM applications with AdWords.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We unveil several “green” initiatives:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.org/recharge"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">RechargeIT</span></a>, aimed at accelerating the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, the completion of our installation of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/clean-energy-update.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">solar panels at the Googleplex</span></a>, in Mountain View, and our intention to be completely<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/carbon-neutrality-by-end-of-2007.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">carbon-neutral</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by the end of 2007. We also<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/climate-savers-computing-initiative.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">announce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.climatesaverscomputing.org/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Climate Savers Computing Initiative</span></a>, in collaboration with Intel, Dell and more than 30 other companies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google Earth Outreach is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/introducing-google-earth-outreach.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">introduced</span></a>, designed to help nonprofit organizations use<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://earth.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Earth</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to advocate their causes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We announce the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/welcome-postini-team.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">acquisition of Postini</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The first CNN/YouTube debate takes place between the eight U.S.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/democraticdebate"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Democratic Presidential candidates</span></a>. (The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/republicandebate"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Republicans</span></a>get their turn in November 2007.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://finance.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Finance</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>becomes available for non-U.S. markets<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/google-finance-in-canada-for-real.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">for the first time</span></a>, in Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.google.com/a"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Apps</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is now<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/google-apps-goes-global.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">available</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in 28 languages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We ask users for their interpretation of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/help/gmail_video.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">how Gmail travels</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>around the world, and receive<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/watch-final-gmail-collaborative-video.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">more than 1,100 video responses</span></a>from more than 65 different countries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">To infinity and beyond!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/view-from-sky.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Sky launches</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>inside<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://earth.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Earth</span></a>, including layers for constellation information and virtual tours of galaxies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">September<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">AdSense for Mobile is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://adsense.blogspot.com/2007/09/here-comes-mobile.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">introduced</span></a>, giving sites optimized for mobile browsers the ability to host the same ads as standard websites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Together with the X PRIZE Foundation we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/fly-me-to-moon.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">announce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Lunar X PRIZE</span></a>, a robotic race to the Moon for a $30 million prize purse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/our-feature-presentation.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">add Presently</span></a>, a new application for making slide presentations, to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://docs.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Docs</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We partner with IBM on a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/let-thousand-servers-bloom.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">supercomputing initiative</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>so that students can learn to work at Internet scale on computing challenges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/opensocial-makes-web-better.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">announce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.opensocial.org/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">OpenSocial</span></a>, a set of common APIs for developers to build applications for social networks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Android, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/wheres-my-gphone.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">first open platform for mobile devices</span></a>, and a collaboration with other companies in the Open Handset Alliance, is announced. Soon after, we introduce the $10 million<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://code.google.com/android/adc.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Android Developer Challenge</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google.org<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/towards-more-renewable-energy.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">announces</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.org/rec.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">RE<C</span></a>, an initiative designed to create electricity from renewable sources that are cheaper than coal. The initial focus is on support for solar thermal power and wind power technologies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">December<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Queen of England launches<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/theroyalchannel"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">The Royal Channel</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on YouTube. She is the first monarch to establish a video presence this way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.org/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google.org</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>announces<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/searching-for-solutions.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">five key initiatives</span></a>: in addition to the previously-announced RE<C and RechargeIT, there is a new dedication to solutions that can predict and prevent crises worldwide, improve public services and fuel the growth of small enterprises.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/cone-of-silence-finally-lifts-on.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">bid in the 700 MHz spectrum auction</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to ensure that a more open wireless world becomes available to consumers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">For people searching in Hebrew, Arabic, or other right-to-left languages, we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/searching-rght-to-left.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">introduce a feature</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>aimed at making searches easier by detecting the direction of a query.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://sites.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Sites</span></a>, a revamp of the acquisition JotSpot,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/bringing-it-all-together.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">debuts</span></a>. Sites enables you to create collaborative websites with embedded videos, documents and calendars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We finally complete the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/weve-officially-acquired-doubleclick.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">acquisition deal for DoubleClick</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Together with Yahoo and MySpace, we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20080325_opensocial.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">announce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.opensocial.org/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">OpenSocial Foundation</span></a>, an independent non-profit group designed to provide transparency and operational guidelines around the open software tools for social computing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We feature 16 April Fools’ jokes from our offices around the world, including the new airline announced with Sir Richard Branson (<a href="http://www.google.com/virgle/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Virgle</span></a>),<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/04/introducing-adsense-for-conversations.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">AdSense for Conversations</span></a>, a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.cn/intl/zh-CN/renrou/index.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Manpower Search</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(China) and the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/new_wakeup.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Wake-Up Kit</span></a>. Bonus foolishness: all viewers linking to YouTube-featured videos are “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickroll"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Rickrolled</span></a>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">A<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/04/touch-down-on-earths-surface-with.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new version</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://earth.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Earth</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>launches, incorporating Street View and 12 more languages. At the same time, KML 2.2, which began as the Google Earth file format, is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/kml-html-of-geographic-content.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">accepted</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>as an official Open Geospacial Consortium standard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Website Optimizer</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>comes out of beta,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20080416_websiteoptimizer.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">expanding</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>from an AdWords-only product. It’s a free website-testing tool with which site owners 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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-google-finance-china-new-finance.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launch</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://finance.google.cn/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Finance China</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>allowing Chinese investors to get stock and mutual fund data as a result of this collaboration between our New York and Shanghai teams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/where-art-thou.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">introduce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a collection of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/artistthemes"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">70+ new themes</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(“skins”) for iGoogle, contributed by such artists and designers as Dale Chihuly, Oscar de la Renta, Kwon Ki-Soo and Philippe Starck.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">May<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Following both the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/responding-to-earthquake-in-china.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Sichuan earthquake</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in China and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/helping-victims-of-cyclone-nargis.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (Burma)</span></a>, Google Earth adds new satellite information for the region(s) to help recovery efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Reflecting our commitment to searchers worldwide, Google search now<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/moving-to-unicode-51.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">supports Unicode 5.1</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">At a developer event, we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/friend-connected-web.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">preview</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Google<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">FriendConnect</span></a>, 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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">With IPv4 addresses (the numbers that computers use to connect to the Internet) running low, Google search<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/looking-towards-ipv6.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">becomes available over IPv6</span></a>, 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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/translate_t"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Translate</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>adds<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/google-translate-adds-10-new-languages.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">10 more languages</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish), bringing the total to 23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/peek-into-our-search-factory.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">release</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/health"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Health</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to the public, allowing people to safely and securely collect, store and manage their medical records and health information online.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We introduce a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/search/label/search%20quality"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">series of blog posts</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>detailing the many aspects of good search results on the Official Google Blog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">California 6th grader<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/we-have-doodle-4-google-national-winner.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Grace Moon wins</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the U.S. 2008<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/doodle4google"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Doodle 4 Google</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>competition for her doodle “Up In The Clouds.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">June<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Real-time stock quotes go<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/at-long-last-real-time-stock-quotes-are.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">live</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://finance.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Finance</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">With the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/google-site-search-taps-power-of-cloud.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launch</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/sitesearch"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Site Search</span></a>, site owners can enable Google-powered searches on their own websites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/introducing-gmail-labs.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launch Gmail Labs</span></a>, a set of experimental<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mail.google.com/?hl=en"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Gmail</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>features, including saved searches and different kinds of stars, which let you customize your Gmail experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">A<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/get-your-transit-schedules-and.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new version</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/gmm/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Maps for Mobile</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>debuts, putting Google Transit directions on phones in more than 50 cities worldwide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">For the first time, Google engineers create the problems for contestants to solve at the 7th Annual Code Jam competition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">July<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/07/tour-tour-de-france-with-street-view.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">provide Street View</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for the entire 2008 Tour de France route—the first launch of Street View imagery in Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Our first<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/mobile/apple/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">downloadable iPhone app</span></a>, featuring My Location and word suggestions for quicker mobile searching,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/google-mobile-app-faster-easier-search.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">debuts</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with the launch of the Apple 3G iPhone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/no-cameras-no-lights-just-data.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">work with the band Radiohead</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to make a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">music video</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of their song “House of Cards,” using only data, and not cameras.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Our indexing system for processing links indicates that<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">we now count 1 trillion unique URLs</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(and the number of individual web pages out there is growing by several billion pages per day).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Street View is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/08/more-streets-in-more-places.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">available</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in several cities in Japan and Australia—the first time it’s appeared outside of North America or Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google Suggest feature<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/at-loss-for-words.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">arrives</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on Google.com, helping formulate queries, reduce spelling errors and reduce keystrokes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Just in time for the U.S. political conventions, we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/election-season-in-high-gear.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launch</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a site dedicated to the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/2008election/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">2008 U.S. elections</span></a>, with news, video and photos as well as tools for teachers and campaigners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">September<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Word gets out about<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/chrome"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Chrome</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a bit ahead of schedule when the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">comic book</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that introduces our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new open source browser</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is released earlier than planned on September 1. The browser officially becomes available for worldwide download a day later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We get involved with the U.S. political process at the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/denver-recap-and-st-paul-update.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">presidential nominating conventions</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for the Democratic and Republican parties.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/introducing-picasa-30-and-big-changes.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">release</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>an upgrade for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://picasa.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Picasa</span></a>, including new editing tools, a movie maker and easier syncing with the web. At the same time,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/home"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Picasa Web Albums</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is updated with a new feature allowing you to ”name tag” people in photos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://news.google.com/archivesearch"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google News Archive</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>helps to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/bringing-history-online-one-newspaper.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">partnering</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">T-Mobile<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/first-android-powered-phone.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">announces</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.t-mobileg1.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">G1</span></a>, the first phone built on the Android operating system. At the same time, we release a new Android Software Developer Kit, and the Open Handset Alliance announces its intention to open source the entire Android platform by the end of 2008. The G1 becomes available for purchase in October.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/nyc-transit-directions-have-arrived.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launch</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/transit"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Transit</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for the New York metro region, making public transit information easily available for users of the largest transportation agency in the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Thanks to all of you, Google<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20at%2010"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">celebrates</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>10 fast-paced years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/clean-energy-2030.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">release</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the first draft of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/15x31uzlqeo5n/1"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Clean Energy 2030</span></a>, a proposal to wean the U.S. off of coal and oil for electricity use and to reduce oil use by cars 40 percent by 2030. The plan could generate billions in savings as well as millions of “green jobs.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/introducing-google-earth-for-iphone.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">introduce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Google Earth for the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/mobile/apple/earth.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">iPhone and iPod touch</span></a>, complete with photos, geo-located Wikipedia articles and the ability to tilt your phone to view 3D terrain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Googlers in Mountain View build a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/traveling-by-zip-line.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">zip line</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to travel across the small Permanente Creek separating a few of our buildings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">In a vote by 5-0, the FCC formally agrees to open up “<a href="http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/search/label/White%20Spaces"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">white spaces</span></a>,” or unused television spectrum, for wireless broadband service. We see this decision as a clear victory for Internet users and anyone who wants good wireless communications.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">After we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/tracking-flu-trends.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">discover a correlation</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>between certain search queries and CDC data on flu symptoms, we release<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.org/flutrends/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Flu Trends</span></a>, an indicator of flu activity around the U.S. as much as two weeks earlier than traditional flu surveillance systems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/life-photo-archive-available-on-google.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">announce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the availability of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://images.google.com/hosted/life"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">LIFE photo archive</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in Google Image Search. Only a fraction of the approximately 10 million photos have ever been seen before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">SearchWiki<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-search-your-own.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launches</span></a>, a way for you to customize your own search experience by re-ranking, deleting, adding and commenting on search results. Comments can also be read by other users.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=qwTiF0HMrog"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">invite</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>musicians around the globe to audition to participate in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/symphony"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">YouTube Symphony Orchestra</span></a>, the world’s first collaborative online orchestra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/friendconnect"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Friend Connect</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/google-friend-connect-now-available.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">available</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to any webmaster looking to easily integrate social features into their site.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Street View coverage<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/street-view-year-in-review-and-whats.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">more than doubles</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in the United States, including several states never before seen on Street View (Maine, West Virginia, North Dakota and South Dakota).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/search-and-find-magazines-on-google.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">partner</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with publishers to digitize millions of magazine articles and make them readily available on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://books.google.com/books"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Book Search</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We kick off January with the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/introducing-picasa-for-mac-at-macworld.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launch</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://picasa.google.com/mac/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Picasa for Mac</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>at Macworld.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Vatican<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/pope-on-youtube.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launches</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/vatican"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">YouTube Channel</span></a>, providing updates from the Pope and Catholic Church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Together with the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium and academic researchers, we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/introducing-measurement-lab.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">announce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.measurementlab.net/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Measurement Lab</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(M-Lab), an open platform that provides tools to test broadband connections.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/dive-into-new-google-earth.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">latest version</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://earth.google.com/ocean/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Earth</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>makes a splash with Ocean, a new feature that provides a 3D look at the ocean floor and information about one of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/02/deep-dive-into-ocean-in-google-earth.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">world’s greatest natural resources</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/see-where-your-friends-are-with-google.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">introduce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/latitude"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Latitude</span></a>, a Google Maps for mobile feature and an iGoogle gadget that lets you share your location with friends and see the approximate location of people who have decided to share their location with you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">After<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/translate-between-41-languages-with.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">adding</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Turkish, Thai, Hungarian, Estonian, Albanian, Maltese and Galician,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://translate.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Translate</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is capable of automatic translation between 41 languages, covering 98 percent of the languages read by Internet users.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Our first message on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://twitter.com/Google"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Twitter</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>gets back to binary: I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010. (Hint: it’s a button on our homepage.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We launch a beta test of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/making-ads-more-interesting.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">interest-based advertising</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on partner sites and on YouTube. This kind of tailored advertising lets us show ads more closely related to what people are searching for, and it gives advertisers an efficient way to reach those who are most interested in their products or services.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/here-comes-google-voice.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">release</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.google.com/voice"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Voice</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to existing Grand Central users. The new application improves the way you use your phone, with features like voicemail transcription and archive and search of all of your SMS text messages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/pot-o-leed-gold.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">celebrate</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>our San Francisco office’s Gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CategoryID=19"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">LEED</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System. We see it as a sign that we’re on track with our approach to building environmentally friendly offices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The White House<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/citizen-participation-that-scales-call.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">holds</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>an online town hall to answer citizens’ questions submitted on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://moderator.appspot.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Moderator</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We launch new<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/igoogles-got-game-themes.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">iGoogle backdrops</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>inspired by video games, including classics like “Mario,” “Zelda” and “Donkey Kong.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/googles-newest-venture.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">announce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/ventures"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Ventures</span></a>: a venture capital fund aimed at using our resources to support innovation and encourage promising new technology companies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Using our transliteration technology, we build and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/email-in-indian-languages.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">release</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a feature in Gmail that makes it easy to type messages in Indian languages like Hindi or Malayalam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google Suggest goes<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/local-flavor-for-google-suggest.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">local</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with keyword suggestions for 51 languages in 155 domains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">April<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/cadie-awakens.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">April Fools’ Day</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>prank this year is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/landing/cadie/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">CADIE</span></a>, our “Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity” who spends the day taking over various Google products before self-destructing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We announce an<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/google-becomes-more-local.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">update</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to search which enables people to get localized results even if they don’t include a location in their search query.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">For India’s 15th general election, we launch the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/indias-15th-general-election-tools-for.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google India Elections Centre</span></a>, where people can check to see if they’re registered to vote, find their polling place, as well as read news and other information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Over 90 musicians from around the world—including a Spanish guitarist, a Dutch harpist and a Lithuanian birbyne player—<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/youtube-symphony-orchestra-from-idea-to.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">perform</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in the first-ever<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/symphony"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">YouTube Symphony Orchestra</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>at Carnegie Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We rebuild and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/hard-at-play-in-google-labs-with.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">redesign Google Labs</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>as well as release two new Labs: Similar Image search and Google News Timeline. Later in the month, we introduce<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/try-out-new-features-in-google-toolbar.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Toolbar Labs</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We begin to show<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/search-for-me-on-google.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google profile results</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>at the bottom of U.S. search pages when people search for names, giving people more control over what others find about them when they search on Google.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/11-short-films-about-browser.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">release</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>11<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/googlechrome"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">short films</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>about<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/chrome"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Chrome</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>made by Christoph Niemann, Motion Theory, Steve Mottershead, Go Robot, Open, Default Office, Hunter Gatherer, Lifelong Friendship Society, SuperFad, Jeff&Paul and Pantograph.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">May<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">To clear brush and reduce fire hazard in the fields near our Mountain View headquarters, we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/mowing-with-goats.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">rent some goats</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>from a local company. They help us trim the grass the low-carbon way!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">At our second Searchology event, we introduce a few<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-search-options-and-other-updates.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new search features</span></a>, including the Search Options panel and rich snippets in search results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We launch<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/planetarium-in-your-pocket.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Sky Map for Android</span></a>, which uses your Android phone to help you identify stars, constellations and planets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Christin Engelberth, a sixth grader at Bernard Harris Middle School in San Antonio, Texas,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/announcing-2009-doodle-4-google-winner.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">wins</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the second<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/doodle4google/index.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">U.S. Doodle 4 Google</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>competition with her doodle “A new beginning.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">At our second annual<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/kicking-off-2nd-annual-google-io.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google I/O developer conference</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in San Francisco, we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/went-walkabout-brought-back-google-wave.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">preview</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://wave.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Wave</span></a>, a new communication and collaboration tool.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">June<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We add a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/local-business-center-dashboard-opens.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new dashboard</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/local/add/businessCenter"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Places</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>which gives business owners information, such as what people searched for to see their listing or how many times their listing appeared in search results, about how customers find their businesses in Google Maps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We introduce two new ways to customize your iGoogle page: the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/tour-homepages-of-your-favorite.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">iGoogle Showcase</span></a>, which lets you see your favorite celebrities’ homepages look like and add gadgets and more from those pages to your own, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/igoogle-goes-au-naturel.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">nature themes</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/square-your-search-results-with-google.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Squared</span></a>, a new experiment in Labs intended for certain kinds of complex search queries, collects facts from the web and presents them in an organized collection, similar to a spreadsheet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://translate.google.com/toolkit"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Translator Toolkit</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/translating-worlds-information-with.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new set of editing tools</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that helps people translate and publish work in other languages faster and at a higher quality. Our automatic translation system also learns from any corrections.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/all-for-good-bringing-search-scale-and.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">announce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.allforgood.org/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">All for Good</span></a>. It’s a single search interface for volunteer activities across many major volunteering sites and organizations that’s developed using App Engine and Google Base. Many Googlers contributed to the open source project in their 20 percent time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/announcing-adsense-for-mobile.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">release</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a beta version of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/ads/mobileapps"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">AdSense for Mobile Applications</span></a>, which allows developers to earn revenue by displaying text and image ads in iPhone and Android applications.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/extending-google-services-in-africa.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google SMS</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is a suite of mobile applications that allows people in Africa to access information—like health and agriculture tips, news and local weather—using SMS on their mobile phones, and includes a marketplace application for finding buyers and sellers of goods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Both the enterprise and consumer versions of Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk are now<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-apps-is-out-of-beta-yes-really.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">out of beta</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">announce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that we’re developing the Google Chrome OS, an open source, lightweight operating system initially targeted at netbooks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We launch<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://earth.google.com/moon"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Moon in Google Earth</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/explore-moon-in-google-earth.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">40th anniversary of the moon landing</span></a>. The tool features lunar imagery, information about the Apollo landing sites, panoramic images shot by the Apollo astronauts and narrated tours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/its-birdits-planeits-igoogle-comics.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/comicsthemes"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">comics themes for iGoogle</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>range from classic strips like Peanuts to heroes like Batman to alternative comics from all over the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/search-options-now-on-google-images.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">add</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a search options panel to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://images.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Images</span></a>, making it easier to find the types of images you need.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">August<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Any active U.S. service member is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/audio-care-packages-for-service-members.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">invited to sign up</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/voice"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Voice</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>account, to help them keep in better touch with family and friends, especially when deployed abroad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We announce a deal to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/innovation-in-video-on-web.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">acquire On2 Technologies</span></a>, a high-quality video compression technology company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">New<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/i-scream-you-scream-we-all-scream-for.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">social features come to iGoogle</span></a>, including social gaming, media-sharing and to-do list gadgets as well as an update feed for friends’ activities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/insights/search/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Insights for Search</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is now<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-features-and-languages-for-google.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">available in 39 languages</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>around the world. While we’re at it, we introduce a forecasting feature and an animated map.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/in-future-everyone-will-monetize-their.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">expand the YouTube Partnership Program</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to include individual popular videos, so you can monetize your viral video and earn revenue even if you aren’t a member of the Partnership Program.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/google-translate-now-speaks-51.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">add</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh and Yiddish to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://translate.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Translate</span></a>, bringing the total number of supported languages to 51—that’s 2,550 language pairs!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">September<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/happy-10th-birthday-blogger.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">celebrate the birthday</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of a product nearly as old as Google itself: Blogger. More than 300 million people visit the blogging site every month, and we’re proud that it continues to be a medium for people around the world to freely express themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The search box on our classic homepage<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/now-s-u-p-e-r-sized.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">gets bigger</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">FastFlip, an experiment in Google Labs, lets you<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/read-news-fast-with-google-fast-flip.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">quickly browse</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>through recent news, headlines and popular topics like a print magazine, while at the same time offering some of the benefits of online news, like aggregation and search over many top publications, personalization and the ability to share content with your friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-computers-to-read-google.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">acquire reCAPTCHA</span></a>, a technology company focused on Optical Character Recognition (OCR)—the process that converts scanned images into plain text.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">In an effort to create a more open display advertising ecosystem for everyone, we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/doubleclick-ad-exchange-growing-display.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">introduce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/doubleclick/advertisers/ad_exchange.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">DoubleClick Ad Exchange</span></a>, a real-time marketplace that helps large online publishers on one side; and ad networks and agency networks on the other, buy and sell display advertising space.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">On the birthday of the “father of science fiction,” we unveil the truth behind a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/mysterious-series-for-hg-wells.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">mysterious series of doodles</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in tribute to H.G. Wells.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We introduce<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/place-pages-for-google-maps-there-are.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Place Pages to Google Maps</span></a>: one page that organizes all the relevant information about a business, point of interest, transit station, neighborhood, landmark or city—in any part of the world—in one place. Place Pages include rich details, like photos, videos, a Street View preview, nearby transit, reviews and related websites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">October<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We begin a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/search/label/This%20Week%20in%20Search"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">series of posts</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on the Official Google Blog dedicated to the latest and greatest in the world of Google search.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.org/flutrends/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Flu Trends</span></a>, our flu surveillance tool, is now<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/google-flu-trends-expands-to-16.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">available</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in 16 additional countries and in 37 languages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/introducing-google-building-maker.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">introduce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/buildingmaker"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">BuildingMaker</span></a>, a tool for creating buildings for Google Earth that lets you construct a model of a building using aerial photos and simple 3D shapes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We announce an<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/rt-google-tweets-and-updates-and-search.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">agreement with Twitter</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to include their updates in our search results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/introducing-google-social-search-i.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Social Search</span></a>, a new experiment on Google Labs, helps you find relevant public content from your friends and contacts right in your Google search results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/announcing-google-maps-navigation-for.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Maps Navigation</span></a>, our turn-by-turn GPS navigation system, includes 3D views and voice guidance—and because it’s connected to the Google cloud, it always includes the newest map data, lets you search by voice or along a route, and provides live traffic data.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">A new search feature<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/making-search-more-musical.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">helps you find music information</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on the web. When you enter the name of a song, artist or album, or even a snippet of lyrics, your search results will include links to an audio preview of those songs provided by our music search partners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">November<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/dashboard"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Dashboard</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>provides you with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/transparency-choice-and-control-now.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">greater transparency and control</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>over the data associated with your Google Account.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">A new series on the Official Google Blog covers<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Apps%20highlights"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">what’s new in Google Apps</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/finding-laws-that-govern-us.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">add full-text legal opinions</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://scholar.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Scholar</span></a>. We think this addition will empower the average citizen by helping everyone learn more about the laws that govern us all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">An<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/explore-images-with-google-image-swirl.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">experimental feature in Labs</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>called Image Swirl builds on new computer vision research to cluster similar images into representative groups in a fun, exploratory interface.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">By combining automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system, we offer<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/automatic-captions-in-youtube.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">automatic captions in YouTube</span></a>. Captions can help the deaf and hearing impaired, enable people around the world to access video content through machine translation, improve search and enable users to jump to the exact parts of the videos they’re looking for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">A few months after announcing our open source operating system project,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/releasing-chromium-os-open-source.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">we open-source the project as Chromium OS</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in order to engage with partners, the open source community and developers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">A<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/now-you-see-it-now-you-dont.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new homepage design</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>shows only our logo, the search box and the buttons upon first loading, and reveals other links on the homepage, such as Gmail or Image Search, when the user moves the mouse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/introducing-google-public-dns.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Public DNS</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is part of our ongoing effort to make the web faster. A DNS resolver converts easy-to-remember domain names into unique Internet Protocol (IP) numbers so that computers can communicate with one another.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">With our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/relevance-meets-real-time-web.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new real-time search feature</span></a>, you can see live updates from people on popular sites like Twitter, as well as news headlines and blog posts published just seconds before your search—right on the search results page.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Just in time for the holidays, we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/google-chrome-for-holidays-mac-linux.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">roll out Mac and Linux versions of Google Chrome</span></a>, as well as extensions for Chrome in Windows and Linux (all in beta).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Living Stories, developed in partnership with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>The New York Times</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>The Washington Post</b>, is an<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/exploring-new-more-dynamic-way-of.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">experimental format prototype</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for presenting online news. (We ended this experiment in February 2010, and open-sourced the code for anyone to use.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/share-any-web-page-from-your-toolbar.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">introduce a few new features</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to Google Toolbar, including an easy way to share any page on the web, shortened by a new URL shortener (goo.gl).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">For the first time, YouTube reveals<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-you-watched-and-searched-for-on.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">official Most-Watched lists</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and some of its fastest-rising search terms for the past year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/our-new-approach-to-buying-mobile-phone.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">introduce Nexus One</span></a>, an exemplar of what’s possible on mobile devices through Android, as well as a Google-hosted web store aimed at providing people with an easier way to buy a mobile phone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Now, you can<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/upload-your-files-and-access-them.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">upload all file types</span></a>, including large graphics files, RAW photos, ZIP archives and more to the cloud through<a href="http://docs.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Docs</span></a>, giving you one place where you can upload and access your key files online.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We state<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">our new approach</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to business in China: Google will no longer censor search results on Google.cn, and we will work to determine how we might operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">On International Data Privacy Day, we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/googles-privacy-principles.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">publish our privacy principles</span></a>. We’ve always operated under these principles, but now codify them to share our thinking as we create new technologies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The first-ever Google Super Bowl ad<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsSUqgkDwU"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">tells a love story</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>through search terms. This is one of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/SearchStories"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">many videos</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>made to celebrate the human quests behind search.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">In time for the Winter Games in Vancouver, we introduce<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/vancouver-forecast-light-winds.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Street View imagery</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of Whistler Blackcomb Mountains, gathered with a special camera-equipped snowmobile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Google Buzz is a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/introducing-google-buzz.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new way</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to start conversations about things you find interesting—like photos, videos, webpages or whatever might be on your mind—built into Gmail and for mobile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/02/safety-mode-giving-you-more-control-on.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">introduce Safety Mode in YouTube</span></a>, an opt-in setting to help screen out potentially objectionable content that you may prefer not to see or don’t want others in your family to stumble across while enjoying YouTube.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We announce a plan to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks</span></a>, delivering Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today, in a small number of trial locations across the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/google-acquires-aardvark.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">acquire Aardvark</span></a>, a company that lets you quickly and easily tap into the knowledge and experience of your friends and extended network of contacts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/next-generation-of-ad-serving-for.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">next generation of ad-serving technology</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for online publishers,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/doubleclick/publishers/index.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">DoubleClick for Publishers</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/dfp/info/sb/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">DFP Small Business</span></a>, combines Google’s technology and infrastructure with DoubleClick’s display advertising and ad serving experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/google-welcomes-picnik.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">acquire Picnik</span></a>, a site enabling you to edit your photos in the cloud, without leaving your browser.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/stars-make-search-more-personal.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Stars in search</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is a new feature that makes it easier for you to mark and rediscover your favorite web content.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/appsmarketplace"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Apps Marketplace</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/open-for-business-google-apps.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new online store</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for integrated business applications that allows Google Apps customers to easily discover, deploy and manage cloud applications that integrate with Google Apps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/biking-directions-added-to-google-maps.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Bike directions and bike trail data</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>come to Google Maps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Following the January announcement about search in China, we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-approach-to-china-update.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">stop censoring our search services</span></a>–Google Search, Google News and Google Images–on Google.cn, instead redirecting users from Google.cn to Google.com.hk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">For April Fools’ Day, we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-company-name.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">change our name to Topeka</span></a>. The change is a tribute to Topeka, Kansas, which changed its name to Google as part of an effort to bring our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">experimental fiber network</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to that city.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Scientists announce a significant<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/google-earth-helps-discover-rare.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new hominid fossil discovery</span></a>, made with help from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://earth.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Earth</span></a>, in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">New features for real-time search include the ability to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/replay-it-google-search-across-twitter.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">search the archive of public tweets</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and “replay” the conversation from a particular moment in time, as well as a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/google-follow-finder-find-some-sweet.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">tool</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>called Google Follow Finder that helps you find new people to follow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/introducing-google-places.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Places</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(formerly the Local Business Center) gets a new name along with some new features, like showing service areas and, in some cities, the ability to use an easy advertising program called Tags.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We launch a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/governmentrequests"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Government Requests tool</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to give people information about the requests for user data or content removal we receive from government agencies around the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">With<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/earthly-pleasures-come-to-maps.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Earth view in Google Maps</span></a>, you can explore Google Earth’s detailed 3D imagery and terrain directly in Google Maps, on your browser.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Oregon<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/alis-volat-propriis-oregons-bringing.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">becomes</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the first state to open up<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/a/edu"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Apps for Education</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to public schools throughout the state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">May<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">As part of our efforts to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy, we make our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/not-merely-tilting-at-windmills.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">first direct investment</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in a utility-scale renewable energy project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">In response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, we provide<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/mapping-gulf-oil-spill-in-google-earth.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Earth imagery of the spill’s spread</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We roll out a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/spring-metamorphosis-googles-new-look.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">refreshed look</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for our search results, with a new, contextual left-hand panel that highlights the most relevant search tools and refinements for your query.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">A team of Googlers in London create a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/word-is-worth-884-pictures.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">photomosaic</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of the Google logo. (Later, this project becomes the inspiration for a<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/23-walls-of-googley.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">company contest</span></a>.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">At Google I/O, we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/announcing-google-tv-tv-meets-web-web.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">announce Google TV</span></a>, which is built on Android and Chrome and gives you an easy and fast way to navigate to television channels, websites, apps, shows and movies. We’re busy at I/O this year, with a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-io-2010-day-1-more-powerful-web.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">handful</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of other announcements and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/android-froyo-with-some-sprinkles.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">updates</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">In celebration of PAC-MAN’s 30th birthday, we release our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/celebrating-pac-mans-30th-birthday.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">first-ever playable doodle</span></a>, complete with all 256 levels and Ms. PAC-MAN. It’s so popular we soon give it a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/pac-man-rules.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">permanent home</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">You have the option to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/search-more-securely-with-encrypted.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">search more securely</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with SSL-encrypted Google web search.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/googles-us-economic-impact.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">release a report</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on our economic impact in the United States: in 2009, we generated a total of $54 billion of economic activity for American businesses, website publishers and non-profits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/2010-doodle-4-google-winner-makenzie.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">2010 Doodle 4 Google winner</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in the U.S. is third grader Mackenzie Melton, for her doodle “Rainforest Habitat.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/weve-officially-acquired-admob.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">officially acquire</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>AdMob, a mobile display advertising company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">June<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">You can now<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/freeze-frame.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">personalize</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>your Google.com with a background image.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">With help from the Marin Bee Company, we install the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/hello-from-hiveplex.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Hiveplex</span></a>–four bee hives painted in Google’s colors, situated in a flowered area on our campus. We have our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/show-me-honey.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">first honey harvest</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>later in the year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/youtube-play-searching-with-guggenheim.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">collaborate</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with the Guggenheim Museum on a global online initiative, called<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/play"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">YouTube Play: A Biennal of Creative Video</span></a>, to discover the most creative video in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We catch football fever,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/follow-your-football-team-in-south.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">offering</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/fifacom-and-google-team-up-to-help-fans.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">ways</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for fans to stay on top of the 2010 World Cup as well as a lot of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/kicking-around-search-trends-for-world.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">thorough</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/searching-for-football-connections.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">analysis</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/search-for-16.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">soccer</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/world-cup-search-trends-final-countdown.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">search</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/most-world-cup-crazy-countries.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">trends</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Caffeine</span></a>, our new indexing system, provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and is the largest collection of web content we’ve offered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.google.com/voice"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Voice</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is now<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/google-voice-for-everyone.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">available</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to anyone in the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/update-on-china.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">stop redirecting Chinese users</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>from Google.cn to Google.com.hk. Instead, we provide a landing page where users can use Google.cn services that we can provide without filtering, and/or click through to Google.com.hk for search.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://news.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google News homepage</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/extra-extra-google-news-redesigned-to.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">redesigned</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to make your view of news more relevant and easier for you to share interesting stories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">July<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We sign an agreement to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/taking-off-with-ita.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">acquire ITA</span></a>, a software company specializing in organizing airline data, including flight times, availability and prices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">“Life in a Day” is a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/life-in-day.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">cinematic experiment</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to document one day, as seen through the eyes of people around the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/deeper-understanding-with-metaweb.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">acquire</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Metaweb, a company that maintains an open database of things in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We announce an<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/reducing-our-carbon-footprint-with.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">agreement</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to purchase the clean energy from 114 megawatts of wind generation at the NextEra Energy Resources Story County II facility in Iowa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://images.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Images</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>gets a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/ooh-ahh-google-images-presents-nicer.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new look</span></a>, designed to make it easier for you to take advantage of some of the powerful technology behind Images.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/government/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Apps for Government</span></a>, our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/introducing-google-apps-for-government.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">newest edition</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of Google Apps, includes the same Google applications offered to businesses and everyday users, with specific measures to address the policy and security needs of the public sector.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">August<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">will not continue</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to develop Google Wave as a standalone product.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/google-and-slide-building-more-social.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">acquire Slide</span></a>, a social technology company with an extensive history of building new ways for people to connect with others across numerous platforms online.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">With Verizon, we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/joint-policy-proposal-for-open-internet.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">announce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a joint policy proposal for an open Internet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/just-speak-it-introducing-voice-actions.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Voice Actions for Android</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>are a series of voice commands that let you control your phone just by speaking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">If you’re in the U.S., you can now<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/call-phones-from-gmail.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">call any phone</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>directly from Gmail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/realtime"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Realtime Search</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>gets a new<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/google-realtime-search-new-home-with.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">standalone homepage</span></a>, along with more tools for exploring and refining real-time results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">“<a href="http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">The Wilderness Downtown</span></a>” is a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/arcade-fire-meets-html5.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">musical experience</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>created by writer/director<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.chrismilk.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Chris Milk</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with the band Arcade Fire and Google, built with Google Chrome in mind using HTML5 and other technologies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/email-overload-try-priority-inbox.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Priority Inbox</span></a>, an experimental way of handling information overload in Gmail, automatically sorts your email by importance, using a variety of signals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">September<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/back-to-future-two-years-of-google.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">celebrate Google Chrome’s second birthday</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with a new release of the browser that’s three times faster than the original beta.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/instant/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Instant</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>predicts what you’re interested in and shows you search results<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/search-now-faster-than-speed-of-type.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">as you type</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>so you can quickly get to the information you’re looking for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/announcing-our-new-family-safety-center.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/familysafety"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Family Safety Center</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is a one-stop shop with info for parents and teachers on how to keep kids safe online.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">A new online<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Transparency Report</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>gives people<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/tools-to-visualize-access-to.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">tools</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to see where governments are demanding that we remove content and where Google services are being blocked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://news.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google News</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>turns<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-news-turns-eight.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">eight</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/10-million-for-project-10100-winners.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">announce the five winners</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.project10tothe100.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Project 10^100</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/yabba-dabba-doodle.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">celebrate the 50th anniversary</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of “The Flintstones” with a Google doodle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Brazil, Ireland and Antarctica imagery comes to Street View. Now, three years after we first launched Street View in five U.S. cities, you can<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/explore-world-with-street-view-now-on.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">explore all seven continents</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>at eye level!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">October<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/join-birthday-salute-to-john-lennon.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">YouTube and Yoko Ono</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>salute<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/johnlennon"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">John Lennon</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on what would have been his 70th birthday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/what-were-driving-at.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Self-driving cars</span></a>! Our experimental technology logs more than 140,000 miles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We invest in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/wind-cries-transmission.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Atlantic Wind Connection</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(AWC) backbone, which provides enough renewable wind energy to serve approximately 1.9 million households.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/a/edu"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Apps for Education</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>hits the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/strike-up-band-over-10-million-have.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">10 million user</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We give<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/5-million-to-encourage-innovation-in.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">$5 million in grants</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to non-profit organizations that are working to develop new approaches to journalism in the digital age.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/places"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Place Search</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/place-search-faster-easier-way-to-find.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new kind of local search result</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>organized around places, enabling you to find what you’re looking for nearby.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">November<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/beyond-instant-results-instant-previews.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Now</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>you can know what you’re getting<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>before</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>you click with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/landing/instantpreviews/#a"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Instant Previews</span></a>, which shows you a snapshot of each search result.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/voice"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Voice</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>debuts<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-voice-for-iphone.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">on the iPhone</span></a>, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/power-of-google-instant-now-in-your.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Instant</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>comes to most smartphones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">With<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.boutiques.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Boutiques.com</span></a>, fashion-savvy shoppers can create their own online boutiques or browse boutiques curated by celebs, stylists and designers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/introducing-google-earth-6the-next.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">3D trees</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>arrive on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://earth.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Earth</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/editing-your-google-docs-on-go.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Mobile editing</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>comes to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://docs.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Docs</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">It’s storybook time—we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/curious-guide-to-browsers-and-web.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">share</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>an online<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.20thingsilearned.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">guidebook</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>about browsers and the web.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/11/great-scott-over-35-hours-of-video.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">35 hours of video</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>are uploaded to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">YouTube</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>every minute.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Hotpot, a local recommendation engine powered by you and your friends, is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/11/discover-yours-local-recommendations.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launched</span></a>. In 2011, it becomes part of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/places"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Places</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/google-doodles-for-your-phone.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google doodles migrate</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to your smartphone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">With the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://books.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google eBookstore</span></a>, bibliophiles everywhere can browse and search through<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/discover-more-than-3-million-google.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">more than 3 million ebooks</span></a>, including hundreds of thousands for sale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/introducing-nexus-s-with-gingerbread.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Gingerbread</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is the latest and fastest version of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.android.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Android platform.</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The Google Books Ngram Viewer<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/find-out-whats-in-word-or-five-with.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">graphs and compares</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>words and phrases over time, showing how their usage has waxed and waned over the years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">In 2010, we contributed<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/spreading-holiday-cheer-with-charitable.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">$184 million to charitable organizations</span></a>, including<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/grants"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Grants</span></a>, Google.org tech projects and product support for non-profits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">With more than 120 million<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/update-on-chrome-web-store-and-chrome.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Chrome users</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(up from 40 million in 2009), we open the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://chrome.google.com/webstore"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Chrome Web Store</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for business, and introduce a pilot program for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/chromenotebook"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Chrome OS notebooks</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We announce that co-founder<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/update-from-chairman.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Larry Page will become CEO</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in April 2011. Eric Schmidt will be Executive Chairman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The first episode of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/worldview"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">YouTube World View speaker series</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>airs with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/your-questions-your-state-of-union.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">President Obama</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>answering citizen questions following his State of the Union address.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">In the midst of protests in Egypt, we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/some-weekend-work-that-will-hopefully.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">introduce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a service called<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://twitter.com/speak2tweet"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Speak to Tweet</span></a>: Dial a phone number, leave your tweet as a voicemail and we’ll publish it for you—meaning anyone can have a voice, even without an Internet connection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Art Project</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>lets you<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/explore-museums-and-great-works-of-art.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">virtually tour 17 of the world’s best museums</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and explore high res images of more than 1,000 works of art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/weddings"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">google.com/weddings</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/more-i-dos-less-to-dos-wedding-planning.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">debuts</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with custom templates for Sites and Docs so you can organize all the info you need to plan your nuptials.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/onepass"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google One Pass</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>lets<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/simple-way-for-publishers-to-manage.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">publishers set their own prices and terms</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for their digital content, while we handle payment technology with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://checkout.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Checkout</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/update-to-google-social-search.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Social Search</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is now more comprehensive, and social results from people you care about are mixed in with your results based on relevance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">A<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/finding-more-high-quality-sites-in.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new search algorithm</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that affects 11.8% of our queries makes further improvements in search results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Gridlock begone:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/navigation"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Maps Navigation</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>now<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/youve-got-better-things-to-do-than-wait.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">routes you around traffic</span></a>, so you can spend more time doing and less time waiting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/landing/instantpreviews"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Instant Previews</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>come to mobile devices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Following the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/assembling-resources-following.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">devastating earthquake in Japan</span></a>, our crisis response team and Tokyo office work overtime to assemble resources to help, including<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Person Finder</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and an<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">information page</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with links to pages where you can donate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/nonprofits"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google for Nonprofits</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>puts all our tools for nonprofits<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/youre-changing-world-we-want-to-help.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">under one umbrella</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to help U.S.-based nonprofits make an even bigger difference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/1000-google-talks-videos-now-on-youtube.htm"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">@GoogleTalks</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>team uploads its 1000th video to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AtGoogleTalks"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">YouTube</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Kansas City, Kansas will be the first community to benefit from our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/ultra-high-speed-broadband-is-coming-to.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">ultra high-speed broadband network</span></a>, aimed at providing Internet access more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/+1/button"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new +1 button</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>lets you publicly give something a “thumbs up,” helping your friends and contacts find the best stuff when they search. +1’s also help show you useful recommendations on the topics you’re interested in,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/1s-right-recommendations-right-when-you.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">right when you want them</span></a>—in your search results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We establish two new Google domains in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/two-new-google-domains-iraq-and-tunisia.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Iraq and Tunisia</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Personalize your search results by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/hide-sites-to-find-more-of-what-you.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">blocking certain unwanted domains</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>from appearing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We’re<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/gmail-is-moving-fingers-are-fitter.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">busy</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>this April Fools’ Day:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Gmail motion</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>lets you control Gmail with your body and a new exercise program,<a href="http://chromercise.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Chromercise</span></a>, promises to deliver the fitter fingers you’ve always dreamed of.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We commit up to $100 million in AdWords matching funds to the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/helping-americas-startups-grow.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Startup America Partnership</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to help jump-start the economy. This same month, we give<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/supporting-our-beloved-science-museums.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">$12 million in grants</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to museums in New York, London, California, Chicago and Boston.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">You can now<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/add-your-local-knowledge-to-map-with.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">add your local knowledge to the map</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/mapmaker"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Map Maker</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Charlie Chaplin’s 122nd birthday is the occasion for our first-ever<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/lights-camera-doodle.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">live-action Google Doodle</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We invest $168 million in a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/investing-in-worlds-largest-solar-power.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">solar energy power plant</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in California’s Mojave Desert; sign a power purchase agreement for<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/oklahoma-where-wind-comes-sweepin-down.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">wind energy in Oklahoma</span></a>; and invest approximately $100 million in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/shepherding-wind.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Shepherds Flat Wind Farm</span></a>, anticipated to be the largest wind farm in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://agoogleaday.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">A Google a Day</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/trivia-game-where-using-google-is.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new daily puzzle</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that can be solved using your creativity and clever search skills on Google.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We acquire airline data organization software company<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/ita-software-acquisition-cleared-for.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">ITA</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/AdWords"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">AdWords</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>advertisers receive<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/free-phone-support-for-adwords.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">free phone support</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The world goes crazy over the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=schQZY3QjCw"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">royal wedding</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of Prince William and Kate Middleton, and we’re no exception,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/royal-wedding-live-on-youtube.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">airing it live on YouTube</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">May<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">At Google I/O, we focus on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/android-momentum-mobile-and-more-at.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Android</span></a>, launching<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://music.google.com/about"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Music Beta by Google</span></a>, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-kind-of-computer-chromebook.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Chrome</span></a>, announcing the first<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/chromebook"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Chromebooks</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for sale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Our latest<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/3d-dreams-in-modern-browser.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Chrome experiment</span></a>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ro.me/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">“3 Dreams of Black,”</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is a voyage through three dream worlds set to the collaborative album ROME.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/transit"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Transit</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>goes to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="file:///P:/googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/google-transit-goes-to-washington.html"><span style="color: #7847b2;">Washington, D.C.</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Our U.S.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/googles-2010-us-economic-impact.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">economic impact</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for the year 2010 is $64 billion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Voters crown seven-year-old Mateo Lopez the U.S.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/and-2011-us-doodle-4-google-winner-is.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Doodle 4 Google winner</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We invest $157 million in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/investing-in-alta-wind-energy-center.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">renewable wind energy</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>via the Alta Wind Energy center.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Happy<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/thanks-youtube-community-for-two-big.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">6th birthday</span></a>, YouTube!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We give a sneak preview of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/wallet"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Wallet</span></a>, which lets you tap to pay and use<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/coming-soon-make-your-phone-your-wallet.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">your phone as your wallet</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">June<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/offers"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Offers</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>beta<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/google-offers-beta-starts-in-portland.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">kicks off</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in Portland, Ore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/+1/button"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">+1 button</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is released to sites across<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/1-button-for-websites-recommend-content.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">the entire web</span></a>, so you can more easily recommend websites to friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://schema.org/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Schema.org</span></a>, a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-schemaorg-search-engines.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">collaboration</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>among Google, Bing and Yahoo!, supports a common vocabulary for structured data markup across the web.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Rock on: Our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/logos/2011/lespaul.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">playable doodle</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in honor of guitar inventor Les Paul becomes the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/doodle-for-instrumental-inventor.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">most popular Google doodle</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of all time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Our corporate<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/leading-charge-toward-electric-vehicle.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">electric vehicle charging infrastructure</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is the largest the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We invest $280 million to help finance<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/helping-homeowners-harness-sun.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">solar installations</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for homeowners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/helping-publishers-get-most-from.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">We acquire</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.admeld.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Admeld</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to help major publishers get the most out of the rapidly changing and growing display ad landscape.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/knocking-down-barriers-to-knowledge.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">announce</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>image and voice search on the desktop as well as Instant Pages, which gets the top search result ready in the background while you’re choosing which link to click.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://plus.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google+ project</span></a>—real-life sharing, rethought for the web—<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-google-project-real-life.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">launches</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">All our products start getting a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/evolving-google-design-and-experience.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">design makeover</span></a>, beginning with our homepage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">July<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Talented<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/hats-off-to-winners-of-inaugural-google.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">young scientists</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>wow the judges at the inaugural<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/sciencefair"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Science Fair</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Mind the gap:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/catch-london-underground-with-google.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">London public transit directions</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>come to Google Maps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/awexpress"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">AdWords Express</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is a faster and simpler way for small businesses to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/making-local-online-advertising-easy.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">start advertising online</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in under five minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Choreographers Pilobolus and OK Go collaborate with us on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.allisnotlo.st/index_en.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">All is Not Lost</span></a>, our latest<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/ok-go-play-with-chrome.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Chrome experiment</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=1056283&topic=1056284"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">2-step verification</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is now available in 40 languages and in more than 150 countries to help people keep their<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/2-step-verification-stay-safe-around.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Accounts secure</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">August<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We agree to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/supercharging-android-google-to-acquire.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">acquire Motorola Mobility</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/we-love-lucy.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">We still love Lucy</span></a>, and we celebrate her birthday with a Google<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/logos/2011/lucilleball.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">doodle</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/games-in-google-fun-that-fits-your.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Games</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>come to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://plus.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google+</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/streetview"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Street View</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>team goes to the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/street-view-goes-to-amazon.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Amazon</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to capture images of the river, surrounding forests and adjacent river communities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Music discovery site<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://magnifier.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Magnifier</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/magnifier-taking-closer-look-at-great.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">latest complement</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://music.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Music Beta</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">You can now<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/+1/button"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">+1 a website</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and choose to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/doing-more-with-1-button-more-than-4.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">share it with your circles</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on Google+.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We share highlights from our environmentally friendly<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/taking-cars-off-road-with-our.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">transportation</span></a>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/food-for-green-thought.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">food</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/building-healthier-greener-google.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">building</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>programs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Blogger</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>gets a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/bloggers-fresh-new-look.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">makeover</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">September<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/android-in-spaaaace-part-2.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Android</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>blasts off for a second time, rocketing to the International Space Station to help perform tasks like recording sensor data and capturing video footage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">An animated music video<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/logos/2011/mercury.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">doodle</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>honors the birthday of Queen frontman<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/happy-birthday-freddie-mercury.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Freddie Mercury</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We launch<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/green/the-big-picture.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">The Big Picture</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on Google Green to highlight our environmental impact. We also announce that<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Gmail</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<a href="http://www.youtube.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">YouTube</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>are<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/gmail-its-cooler-in-cloud.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">far more energy efficient</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>than non-cloud email and video solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-just-got-zagat-rated.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">acquire Zagat</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and plan to make it a cornerstone of our local offerings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/wallet/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Wallet</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>app<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/launching-google-wallet-on-sprint-and.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">becomes available</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on Sprint Nexus S 4G phones, with more to follow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">After a 90-day field trial, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://plus.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google+ project</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>moves to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99-100.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">open signups</span></a>. We also add Search and Hangout<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/+/learnmore:"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">features</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">In partnership with the Israel Museum, we<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/from-desert-to-web-bringing-dead-sea.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">digitize the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">A<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-in-more-sun-with-clean-power.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">$75 million investment</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in Clean Power Finance brings our total investment amount in clean energy to $850 million.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/Blogger"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Blogger</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>gets prettier, faster and more interactive with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/dynamic-views-seven-new-ways-to-share.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Dynamic Views</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">October<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/earth/index.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Earth</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>reaches the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/google-earth-downloaded-more-than-one.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">one billion download</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/spacelab?feature=inp-pr-space"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">YouTube Space Lab</span></a>, a new educational channel that invites students to submit ideas for a science experiment that can be conducted in space,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/coming-to-universe-near-you-youtube.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">lifts off</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/start-conversation-with-google.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">latest version</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.translate&hl=en"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Translate for Android</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>expands Conversation Mode, which enables you to translate speech back and forth between languages, to 14 languages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/fresh-start-for-google-presentations.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Presentations</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://docs.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Docs</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>gets a revamp and new features.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We incorporate WebGL into<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://maps.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Maps</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to create<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/step-inside-map-with-google-mapsgl.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google MapsGL</span></a>, a maps experience with far richer visuals and animations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">With Samsung, we unveil the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/unwrapping-ice-cream-sandwich-on-galaxy.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Galaxy Nexus</span></a>—the first phone designed for Android 4.0, a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/streetview"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Street View</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>trike<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/street-view-hits-stunning-swiss-alps.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">rides the rails</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to capture the stunning Swiss Alps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/tunisiatalks"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Tunisia Talks channel</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>enables Tunisians to submit questions to political candidates in advance of the country’s<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/tunisia-talks-on-youtube.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">landmark free elections</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/google-popular-posts-eye-catching.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">More updates</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>come to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/learnmore/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google+</span></a>: Learn what people are talking about around the platform with “What’s hot,” see how posts get shared with Ripples and edit photos in Google+ with Creative Kit. Plus, Google+ is now available to Google Apps customers worldwide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We carve a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/happy-hollowing.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">spooktacular jack-o-lantern</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>homepage<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/logos/index.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">doodle</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for Halloween.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">November<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/gmails-new-look.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">redesign</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>comes to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mail.google.com/mail"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Gmail</span></a>, featuring streamlined conversations, new HD themes, smarter navigation and more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The world’s largest pilgrimage—the Hajj, in Saudi Arabia—is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/watch-hajj-in-saudi-arabiathe-worlds.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">broadcast live</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/hajjlive"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">YouTube</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/support/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1710600&topic=1710599&ctx=topic"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google+ Pages</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for businesses, organizations and other entities<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-pages-connect-with-all-things.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">enable you to connect</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with all the things you care about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.googleforveterans.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google for Veterans and Families</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/bringing-very-best-of-what-we-do-to.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">brings together</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Google products and platforms for servicemembers and their families.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Music beta<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-music-is-open-for-business.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">evolves</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>into a broader platform,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://music.google.com/about/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Music</span></a>, enabling you to buy, play and share your favorite tunes, and store your music in the cloud so you can listen to it anywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/intl/en/help/maps/streetview/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Street View</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>goes places with special collections. Take a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/take-walk-in-park-with-street-view.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">walk in the park</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/street-view-special-collections-ski-and.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">hit the slopes</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with a number of new<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/gallery.html#parks-of-the-world"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">public parks</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://maps.google.com/intl/en/help/maps/streetview/gallery.html#ski-resorts-and-slopes"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">ski resorts</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Gobble, gobble. There’s a create-your-own<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/which-came-first-turkey-or-hand.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">turkey doodle</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>up on our homepage to celebrate Thanksgiving in the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.maps&hl=en"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Maps for Android</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>reaches a new frontier:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-frontier-for-google-maps-mapping.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">mapping the indoors</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We roll out the next stage in our redesign, a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/next-stage-in-our-redesign.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new Google bar</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that enables you to navigate quickly among all our services.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">December<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">YouTube<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/get-more-into-what-you-love-on-youtube.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new look</span></a>, complete with a redesigned homepage and simpler and customizable Channels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><em><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">Oui, oui</span></b></em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">. We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/inaugurating-our-new-french.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">open a new office in Paris</span></a>—headquarters for all our Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa operations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://market.android.com/apps"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Android Market</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>exceeds<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/10-billion-android-market-downloads-and.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">10 billion app downloads</span></a>—with a growth rate of one billion app downloads per month.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">360-degree panoramic imagery of those<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.miraikioku.com/streetview/en"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">areas in Japan</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>affected by the March 2011 earthquake is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/experience-tsunami-affected-areas-of.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">now available</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>through the<a href="http://www.google.com/streetview"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Street View</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>feature in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://maps.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google Maps</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/giving-back-in-2011.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">end-of-year grants</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in STEM and girls’ education, empowerment through technology and anti-slavery and human trafficking total $40 million.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We close out the debut year for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://plus.google.com/"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google+</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/google-few-big-improvements-before-new.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">a few more improvements</span></a>: the ability to adjust the volume of your circles, redesigned notifications, new features for Google+ Pages and a better photo experience. Google+<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://support.google.com/plus/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.cs&guide=1257349"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Hangouts</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/google-hangouts-going-beyond-status.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">get some upgrades</span></a>, too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/dabble-in-doodle-history-on-our-new.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">unveil</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a new<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/doodles/finder/2012/All%20doodles"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">site</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to make it easy for you to browse our homepage doodles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">2012<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.google.com/elections"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Google.com/elections</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/keeping-up-with-2012-us-election-with.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">new one-stop shop</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for all U.S. elections news, trends and online tools.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The creator of the Addams Family gets a 100th birthday<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/doodles/charles-addams-100th-birthday"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">doodle</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/search-plus-your-world.html"><span style="color: #7847b2; text-decoration: none;">Search plus Your World</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is the next step in transforming Google into a search engine that understands not only content, but also people and relationships.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1. ODesk: This is a legitimate site where you can find freelance writing jobs. If you have good writing skills, you can find good writing jobs at <a href="https://www.odesk.com/" target="_blank">ODesk</a> and earn reasonable money.<br />
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2. Elance: This is also a great website to find several freelance jobs including freelance writing jobs. Once you become popular on this website, you will get regular writing jobs that pay you well. <a href="https://www.elance.com/" target="_blank">Elance </a>is truly a great website for freelance writers.<br />
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3.Getacoder: This is also a wonderful website to get regular freelance writing jobs. <a href="http://www.getacoder.com/" target="_blank">Getacoder </a>is one of the top sites for freelance writers.<br />
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4. Guru: This is another fantastic website for online writers. If you want to earn money taking freelance writing jobs, you can't ignore this site. <a href="http://www.guru.com/" target="_blank">Guru </a>is definitely a good freelance writing site on the World Wide Web.<br />
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5. Getafreelancer: If you are a beginner, you can start taking freelance writing jobs from <a href="http://www.getafreelancer.biz/" target="_blank">Getafreelancer</a>. The rewards will be less, but a beginner can also get jobs here. Once you get adequate experience in freelance writing you can get high paying freelance jobs from the other freelance writing sites.<br />
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6.Scriptlance: This is another great freelance writing job site for particularly beginners. The rewards may be less but new writers can get jobs here on <a href="http://www.freelancer.com/" target="_blank">Scriptlance</a>.<br />
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7. Freelancer: This is also a popular freelance writing job site on the Internet. <a href="http://www.freelancer.com/" target="_blank">Freelancer </a>is indeed a great place for online writers.<br />
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8. Ifreelance: If you want to take up online writing as your career, you can start taking freelance writing jobs from <a href="http://www.ifreelance.com/" target="_blank">Ifreelance</a>.<br />
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9. People per hour: This site is also good for new writers. You can get freelance writing jobs with rewards suiting your writing skills at this site <a href="http://www.peopleperhour.com/" target="_blank">People Per Hour</a>.<br />
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10. Other writing sites: You can also write for top writing sites such as <a href="http://hubpages.com/" target="_blank">HubPages</a>, <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/" target="_blank">Squidoo</a>, <a href="http://www.triond.com/" target="_blank">Triond</a>, <a href="http://factoidz.com/apply/" target="_blank">Factoidz</a> and <a href="http://expertscolumn.com/" target="_blank">ExpertsColumn</a>.<br />
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Summary: If you want to write and earn, you can look for online freelance writing jobs on the World Wide Web. Genuine freelance writing jobs are available on these top freelance writing job sites. You can become a freelance writer and earn decent money online. Thanks for reading.<br />
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Many of us think that having a good interactive website or blog is that required to get tons of websites but that is not exactly correct. Getting more people to your site takes a lot of hard work (at least some smart work :-) ). After six years in the web development and blogging, I found some of the answers and some short cuts to get it. It may help you, if you are very interested in attracting a lot of visitors to your blog or website. But why other people (whom you think got lot of visitors) not revealing to you, because you need to advertise about your blog or website. Here I have added some of the proven techniques used by most of the experienced persons in the industry without spending [much] money:<br />
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<a href="http://www.kanoodle.com/">Kanoodle</a> </div>
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<a href="http://www.live.com/">Live</a> </div>
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<a href="http://www.nationaldirectory.com/">National Directory</a> </div>
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<li>Use a favicon.ico (which shows your logo in the URL bar)</li>
<li>If you have a Christian Website, be sure to submit it to all the Christian Directories. We have a list of about 50 of the most popular <a href="http://bibledatabase.com/submit.html">Christian Directories here</a>.</li>
<li>Have Dynamic content on your site - Message Board, Links Directory, Guest Book, Online Search, Picture Gallery, Quote of the day, News items, Site Search, Links Engine ... It all makes for a more enjoyable experience for your visitors ... and interested visitors come back.</li>
<li>Make sure you don't have broken links on your site! There is nothing more annoying when one clicks a link and it does not work. There are hundreds of places you can go on the internet that will check your link validity. Use them.</li>
<li>Make sure your META TAGS are done right.</li>
<li>Submit your site to as many privately run Link Directories/Search Engines as you can find. These will not generally boost your traffic in any major way but will help to maintain steady stream of qualified visitors.</li>
<li>Use Banners with care.</li>
<li>Subscribe to the Usenet groups and advertise there. A good place to start is <a href="http://groups.google.com/">Google Groups</a></li>
<li>Be sure to submit your site in appropriate groups!</li>
<li>Be sure to signup with a backup email or you will get onto every spammers database!</li>
<li>Be sure you don't SPAM -- only submit a write up of your site once to any given group.</li>
<li>Use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites">social networking sites</a> like <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/">facebook</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/">YouTube</a>, <a href="http://www.plaxo.com/">Plaxo</a>, <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/">Linkedin</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites">others</a> to get the word out.</li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Did you notice lately that something was popping up on your favorite Google Search page telling that “<em>we have changed something</em>”. Yes Google has changed its privacy policy.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">As per wiki “<em>Privacy policy is a statement or a legal document that discloses some or all of the ways a party gathers, uses, discloses and manages a customer or client’s data.</em>” While signing up for GMail you would have read, read and accepted the terms and conditions. Google has been introducing something new, now and then and we are excited when new stuffs plunge.Because we are getting more of something for <strong>FREE</strong>!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">But there is no free lunch. Google keeps a track of whatever you search, see, send etc to provide more relevant ads. This post is not going to explain you the <strong>new privacy policies</strong> because Google itself has designed a <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/preview/" style="color: #ed702b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="google privacy preview">elegant page</a> to explain them. I shall explain you as why you need to know about the policies.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Google search doesn’t work the same way for everyone. The search displayed varies depending upon various factors like your <em>location, personal information, previous searches</em> etc. Similarly <strong>Google search results</strong>differ the your account logged in and logged out. <strong>Youtube</strong> shows personalized recommendation based on what you have seen before. Google language preference as are saved form your browser cache.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Gmail shows relevant ads based on the content of the mail you sent/received. Google maps uses your current location show accurate distances on maps. So it is important to know what kind of information is used by Google and why is it done so.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Is there any option to prevent my data being used? Yes Google provides few options to opt out their services</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Everyone knows and loves Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux. Mark Shuttleworth, the creator of Ubuntu Linux, is pretty famous. Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the GPL, is equal parts famous and infamous. But surely there is more to Linux and Free/Open Source software than these three. And indeed there are thousands upon thousands of people toiling away fueling the mighty FOSS engine; here is a small sampling of these important contributors who make the FOSS world go 'round.</span></div>
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Lady Ada, Adafruit Industries</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ladyada.net/" style="color: #e37407; text-decoration: none;">Lady Ada</a> is Limor Fried, electronics engineer and founder of <a href="https://www.linux.com/" style="color: #e37407; text-decoration: none;">Adafruit Industries</a>. My fellow crusty old-timers remember way way back when Radio Shack was actually about do-it-yourself electronics hacking instead of the passive brain-decay of cell phones and big-screen TVs.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Adafruit Industries is a welcome replacement for us weirdos who like to take things apart and figure out how they work. Adafruit Industries sells Arduino boards, kits, and related parts and tools. Even more valuable is the wealth of well-illustrated tutorials. You can start from scratch, with no electronics knowledge, and get a solid fundamental education in a few days' of reading and hands-on hacking.</span></div>
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Dr. Tony Sales, Vinux</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Linux and FOSS should be leading the way in pioneering accessibility for Linux users with disabilities, because good design for disabled people is good design for everyone. One of the best accessibility projects is the <a href="http://vinuxproject.org/" style="color: #e37407; text-decoration: none;">Vinux distribution</a>, which aims for out-of-the-box accessibility for visually impaired Linux users, including installation. This is a lot harder than it sounds — try it for yourself.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">If you are looking for a way to make a significant contribution to Linux and to tech, consider the field of accessibility. None of us are getting any younger or healthier.</span></div>
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Dick MacInnis, Dream Studio</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Dick MacInnis is a musician, composer, and all-around nerd. He created and maintains <a href="http://dream.dickmacinnis.com/f" style="color: #e37407; text-decoration: none;">Dream Studio</a>, a sleek multi-media Ubuntu spinoff for musicians, photographers, movie makers, and all creative artists. It's a super-nice customization that stays out of your way and lets you get down to business.</span></div>
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Akkana Peck, Rennaissance Nerd</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.shallowsky.com/" style="color: #e37407; text-decoration: none;">Akkana</a> is one of my favorite people. She used to race cars and motorcyles, flies little radio-controlled airplanes, is into astronomy, mountain biking, kayaking, photography, and all kinds of fun stuff.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Akkana is a versatile and talented coder who has worked at cool-sounding places like Silicon Graphics and Netscape, and currently works for a startup doing embedded Linux and Android work. Akkana wrote the excellent <a href="http://gimpbook.com/" style="color: #e37407; text-decoration: none;">Beginning GIMP</a> book and a bunch of first-rate Linux howtos for Linux Planet. She also writes all kinds of amazing technical articles on her <a href="http://www.shallowsky.com/" style="color: #e37407; text-decoration: none;">Shallow Sky</a> blog. What earned Akkana a place on this list is her generosity in sharing knowledge and helping other Linux users. Learning, doing, and sharing – isn't that what it's all about?</span></div>
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John Linville, Linux Wireless</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The <a href="http://linuxwireless.org/" style="color: #e37407; text-decoration: none;">Linux Wireless project</a> is a model that more FOSS projects should emulate. Back around 2006 or so kernel developer John Linville and his team took on the task of overhauling the Linux wireless stack. It was a mess of multiple wireless subsystems (Wavelan, Orinoco, and MadWifi). Drivers were all over the map in what functions they handled, sometimes conflicting with the kernel.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">In just a couple of years, without fanfare, it was all significantly streamlined and improved, with a common driver base (mac80211) and assistance for vendors and end users. There are still some odds and ends to be worked out, but it's at the stage where most wireless network interfaces have plug-and-play native Linux support.</span></div>
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Jean Tourillhes, Wireless Tools for Linux</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Jean Tourillhes was the <a href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wireless.html" style="color: #e37407; text-decoration: none;">core maintainer and primary documenter</a> of the old Linux WLAN drivers and userspace tools. If it were not for Mr. Tourillhes wi-fi on Linux would have been brutish and nasty. (WLAN and wireless-tools have been replaced by the new Linux Wireless project.)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">JACK is not a person, but the <a href="http://jackaudio.org/" style="color: #e37407; text-decoration: none;">JACK Audio Connection Kit</a> for Linux. JACK is a professional-level audio server for connecting audio software and hardware, like a switchboard, and brings professional low-latency audio production to Linux. Paul Davis was JACK's original author, and Jack O'Quin, Stephane Letz, Taybin Rutkin, and many other contributors have all added essential features and supported JACK in multiple important ways.</span></div>
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Jon Kuniholm, The Open Prosthetics Project</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Jon Kuniholm, an Iraq war veteran who lost part of his arm in the service, is also a biomechanical engineer devoting his talents and open source methods to <a href="http://openprosthetics.org/" style="color: #e37407; text-decoration: none;">improving prosthetic limbs</a>, which have advanced far more in cost than in functionality. Decades-old technology shouldn't be priced like it's cutting edge; the project aims to improve functionality and appearance, and make advanced designs available to anyone who wants them.</span></div>
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Linux OEM Vendors</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">There are doubtless more than the few that I know about, so please feel free to plug your own favorite independent Linux vendor in the comments. <a href="http://www.system76.com/" style="color: #e37407; text-decoration: none;">System76</a> and <a href="http://zareason.com/shop/home.php?cat=" style="color: #e37407; text-decoration: none;">ZaReason</a> are my favorites because they are true independent mom-and-pop shops that sell desktop Linux PCs without drama or excuses, they offer first-rate customer service and customizations without whining, and don't need a year to retool for a new Linux release.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Some other notable Linux OEMs:</span></div>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Driver Project</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.kroah.com/linux/" style="color: #e37407; text-decoration: none;">Greg Kroah-Hartman</a> launched the <a href="http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/foswiki/bin/view" style="color: #e37407; text-decoration: none;">Linux Driver Project</a> a few years ago to help vendors get drivers for their devices into the mainline kernel. The project has been a huge success, demonstrating yet again (as with Linux Wireless) that lending a friendly, helpful hand works better than yelling.</span></div>
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Denise Paolucci and Mark Smith, Dreamwidth</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.dreamwidth.org/" style="color: #e37407; text-decoration: none;">Dreamwidth Studios</a> is a fork of LiveJournal by former LiveJournal staffers Denise Paolucci and Mark Smith. It is unusual for a FOSS project as it has a majority of women developers, and the whole community is known for being friendly and helpful to newcomers.</span></div>
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OpenTox, Cast of Thousands</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The <a href="http://www.opentox.org/" style="color: #e37407; text-decoration: none;">OpenTox project</a>, led by coordinator Barry Hardy, is a global data-collection and analysis framework that aims to replace animal testing for chemical interactions and toxicity with predictive computer analysis.</span></div>
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Ken Starks, the Helios Initiative</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.heliosinitiative.org/index.html" style="color: #e37407; text-decoration: none;">Ken Starks</a> does the kind of hard, hands-on advocacy that delivers the best results: rehabbing computers with Linux and giving them to children who can't afford to buy their own computers. Since the Helios Project moved into spiffy new quarters in Taylor, Texas they've expanded to building a computer lab and teaching classes.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://walterbender.org/" style="color: #e37407; text-decoration: none;">Walter Bender</a> was one of the chief designers of Sugar, the computer interface for young children that was originally created for the One Laptop per Child XO-1 netbook. When OLPC allowed as how they were maybe going to allow Windows XP on OLPC netbooks, Mr. Bender is credited by some for saving Sugar by leaving OLPC and founding <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/" style="color: #e37407; text-decoration: none;">Sugar Labs</a> to continue its development independently. Sugar is included in a number of Linux distributions including Fedora, Debian, and Mint, and Sugar on a Stick is a complete bootable on a USB stick.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">There is a moral to this story, and that is that Linux is more than giant wealthy companies, or glamorous celebrity geeks, or an unruly rabble. (Three cheers for unruly rabble!). It is fundamental building blocks that anyone can learn to use to make the world a little bit better.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">We know that there's more than a few unsung heroes and heroines of Linux and free software, though. Who do you consider a hero, and why? Stay tuned, we'll have more soon.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Google might be synonymous with the word search in most of the world, but that hasn’t dissuaded others from bringing new search engines to the market, usually aiming to innovate in an area where Google has somehow let up its guard. <a href="http://www.volunia.com/" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Volunia</a>, launched this week, promises to help searchers with three distinguishing features:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">My sense is that it is the social layer which will be most appreciated by Volunia users. Let’s look at each.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Volunia Search Result Previews Offer A “Fly-Over” Site View</span></h2>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">During his launch <a href="http://www.unipd-cmela.it/volunia/" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">presentation</a>, (in Italian, starts at 40 minute mark) Volunia founder Massimo Marchiori described search users as similar to chickens, trapped in cages and incapable of flying.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Users have been forced to choose search results by consulting one of those classic 10 item title, summary and link lists for too long. Wouldn’t it be nice if users were freed from their cages, and not only, were actually able to fly over a site, viewing a visual or a grid map, before committing to visit it?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Volunia, perhaps from <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">volare</em>, to fly, offers two types of high level site map previews, potentially freeing users from commitment tyranny. The first type, a visual map, aims to group areas of a site together in neighborhoods.</span></div>
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Figure 1: Volunia search result site fly-over: visual map</div>
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The second site preview map is in the form of a grid, reminiscent of computer folders. The expectation is that this format will be more useful to people searching from devices with small displays, like smartphones.</div>
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Figure 2: Volunia search result site fly-over: grid map</div>
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Interactive drill-down versions of the maps are also available from a Volunia menu bar which is visible while navigating a site. Site owners can improve the maps using a Volunia provided sitemap editor.</div>
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Figure 3: Volunia sitemap editor</div>
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Result previews aren’t exactly a new concept – Ask.com introduced their <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040623113817/http://www.searchenginelowdown.com/2004/06/ask-jeeves-announces-launch-of.html" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">binoculars</a> feature in 2004.</div>
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Where Volunia differs is in their choice to show a site map preview instead of a page preview. Many searches are indeed navigational in nature, one reason Google provides their sitelinks for some queries.</div>
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Volunia may be on to something.</div>
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Volunia Wants To Surface Multimedia Otherwise Hidden In A Site</h2>
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Initially the primary focus in Web search was on textual documents, particularly the html kind, rich in semantic structure with their glorious title, heading and paragraph tags.</div>
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Oh, I didn’t mention the links between documents, did I? Other Web content formats, from PDF files to images and then video posed much greater obstacles to search engine indexing for a number of reasons.</div>
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Today, major search engines like Google offer navigation links to enable a user to search just images or video.</div>
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Ambitious searchers can usually find an <a href="http://www.google.com/advanced_search" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">advanced search</a> syntax page which allows them to limit their searches to specific sites and file types, but for the most part major search engines have taken the “don’t make me think” approach, providing searchers with a blend of media types in search results, what Google calls <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">universal search</em>.</div>
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Volunia on the other hand wants to make it easy for a user to discover the multimedia richness hidden in sites like NASA by providing a very visible multimedia site search filter.</div>
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Figure 4: Volunia's multimedia search filter</div>
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The Web Has Come Alive, Says Volunia: Volunia’s Social Layer</h2>
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Volunia’s second area of innovation is in adding a social layer to their search results and subsequent website navigation by the Volunia user.</div>
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In search results, users can select a site based on what other Volunia users are viewing right now. Volunia displays the number of page and site visitors.</div>
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It isn’t immediately clear how useful this feature will prove to be: after all, even if we want to follow the “wisdom of the crowd”, there’s no way to know if the site’s current visitors from Volunia are actually happy with their choice, nor would it be clear to what extent one searcher’s expectations for a page align with those already visiting that page.</div>
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The same visitor counts are also available as layers on the site navigation maps.</div>
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Seek & Meet: Interact With Other Volunia Users</h2>
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What might arguably be Volunia’s greatest innovation is in letting fellow search travelers to a page interact with each other, what Volunia calls <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">seek and meet</em>, a feature which feels very reminiscent of Google’s now closed <a href="http://searchengineland.com/google-sidewiki-allows-anyone-to-comment-about-any-site-26420" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Sidewiki</a>, albeit with two key differences. The first is that users can interact in realtime.</div>
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Figure 6: Volunia seek and meet interactive site chat</div>
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This <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">birds of a feather</em> real time information sharing might prove useful in a number of situations where people are looking for pre- and post- purchase information.</div>
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In the pre-purchase phase, a searcher might want to interact with other users to better understand the product or service they’re considering, not to mention to discover what alternatives others are considering.</div>
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Sometimes, it’s nice just to have confirmation that we’re making the right choice. In the post-purchase phase, searchers might be able to resolve support issues by consulting with other searchers – potentially reducing a company’s support costs while providing interactive peer to peer support 24 hours a day.</div>
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Each Volunia user is able to fill in a personal profile, much like any social network. The matchmaking possibilities are clearly endless, but I suspect it would be best if I don’t go there….</div>
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Site owners will undoubtedly be pleased with the second apparent difference to Google’s Sidewiki: commenting can be disabled if desired, something Google didn’t allow.</div>
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Volunia, The Company, And A Few Volunia Tidbits</h2>
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<a href="http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2012-02-05/nuovo-google-social-081838_PRN.shtml" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">According</a> to data published by Italian business paper <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Il Sole 24 Ore</em>, Volunia was founded in 2008 by Massimo Marchiori and entrepreneur Mariano Pireddu, with Pireddu providing €2 million in funding to date. You might not immediately recognize Massimo Marchiori’s name, yet as an academic Massimo has been working on the theoretical issues of Web search for years.</div>
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His seminal 1997 paper, <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Massimo/papers/WWW6/" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">The Quest for Correct Information on the Web: Hyper Search Engines</a>, would serve as one of the sources of inspiration for two Stanford students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who would <a href="http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">acknowledge</a> Marchiori’s contribution to their own work, Google.</div>
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During Volunia’s beta phase, over 100,000 people are being invited to become “power user” beta testers. The Volunia user interface is in 12 languages but Marchiori said during the launch presentation that the actual index coverage isn’t limited to those languages.</div>
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The Volunia team has ideas for Volunia “extensions”, i.e. new functionality, which will be added to the core, the hard part which has already been done. Advertising will be added to the service.</div>
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Marchiori Says Social Needs To Emerge In Search</h2>
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In an introductory video, Massimo <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ph9S2xeCSU&hd=1&cc_load_policy=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0#t=0m14s" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">notes</a> that Volunia stems from an idea he’s harbored for several years, an idea for a “<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">different perspective of what the search engine of the future should be”</em>. In the <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Il Sole 24 Ore</em> report Massimo said “<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Web is a living place, there’s information, but there’s also people. The social dimension, already present, just needs to emerge</em>”.</div>
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Bing, which started incorporating social signals from Facebook in <a href="http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2010/10/13/bing-gets-more-social-with-facebook.aspx" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">2010</a>, and Google, which launched its social search in <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/introducing-google-social-search-i.html" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">2009</a>, would probably both argue that the social dimension to search has already emerged. So would upstart <a href="http://help.blekko.com/index.php/category/facebook/" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">blekko</a> and to a lessor degree, the Russian<a href="http://company.yandex.com/press_center/press_releases/2010/2010-10-28_2.xml" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Yandex</a>.</div>
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Armani, Chianti, Ferrari… And Volunia</h2>
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Volunia is based in Italy, not in Silicon Valley as one might have guessed. Italy actually has a history of search engine excellence. Google may well <a href="http://antezeta.com/news/google-supplied-search-results" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">power</a> most Italian portals today, but the talent behind a now defunct Italian search engine,<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Arianna,</em> led Ask.com to locate its European R&D <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050302020432/http://blog.ask.com/2005/02/volare_ohhhhhh.html" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">headquarters</a> in Pisa.</div>
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The Reality Check: Search Isn’t Easy: Volunia Faces Many Challenges</h2>
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The basic task of a search engine, finding, indexing and retrieving the world’s information, is a complex one. The size of the Web is <a href="http://searchengineland.com/google-knows-about-1-trillion-web-items-14456" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">immense</a>. There’s the problem of searcher intent: we know what we’re looking for when we type a brief search query, but those few words are often open to <a href="http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/some-thoughts-on-personalization.html" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">multiple interpretations</a>.</div>
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Google has conditioned searchers to expect lightning <a href="http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/speed-matters.html" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">speed</a> and mostly fresh and relevant results. Volunia will have to perform well on all these fronts and navigate thorny issues of<a href="http://launch.volunia.com/privacy?hl=en" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">privacy</a>.</div>
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Many start-ups have nonetheless tried to compete with Google and Bing. Some, like <a href="http://searchengineland.com/cuil-launches-can-this-search-start-up-really-best-google-14459" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="c2" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Cuil</span></a>, ran out of funding before gathering significant market share; others like <a href="http://blekko.com/" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">blekko</a>, with far greater<a href="http://company.yandex.com/press_center/press_releases/2011/2011-09-29_1.xml" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">funding</a>, are still working hard to win over hearts and minds. Whether Volunia will be able to pull this off remains to be seen.</div>
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Kick The Volunia Tires Yourself!</h2>
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Volunia has a <a href="http://launch.volunia.com/" style="color: #0c72b6; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">sign-up form</a> for those who want to try it out. Go kick the tires and support the underdog! From messages that I’ve seen on Friendfeed, Twitter and Facebook, very few have actually had a chance to actually use Volunia, credentials are only dribbling out, most likely in an attempt to avoid problems similar to what Google faced when they first opened Google Analytics to too many people at once. I based the considerations made (and images) in this article on demo videos released by Volunia in order to give you a preview of what to expect.</div>
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According to the report from the strategy analysis states that the iPhone family overtook Samsung with 24 percent of the market share in the fourth quarter. During this time, Apple's global smartphone shipments grew by 128 percent and it shipped 37. million phones.</div>
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Over the year, all global smartphone shipments increased by 54 percent and in the fourth quarter reached a record number of 155 million phones shipped.</div>
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When all numbers were tallied at the end of the year, the two companies were neck and neck. Samsung shipped 97.4 million units with 19.9 percent of the market share, and Apple shipped 93 million units with 19 percent of the market share.</div>
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"With global smartphone shipments nearing half a billion units in 2011, Samsung is now well positioned alongside Apple in a two-horse race at the forefront of one of the world's largest and most valuable consumer electronics markets," Mawston said.</div>
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The next biggest shipper was Nokia with 77.3 million smartphones shipped and 15.8 percent of the market. However, "Nokia's global smartphone market share halved from 33 percent in 2010 to 16 percent in 2011," Strategy Analytics' Tom Kang said. "A lackluster touch-screen smartphone portfolio and a limited presence in the huge United States market caused Nokia's shrinkage last year."</div>
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TiVo® DVR apps released today in the Android Market and gets
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section. It allows the user to browse the channel guide without interrupting
the show, viewing shows up to 14 days in advance, Scheduling TV show/movie
recordings and ongoing (Season Pass®) recordings and lot of features. Download
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http://wmntoday.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425142428250428660.post-89913418412716552862012-01-05T18:59:00.001+05:302012-01-05T18:59:53.578+05:30Gingerbread Ranks First in Android DistributionAccording to the Google's Android
developers report, the android users are classified according to their
platforms and their distribution is released on their official site.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Based on the report, Cupcake (Android
1.5), which comes under the API Level 3 contributes to the third minimum where
the new Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0, 4.0.2, 4.0.3) uses the API Level of 14
and 15 improves their ranking to second lowest with in few days after their
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Among the entire list Android
versions 2.3 - 2.3.7 Gingerbread tops in the distribution with 54.9 % for
(Android 2.3.3 - 2.3.7) and Android 2.2 Froyo holds the second maximum
distribution with 30.4%.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">As per the distribution, <a href="http://wmntoday.blogspot.com/2011/12/huawei-honor-gets-update-of-ice-cream.html">Ice Cream Sandwich</a> is having a good future in the android market.</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">WMNToday - A Tech Blog about Social Media, SEO, Discount Coupon, Facebook, Android Tutorial, iPhone, Apps, Reviews, Gadgets and How to do's.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Twitter crashed in the New Year
Celebrations of 2012</b>. Twitter, one among the popular social networks, got
crashed after 16000 new tweets per second. Most of the users got the error
message stating “<b>Twitter is over
capacity</b>” when trying to access the twitter site on 1st January of 2012. It
had a major impact in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>
initially, later the website recovered. After the New Year arrival in the
different regions of the world, twitter server is crashing accordingly and
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Year Resolution for the twitter should be "<b>I won't crash again</b>!"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Huawei Honor is getting more famous these days, even it is from Huawei, a Chinese company.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Quick Overview</b></span><br />
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<table cellspacing="0" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(227, 227, 227); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 476px;"><tbody style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th rowspan="3" scope="row" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: initial; border-right-width: medium; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #b23f33; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Oswald; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: top; width: 55px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">DISPLAY</span></th><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Type</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Size</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">480 x 854 pixels, 4.0 inches (~245 ppi pixel density)</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: medium; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Multitouch</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: medium; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Yes</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th rowspan="3" scope="row" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: initial; border-right-width: medium; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #b23f33; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Oswald; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: top; width: 55px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">SOUND</span></th><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Alert types</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Vibration, MP3 ringtones</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Loudspeaker</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Yes</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: medium; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">3.5mm jack</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: medium; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Yes</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th rowspan="2" scope="row" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: initial; border-right-width: medium; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #b23f33; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Oswald; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: top; width: 55px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">MEMORY</span></th><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Card slot</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">microSD (TransFlash) up to 32GB</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: medium; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Internal</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: medium; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">1 GB storage, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB ROM</span></td></tr>
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<table cellspacing="0" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(227, 227, 227); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 476px;"><tbody style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th rowspan="8" scope="row" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: initial; border-right-width: medium; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #b23f33; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Oswald; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: top; width: 55px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">DATA</span></th><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">GPRS</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">EDGE</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Class 10, 236.8 kbps</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Speed</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">HSDPA 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">WLAN</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Bluetooth</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: medium; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">USB</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: medium; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Yes, microUSB v2.0</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th rowspan="4" scope="row" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: initial; border-right-width: medium; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #b23f33; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Oswald; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: top; width: 55px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">CAMERA</span></th><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Primary</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Features</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Geo-tagging, HDR</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Video</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Yes, 720p@30fps</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: medium; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Secondary</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: medium; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Yes, 2 MP</span></td></tr>
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<table cellspacing="0" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(227, 227, 227); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 476px;"><tbody style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th rowspan="14" scope="row" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: initial; border-right-width: medium; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #b23f33; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Oswald; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: top; width: 55px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">FEATURES</span></th><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">OS</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread), upgradable to v4.0</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Chipset</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Qualcomm MSM8255T Snapdragon</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">CPU</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">1.4 GHz Scorpion</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">GPU</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Adreno 205</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Sensors</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Messaging</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Browser</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">HTML, Adobe Flash</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Radio</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">FM radio</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">GPS</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Yes, with A-GPS support</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Java</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Yes, via Java MIDP emulator</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Colors</span></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Glossy Black, Textured Black, Elegant White, Vibrant Yellow, Cherry Blossom Pink, Burgundy</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="ttl" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: medium; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7d7464; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 77px;"></td><td class="nfo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fafafa; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-width: medium; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">- SNS integration</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">- Google Search, Maps, Gmail, Talk</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">- MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">- MP4/H.263/H.264 player</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">- Organizer</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">- Document viewer</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">- Photo viewer/editor</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">- Voice memo/dial/commands</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">- Predictive text input</span></td></tr>
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"So.cl combines social networking and search, to help people find and share interesting web pages in the way students do when they work together. So.cl helps you create rich posts, by assembling montages of visual web content." says Microsoft.</div>
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But So.cl is just similar to the Google Plus and Facebook which allows to rich media sharing just like the upload video option from Facebook and Google Plus, and real time sharing of videos via "video parties" Similar to the Hangout option from Google Plus.</div>
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"We expect students to continue using products such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other existing social networks, as well as Bing, Google and other search tools. We hope to encourage students to re imagine how our everyday communication and learning tools can be improved, by researching, learning and sharing in their everyday lives" Says Microsoft, indirectly they are targeting to Google Plus, Since they uses Facebook login and their search API's are different from Bing and Microsoft claims it as a different product and not related to Bing.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This year Christmas celebration starts with
the spam. After the attack of various spam attacked the entire internet world,
it still remained in few cases like the Nigerian spam asking to pay for them to
check out their huge cash, persons from abroad starting their new branch in
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<span lang="EN-US">This time the spam are offering a lot of gift
products, gift coupons and lot more, this spam started increasing through the
social media like Facebook. After the huge spam attack on Facebook, this new spam
is started. Even <a href="http://wmntoday.blogspot.com/2011/12/facebook-started-looking-into-fix-bugs.html">Facebook fixed their previous spam</a>, whether they will take any
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<span lang="EN-US">Even Google plus is trying to fight back
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http://wmntoday.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425142428250428660.post-88698881024758710162011-12-20T13:04:00.000+05:302011-12-20T13:05:57.330+05:30Let it snow - Christmas Easter Eggs from GoogleAre your ready for the christmas celebration with white snows? Get in to <a href="http://wmntoday.blogspot.com/search/label/Google">Google</a>, to celebrate it, Just open the Google search and type Let it snow. Then your screen will be filled with the digital snow. It will make the entire screen to froze. You can't click on any of the results but dont get panic, the search icon will be changed to "Defrost" button, just a click to clear the icy veneer.<br />
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Last month the searchers discoverd "Do a barrel roll" will lead to a role in the Google page. Similarly the let it snow is also working. The trick will not work in Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8, nor in older versions of Firefox or Safari. This code will work only in updated browsers.</div>
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http://wmntoday.blogspot.com</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425142428250428660.post-34744648928659403942011-12-20T10:58:00.001+05:302011-12-20T10:58:07.144+05:30Volunia is available now...<b>Volunia is now available for power users</b>. Volunia is the hyper search engine <a href="http://wmntoday.blogspot.com/2011/12/volunia-alternate-to-google-expected-to.html">expected to be released</a> before the end of this year, now made available for the power users.These power users would be granted early beta access and direct lines of communication to developers.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"Search engines haven't changed much in the last years: time has arrived for a radical change. Volunia brings a completely new perspective, bringing forward a vision on the search engine of the future", Massimo Marchiori quoted. The initial version will be in 12 different languages. Before the public launch, Volunia will start as an invite-only service and based on the response from them, the search engine is going to develop its features, on November 1st the volunia, starts their testing and the release will be in this month before the end of the year.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The History of Search</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">1990</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Archie – First search engine created by
Alan Emtage, a student at <st1:placename w:st="on">McGill</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Montreal</st1:place></st1:city>.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Search Methods Before the Internet –
Phonebook.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">1991</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Birth of the Internet – Tim Berners-Lee
launched his invention: the World Wide Web.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">1993</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Aliweb Launched – Allowed users to submit
the locations of index files on their sites.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Wanderer – The first web crawler to
measure the size of the web. Created by Matthew Gray</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">600 + Websites Online.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">10 Million + Internet Users.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">1994</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">WebCrawler – First search engine to index
full web pages and allow searchers to search with any word.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Lycos – Search engine and web portal
launched.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">1995</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Yahoo! – Launched using a web directory,
not a full text index.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Alta Vista Launched – Introduced a
multi-threaded crawler (Scooter) that could cover many more web pages.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Excite – Search engine and web portal
launched.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">1996</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Inktomi Founded – Search technology was
used by HotBot and MSN Search</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Alexa Founded – Alexa Rank is born.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">SEO NOTE – You could still get a site
listed in Yahoo by merely submitting it. As long as it wasn’t too gaudy, you
were in within 72 hours.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">650 K + Websites Online.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">74 Million + Internet Users.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">1997</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Search Engine Optimization – SEO
terminology first used by John Audette and Bruce Clay</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Yandex Launched – Currently Russia’s
largest search engine.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Ask Jeeves – Founded by Garrett Gruener
and David Warthen.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">1998</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Google – Launched by Sergey Brin and
Larry Page – PageRank was born.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">DMOZ – Open Directory Project is launched
and purchased by Netscape</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Pay Per Click – Bill Gross developed the
original PPC model.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">MSN Search – Launched using Inktomi’s
search technology.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">SEO NOTE – Most search engines moved to
off-page criteria for their ranking algorithms.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">1999</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">SES Conference – First Search Engine
Strategies conference created by Danny Sullivan.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">2.2 Million + Websites Online.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">279 Million + Internet Users.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">2000</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Yahoo! – Began using Google for search
technology, but switched to its own technology in 2004.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Baidu – <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s largest search engine
launched.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">PubCon – First event held in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Google – Introduced the Google Toolbar
and Matt Cutts joined the team.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">AdWords Launched – AdWords is Google’s
advertising product and main source of revenue. Google’s advertising revenue
totaled $28 Billion in 2010.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">2001</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Reign of Google Begins.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Exodus – Users abandoned other search
engines such as HotBot, AltaVista and Excite in record numbers.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“Many SEOs have sleepless nights as we
realize it is Google or bust.” – Brett Tabke, Founder of WebmasterWorld.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">2002</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Google – Announced the launch of Froogle,
a product search engine.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Yahoo – Acquired Inktomi for $235 million
and offered to buy Google for $3 billion.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Google Became a Verb: The American
Dialect Society chose it as the “most useful word of 2002.” It was officially
added to the Oxford English Dictionary on June 15, 2006.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">2003</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Blogger and WordPress – Blogging became
popular and was utilized for SEO.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Google “<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Florida</st1:place></st1:state>” Update – This update turned the
SEO world upside down. The new algorithm was context based. After this
update, it was emphasized that quality of content and HTML code were the most
important factors for rankings on a search engine.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">38 Million + Websites Online.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">782 Million + Internet Users.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">2004</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">SEOMOZ – Founded by Rand Fiskin, first a
blog, SEOmoz grew to become one of the largest providers of SEO Tools.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Google Local – Google Local introduced to
offer relevant neighborhood business listing, maps and directions.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">2005</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Google – Introduced personalized search.
Announced that hyperlinks with rel=”nofollow”[4] would not influence the link
target’s PageRank. Google acquired Urchin software and launched Google
Analytics.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Live Search – MSN rebranded as “Live”
search.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Yahoo! – Launched Yahoo! SiteExplorer.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">2006</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Google – Google Webmaster Central is
launched. Google, along with MSN and Yahoo, announced joint support for
sitemap protocol.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">YouTube – Google purchased YouTube for
$1.65 billion, which later became the second largest search engine.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">2007</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Google – Launched Google Product Search.
Began campaign against paid links that transfer PageRank. Introduced a
“Universal Search” system that blended listings from its news, video, images,
local and book search engines along with crawling web pages.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">SMX – First Search Marketing Expo.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">2008</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Cuil.com – Search engine created by
ex-Googlers was launched and later shut down in 2010.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Google 10 Pack – Google three pack became
the 10 pack, expanding the Local OneBox from three business listings to 10.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">2009</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Bing – Windows Live Search was rebranded
and became Bing.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Google – Launched Google Caffeine.
Incorporated Twitter data into search results. Introduced Rich Snippets.
Updated their brand.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">New Canonical Tag – Supported by all
three major search engines.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">2010</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Google – Launched Instant Previews.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Facebook – Launched Open Graph API, which
included the new “Like” button.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Yahoo! and Microsoft – Yahoo partnered
with Microsoft to use Bing search technology.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">240 Million + Websites Online.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">2 Billion + Internet Users.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">2011</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Facebook – Received patent on “curated
search,” which involved ranking search results according to a link’s
popularity with a user’s social graph.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Google +1 – Google kicked social search
into high gear with its +1 button, similar to Facebook’s “Like” button. In
2011, 25 percent of bonuses may be based on the success or failure of
Google’s social efforts.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Google Farmer/Panda Update – Google’s
algorithm update devalued content farms like ezinearticles.com and others.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Graphs</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Search Engine Market Share. Google.
Yahoo. MSN. Bing.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Shift to Online Search Marketing. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> Search
Engine Marketing Spending (SEO, PPC, etc.) In Millions. 2008-$12,241. 2009-$14,110.
2010-$15,980. 2011-$18,102. 2012-$20,886. 2013-$23,380.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Percentage of Companies Shifting Money
from Traditional Marketing to SEO. 49% – Print Advertising. 36% – Direct
Mail. 24% – Conferences & Exhibits. 21% – Yellow Page Ads. 18% – TV/Radio
Ads.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Companies’ SEO Spending in 2010. 52% –
Spending more on SEO. 39% – Spending about the same. 9% – Spending less.</span></span></div>
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