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Google had a humble beginning in early 1996 when two PhD students from Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin began a research project trying to prove if looking at the ties that sites had to each other would produce a better search engine. Within the next decade,Google's hypothesis would be proven, developing a key tool called PageRank, and their company would take off arguably faster than any company has in the past century.

Within that decade, Google has taken over the vast majority of searches done by Internet users worldwide, released an IPO in 2004 which was offered at $85/share, a mark that has not been seen since that first day, and created numerous products that have helped bring in millions of dollars, including AdSense and Orkut. They also began a selection of offerings to the IT world which have been well received.

Google also has a humorous side to it, producing April Fool's Day hoaxes that border on the line of ridiculous, but still seem like a possibility to those who know what Google can do. Past jokes included Google's MentalPlex, PigeonRank, and Google Romance.

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  • Chrome OS: The Google Continues To Take Over


    The Pajama Pundit — Authority Authority: 491
    ... the entire world . Innnnnnteresting : Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks. With a strong focus on speed, the Chrome OS promises nearly instant boot times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their computers. "We want Google Chrome ...
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  • Adventures in the land of building Google Chrome OS


    Brad Heap — Authority Authority: 123
    Okay I have now been working through the process of building Google Chrome OS for a little more than 12 hours. My main desktop computer has been on all night trying to sort out the development build environment so the code can be compiled. It does not help that we went over our data cap a few weeks back and are stuck ...
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  • The Decades Most Influential Internet Moments


    Website Magazine — Authority Authority: 524
    The Webby Awards, handed out by New Yorks International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, have announced their list of the top 10 Internet moments of the decade. With just a quick scan, the list is impressive and underscores the incredible impact the Internet has had on most every aspect of our lives. For our ...
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  • Android, Palm, and iPhone users get new Google News page


    Download Squad — Authority Authority: 764
    Filed under: News , Google , Mobile Google has launched a new mobile version of Google News , designed specifically for current-gen smartphones: the iPhone, Palms WebOS phones (the Pre and Pixi, so far) and Android phones. Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Symbian already had their own Google News page, so its ...
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  • Google to Alert Webmasters of New Software Versions


    WebProNews Feed — Authority Authority: 703
    Google is going to start letting webmasters know when the software they run on their site is outdated. Through Webmater Tools, Google will begin alerting users of new versions of software when they are released. "One of the great things about working at Google is that we get to take advantage of an enormous amount ...
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  • Google Demos Chrome OS, Microsoft Links Into LinkedIn, Amazon Ramps Up for Holidays, & More Big Company News


    Xconomy — Authority Authority: 708
    Public Companies , startups , trends Gregory T. Huang wrote: It’s been a busy week around here for the big tech companies. At Xconomy, we don’t usually report on things like product releases from Microsoft or sales figures from Amazon—our main focus is on new ideas, models, and companies—but ...
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  • “Google MLM Cash” Update


    3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority Authority: 561
    My Update|Though I am Not AdminHey Friends, I received your comment about Google MLM Cash,on 3 Step Ads’, and I posted a  reply,but not sure if mine will post or not.Let me first Thank you for joining the JV.I am Not Admin or associated with Google. MLM Cash/but I do like to help folks.I am [...]
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  • Create a Place Page on Google Maps for Real Estate or Your Business


    Sellsius real estate marketing blog — Authority Authority: 518
    Google lets you create a Place Page for any real estate listing or your business . It will then appear in search results on Google Maps . A Place Page is a web page for every place in the world, organizing all the world’s information for that place. And we really mean every place: there are Place Pages for ...
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  • Chrome OS as a virtual machine


    JohnStaton.com — Authority Authority: 137
    Itching for some Chrome OS ? Well, we all are, but you might be a bit disappointed at the fact that while Google has open-sourced its progress on the OS so far, the version that is currently available for download seems eons behind what Google showed off at its event yesterday. Still, if you just have to see it for ...
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  • Canonical [Ubuntu] + Google = Working Together To Bring More Choice To The Consumer


    The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP — Authority Authority: 541
    When Google made their announcement yesterday [Thursday November 20, 2009], included in their release statement was the fact that their new operating system would be open source. Some of you may not know what open source is. Basically the term means that creative works are shared by anyone and everyone, including ...
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  • Weekly Tech Wrap Up


    Pixelated Geek — Authority Authority: 148
    It’s that time again, time to review some of my cherry picked smaller stories of the week for those that might have missed them. This time round we’ve got an Adobe Flash update that doesn’t suck. OK, sucks a little less. Flash 10.1 beta was unleashed to the willing public with GPU video acceleration for ...
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  • Massuccis Take: Twitter CEO says Murdochs Google plan is doomed


    DailyFinance — Authority Authority: 808
    Filed under: Company News , Technology , People , Media , Google , Apple , News Corp. Twitter co-founder and CEO Biz Stone said Thursday that Rupert Murdochs potential plan to block Google from searching New Corp.s ( NWS ) websites is doomed to fail. Murdoch has accused Google ( GOOG ) of stealing content ...
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  • Climate Depot


    BuzzUp.net — Authority Authority: 163
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  • Blorenge


    BuzzUp.net — Authority Authority: 163
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  • Blorenge Mountain


    BuzzUp.net — Authority Authority: 163
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  • Blorenge Wales


    BuzzUp.net — Authority Authority: 163
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  • YouTube Says Popcorn Hour is Over


    MediaMemo — Authority Authority: 747
    Want to watch YouTube on your TV? There are plenty of devices and services that let you do that, with more on the way. But starting next month, at least one gadget is getting its YouTube feed shut down: Syabas Technology, which makes a line of settop boxes called “ Popcorn Hour “, says Google’s (GOOG) video site ...
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  • Why Google Should Cool It With Chrome OS


    Gadget Lab — Authority Authority: 794
    Sometimes you have to take a step down to step up. That’s what Google should’ve done with its open-source PC operating system Chrome OS, which the corporation demonstrated Thursday. Instead, Google is positioning Google Chrome OS against Microsoft with a lightweight OS shipping with netbooks next year. Chrome ...
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  • Google And The Amazing Technicolor Search Options


    TechCrunch — Authority Authority: 905
    I’m a big fan of keeping things simple , but that doesn’t mean things have to be bland. Google search results are pretty bland. Sure, sometimes you get returned things like YouTube thumbnails or pictures, but many results are still just a monotonous stream of blue links. Google tried to break this stream up a bit ...
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  • 158,616,176 Reasons Why Google Chrome OS Won’t Fail


    The SiliconANGLE — Authority Authority: 147
    The party’s in full swing today on Google Chrome OS bashing – it seems that the blogosphere took cues from Steven Hodson yesterday, and multiple bloggers are attempting to advance the theory that Chrome OS is going to fail, and fail hard. Randall Kennedy has a long screed on why Google Chrome OS will fail at ...
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