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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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    Technology Pundit — Authority Authority: 164
    Yesterday I detailed my quest to find the throngs of Droid fans who had woken up at the crack of dawn to grab a place in line before Verizon unleashed the phone to the masses. Yet despite reports of lines elsewhere, I failed — the Verizon store in Palo Alto was a ghost town, as was the Best Buy down the street. ...
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  • How do you know about visitors to your website ?


    stlplace — Authority Authority: 118
    How much Google knows about you? The google dashboard. I found out the google search I did last Saturday on “enable root on Mac” (by going to google => “My Account” => “web history”). I believe there is a setting a google user can change to disable google to collect the data. But for me sometimes it ...
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    Inbound Marketing Strategies, SEO, Social Media Marketing — Authority Authority: 115
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  • Apple Has No Sense Of Humor. Luckily, Google Does.


    Technology Pundit — Authority Authority: 164
    Last month, Apple rejected the Someecards iPhone app because it contained satirical comedy about public figures. After attempting to make their case and getting stonewalled, Someecards eventually gave into Apple and removed the offending cards which made fun of Hitler and Roman Polanski, among others.
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    Dapx - Published news — Authority Authority: 172
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  • How Google Uses Linux


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    postfail writes lwn.net coverage of the 2009 Linux Kernel Summit includes a recap of a presentation by Google engineers on how they use Linux. According to the article, a team of 30 Google engineers is rebasing to the mainline kernel every 17 months, presently carrying 1208 patches to 2.6.26 and inserting almost ...
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  • More underlying warming trend tomfoolery


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  • Notes from September’s CopyNight for Washingon, DC


    The Command Line — Authority Authority: 131
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  • Motorola/Verizon Droid: When to reccomend?


    Computerworld Blogs — Authority Authority: 515
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    Technology Info — Authority Authority: 458
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