[Nfb-science] If Google Was A Religion, I'd Join The Church

Fri Sep 30 04:45:07 UTC 2011

Hi,

I'm not sure, but the choir would sing in algorythm.

Warmest Regards,

Fred

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Would Googles followers be called Googoyles or would it just be the priests
who would have to hold the keys to the machine!
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From: "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at att.net>
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Subject: [Nfb-science] If Google Was A Religion, I'd Join The Church

> hello,
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> I love Google and wish them a happy Birthday.  here's a short history.
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> Warm Regardsk,
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> Fred
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> Doodle Celebrates Google's 13th Birthday: Here are 13 Milestones
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> By [42]John P. Mello Jr., [43]PCWorld    Sep 27, 2011 9:53 AM
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> Google Birthday Doodle Google enters its teens today and celebrates
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> with a Google Doodle of what else? a birthday cake as it has done in
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> previous years.
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> Today's doodle is a little more elaborate than most previous birthday
>
> doodles. The Google logo is there, all right. But you might notice
>
> there's an exclamation point after the logo. That was part of the
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> original emblem--something it ditched, thankfully, in 1999. The logo 
> is
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> also obscured behind a birthday cake, presents, party streamers, cone
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> hats and balloons.
>
> 1998
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> Although most of the time Google celebrates its birthday today, the
>
> google.com domain was registered on Sept. 15, 1997 and Google the
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> company wasn't incorporated until Sept. 4, 1998. On at least two
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> occasions in the past, Google has split the difference in those dates
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> and [44]celebrated its birthday on September 7.
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> Google didn't start posting birthday doodles to its main search page
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> until its fourth year anniversary in 2002.
>
> True to high-tech mythos, Google was started in a garage by two
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> Stanford students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, with $100,000 in seed
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> money from Andy Bechtolsheim, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
>
> Google Birthday Doodles
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> 1999
>
> But it didn't stay in that garage for long. Less than a year after
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> Google incorporated, it had already moved twice when in June 1999, it
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> announced it had secured $25 million in funding for its operations.
>
> 2000
>
> By 2000, things began percolating for the search company. Its main
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> rival, Yahoo!, announced it would be using Google's search engine for
>
> its site. Meanwhile, it hit the 100 million search queries a day mark
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> and launched its AdSense program.
>
> 2001
>
> The next year the company went global, setting up its first
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> international office in Tokyo. It also added a new chairman of the
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> board, [45]Eric Schmidt, who soon became CEO of the company, and it
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> branched out into image searching.
>
> 2002
>
> Google Labs, where the company develops new offerings, as well as
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> Froogle, its shopping search engine, and Google News were all launched
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> in 2002.
>
> 2003
>
> The next year Google got into the blogging business with the
>
> acquisition of Pyra Labs, maker of Blogger. It also launched Google
>
> Print, now Google Book Search, which gave searchers the power to 
> ferret
>
> through excerpts from thousands of books in digital form. 2003 was 
> also
>
> the year that lexicographers recognized a new verb in the English
>
> language: to google.
>
> 2004
>
> In 2004, Google's search index reached eight billion items. As it 
> moved
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> into its new digs, the Googleplex, its garage days were a distant
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> memory. A most important development during the year was the launch of
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> its web-based mail service, Gmail.
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> 2005
>
> Maps became a focus of the company in 2005, along with customizable
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> home pages (iGoogle), an online news reader (Google Reader) and Google
>
> Analytics, for discovering Web metrics. The company also began taking
>
> baby steps into the wireless realm by introducing mobile versions of
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> Gmail, Blogger and Search.
>
> 2006
>
> In 2006, Google bought YouTube, and the following year it further
>
> expanded the global reach of Google Maps and the audience for
>
> applications like Google Docs and Gmail. It also added street level
>
> photography to its maps offering, which opened a can of privacy worms
>
> for the company around the world.
>
> 2008
>
> Google continued to reach beyond its search roots in 2008 when it
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> launched a mobile phone operating system to compete with Apple's
>
> popular iPhone, and it even waded into the browser wars with its own
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> offering, Chrome.
>
> 2009
>
> Browsers and mobile operating systems weren't enough for the company,
>
> though, and in 2009, it launched its own lightweight operating system,
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> Chrome OS, although it wasn't until 2011 that any computers running 
> the
>
> system began shipping in volume.
>
> 2010
>
> By 2010, Google was a full fledged behemoth. As such, news about its
>
> gee-whiz developments began to take a back seat to less flattering
>
> notices. There was a [46]WiFi scandal, where it was discovered the
>
> company was collecting information from open wireless networks. It
>
> joined Verizon in a [47]net neutrality pact that appeared to some to 
> be
>
> jumping in bed with the devil.
>
> 2011
>
> In a move that could transform the company yet again, Google in 2011,
>
> entered into an agreement to acquire the mobile phone maker
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> [48]Motorola Mobility for about US$12.5 billion. Also in 2011, in one
>
> of the largest settlements ever, Google agreed to [49]pay $500 million
>
> to settle a case involving the importation of illegal prescription
>
> drugs into the United States.
>
> Over the last 13 years, Google has done an enormous amount to make the
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> lives of many people easier and more productive. It's made a few
>
> missteps along the way, and it will undoubtedly make a few in the
>
> future. By and large, though, it appears to have tried to live up to
>
> its motto, "Don't be evil." That's something most of Google's users
>
> hope the company will continue to do for the next 13 years of its
>
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