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| − | ==Description==
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| − | [[Image:Google.gif|left|175px]] Google.com got its start as a search engine, with an innovative approach to search algorithms. Prior to Google, search engines based results on how many times certain words appeared on a page; Google takes an intellectual leap forward from that thought and analyzes pages and ranks searches based on how an individual page is perceived elsewhere on the internet. In a very simplified way, Google searches links from other pages and ranks a specific page on how many times it's linked to by other pages, factoring their relevance as well.
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| − | Regardless of the complicated explanation, web users have deemed that Google works and it works well, ranking it consistently in the top websites in the world according to [[Alexa.com]]
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| − | Beyond being useful to searching the web, Usenet and for images, Google also owns and develops other internet-based technologies such as [[Gmail.com]], [[GoogleMaps.com|Google Maps]], [[GoogleEarth.com|Google Earth]] and [[SketchUp.com|Google SketchUp]].
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| − | ===Web Search===
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| − | Behind its simple interface, Google contains a powerful search engine capable of handling a number of advanced queries. Including:
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| − | * Searching the full text of books.
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| − | * Automatic translation of sites from one language to another.
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| − | * Searching for local results/businesses/services in the U.S., U.K. and Canada.
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| − | * Search refining operations.
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| − | * Ability to search for pages related to a particular result.
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| − | * Alternate spellings/corrected spellings for queries.
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| − | * The ability to find pages that link to a specific website URL.
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| − | * and more...
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| − | *See top Rankings [http://www.googletoprankings.com]
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| − | [http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html See a full list and explanations]
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| − | [[Image:Googlemap1.jpg|left|thumb|400px|Integrating their product line is a specialty of Google, like this [[GoogleMaps.com|Google Map]] which incorporates a business search.]]
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| − | ===Other products===
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| − | Google might be considered to be the largest search engine in the world, but they've also got interests in other areas and have been amassing a network of Web 2.0 favorites:
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| − | * '''[[GoogleMaps.com|Google Maps]]''' -- A fusion of different mapping technologies with other Google services to create a robust interactive online map. Places directions, reviews and businesses in your area at your fingertips.
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| − | * '''[[GoogleEarth.com|Google Earth]]''' -- A specialized application that lets users view anywhere on Earth in 3D using satellite images and advanced technology.
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| − | * '''[[SketchUp.com|Google Sketchup]]''' -- Software for designing 3D sketches on your computer.
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| − | * '''[[Gmail.com|Gmail]]''' -- The free mail service that helps keep messages contained in "conversations" together so that users can easily catch the thread of a conversation without having to jump around or search their inbox.
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| − | * '''[[Google AdSense]]''' -- Technology for advertisers to find people searching on Google and the advertising network (Ad Words) using low impact text-based ads and larger "banner" type ads. Ad Sense uses parts of Google's search technology to attempt to match up what consumers are looking for/reading about with products.
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| − | * '''[[Google AdWords]]''' -- The other part of the Ad Sense world is Google's ways of allowing website owners to place unobtrusive advertising on their pages with products that are relevant to the website.
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| − | * '''Analytics''' -- Creates traffic statistics for websites, dovetails with Ad Words so that webmasters can optimize their advertising campaigns based on traffic areas.
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| − | * '''[[Blogger.com]]''' -- Arguably the most popular service for online blogging, [[Blogger.com|Blogger]] was purchased by Google in 2003.
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| − | * '''[[Orkut.com]]''' -- The popular online community/social networking site was created by a Google employee as an independent project.
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| − | * '''[[Jot.com|Jot Spot]]''' -- This [[WikiWiki|wiki]] company is used for a number of businesses. They were purchased by Google in Oct. 2006.
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| − | * '''[[YouTube.com]]''' -- The acquisition of this online video powerhouse for $1.65 billlion in Oct. 2006 made headlines and still makes ripples in the Web 2.0 world.
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| − | * Other offerings include desktop widgets, a web-based calendar, photo organizer and editor, spreadsheet and writer application, price search engine, news listings, weather info and more.
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| − | * See [http://labs.google.com GoogleLabs] for more developments.
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| − | ===Holiday Logos===
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| − | [[Image:Google conan doyle.gif|right|thumb|275px|One whimsical element of Google which fans love is the "holiday logos" they'll roll out for special days, like this one which ran in association with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's birthday on May 22, 2006.]]
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| − | As infamous as the Google logo has now become, Google has had a history of playing around with their logo for holidays and famous birthdays, which has created its own buzz in the world.
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| − | Hello, World!
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| − | Take a look at some of their [http://www.google.com/intl/en/holidaylogos.html holiday logos]
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| − | ===Google in the News===
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| − | '''Acquisition of YouTube.com'''
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| − | On 9 Oct. 2006, [[YouTube.com]] was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion. Read the [[NYTimes.com|New York Times]] story here:
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| − | : [[NYT.com|New York Times:]] [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/10/technology/10deal.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin Dot-Com Boom Echoed in Deal to Buy] [[YouTube.com|YouTube]] (10 Oct. 2006)
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| − | Or, take a look at this video from the founders of YouTube talking about the sale:
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| − | : [[YouTube.com]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCVxQ_3Ejkg A Message from Chad and Steve]
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| − | ==Address==
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| − | :Google Inc.
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| − | :1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
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| − | :Mountain View, CA 94043
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| − | ==Languages==
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/af/ Afrikaans]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/sq/ Albanian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/am/ Amharic]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/ar/ Arabic]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/hy/ Armenian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/az/ Azerbaijani]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/eu/ Basque]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/be/ Belarusian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/bn/ Bengali]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/bh/ Bihari]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/ Bork, bork, bork!]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/bs/ Bosnian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/br/ Breton]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/bg/ Bulgarian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/km/ Cambodian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/ca/ Catalan]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/zh-CN/ Chinese (Simplified)]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/zh-TW/ Chinese (Traditional)]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/co/ Corsican]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/hr/ Croatian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/cs/ Czech]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/da/ Danish]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/nl/ Dutch]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/xx-elmer/ Elmer Fudd]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/en/ English]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/eo/ Esperanto]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/et/ Estonian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/fo/ Faroese]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/tl/ Filipino]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/fi/ Finnish]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/fr/ French]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/fy/ Frisian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/gl/ Galician]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/ka/ Georgian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/de/ German]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/el/ Greek]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/gn/ Guarani]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/gu/ Gujarati]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/ Hacker]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/iw/ Hebrew]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/hi/ Hindi]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/hu/ Hungarian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/is/ Icelandic]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/id/ Indonesian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/ia/ Interlingua]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/ga/ Irish]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/it/ Italian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/ja/ Japanese]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/jw/ Javanese]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/kn/ Kannada]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/kk/ Kazakh]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/xx-klingon/ Klingon]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/ko/ Korean]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/ku/ Kurdish]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/ky/ Kyrgyz]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/lo/ Laothian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/la/ Latin]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/lv/ Latvian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/ln/ Lingala]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/lt/ Lithuanian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/mk/ Macedonian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/ms/ Malay]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/ml/ Malayalam]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/mt/ Maltese]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/mr/ Marathi]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/mo/ Moldavian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/mn/ Mongolian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/ne/ Nepali]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/no/ Norwegian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/nn/ Norwegian (Nynorsk)]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/oc/ Occitan]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/or/ Oriya]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/ps/ Pashto]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/fa/ Persian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/xx-piglatin/ Pig Latin]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/pl/ Polish]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/pt-BR/ Portuguese (Brazil)]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/pt-PT/ Portuguese (Portugal)]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/pa/ Punjabi]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/qu/ Quechua]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/ro/ Romanian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/rm/ Romansh]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/ru/ Russian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/gd/ Scots Gaelic]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/sr/ Serbian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/sh/ Serbo-Croatian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/st/ Sesotho]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/sn/ Shona]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/sd/ Sindhi]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/si/ Sinhalese]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/sk/ Slovak]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/sl/ Slovenian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/so/ Somali]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/es/ Spanish]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/su/ Sundanese]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/sw/ Swahili]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/sv/ Swedish]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/tg/ Tajik]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/ta/ Tamil]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/tt/ Tatar]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/te/ Telugu]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/th/ Thai]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/ti/ Tigrinya]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/to/ Tonga]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/tr/ Turkish]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/tk/ Turkmen]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/tw/ Twi]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/ug/ Uighur]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/uk/ Ukrainian]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/ur/ Urdu]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/uz/ Uzbek]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/vi/ Vietnamese]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/cy/ Welsh]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/xh/ Xhosa]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/yi/ Yiddish]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/yo/ Yoruba]
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| − | * [http://www.google.com/intl/zu/ Zulu]
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| − | ==Discussion==
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| − | ==Community Reviews==
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| − | ===The Answer to Everything===
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| − | :What's the answer to every problem in the world? Google, of course! There's nothing you can't find by utilizing Google.
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| − | * posted by ''[[User:Jsab|Jsab]]'' on Nov 18, 2007, 9:43 pm
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| − | ===The Best part of google is search in various languages===
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| − | {{Rave}}
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| − | :Google speaks your language.
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| − | * posted by ''[http://www.techallica.com techallica]''
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| − | ===10 out of 10===
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| − | {{Rave}} {{RatingBar|10|star3}}
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| − | :''Google is really an amazing search engine, and has pretty much anything you would want to find! Find addresses, pictures, books, news, video, and of course, just websites. What I love google for is that it doesn't just look for how many times a word or phrase is in a page, but rather it tries finding what you most likely would be looking for.''
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| − | :''Google is also great for webmasters! From a simple search box to an [http://www.google.com/enterprise/intranet_search.html actual server], Google's got it!''
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| − | :''I recommend Google to anyone who wants to find what they're looking for.''
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| − | * posted by '''[[User:Vartan|Vartan C. Simonian]]''' at 16:53, 21 September 2007 (PDT)
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| − | ===Best search engine!===
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| − | : ''Everybody knows Google. They're a cultural phenomenon. The best things about this company are their corporate guidelines ("Don't be evil") and their commitment to taking good ideas and executing on them amazingly.''
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| − | * posted by '''[[User:Jacob|Jacob Pappe]]''' on Sep 22, 2006, 6:27 pm
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| − | ===Magic Machine===
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| − | {{Rave}}
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| − | : ''I really Feel some times that Google is a magic Machine..., you can ask anything, it will answer you with many surprising details. I believe Google is my Teacher & i gain lot of knowledge from it.''
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| − | ===It don't get better than this===
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| − | : ''Simple, Efficient and it works. Okay, so it can take a bit of getting used to to work well but Google search and all other Google products are superb.''
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| − | * posted by '''[[User:Tmorton|Thomas Morton]]''' on Dec 23, 2006, 3:35 pm
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| − | ===Google===
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| − | : ''What can I say that nobody else has said before? Google is a very good search engine.''
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| − | * posted by '''Anonymous''' on Feb 16, 2007, 2:13 pm
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| − | '''Unknown ?'''
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| − | : ''Google is to the internet what Windows is to computers''
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| − | * posted by '''Anonymous''' on July 29, 2007, 12:39 AM
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| − | ===Google.com is great===
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| − | :''Probably the #1 web search engine on the internet. Completely recommended.''
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| − | ===Adwords===
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| − | {{Rant}}
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| − | :''It's strange really because Google Adwords makes you pay every time someone clicks on your ads, so the big question is how do you really know that Google is not clicking your ads?''
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| − | :''Why does Youtube get to be displayed on Adwords and on other people's websites?''
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| − | :''Did you know when you use Adsense on your website(s), you're getting paid to become non famous and you're getting paid to advertise other website(s). How is it that people love to pay Google when there's a question that no one can answer only Google can prove but yet has not proven.
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| − | :''Why is it on the most popular keyword results, massive companies get displayed and not lower level websites?''
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| − | :''Google is not for putting small website companies on there because they won't replace the massive companies on the search results.''
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| − | :''Google is not fair where at the top of the list on video results they have GoogleVideo.com on it Youtube.com, Yahoo video, MSN video and many more massive companies.
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| − | :''Google is not fair and will only display rich companies on the big search results. Questions after questions and nobody cares.''
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| − | * Posted by '''Anonymous''' on 05:17, 19 September 2007.
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| − | ==Related Domains==
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| − | <WikiPages>
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| − | Gmail.com
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| − | Googlepages.com
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| − | Ask.com
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| − | MSN.com
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| − | Dmoz.org
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| − | Yahoo.com
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| − | Google.org
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| − | Google.jp
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| − | Google.cn
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| − | Google.fr
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| − | Google.de
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| − | Google.fi
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| − | Google.ee
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| − | Google.se
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| − | Google.no
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| − | </WikiPages>
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| − | ==External Links==
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| − | * '''Alexa''': [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url=google.com Google.com]
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| − | * '''Domain''': [http://www.vietsmall.com/english/checkdomain.php?domain=google&domext=.com Check Google.com]
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| − | * {{Template:WikipediaLink|Google.com|Article at Wikipedia.}}
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| − | {{ FeaturedSite |
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| − | Date = '''6 Feb. 2007''' |
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| − | Blurb = You probably don't need us to tell you that [[Google.com|Google]] is a household name. |
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| − | URL = http://www.aboutusweblog.org/2007/02/06/featured-site-googlecom/
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