Today, 27 September we are celebrating 9 years of Google Technology. From the bottom of my heart I want to say:
Happy Birthday to you, Google! I love you so much 
Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin in 1999 says, “A perfect search engine will process and understand all the information in the world … That is where Google is headed.” Ya, I agree with him 100%.
Philipp Lenssen, the author of 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google says:
In-between being a search engine and staying one, this is what also happened during the last 9 years, in semi-particular order:
* The Google homepage goes out of Beta
* A Google Friends newsletter is started to address “Googlers,” originally the term for Google users
* Google teams up with RealNames to bring now-forgotten Internet Keyword support to their search engine
* Google bought a huge Newsgroup archive from Deja News and turned it into Google Groups. The first mention of Madonna on the internet is now owned by Google Inc.
* Google created a technology playground called Google Labs, where they release tools such as Google Sets
* Yahoo switches to Google results, but later changes their mind and develops their own search engine back-end to compete with Google and Microsoft in the club of the three only high-scale search engines worldwide
* Eric Emerson Schmidt, then 46, replaces Larry Page, then 28 years old, as boss of Google
* Google shows context-relevant AdWords in search results, and later AdSense on external websites
* Aaron Swartz starts posting news on Google on the Google Weblog
* Google releases more and more company blogs to communicate with people outside the company
* Google releases Gmail, which many thought was an April Fool’s prank due to the at the time incredible storage of 1 Gigabyte
* Google went through an Initial Public Offering, meaning the company gets special attention from stock market investors
* Google enters China and decides to compromise its mission by self-censoring human rights websites, proclaiming a change from “don’t ever be evil, period” to “scales balancing what Google thinks is least evil”
* Google releases a set of programming frameworks called GData
* Google releases a set of client-side, ad-powered JavaScript APIs, ditching support for their server-side, ad-free SOAP API
* Google releases a word processor, a spreadsheet editor, and later a presentations tool, all with a focus on online collaboration
* Google publishes their Google Apps suite for companies
* Google starts showing good-resolution photos of people on the streets as part of mining public information and making it accessible
* Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin in a speech given on a Google Developer Day says we’ve come full circle, as the generation which grew up with the web is now starting to create on the web, determining its shape… a self-increasing feedback loop causing exponentially growing development (or so one would hope).
* and much, much more.
You can read his full article here
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