Google has perhaps more than any other company become "The Internet Company." It's grown hand in hand with the internet and its entire business model has from the start been totally focused on the internet as a delivery platform.
And let's face it, Google is a pretty interesting company. In fact, we think it's so interesting that we put together this infographic with a ton of facts and figures about Google. We've been digging through Google's SEC filings, news articles and the trusty old Wikipedia to get plenty of interesting data to include. We hope you like it!
Posted by Tim Reis, head of Google's East Coast CPG Practice.
![[www.tartantights.com - No1 on Google]](http://files.stuffyoucantrust.webnode.com/200000072-7f2b38025c/number_one_on_google1%20%5BDesktop%20Resolution%5D.jpg)
Pavel sent in this photo. "Companies or shops can boast with different awards: 'Number one in Lonely Planet Guide', 'As seen on TV' or 'Awarded Little Insignificant Award 2006'. But I never saw a company boasting their SEO success in offline world. Until I was in a gift shop in Edinburgh, Scotland, that is." More at Pavel's blog. [Thanks Pavel!]
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Shop Sign: "No1 on Google" | Comments]
Helmut Smits figured out a way to add a "dead pixel" to Google Earth. He created a 82 x 82cm burned square, the size of one pixel from an altitude of one kilometer.
"Google landscapes", modified sticker on landscape, Bilbao-Pays Vasco, 2008
"Google answer", modified sticker on chair, Notre Dame du Paris-France, 2008
"Google Great Walls", modified sticker on landscape, Beijin-China, 2009
Man kann Google einfach nicht entkommen: Das neue Projekt von Filippo Minelli. Mehr von Minelli hier, via: Eko
User-agent: zombies Disallow: /brains
[Thanks Hebbet!]
[By Tony Ruscoe | Origin: Google's Robots.txt Halloween Entry | Comments]
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, will begin to campaign on behalf of Barack Obama, reports the Wall Street Journal. He is scheduled to speak Tuesday at a panel on the economy in Florida.
Schmidt has been an informal adviser to the campaign, but the official endorsement weeks away from the election gives Schmidt more of a voice in net neutrality issues that could affect Google, as well as better position him for a possible role as chief technology officer under an Obama administration.
"I'm doing this personally," Schmidt said. "Google is officially neutral" in the campaign.
But that's not to say that Google hasn't played much of a role in Obama's campaign. About 70 percent of the $3 million Obama spent in online advertising during the primaries went to Google ads.
McCain has a few tech execs on his side, including former eBay CEO Meg Whitman and former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Carly Fiorina.
Google CEO Backs Obama [WSJ]
Photo: Flickr/worldeconomicforum
"Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool," Eric Schmidt told an audience of magazine publishers assembled at Google yesterday. Wait, what happened to the magic Google algorithm that reverse-engineers our reputations? Does it now rank pages by brand, too? I hope so, because when I Google myself at midnight all I see is Valleywag, Valleywag, Valleywag. I'd like to believe Google knows something my agent doesn't. (Photo by AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
Mercedes Bunz, Thierry Chervel, Klaus Staeck and others talk about the world's biggest search engine: Google. The website heavyweight enables amazing access to information, is efficient in concentrating and sharing knowledge and also storing of traditions.
But the monopoly on information facilitates misuse. Services offered by the new browser Chrome, for instance, collects reader and user information and exploits them for advertising and politics, while the possibility of demagogic influence and the handling of copyright raise questions about the "uncontrolled world power in the internet" and trusted computing.
The talk--in German--explores what the consequences as Google expands its supremacy in archiving books, texts, pictures and videos and, with it, decides what's publicly available. Central to the discussion is the cultural significance of digitalization and its effects on art.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Watch The Political Spin Machine With Google "In Quotes" -- Google has just opened a new Labs project, called In Quotes, to the public. The site allows users to compare quotes from various political figures, displaying key excerpts from speeches and interviews that they've given recently.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
OpenSocial Now Reaches 350 Million Users, And Growing -- Six months ago, OpenSocial was nothing but a list of promised partnerships. But the social network application platform backed by Google has made a lot of progress since then as those partners started to go live with their OpenSocial Apps.
About a month and a half ago, Google Street View watchers discovered a red UFO in the skies over Japan. Now, another Street View location shows the SAME FLYING SAUCER from a different angle. In both cases, the UFOs appear in rectangular patches of different-colored sky, which suggests that they were inserted there, possibly by Google employees.
twitter
%%
YouTube
%%
Flickr
%%
blip.fm
%%
Digg
%%
delicious
%%
club unlike
and several RSS feed end-points.
Google
%%
Xing
%% 
Facebook
Subscribe my feed for featured content (and digested daily activity updates)
my photostream on flickr »
