Google wishes you on Birthday !

Google  Wishes Happy Birthday !

One day of the year is your Birthday . The most special thing about 

the day is that its your Birthday . Birthdays are not everyday and 

thus its special . 

Google knows how special the day is for you and it 

does its effort to make it even more special for you with its wish . 

Google stores the provided birth date of your Google account and 

wishes you on your birthday .





The wish appears when you open the Google homepage . 

A beautiful doodle is present to welcome you on the Google 

homepage . When you take your mouse cursor on to the doodle , a 

box appears in which it is written , Happy Birthday "with your 

name here" ! . This unique way has yet been followed only by 

Google to give its users a new type of experience to use their 

service .  



Doodles like these might seem very small ,


But a Google Doodle can really make your day !  

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Google Announces Project Tango, a 5 inch Android Smartphone

Google Announces Project Tango, a 5 inch Android Smartphone

 

 The goal of Project Tango is 

to understand of space and 

motion. The device is a 5 inch 

Android smartphone 

equipped with 3D sensors and  

other components to track motion and map the surroundings 

around you.

Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group is 

the brains behind the project Tango.

 

Working:

The device in the Tango 

project will work by using a  

motion tracking camera 

and a sensor built into the 

backside of the prototype 

android smartphone. Once 

the smartphone is moved around, the sensors will detect  

everything in front of them, and as a result it will build a 

3D map of the surroundings using the data captured.

 

This project comes from Google’s Advanced Technology  

and Projects team, the same team which was associated 

with Motorola but Google decided to keep them, while 

they let go Motorola.

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Google Products

                    The Different Google Products

 

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Productive tools of Google 

Gmail, a free webmail service provided by Google, was launched as an invitation-only beta program on April 1, 2004 , and became available to the general public on February 7, 2007.The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009 , at which time it had 146 million users monthly . The service offers over 15 GB of free storage, shared with other Google Apps, with additional storage ranging from 20 GB to 16 TB

Gmail uses AJAX , a programming technique that allows web pages to be interactive without refreshing the browser.

Google Docs  This is another part of Google's productivity suite, allows users to create, edit, and collaborate on documents in an online environment, similar to Microsoft Word. The service was originally called Writely, but was obtained by Google on March 9, 2006, and was released as an invitation-only preview . On June 6 after the acquisition, Google created an experimental spreadsheet editing program , which was combined with Google Docs on October 10.

 

Products by the Google Enterprise 

Google Search Appliance was launched in February 2002, targeted toward providing search technology for larger organizations. Google launched the Mini three years later, which was targeted at smaller organizations. Late in 2006, Google began to sell Custom Search Business Edition, providing customers with an advertising-free window into Google.com's index. The service was renamed Google Site Search in 2008.


Google Apps allows organizations to bring Google's web application offerings, such as Gmail and Google Docs, into their own domains. The service is available in several editions: a basic free edition (formerly known as Google Apps Standard edition), Google Apps for Business, Google Apps for Education, and Google Apps for Government.

Other Products 

Google Translate - Google Translate is a free, multilingual statistical machine-translation service provided by Google Inc. to translate written text from one language into another.

Google Drive - Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service provided by Google, released on April 24, 2012 ,which enables user cloud storage, file sharing and collaborative editing. Rumors about Google Drive began circulating as early as March 2006.Files shared publicly on Google Drive can be searched with web search engines.

Google News - Google News is a free news aggregator
 provided and operated by Google Inc, selecting most up-to-date information from thousands of publications by an automatic aggregation algorithm.Launched in September 2002, the service was tagged as a beta test for over three years until January 2006. The initial idea was developed by Krishna Bharat .

Google Chrome - Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google. It used the WebKit layout engine until version 27 and, with the exception of its iOS releases, from version 28 and beyond uses the WebKit fork Blink. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and as a stable public release on December 11, 2008 .

Google Android - Android is an operating system based on the Linux kernel, and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and later bought in 2005, Android was unveiled in 2007 . The first publicly available smartphone running Android, the HTC Dream, was released on October 22, 2008.

Google Nexus -  Google Nexus is a line of mobile devices that run the Android operating system. Google manages the design, development, marketing, and support but some development, and all manufacturing, is carried out by third party partners. As of February 2014, the devices in the line are, Nexus 5 smartphone, partner LG Electronics, second generation Nexus 7 tablet computer, partner Asus, and Nexus 10 tablet computer, partner Samsung Electronics.

Google Maps - 
Google Maps is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit , and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. It offers street maps and a route planner for traveling by foot, car, bike (beta), or with public transportation. It also includes a locator for urban businesses in numerous countries around the world. Google Maps satellite images are not updated in real time, however, Google adds data to their Primary Database on a regular basis and most of the images are no more than 3 years old .

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Google 2013 Onwards

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Google 2013 Onwards :

Google announced the launch of a new company called Calico on september 19, 2013, which will be led by Apple chairman Arthur Levinson. In the official public statement, Page explained that the "health and well being" company will focus on "the challenge of ageing and associated diseases".

As of September 2013, Google  operates 70 offices in more than 40 countries.Google celebrated its 15-year anniversary on September 27, 2013, although it has used other dates for its official birthday . The reason for the choice of September 27 remains unclear, and a dispute with rival search engine Yahoo! Search in 2005 has been suggested as the cause .

The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) was launched in October 2013 and Google is part of the coalition of public and private organisations that also includes Facebook, Intel and Microsoft. Led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the A4AI seeks to make Internet access more affordable so that access is broadened in the developing world, where only 31% of people are online. Google will help to decrease internet access prices so that they fall below the UN Broadband Commission's worldwide target of 5% of monthly income.

The corporation's consolidated revenue for the third quarter of 2013 is reported in mid-October 2013 as US$14.89 billion, a 12 percent increase compared to the previous quarter. Google's Internet business was responsible for US$10.8 billion of this total, with an increase in the number of users' clicks on advertisements.

In November 2013, Google announced plans for a new 1-million-sq-ft (93,000 sq m) office in London, which is due to open in 2016. The new premises will be able to accommodate 4,500 employees and has been identified as one of the biggest ever commercial property acquisitions in Britain.

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Hence the History Continues

Thus finally Google created the History.

In March 1996 a business called Groove Track Productions applied for a United States 

trademark for "Google" for various products including several categories of clothing, stuffed 

toys, board games, and candy. The firm abandoned its application in July 1997 .

Having found its way increasingly into everyday language, the verb "Google" was added to 

the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006, 

meaning "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet.The use of the 

term itself reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the 

web.

In November 2009, the Global Language Monitor named "Google" No. 7 on its Top Words of 

the Decade list.

 In December 2009 the BBC highlighted Google in their "Portrait of the Decade (Words)" 

series .

Google has updated their work time to time :

Google updates its algorithm to introduce a penalty for websites with too many ads "above the 

fold". The update has no name, but some SEOs use "Top Heavy" to describe the update.

Google launches its "Webspam update" which would soon become known as Google Penguin.

Google rolls out an update of Google Penguin, variously called Penguin 1.1 and Penguin 2.

Google rolls out updates to Google Panda: 3.7 (June 8), 3.8 (June 25),3.9 (July 24)

More can be seen in the Link provided below for the Google Timeline -

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Google Timeline

                            Google's Growth Timeline

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2003

 

In February 2003, Google acquired Pyra Labs, owner of Blogger, a pioneering and leading web log hosting website. The acquisition secured the company's competitive ability to use information gleaned from blog postings to improve the speed and relevance of articles contained in a companion product to the search engine Google News.

 

  

2004

 

After the IPO, Google's stock market capitalization rose greatly and the stock price more than quadrupled. On August 19, 2004 the number of shares outstanding was 172.85 million while the "free float" was 19.60 million . In January 2005 the number of shares outstanding was up 100 million to 273.42 million, 53% of that was held by insiders, which made the float 127.70 million . The two founders are said to hold almost 30% of the outstanding shares . The company has not reported any treasury stock holdings as of the Q3 2004 report.

2005

On June 1, 2005 , Google shares gained nearly four percent after Credit Suisse First Boston raised its price target on the stock to $350. On that same day, rumors circulated in the financial community that Google would soon be included in the S&P 500. When companies are first listed on the S&P 500 they typically experience a bump in share price due to rapid accumulation of the stock within index funds that track the S&P 500. Nevertheless, on June 7, 2005, Google was valued at nearly $52 billion, making it one of the world's biggest media companies by stock market value.

 

2006

 

While the company's primary market is in the web content arena, Google has also recently began to experiment with other markets, such as radio and print publications. On January 17, 2006 , Google announced that it had purchased the radio advertising company dMarc, which provides an automated system that allows companies to advertise on the radio . 

2007

Google  launches Universal Search, integrating traditional search results with results from Google News , Google Image Search, Google Video Search, and other verticals. This is believed to be a major milestone in the user experience. 

Search algorithm update -  It is not considered a deliberate update, but rather an accumulation of many smaller changes .

 

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Google  Suggest (later called Autocomplete), originally launched as a Labs feature in December 2004, now becomes part of  Google's main site.

Search algorithm update - Google is pushing its own properties, such as Google Books

 

2009 

 

Search algorithm update - The Vince update happens. Matt Cutts calls it a minor change, but some SEO commentators consider it major . Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! announce joint support for tags that help bots identify canonical versions of webpages without affecting human visitors.

Google launches real-time search for real-time Twitter feeds, Google News, and other freshly indexed content

 

 

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Google launches Google Instant, described as a search-before-you-type feature: as users are typing, Google predicts the user's whole search query (using the same technology as in Google Suggest, later called the autocomplete feature) and instantaneously shows results for the top prediction .Google claims that this is estimated to save 2–5 seconds per search query . SEO commentators initially believe that this will have a major effect on search engine optimization, but soon revise downward their estimate of the impact.

 

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Google rolls out expanded sitelinks, starting with 12-pack links . 

Google rolls out pagination elements for websites to communicate to

Google that various webpages are different pages of the same article. 

Google announces that they will start encrypting all search queries for security purposes

2012

Google rolls out a major update to Google Panda (the update is to the underlying algorithm, rather than merely being a data refresh), that would be dubbed Panda 4.0, but SEO commentators decide to simply call it Panda #20. The change is estimated to have affected 2.4% of search queries.

Google announces changes in the way it handles Exact-Match Domains. The change is estimated to have affected 0.6% of search queries. 

 

2013

 

Google adds a new feature called "in-depth articles" in its search results to feature long-form content of long-lasting value .

Google releases Google Hummingbird, a core algorithm update that may enable more semantic search and more effective use of the Knowledge Graph in the future.

And the Google History still continues  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Initial Funding of Google

The Capital generation to make Google.Inc (Incorporated)

The first funding for Google as a 

company was secured in August 

1998 in the form of a US$100,000 

contribution from Andy 

Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun 

Microsystems, given to a corporation 

which did not yet exist.

On June 7, 1999, a round of equity 

funding totalling $25 million was 

announced , the major investors being rival venture capital 

firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital .

While Google still needed more funding for their further 

expansion, Brin and Page were hesitant to take the company 

public, despite their financial issues. They were not ready to 

give up control over Google. After borrowing the $25 million 

venture capital money from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers 

and Sequoia Capital, Sequoia forced Brin and Page to hire a 

CEO or else they would take back that borrowed $12.5 million.

 Finally, Brin and Page gave in and hired Eric Schmidt as Google’s first CEO in March 2001 and the company went public three years later.

 

 

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