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google has changed my life: from the way i track my notes, insights, poems, + brainstorms with google docs to the mental movements i plug into my daily schedule with google calendar. Not to mention the efficiency of every search! happy birthday google :)
P.S. Happy birthday Google. Your birthday logo made me do a double take to make sure I typed in your name correctly in FF.
Should read:
...some often declare the company was born on September 15th 1997, the day the Google.com domain was registered. Meanwhile, Google filed for incorporation in September 1998:
*now fixed
Without you, we would still be cought in a spiderweb of countless search engines and indexes, trying to find that piece of information most relevant to our search.
You simplified our lives, dear Google - by becoming the central reference for most search queries performed around the wolrd. Your contribution to "globalization" is far beyond any political and trade agreements. You brought the citizens of the Wolrd together, new words and phrases were invented for you (ever heard of "Are you looking for XYZ? Just "google" it!); with Google blogs you gave people a tool to help them re-discover themsleves and focus on content rather than the tool itself, the Gmail applications marked the birth of the "virtual, from anywere accessible office", YouTube brought people together and acted as a big worldwide open scene, where visual content can be shared and people can freely broadcast their work.
Thanks to you people around the Globe are better informed today, they communicate and interact easier.
We are all excited about the future, and looking forward for the official launch of Wave :-)
http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html
And, I wonder why they made the input box so big (i got a post on my blog about that at http://deathgleaner.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/go...)
The reality is Google is an exceptional company when you compare it to many industries (Banking, Telcos, Credit, Pharmaceutical, Hospitals, Health Care, Insurance (all types), Cellular, etc...)
Do you experience Customer Service or Customer NO-Service with them?
Capitalism in an of itself is not bad. Its when the bad and questionable players are so thoroughly controlling not just their markets, but your elected leaders that things turn ugly.
Google evil, by comparison their friggin angels. Thank goodness for Google! My sincere hope is that they will enter into the home Internet access market, providing Fiber over the last mile to our homes and apartments; leveraging their undersea cables. In Japan it took the government to de-regulate NTT and by 2000, Japanese consumers were getting 100Mbps / 100Mbps for less than $55 per month. Thanks to the fiber already provided to the customers, they were able to switch out a customer's firewall/router and/or modem so that Japanese customers began getting 1 Gbps / 1Gbps for less than $52 per month. Yes the price went down, not a surprise if economics and markets are working. Here in America they are NOT working, because the players (oligopolies) prevent it by lobbying our elected officials at the rate of over $18 million per week. And they complain its too expensive to put fiber to our doors. Pathetic fail.
To add insult to injury, when Greenlight wanted to offer 100Mbps / 100Mbps and put fiber to peoples homes in a community in the Carolinas the telcos started lobbying the local officials to prevent it. Fortunately for the citizens of that community, the elected officials put citizens first, I can think of no other community in the US, where elected officials have put their citizens first with respects to Internet Access in this matter. Granted Greenlight is charging just under $100 per month for 100 Mbps / 100Mbps access, way better than any offering by any telco.
While I have picked on the telcos in this example, it would be just as easy to find multiple examples with each of the industries mentioned above where a community here or a community there bucked the typical corporate greed and business as usual and put their citizens first. Sadly for most of Americans this is not what we encounter, whether by greed, crook or crock, too many are willing to do anything to advance themselves in spite of what it does to their own family, friends and neighbors.
Its not the fault of capitalism which is a far better system than any other, especially socialism, it is simply a failure of many individuals who put their own greed ahead of everyone, even their own children, although many of them choose not to see it that way.
Its all about personal responsibility folks. We all have choices and doing the "right" thing is not always the easiest, cheapest or quickest. Vote with your dollars, do business with good businesses and when a business treats anyone poorly, regardless of how they treat the squeaky wheels, put off doing business with them for a period of time. If their actions over that period of time shows you they are doing the right thing (or at least trying to do the right thing) then perhaps give them another chance.
But every time they do the wrong thing (without correcting it, we all make mistakes which need to be corrected) then restart that clock based on their actions.
I suggest a three year clock. Further research the company on RipOffReports.com as they can not buy their way out of their bad behavior as they can with other reporting services. Plus you get to see how they respond and you can easily tell when a consumer is being unreasonable.
No reports in the last three years, reward them with your business (and money); however a bad report, restart the clock, stop doing business with them until they fix their business model.
Can you imagine how much better we would all be if a company refused to do the wrong thing, because they knew such an action was going to cost them business by a large percentage of customers to treat even one consumer badly?
They are just greedy enough to get the message and do the right thing.
To companies, capitalism is good, but are your actions showing you to be a good corporate citizen or not? Spend money and fix the problems, get out of the lobby business and you just might find that you are even more profitable.
And to conservative politicians and liberal politicians who profess to have faith in any religion (all faiths) follow the "Golden Rule" and you might like that person in the mirror again.
To Americans, if your elected officials actions show that they are not acting in you, your family, your friends and your neighbors best interest; fix it by voting them out of office. Tell everyone about their true actions. It really is easy to see if you but take the time to look.
Remember words can lie, but actions speak volumes. Make your decisions based on actions and stop being misled! Everyone in your monkey-sphere will be glad you did!
It really is that simple! KISS!
And oh ya Happy Birthday Goog11e
May Chrome OS dump Win 7
May Bing become dung
May Goog share price rise to $1000 :D
i am a hindu and my name is haashini
Besides, I don't like people starting their comment with 'friggin' and ending it with a kiss. I mean seriously, Google is a company, not your ex.
Check wikipedia and google on it...
Anyway, happy birthday Google. I hope I will have the similar destiny as one of Googles founders. Born in socialism and get rich in capitalism :)
ism but capitalism. I can honestly state that I have no interest in living
under any other system.
My parents, here in the US had it much better than I do and my kids will
have given the current state of the US economy. All you have to look at is
the base sticker price of a car, cost of a house, cost for food, and all
utilities to see that even with lower salaries of yester-year my parents
were so much better off. Heck in my lifetime all of these costs have risen
in spite of market conditions that should have leveled some of them off and
reigned in others.
I find it fascinating that the same problem that ruins other isms, also
ruins capitalism; that is unscrupulous individuals. It would be funny if
it was not so pathetic.
Hope you stay forever :)
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Anyway, Happy birthday Google!
Long live Google!
my friends and family and i wish you a very happy birthday
love from haashini jeyanantham P.S. enjoy
It's funny that my 12th Birthday is this Saturday!
Looks like I was going to turn 1 when Google came out!!
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i got linked here thinking you were being sarcastic. disappointing.
that is the worse google logo ever. they could've AT LEAST turn the ll's into candles.
I've been using your website for about 5 years now!! I'm 15 years old!!
Anyways, Google, you have changed my life!!
If it weren't for you, I don't know what the world would be getting info from!!
everyone will eat cake together is the "honorable" thing to do.
Eat Cake! There are way worse scams on Wall Street!
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why would anyone care if google is lieing about their birthday or not.IT DOES'NT MATTER!!!