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Mashable - The Social Media Guide: Happy 11th Birthday, Google. Nice Logo!

  • J. Andrews · 2 months ago
    Google forever revolutionized the way I look up porn.
  • mitchmahoney · 2 months ago
    haha.. that's a given for everyone :)

    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 :)
  • Teddyboy · 2 months ago
    You look up porn with Google? I avoid looking up porn with Google as much as possible. They already know too much about me, now they need to know what kind of porn I like? Forget that.

    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.
  • lol · 2 months ago
    lol ^_^
  • Name · 2 months ago
    ...some often declare the company was born on September 15th 2007, the day the Google.com domain was registered. Meanwhile, Google filed for incorporation in September 2008:

    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:
  • mashable · 2 months ago
    Yeah, that :)

    *now fixed
  • Content Channel · 2 months ago
    First of all, Happy B-Day dear Google :-)
    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 :-)
  • Omar · 2 months ago
    Google will smack down the Bing, here is all Google Logos:

    http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html
  • ssaadahmed · 2 months ago
    How has google changed my life? I for one couldnt have passed any of my college projects :p . Infact, am sure most of us think.. What did we do when we didnt have google? Inconceivable.
  • Twitticted · 2 months ago
    My birthday is September 27th! Me and @Google are twins! :D
  • pranman · 2 months ago
    Are you 11 years old? :-p
  • yenny · 2 months ago
    hahahaa. happy birthday Google!
  • Ryan Lalonde · 2 months ago
    Google is always so clever with their logos. May Google survive for many years to come. Down with Bing!
  • Malcolm · 2 months ago
    Happy Birthday!!!
  • Andy Pahwa · 2 months ago
    Check years 2007, 2008 in the second paragraph
  • KNizam · 2 months ago
    happy birthday google!
  • G. Liu · 2 months ago
    The first day I started using Google it was just search. That's it. Now Google's way more than "just search". There's rankings, search suggestions, websites based on search suggestions, maps, more intelligence. I always wonder how they do this.

    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...)
  • trinest · 2 months ago
    Now its to evil. Whos a new start up we can love?
  • cbemerine · 2 months ago
    Google is NOT 'evil'; even their few miss steps have been quickly fixed. I would love for anyone to give me one company near the size of Google or larger (by any measure) whose corporate culture is either less evil or NOT evil. You can start with how they use lobbyist and move on from there. Does economics work in their market or are they either a monopoly or oligopoly? Are they making life better for Americans? Do they do the right thing? (Which implies they have the right stuff, going on behind closed doors) Do they help you only if you complain and take advantage of anyone who doesn't?

    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!
  • Sriraj · 2 months ago
    Well said, love you !!
    And oh ya Happy Birthday Goog11e
    May Chrome OS dump Win 7
    May Bing become dung
    May Goog share price rise to $1000 :D
  • haashini · 2 months ago
    hi srirag

    i am a hindu and my name is haashini
  • pranman · 2 months ago
    "May Bing become dung". Nice rhyme there.
  • pranman · 2 months ago
    You're clearly far too passionate about this topic to be unbiased (so I didn't read your comment - just like most other people I'm sure)

    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.
  • No Name · 2 months ago
    "KISS" meaning: "Keep it simple, stupid"

    Check wikipedia and google on it...
  • Dave · 2 months ago
    Have you actually lived in socialism? The most people condeming it are the people that have never felt it. I was born under so called socialism "regime" and my parents lived under it almost whole their life. And guess what, they keep saying how they lived a better lives back than. It's not the problem in the system it's the problem in people who exploits the systems. And yeah, Russia is not the only former socialist country.

    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 :)
  • cbemerine · 2 months ago
    Dave, good post. I have definitely never lived in Socialism or any other
    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.
  • jlapitan · 2 months ago
    happy bday google! i did not notice the change of logo, when i visit mashable that is when i noticed it..
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  • mohammadafaq · 2 months ago
    Happy Birthday Google.

    Hope you stay forever :)
  • Hugh Isaacs II · 2 months ago
    Am I the only one who read that as Googye (lol, and I'm not even spanish).
  • Allen Colonia Montejo · 2 months ago
    ~ Hapy bday ! googlle nice logo!! sep 27,'09
  • ottawasteph · 2 months ago
    Before Google went mainstream, I was the fount of knowledge for my family, friends and co-workers. The technophobes still count on me though, so that's something I guess. *sigh*
  • mybrutegame · 2 months ago
    Happy Birthday Google!
  • rajagiri4 · 2 months ago
    happy birthday

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  • kachingkaching · 2 months ago
    HAPPY BIRTHDAY Googlle http://kaching-kaching.info
  • Shabbir Bhimani · 2 months ago
    I guess Google has changed my life in quite more than one way. It has made me an entrepreneur and that the biggest one I can tell you.
  • ronaldredito · 2 months ago
    Nice logo. I noticed the logo when I was about to search for Typhoon Ondoy which hit Metro Manila and left great devastation. Makati central business district is flooded. Even the underpass looked like swimming pool.

    We need your help, Filipinos around the world, please help.

    Anyway, Happy birthday Google!
  • facebook-1217163604 · 2 months ago
    Another test for the commenting system...
  • darren3nt · 2 months ago
    HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOOGLLE from all at PC Repair Swansea
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  • luzdegasradioblog · 2 months ago
    Felicidades
  • Esra · 2 months ago
    What I like most about google is their simplicity in everything from layout to usage. And I don't know how they do it but they manage to give you the feeling that they're your friend while being so huge.

    Long live Google!
  • i-Core · 2 months ago
    Happy B'day Google !!! its been 11 years since you have revolutionized the web for us ..thanks !!!
  • Kosta Ioannou · 2 months ago
    Another one useless post. Wow, do they really pay you to write that crap? LOL
  • nottellin · 2 months ago
    people can b harsh
  • Na'an · 2 months ago
    Yikes! I hope you did not read through the whole article Kosta. I sure hope you are paid well to deride the work of others. If not you should try to sell the bile, excrement and drivel you so freely spill on otherwise nice and pleasing forums.
  • Guest · 2 months ago
    Happy Birthday Google :)
  • kristislt · 2 months ago
    Happy B-Day G00GLLE
  • Dich thuat Viet · 2 months ago
    Forever Google, happy birthday!
  • carolinetocknell · 2 months ago
    Happy Birthday Google best search engine going!
  • gangarai15 · 2 months ago
    haPpY 11th bIrTHdAy gOOgLe !!!! :D
  • Alex H · 2 months ago
    Happy birthday google, 11 years old already? #google
  • georgia · 2 months ago
    happy birthday google is more than a search toolit does loads of things for us i love google images!!!!!!!!!!!
  • haashini · 2 months ago
    dear google happy birthday

    my friends and family and i wish you a very happy birthday


    love from haashini jeyanantham P.S. enjoy
  • sajiruban · 2 months ago
    happy birthday Goog11e!!!!
  • stephen mitchell · 2 months ago
    "Google it" is now a common phrase in my vocabulary. I've said it to co-workers, family, and to friends during party's. Thankfully they all know what it means.
  • Billy Holcombe · 2 months ago
    Wow 11 years already. Amazing growth. I would love to see a timeline with significant notations. What a journey until today.
  • Taranfx · 2 months ago
    Happy Bday to the God of Internet!
  • Hannah · 2 months ago
    Happy Birthday Google. We wish you cheers.
    It's funny that my 12th Birthday is this Saturday!
    Looks like I was going to turn 1 when Google came out!!

    --Hannah
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  • DossyDomo · 2 months ago
    Wow, way to go Google. Google just totally ROCKS!

    RT
    www.total-privacy.net.tc
  • Carl · 2 months ago
    Funny thing enough, it made me better at producing music and video stuff, so I'm glad it was made available to research websites.
  • Name · 2 months ago
    Thanks for storing all my junk e-mail. <3
  • JS Website Designs Marketing · 2 months ago
    Whatever were we doing before 1998? Happy Birthday to Google, 11 years old eh. They've certainly revolutionised the WWW and in the process created a few hundred thousand jobs in the process.....thanks Google, here's to the next 11 xx
  • PRASAN KUMAR · 2 months ago
    MANY MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY MY CHWEAT "GOOGLE"...

    PRASAN KUMAR
    HYDERABAD.
  • Prashanth · 2 months ago
    Happy birthday google.....
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  • dismantr · 2 months ago
    Google is going to change our lives by introducing Wave into our usages. I think this technology is interesting and hope that really soon will appear some totally free alternatives (the protocol is open). Google is really an innovative company... By the way, happy birthday...
  • liseth · 2 months ago
    good logo...I almost didn't catch it :) happy birthday goog11e!
  • george · 2 months ago
    "Happy 11th Birthday, Google. Nice Logo!"

    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.
  • Steph · 2 months ago
    Google spreadsheets and maps have been particularly helpful in knowing the locations of those who were stranded or needing rescue people due to Typhoon Ondoy in the Philippines! WE just love Google!
  • Name · 2 months ago
    FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS GOOGLE. 11 años ya que maravilla.Les agradesco infinitamente el habernos dado la oportunudad de tener EL MUNDO AL ALCANCE DE LAS MANOS. GRACIAS ,gracias mil veces. Con mucho afecto los saluda muy atte. Raquel Catenaccio Iglesias desde MONTEVIDEO URUGUAY.
  • Adsense Free Bonus · 2 months ago
    nice logo
  • People Search · 2 months ago
    I think Roman Numerals would have been more clever and cryptic, but Happy 11th Google!
  • Blackhatter · 2 months ago
    Google Changed My Life. I Making so much Dope Right now from this search engine.
  • Ted's Logo Mania · 2 months ago
    I just wish Google decorated the logo more for their 11th birthday. That logo is on the Google my site: www.tedslogomania.webs.com/google.htm (in the 2009 section). My site also has a TON of other Google logos too. Check out the site and for updates about the my visit: www.twitter.com/tedslogomania/.
  • Name · 2 months ago
    The www.googlle.com site is going to capitalise from this!
  • Name · 2 months ago
    Happy Birthday Google (Goog11e) Lol!!
    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!!
  • info seminar · 2 months ago
    happy birthday google
  • rhondastockdale · 2 months ago
    Happy Birthday Google from a self taught computer junky. Without you i would have never learn't how to you's a computer Thanks
  • GOOLEGAGA · 2 months ago
    HAPPYYYYYYYYYYYYY BIRTHDAYYYYYYYYYY GOOGLLE. I LUV YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • GOOGLEGAGA · 2 months ago
    HAPPY B-DAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY GOOGLLE!!!!!!!!!! I LUV YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Bing Sucks · 2 months ago
    lets blow up Bing!
  • Roxana · 2 months ago
    I believe shifting days of celebration to increase the likelihood
    everyone will eat cake together is the "honorable" thing to do.
    Eat Cake! There are way worse scams on Wall Street!
  • marmaraelt · 2 months ago
    happy birthday Google..
  • gaby871206 · 2 months ago
    Happy Birthday to u happy birthday to u happy birthday dear Google Happy Birthday to youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu woooooooooooooooooooohooooooooooooooooo. I love u Google ahahah <3 <3 <3
  • ben · 2 months ago
    HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO GOOGLE!!!
  • Name · 2 months ago
    Happy birthday to You!!!
  • alisamg · 2 months ago
    Thank you Goog11e!! When is Blackle's birthday? Once it's standard for screens to consume less energy when less light is emitted, I think this site with each click going to a community cause would be awesome.
  • P Singh · 2 months ago
    Congrats Google for achieving so much in a short time.
  • Elizabeth K. Barone · 2 months ago
    That's a cute logo, though at first glance I thought it was a bad typo! :D
  • fwisp.com · 2 months ago
    First of all, Happy (belated) Birthday to Google! I just wanted to say that Google had and still has a great impact in my life. Ever since they went online (I recall using it since at least '98) I have been a fan. To me, Google search is intuitive, clean, easy and fast-everything I want it to be. Keep up the great work guys!
  • Christopher Roberts · 2 months ago
    Happy Birthday Google
  • TV Series Links · 2 months ago
    Happy Birthday Google!!
  • rajagiri4 · 2 months ago
  • Ben Lang · 2 months ago
    cool logo i love em!
  • chcolate · 2 months ago
    i am a child and i think this is all a load of mimmbo jimmb.
    why would anyone care if google is lieing about their birthday or not.IT DOES'NT MATTER!!!
  • LED TV beats LCD any day · 1 month ago
    I love how Google messes up with their logo whenever there's something to celebrate. Keep up the good work.