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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: littleman on February 06, 2014, 04:01:11 PM

Title: How big is Google
Post by: littleman on February 06, 2014, 04:01:11 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-79uIRQiAFM

The video is a little long (12 min) but it does a good job of highlighting how big Google has gotten and what technologies it has acquired over the years.
Title: Re: How big is Google
Post by: Mackin USA on February 06, 2014, 07:02:58 PM
Nice link littleman...

I think about this all the time.

If G be evil, we could be "F"ed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-grid
Title: Re: How big is Google
Post by: Brad on February 06, 2014, 07:46:35 PM
One Engine to Rule them all,
One Engine to find them...
Title: Re: How big is Google
Post by: ergophobe on February 06, 2014, 08:39:04 PM
Big enough that a minor change to the shade of blue used in GMail links resulted in $200,000,000/year in additional revenue

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/05/why-google-engineers-designers
Title: Re: How big is Google
Post by: littleman on February 06, 2014, 09:12:48 PM
That is an incredible statistic.
Title: Re: How big is Google
Post by: Mackin USA on February 07, 2014, 02:57:59 PM
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Internet search company Google Inc (NSQ:GOOG) will own a 5.94 percent stake in China's Lenovo Group Ltd worth $750 million once Lenovo's deal to buy Google's Motorola handset division closes, according to a disclosure on the Hong Kong stock exchange.

Google would take 618.3 million Lenovo shares at $1.213 per share, the stock exchange said late on Thursday.

Lenovo agreed to buy Google's Motorola handset division last week for $2.91 billion in a cash and stock deal. ::)
Title: Re: How big is Google
Post by: littleman on February 07, 2014, 09:59:40 PM
http://mashable.com/2014/02/06/google-chromebox-videoconference/

Google Just Became a Videoconferencing Hardware Company

QuoteIt's a search company, an advertising company, a browser, OS and computer maker, and the leader in wearable computing. Now Google has casually muscled its way into another business: high-end videoconferencing for companies.

Title: Re: How big is Google
Post by: Mackin USA on February 08, 2014, 10:13:17 PM
Google Inc. (GOOG:US) briefly surpassed Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM:US) as the second-most valuable company, trailing only Apple (AAPL:US) Inc. and underscoring the growing role of technology in the economy.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-02-07/google-passes-exxon-to-become-second-most-valuable-u-dot-s-dot-company
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