Sunday, August 03, 2008
Friday, September 28, 2007
doing experiment
Thursday, September 27, 2007
google anniversary
Google... What a name, what an impressive brand, what a powerful search engine! Well, believe it or not, Google celebrates today the 9th anniversary as it was first released on the Internet in September 1998. However, the Google project was started by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in January when they were only two Stanford University students looking to obtain an A mark for a research project. Wikipedia sustains Google was founded on September 7, 1998 so there are a lot of rumors around the official launch date. What's most interesting is that nobody knows exactly when the search giant celebrates its birthday but the Mountain View company publishes a new doodle every September 27. Today, Google celebrates its 9th birth through a new doodle published on its page especially created for this occasion.
Google is more than a simple search engine and you all know it because its technologies are for many of us an important part of every day's life. Besides its revolutionary search technology which makes our computer activities a lot easier, Google created almost anything you need on the web: a mail service, a video sharing service, an Office suite, a RSS reader, a calendar and many, many other solutions.
However, Google has always wanted more than that and started powerful expansion campaigns which bring its power into every corner of the world. At this time, there is an impressive number of countries which are able to access a local version of Google while the other ones which aren't, will receive a special flavor soon.
Google grew up a lot and was recently named one of the most powerful brands in the world with an incredible financial power and popularity. Besides this, Google hired no less than 13,748 employees (according to Wikipedia) and as long as it opens new centers and offices, this number is continuously increased.
google logo
The Google home page is sporting the special logo above, celebrating the company's ninth birthday, with one of the Gs turned into a nine. But wait? Didn't Google just turn 10? Google Is 10 Years Old? Finding The Real Google Birthday that I posted earlier this month covers how yes, Google's domain name turned 10 years old on September 15, but the company itself celebrates its incorporation date in September 1998. But when is that incorporation date: Sept. 7 or Sept. 27?
Google has celebrated both dates in the past, using Sept. 27 more lately, such as today. Wikipedia says Sept. 7 is the incorporation date but provides no reference to prove this. Google itself also provides no guidance that I can find. The California Secretary Of State's company search tells me that Sept. 4, 1998 is when the papers were filed. So color me puzzled.
Want to see the past logos? Google's been doing them since its fourth birthday, and Google Is 10 Years Old? Finding The Real Google Birthday lists them all. Here's today's logo again, in context of the entire page:
Sunday, October 29, 2006
la rivoluzione
era un po che mi chiedevo cosa veramente stava succedendo di nuovo in
internet. poi un giorno mi sono imbattuto in una cosa strana su ww.alexa.com
Per chi non lo sapesse alexa e' un sito che, fra le altre cose,
fa le statistiche dei siti...attraverso uno spyware raccoglie quante volte
un sito e' stato raggiunto da un utente di internet. Oltre ai soliti
siti, yahoo google...etc..., ad un certo punto e' incominciato
a salire in classifica un sito dal nome strano: del.icio.us !
...numeri utenti esponenziale...ogni settimana meglio.
Decido di darci un occhio...e si aprono le tende sul mondo del
social bookmarking. Il social bookmarking consiste nel mettere
in condivisione i propri bookmarks mettendoci vicino una etichetta(tag)
per distinguerli. Ad esempio ammetti che trovi un sito di ricette di cucina,
fai il bookmark usando delicious lo metti in condivisione e vicino ci attacchi
tags del tipo "ricette" "amatriciana" e cosi via.
In pratica hai contribuito a creare il miglior motore di ricerca del mondo!
Si infatti questo sito, che ormai raccoglie 1 milione di iscritti, e' il miglior
modo per scovare nuovi siti su temi assolutamente tradizionale.
Se ad esempio cerchi peer to peer su google troverai moltissima mondezza
e i soliti 4 siti interessanti che pero gia conosci. La stessa ricerca
su delicious ti portera ai nuovi sistemi di sharing che stanno
invadendo la rete....rapisharing.de e cosi via...ma di questo ne voglio parlare in un
altro post.