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Google built the Make History site in cooperation with the 9/11 Memorial team. The team also produced the
Ten Years On album on YouTube that features musicians like John Legend and Alanis Morissette giving tribute to 9/11 events.
Post count: 1,731,280 unique pageviews
Everyone wanted a spot on the Google+ bandwagon when it was announced that would be creating a new social network to rival Facebook.
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Copying is a serious offense anywhere but more so in the tech industry. When Google claimed that Bing copied their search results and Microsoft's Bing denied it, Google decided to test their theory with inserted search results.
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Google shocked the world when they announced that their acquisition of Motorola Mobility was currently in the works. With Android products like
Motorola Xoom and
Droid Razr, there's no telling how awesome a result the Motorola-Android partnership can yield.
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Was Google taking a page out of the Facebook-startup playbook? If you remember, Facebook started gaining momentum through their games, like Farmville, Pet Society and of course, the annoying Mafia Wars. Google+ offers a different variety of games, perhaps to invite more users to become active on it.
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First the homepage then the Gmail sign-in page. Google eventually rolled out a new, streamlined design for all their products.
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In an effort to redirect focus on more important things, CEO Larry Page had Google Labs
and a few other programs shut down.
Post count: 310,912 unique pageviewsSadness around the world: priceless
2011 was a year of hacked accounts (Scarlett Johansson) and fake hacked accounts (Anthony Weiner). Lesson learned: have an impossible, alpha-numeric password coupled with Google authentication and you should be okay. (Additional lesson for Congressman Weiner: don't be a perv)
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Turns out Facebook couldn't "copyright" the word Pages, as Google+ rolled out their own version for non-people accounts and from the looks of things it's doing pretty well among the Plus crowd.
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Google optimizes search by rolling out a new ranking algorithm they've named Panda, aimed at releasing even better quality results than before.
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