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'''Google''' is a company whose primary business is [[Internet]]-based services, including an extremely popular [[search engine]]. 
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YIPPEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's almost 2008, and AGAIN you let me post on Conservapedia! I have caused the blocking of two prominent articles! This is the best way to start a new year! By the way, did you guys hear about the Bhutto assasination? And that Al Quaeda has denied responsibility for it? Odd, because those guys usually claim responsibility for every skuzzy thing they do. Like 9/11. Anyway, if Al Quaeda didn't do it, that makes the next most likely culprit a subordinate of Musharraf's. Oddly, we have been supporting Musharraf relentlessly, or at least Bush has. Wow, based on his record, this actually isn't surprising. At first, Bush supported Putin too. Oh, and I have a New Year's eve resolution for you guys: STOP HIDING FROM THE TRUTH! ACKNOWLEDGE THE NIE REPORT, AND THAT YOU WERE WRONG ABOUT IRAN, MEANING THAT BUSH HAS BEEN LYING TO YOU!!!!! P.S. New Intelligence suggests that the decrease in violence in Iraq is due to Syrian and Iranian forces reigning in their former terrorist commerades. Man, America is looking bad. If we weren't already considered foolish by every country except for Canada and China, I'd say we'd lose a lot of face. Anyway, happy new year to all right-wing kooks who try to block this!
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Google is associated with [[liberal]] causes and has been criticized for catering to communist [[China]] in censoring information from the people as requested by dictators:<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4647398.stm</ref>
 
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: Reporters Without Borders joined others in asking how Google could stand up for US users' freedoms while controlling what Chinese users can search for.  Its previous search engine for China's fast-growing market was subject to government blocks.  The new site - Google.cn - censors itself to satisfy Beijing.
 
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Google has also been accused of delisting [[conservative]] news sites from its search engine. As one of many examples, "In February 2005, [[Michelle Malkin]] wrote of the difficulties she was having becoming part of Google News."<ref>http://newsbusters.org/node/5477</ref>
 
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Much of Google's business depends on pornography.  For example, 25% of search engine requests are for pornography.<ref>http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html</ref>
 
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== Corporate Information ==
 
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The CEO of Google since 2001 is [[Eric Schmidt]]. Google is headquartered in Mountain View, [[California]]. Google was founded on September 7th, 1998, by [[Larry Page]] and [[Sergey Brin]]. Since then, it has grown to be the largest internet search engine in the world. According to Alexa Internet, over 25% of all Internet users visit Google monthly.<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=www.google.com Alexa Traffic Results for Google]</ref> Google also owns [[YouTube]], the homemade [[video clip]] site. [[Viacom]] is suing YouTube, and thus Google, for a reported $1 billion, arguing that the economic model of YouTube is based on copyright infringement.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6446193.stm Viacom will sue YouTube for $1bn]</ref>
 
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==History==
 
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[[Image:Google2.gif|thumb|right|300px| <small>Google's logo on [[Earth day]], April 22, 2007.</small>]]
 
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===Founding===
 
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Google was originally a research project, started by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996, when the two attended [[Stanford University]]. The two registered the domain name ''google.stanford.edu'', and the small search engine went online for the first time.<ref>[http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/history.html Corporate Information:Google Milestones]</ref>
 
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===Google Goes Public===
 
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===Growth===
 
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===Purchase of Smaller Parties===
 
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==Google bombing ==
 
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Perhaps the most innovative contribution Google has made to internet searching is its '''PageRank''' algorithm. This system works by counting the number of sites that link to another site; the more links pointing to a page, the higher that page will be ranked. The engine also takes note of how often the page is updated. Due to this, [[Wikipedia]] is consistently ranked very highly by Google, due to its constant updating and heavy linkage. More recently, internet-savvy Googlers have discovered ways to game the system; creating massive numbers of pages with links pointing to one page to form what is known as a "Google Bomb". Some examples can be found below.<ref>[http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040614/news_mz1b14google.html Dropping 'Google-bombs']</ref>
 
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*'''"Miserable Failure"''': For nearly two years, searching "miserable failure" (or even just "miserable", or "failure") in the Google search engine would return the [http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/biography.html White House Biography] of [[George W. Bush]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3298443.stm 'Miserable failure' links to Bush]</ref> This was orchestrated by [[Democratic]] Party supporters in late 2003,<ref>[http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/01/26/BUG3M4GVDS1.DTL In October, Johnson, a Democrat, added the phrase "miserable failure" to his Web site, Old Fashioned Patriot. He then linked the site to the online White House biography of President Bush and asked others to follow his lead]</ref> as part of the 2004 Presidential election. However, at times, [[Conservative]] supporters were able to shift the phrase to [[Jimmy Carter]], [[Hillary Clinton]] and [[Michael Moore]].
 
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*''''"Great President"''': returns the [http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/biography.html White House Biography] of [[George W. Bush]].
 
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*'''"Waffles"''': Also as part of the 2004 Presidential election, Conservative supporters managed to link the term "waffles" to the official website of [[John Kerry]].
 
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*'''"French Military Victories"''': Hitting "I'm Feeling Lucky" for this term directs you to a fake Google page (in reality, it is an [[AlbinoBlackSheep]].com page, styled to look exactly like a Google page, [http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/victories.html here]) giving no matches, and asking if you meant "French military defeats?".
 
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*'''"Weapons of Mass Destruction"''' would bring up a similar page with the error message 'not found.'
 
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On January 25, 2007, Google claimed to have modified their PageRank algorithm to lessen the likelihood of future Google bombs<ref>[http://boingboing.net/2007/01/26/bush_no_longer_miser.html Bush no longer "miserable failure": Google tackles googlebombs]</ref>
 
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== Privacy Concerns==
 
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Google has been criticized by privacy activists and others. Recently, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said, "We cannot even answer the most basic questions because we don’t know enough about you. That is the most important aspect of Google’s expansion." <ref>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c3e49548-088e-11dc-b11e-000b5df10621,dwp_uuid=e8477cc4-c820-11db-b0dc-000b5df10621.html</ref> Google has attempted to "remedy" this situation by storing search information, in effect, keeping tabs on people for two years after they search. This has led Google critic Daniel Brandt to create "Scroogle", which runs Google searches that users conduct through his organization's personal servers to prevent Google from being able to connect any personal information to the searchers. <ref>http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55935</ref>
 
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Revision as of 02:13, January 1, 2008

YIPPEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's almost 2008, and AGAIN you let me post on Conservapedia! I have caused the blocking of two prominent articles! This is the best way to start a new year! By the way, did you guys hear about the Bhutto assasination? And that Al Quaeda has denied responsibility for it? Odd, because those guys usually claim responsibility for every skuzzy thing they do. Like 9/11. Anyway, if Al Quaeda didn't do it, that makes the next most likely culprit a subordinate of Musharraf's. Oddly, we have been supporting Musharraf relentlessly, or at least Bush has. Wow, based on his record, this actually isn't surprising. At first, Bush supported Putin too. Oh, and I have a New Year's eve resolution for you guys: STOP HIDING FROM THE TRUTH! ACKNOWLEDGE THE NIE REPORT, AND THAT YOU WERE WRONG ABOUT IRAN, MEANING THAT BUSH HAS BEEN LYING TO YOU!!!!! P.S. New Intelligence suggests that the decrease in violence in Iraq is due to Syrian and Iranian forces reigning in their former terrorist commerades. Man, America is looking bad. If we weren't already considered foolish by every country except for Canada and China, I'd say we'd lose a lot of face. Anyway, happy new year to all right-wing kooks who try to block this!

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