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Google Inc. (GOOG and GGEA) is an American public corporation, earning revenue from online and mobile advertising related to its Internet search, web-based e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. Google's headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California, and the company has 16,805 full-time employees (as of December 31 2007).

 

Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998. Google's initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004, raising US$1.67 billion, making it worth US$23 billion. Google has continued its growth through a series of new product developments, acquisitions, and partnerships. Environmentalism, philanthropy, and positive employee relations have been important tenets during Google's growth, the latter resulting in being identified multiple times as Fortune Magazine's #1 Best Place to Work. The company's unofficial slogan is "Don't be evil", however Google is not without controversy related to its business practices; there are concerns regarding the privacy of personal information, copyright, censorship, and discontinuation of services.

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1. “ While offsets with strong additionality can achieve real emissions reductions in unregulated sectors at a relatively low cost, we view them as a short-term solution for Google, not as a substitute for other action. ”

   Bill Weihl in Grading Google's carbon neutral claims

2. “ The government cloud will come from Google-owned-and-operated facilities. ”

   In Google Plans Private Government Cloud

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2. Microsoft, Google Vie to Sell U.S. Cloud Mail

   Explore Article Business News & Financial News (Jul 26 2010)

   A new front has opened in the battle between Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.: selling Web-based email and other software to the federal government. ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Microsoft   General Services Administration   Google

3. Twitter Builds Data Centre To Combat Outages

   Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jul 23 2010) Cloud Computing , Microblogging , Servers

   ...availability and redundancy. Open source OS and apps In the tradition of Internet companies such as Google and Facebook, the data centre will employ commodity servers running open-source operating systems a... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Google

4. When It Comes to Social Networks, Infrastructure Wins

   Explore Article GigaOM (Jul 22 2010)

   ...at ultimately matters is the ability to scale and the infrastructure to support that scale. Just as Google has used its infrastructure to its advantage, offering faster and speedier results to search querie... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Google

5. Data Centers: For When The Cloud is Not Enough

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 22 2010) Cloud Computing

   ...lf model, Facebook and Twitter are following the lead of other huge “Internet-scale” companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and eBay, who all build custom data centers to maximize gains in performance and ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Amazon.com   eBay   Digital Realty

6. The Technology Inside Apple’s New iDataCenter

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 21 2010) Cloud Computing

   ...ystems using chilled water (meaning Apple won’t be going “chiller-less” to save energy, as Google and Microsoft have done). Apple’s data center operations are overseen by Olivier Sanche, who previo... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM   eBay   Apple

7. Google Energy Buys Up Iowa Wind Power

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 20 2010) Wind

   Google has used its new status as an energy company to strike a deal to buy a large volume of electricity ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Bill Weihl   Google

8. Complexity of Data Center Construction Projects requires challenging the status quo, site selection example

   Explore Article greenm3.com (Jul 20 2010)

   ...tarted to gel together on problems the data center industry have. One, data centers are computers. Google threw this idea out there. By Stacey Higginbotham Jun. 15, 2009, 11:47am PDT 1 Comment As folks inc... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM   Microsoft   Phil Horstmann

9. Google adds 20 year 114 MW Renewable Energy Purchase to its Green Data Center strategy, is electricity hedging a future for data centers?

   Explore Article greenm3.com (Jul 20 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Wind

   ...ad more about how the deal is structured), but this power is enough to supply several data centers. Google's Urs Hoelzle posts on Google's Official Blog their Google Energy LLC renewable energy purchase. 7/20/2010 07:12:00 AM When we decided in 2007 to voluntarily ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   CA   Google

10. Google Boosts Data Center Spending

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 19 2010)

    ... company’s heaviest investment in its data center operations since the second quarter of 2008, when Google was wrapping up a flurry of construction projects in North Carolina, South Carolina and Iowa. The $... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Microsoft   Google

11. Rackspace Backs the Open Source Cloud

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 19 2010)

    ...velopment and growth, while also providing a competitive counterpoint to proprietary platforms from Google and Microsoft. OpenStack will be of particular interest to web hosting companies, who have been lea... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Rackspace   Microsoft   Google

12. The instant new-build data center - by Doug Mohney

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 15 2010)

    ...ross Europe. Many companies are already on the data center container bandwagon, including IBM, HP, Google, and Microsoft; the U.S. military and certain government agencies love the concept since you can bu... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Doug Mohney   IBM   Microsoft

13. The Grill: Jonathan Koomey

    Explore Article Computerworld (Jul 13 2010) Carbon Tax , Cloud Computing , Servers

    ... and energy use. If you did that internally, you wouldn't have quite the diversity of users that Google has, but you would have those other effects, the economies of scale and the fact that you have the ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Google

14. Google Patents Liquid-Cooled ‘Server Sandwich’

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 6 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

    Has Google adopted liquid cooling for its servers? The company isn’t saying, but it has patented a design for ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Google

15. Rumor Patrol: Microsoft Eyeing N.C. Site?

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 2 2010) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

    ...l. The incentives bill expands on earlier measures passed to attract major data center projects for Google and Apple. The North Carolina law allows data centers to pay a one percent “privilege tax” on data ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Microsoft   Apple   Google

16. Wikipedia To Add A U.s. Data Center

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 2 2010) Cloud Computing

    ...cyclopedia Wikipedia, which is among the busiest sites in the world, along with web properties from Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo. Wikimedia has a primary data center in Tampa, as well as a facility... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Netherlands   Microsoft   Yahoo

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