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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. When The Power Goes Out at Google

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Mar 8 2010) Cloud Computing

   ...tance of good documentation, even in huge data center networks with failover capacity. Most of Google’s recent high-profile outages have been caused by routing or network capacity problems, including o... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Google

3. Google is going to trade energy - Say What? By Doug Mohney

   Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 5 2010)

   ...operating with the NSA on the side) and upsetting copyright experts over its digital library plans, Google is now going to buy and sell electricity. Is it just me, or do you hear some "Danger, Danger... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Doug Mohney   Federal Energy Regulatory Commission   NSA

4. Google Steps Up Data Protection With Synchronous Replication

   Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 5 2010)

   Google on said on 4 March that it has added a storage disaster-recovery feature that’s growing in demand -... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Google

5. Microsoft ‘All In’ on Container-Powered Cloud

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Mar 4 2010) Cloud Computing

   ...torage and networking infrastructure all be built out by four or five companies, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, the cloud guys? Will we buy every server computer and every piece of storage in the world? No, tha... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Amazon.com   Kevin Timmons   Google

6. Microsoft’s Timmons: ‘Challenge Everything’

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Mar 3 2010) Power and Cooling

   ...e Efficiency (PUE) of 1.06 in testing. That would rank among the lowest scores reported, below even Google’s published PUEs, which average between 1.1 and 1.2 for most of its facilities. Running servers at ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Kevin Timmons   Yahoo   Microsoft

7. Can Bloom Boxes Power Data Centers?

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Mar 2 2010) Fossil Fuel

   ...usiastic, including major players in the data center space. “Distributed power is a big deal,” said Google co-founder Larry Page. “I’m a big supporter of this. I’d love to see us having an entire data cente... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   eBay   Google

8. Users lament state of Ethernet

   Explore Article NetworkWorld.com (Mar 2 2010)

   ...e not built for being in a fabric." Facebook is the fourth largest Web site in the world after Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, Lee said. And it is still growing: The social networking site jumped from 50 ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Cisco   Arnold Schwarzenegger   Google

9. New federal data center energy-efficiency guidelines on tap

   Explore Article Data Center (Feb 26 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

   ...news Digg This! StumbleUpon Toolbar StumbleUpon Bookmark with Delicious Del.icio.us Add to Google The federal government and major industry groups are on the cusp of developing widely accepted s... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   The Green Grid   Uptime Institute   ASHRAE

10. New computing center saves green by being green

    Explore Article Salt Lake Tribune Home Page (Feb 24 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

    ... facility in West Valley City on Wednesday, touting it as the greenest in the state and on par with Google's most efficient centers. Voonami Inc. said soon it will be serving large and small customers ... (Read Full Article)
    

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11. California solar project gets $1.4 billion U.S. guarantee

    Explore Article Technology News (Feb 23 2010) Fossil Fuel

    ...r the Ivanpah project to minimize the environmental impact. The company, which counts search giant Google and Silicon Valley fund VantagePoint Venture Partners among its investors, already has contracts to... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Barack Obama   Department of Energy   Google

12. Google Using Bloom Box, But Not in Data Center

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Feb 22 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

    Google was the first customer for Bloom Energy, and is using the startup’s gas-powered fuel cells in its o... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Fujitsu   Google

13. 10 Things to Know About Bloom Energy

    Explore Article Earth2Tech (Feb 22 2010)

    ... 2). It’s far from a residential play: Bloom’s first customers are big tech companies like eBay and Google that have been using the large Bloom Boxes, which cost between $700,000 to $800,000, to power campu... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   eBay   Google

14. Google gets go-ahead to buy, sell energy

    Explore Article Technology News (Feb 19 2010) Fossil Fuel

    The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has authorized Google Energy to buy and sell electricity in bulk like any other utility. The FERC, the agency with overs... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Federal Energy Regulatory Commission   CNET News   Google

15. Google Gift Means More Servers for Wikipedia

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Feb 18 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

    ... of the world’s busiest web sites on a lightweight infrastructure, will use a $2 million grant from Google to expand its data centers. The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that runs Wikipedia, hous... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Netherlands   Google

16. Yahoo Opens New Nebraska Data Center

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Feb 18 2010) Construction

    ...d them to Nebraska in early 2008. Similar to other Midwest deals that were negotiated earlier with Google in Council Bluffs, Iowa and Microsoft in West Des Moines, Yahoo selected Nebraska for state tax inc... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Microsoft   Google   Yahoo

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