Recent Event Highlights: More Nexus One: Google Press Event Scheduled for January 5 , Fast Flip adds 24 new publishers, City of LA goes Google, Google Phone/Nexus One rumors start, Chrome Extensions Beta, Acquires AdMob*, and 28 more...
Created by jbruin on Dec 28, 2009
Last updated: 03/11/10 at 10:46 PM
http://mashable.com/2009/12/28/google-admob-consumer-groups/
http://mashable.com/2009/12/08/google-chrome-extensions-beta/
Pending deal is for $750 million, but being investigated by the FTC
http://mashable.com/2009/11/09/google-acquires-admob/
Search Google for artists, songs, or lyrics and get results with streaming music powered by Lala and MySpace
http://mashable.com/2009/10/28/google-music-search/
Add Social Search (Google Labs) to see results based on friends' social activity
http://mashable.com/2009/10/26/social-search-launch/
http://mashable.com/2009/10/19/google-facebook-twitter-net-neutrality/
Google starts competing directly with Yelp
http://mashable.com/2009/09/24/google-place-pages/
Faster and now with HTML5
http://mashable.com/2009/09/15/google-chrome-v3/
The White House has copied a page from Google’s playbook and is now advocating that federal agencies move to the cloud.
http://mashable.com/2009/09/15/government-going-google/
"The search giant implemented and announced a subtle but noticeable change to the size of the search text field on the Google home page: it’s bigger. It also features a larger font size as you type in the field, with correspondingly larger text for Google Suggest results below (that are occasionally good for a laugh).
The company says the reason behind the change is to remind us that Google’s focus is on search."
http://mashable.com/2009/09/09/google-supersized/
Celebrates with almost 3% market share
http://mashable.com/2009/09/02/google-chrome-birthday/
"Secretly, they’ve been working on a new project: the next generation of Google Search. This isn’t just some minor upgrade, but an entire new infrastructure for the world’s largest search engine. In other words: it’s a new version of Google."
http://mashable.com/2009/08/10/google-new-version/
Google to acquire On2 Technologies, a company that develops video compression technology. The stock-for-stock transaction is valued at $106.5 million.
http://mashable.com/2009/08/05/google-on2/
Google CEO Eric Schmidt stepped from Apple’s Board of Directors due to conflicts of interest between Apple and Google.
http://mashable.com/2009/08/03/eric-schmidt-apple/
Google announces Chrome operating system for netbooks
http://mashable.com/2009/07/07/google-chrome-os-2/
Google introduces semantic related searches and longer queries
http://mashable.com/2009/03/24/google-semantic-tweak-search/
“Undo Send” lets you take back a sent email, as long as you act quickly enough.
http://mashable.com/2009/03/19/gmail-undo-send/
LBS mobile app released (but not for iPhone)
http://mashable.com/2009/02/04/google-latitude/
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