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This article give some background on Google but also advertises a book entitled 'Planet Google' by Randall Stross

By 1998, the Web was getting big enough that it was hard for human editors to keep up. That's when Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google and built a search engine that, by using a computer algorithm, could in theory scale to include an infinite number of Web sites. Google sent a spider into the Web that would index every page it crawled past.

google business report from google about the impact in business development

Almost every single person I know uses Google.com for searches; most use the Omnibox in Google Chrome, so they use Google without actually going to Google.com. This is the number one vehicle that Google has in its arsenal to take over the world - mindshare.

This article talks about how Microsoft is accusing Google of an internet searching monopoly. This shows that Google is a prominent search engine software that is overtaking several other internet searching services such as Bing and Yahoo.

Google's advertising and privacy .

Google enabled RSS feeds for Google Searches Now.

You can now get RSS feeds out of Google Search -- THIS IS GREAT!!!! Wonderful for building the PLN -- (and for watching your school name or personal name as well as research.)

The history of how google has looked.

The Wayback machine used to search for Google - see how Google has looked through the years.

A primary school teacher's blog about the use of some Google apps with his primary class.

Can I Use Google Docs at Home? Absolutely. One of the children in my class had waited to the end of the session to ask me if they could access Google Docs at home. This afternoon we introduced all of our Year 5 children (60) to Google Apps and we had lots of fun exploring the tool with our new classes.

Excellent article on what Google wave is intended to be: a step up from email to allow for document collaboration. OK, now I finally get it. Seeing people talk about it replacing twitter, etc. I was like "nah - not with THIS" but seeing this blog post made the light go on - a must read for those who want to truly understand what google wave is for and to not get so hyper about what it isn't.

Important NEW technology for workflow software group and virtual communications. This would make a GREAT topic of video and perhaps we could try to get some invites for students to test out.

This website outlines how the google apps aid in education and are able to be secure for schools. These apps help schools in many different ways. 

This article is about how Google stresses that it does everything in its power to keep user data private when it's legally able to do so. This information has been a secret for a while. If a request passes this stage, Google then considers whether the request is overly broad in scope. If Google decides the request is indeed too broad, it either denies the request or looks to narrow it. Google's standards for handing over user data are stronger than those required by American law

Out of teachers surveyed, 94% say that when research is needed, research is the synonym for Google.

Google has created a website for students and teachers who need to find resourceful and official articles, documents, and facts in general.

Gives reasons why google docs are great for elementary, such as showing their responsibility on the web

Government censorship- Google

This is a link about government censorship and google.

Google has launched Google Play which is one of the many ways Google is linked with online entertainment.

This article discusses the impact of technology on privacy

This article talks about Eric Schmidt and how he is trying to excuse the government for spying on Google.

This article talks about Eric Schmidt and how he is trying to excuse the government for spying on Google.

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