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You must be thinking Pac Man after seeing this? Well Google has its own way of remembering and celebrating the 30th anniversary of the PAC-MAN with a game that I am sure each one of you has enjoyed playing.These might look like Pac Man trying to gobble up the stones but are lamps made of terracota that have been designed in the form of lotus leaves.
After a lot of confusion, whether Google China will stay back in the country…it finally seems, it won’t. Google Inc. may be pulling out its operations from China sometime around April 10, as reported by China Business News. In fact the company may be officially declaring its exit as early as March 22. Google requested the Chinese government to allow all search results to show up on the company’s Chinese search edition, which was obviously declined by the government, hence all the trouble.
Google seems to be spreading its presence every day. Now the search giant is all set for stepping into consumer electronics. Called the Google TV, the platform will be powered by Intel’s Atom processor and would be running Android. The hardware will be actually manufactured by Sony. This new platform will consist of a new generation of set-top boxes and televisions.
Social networking website Facebook surpassed the search giant Google as the most visited website in the U.S. Although this is not a world-wide data, still we all have to appreciate the fact that Facebook jumped a massive 185% in a year (based on U.S. traffic). For a small or low ranked website this is no big deal, but for a website which is already in the top 5 list, it is a huge colossal leap. On a comparative scale the traffic for Google increased by a meager 9% for the same period. And when you combine Google.com and Facebook.com? You basically cover 14% of all internet traffic in the U.S.
Google has opened the gates for its new online store, the Apps Marketplace. This new list of “Software-as-a-Service” applications created a new area of revenue generation for the company, which used to earn wholly from search-based advertisements. The store include services like CRM, ERP, fax and various others that integrate with Google’s cloud computing platform.
Let’s face it. No matter how many office suites you have seen or used in any platform, honestly none can compete with the good old Microsoft Office. Even though Open Office is free and so is web-based/light-weight Google Docs, they are almost non-existent when it comes to the total number of office application users. But Google is not giving up. The company recently acquired DocVerse which offers true real-time online collaboration on Microsoft Office documents. This move might take Google Docs to a whole new level.
Google as we all know is the current supreme leader of online search and advertising. If you are interested to know how the company performed and out-performed all others in the last ten years, the revenue data will help you in that. In 2001 Google’s revenue was just $86 million. In 2009 it is $23.65 billion, that’s a jump of over 270 times!
The Federal Regulatory Energy Commission (FERC) has officially permitted the usage of Google Energy as a utility. The internet search giant can now sell energy, but unlike other electricity providers, Google wants to go carbon neutral. The company plans to focus on building numerous solar panels and fuel cells to power its own infrastructure (which partially it already does), while whatever it generates extra, can be sold to the consumers. Not bad an idea.
