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Weird sentence
The following sentence in the article doesn't make sense to me: "Google's advertisements carry a lower price tag when their human ad-rating team working around the world believes the ads improve the company's user experience.[68]" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.41.209.138 (talk) 17:05, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
Petabyte
shouldn't the word petabyte in the first paragraph be hyperlinked? i can't do it because it's protected. MRed (talk) 06:36, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
Feedback on this change to intro
As I write this, the introduction begins like this:
Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. Google has also developed an open source web browser and a mobile operating system. The Google headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California.As of March 31, 2009[update], the company has 19,786 full-time employees. The company is running thousands of servers worldwide, which process millions of search requests each day and about1petabyte of user-generated data every hour.
Based on these two references:
- http://investor.google.com/documents/2004_google_annual_report.html
- http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-adwords-site-targeting-google-now-a-media-company/1621/
I'd like to change the crossed-out portions of this introductory paragraph to this (quoting from the 2004 Form 10-K):
- Google Inc. is an American "software, technology, Internet, advertising and media company" headquartered at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California. It earns revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. As of March 31, 2009[update], the company has 19,786 full-time employees. The company is running thousands of servers worldwide, which process millions of search requests each day and about one petabyte of user-generated data every hour.
The only thing I dropped was a reference to two technologies (Google Chrome, Android) which I think are covered sufficiently by treating the mobile Internet like cloud computing and Web 2.0, as evolutions in the Internet that need not be brought up in the introduction.
My intent is to add {{editsemiprotected}} to the top of this section, depending on the responses. Thanks in advance. 68.167.191.171 (talk) 21:51, 6 November 2009 (UTC).
Google policy on child pornography
I think there should maybe be an article on Google policy on child pornography. Much of the legal debate surrounding the contemporary availability of child pornography concerns the role that prominent search engines such as Google have in allowing easier access to the illicit material. There have also been allegations from lawyers that Google corporation either faciliates or does not sufficiently block prohibited content. [1][2] ADM (talk) 17:13, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
- See [3] for Google's policy on this and similar issues.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 18:21, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
- I don't think a specific article on that is needed, as Wikipedia is not a repository of individual corporate policies. We don't need to (and should not) simply duplicate their policy on pornography. But it should be covered in articles dealing with this, such as either Criticism of Google or Censorship by Google. Dr. Cash (talk) 16:01, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
Misspelling?
"The total initial investment raised for the new company amounted to almost $1.1 million, including a $100,000 check by Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems."
Shouldn't "check" be "cheque"? Or is that another one of those American spellings I don't know about? :) 194.80.144.240 (talk) 10:00, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
- "Check" is the usual American English spelling of "cheque". See American and British English spelling differences for more about how Wikipedia handles this issue, and Cheque#Etymology_and_spelling.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 10:13, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
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