12 Months, 12 Pictures, Google 2006 Flashback

January
Google and China compromise.

“In order to operate from China, we have removed some content from the search results available on Google.cn, in response to local law, regulation or policy. While removing search results is inconsistent with Google’s mission, providing no information (or a heavily degraded user experience that amounts to no information) is more inconsistent with our mission.”

The new censored result for keyword Tiananmen from google.cn

And the uncensored result from google.com

February
Google integrates instant messaging into Gmail

March

Google acquires Writely which now is Google Docs and Spreadsheets. Another step towards being king of Internet.

April
Google launches Google calendar

May
Google Co-op is a platform that enables you to customize the web search experience for users of both Google and your own website.

June
Google Checkout, an easy way to e-shopping.

July
Google becomes an official English word.

August
Google Apps for Your Domain lets you offer private-labeled email, instant messaging and calendar accounts to all of your users, so they can share ideas and work more effectively. These services are all unified by the start page, a unique, dynamic page where your users can preview their inboxes and calendars, browse content and links that you choose, search the web, and further customize the page to their liking. You can also design and publish web pages for your domain.

September
Google Reader gets a new interface.

October
Google Buys YouTube.

November
Google going rich. Its market shares jump to $509.65.

December
Blogger out of beta.

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GoogleSystem [All the credit goes to this blog]

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