The Google Insider

Seems like Google has been busy with lawyers recently. Here’s a list of articles related to all of the lawsuits recently happening with Google.

• http://news.com.com/2061-10812_3-6051194.html
• http://today.reuters.com/n…US-TECH-GOOGLE-LAWSUIT.xml
• http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;591017024;fp;2;fpid;1
• http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/005601.html
• http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/03/19/124124.php
• http://www.imediaconnection.com/news/8709.asp
• http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/164023.php

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So who exactly does Google Inc. own? Take a look…

• @Last Software, Inc., a Delaware corporation
• Applied Semantics, Inc., a California corporation
• dMarc Broadcasting, Inc., a Delaware corporation
• Google International LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
• Google LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
• Ignite Logic, Inc., a Delaware corporation
• Kaltix Corporation, a Delaware corporation
• Liquid Acquisition Corp. 2, a Delaware corporation
• Neotonic Software Corporation, a California corporation
• Orkut.com, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
• Picasa LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
• Upstartle, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
• Urchin Software Corporation, a Delaware corporation
• Where2 LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
• ZipDash, Inc., a Delaware corporation
• Google (Hong Kong) Limited
• Google Akwan Internet Ltda.
• Google Australia Pty Limited
• Google Brasil Internet Ltda
• Google Canada Corporation
• Google Denmark ApS
• Google France SarL
• Google Germany GmbH
• Google International GmbH
• Google Ireland Holdings Limited
• Google Ireland Limited
• Google Italy s.r.l.
• Google Japan Inc.
• Google Korea, LLC.
• Google Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V.
• Google Netherlands B.V.
• Google Netherlands Holdings B.V.
• Google Online India Private Limited
• Google Spain, S.L.
• Google Sweden AB
• Google Switzerland GmbH
• Google UK Limited
• Reqwireless Inc.

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Writely ( www.writely.com ) is a web-based word processing application. Google recently went through and scooped them up to become part of the Google Corporation. Writely did a little write-up about the acquisition. What part might this company play into Google? Well, Google has had rumors in the past of developing their hopefully upcoming Web Office Suite — as I may call it — which would be basically Microsoft Office, with many changes of course, but all on the web. How would this be useful for companies? One huge factor would be licensing flexibility. You can buy access for 20 users and have a company of 30 and only use those 20 at one time. Instead with any other Office Suite, you’re looking at buying 30 licenses, no matter if you’re using them all at the same time or not. So in the end, Google has put forth some cash and took on a good application to help better their new Office Suite application which we will hopefully be seeing soon.

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Google has updated the AdSense product page again. When going to AdSense Setup in your control panel, you will now see this

They have made it a bit…more user friendly — in my opinion. Hopefully this will clear up anything for the new publishers and make it easier to access things.

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For about a week, Google had that annoyling little ‘contact’ box that would appear when hovering over an email or contact address. They finally decided to remove the box because people were unhappy with it — and I’m very thankful they did.

side note: I’m enjoying having RSS feeds in the header, anyone else like them? :)
Seems michael agrees.

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Gmail recently added the feature to be able to store ‘chat’ logs within your gmail account. Along side of this addition, Gmail also gives you the ability to actually chat while in the Gmail interface. It’s quite a cool feature in case you want to chat with a buddy on GTalk and you don’t have GTalk installed on your computer. I used it a couple days ago and I really liked it, it’s a fun feature.

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As of yesterday, Google Talk has been integrated into Google Mail (GMail) so that you can access any chat logs from conversations held using Google Talk. You need to go into the settings of your GMail account in order to activate these options, but these options are now available for anyone to use. This provides easy access for anyone that wants to keep their chat logs global. I for one, keep all my GAIM logs and it would be nice to be able to keep them global. I will consider moving over to GTalk once AIM protocol is enabled and ready for use. Another big kicker for me is that GTalk will need to have the ‘alias’ feature available like GAIM has. Oh wait, it already does! Splendid. GTalk will be the best ‘chatting’ client out there, in my opinion. With global chat logs in your inbox and the flexibility it provides, GTalk has a great future.

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While webmasters have been publishing the AdSense program, Google has been quietly adding new Terms and Conditions to the program. There is now a 90-day referral time period for publishers to refer other webmasters to the AdSense program. If a referral webmaster generates over $100 in the first 90 days of signing up, the referree will get $100 in exchange. This new T&C is not very nice to the webmasters, but Google sees it differently and put it into place without really announcing it.

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“Definitely, and we have systems running over there (Google) right now,” he said. He also said that Google is thinking about whether it wants to be running its own data centers and developing its own software.

He added that Google created its own operating system to run its grids. And now there are some within Google that question whether they should continue doing that, especially since there is so much open source software, and middleware available (from Sun, of course :-) and increasingly, specialist grid builders.

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Google has been thinking and rethinking the thoughts of creating their own software as such. Google OS (see below) has already been in production in various locations owned by Google, for internal use only. Google is considering outsourcing future infrastructure projects, which would make sense for them to do — but again, only time will tell what actually happens with the future of Google and its software.

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