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Google is all around us. And it’s growing day after day. Now featuring WiFi. (note though that Google Secure Access is a new product that is only available at certain locations in the San Francisco Bay Area).

The empire of the G is getting bigger and bigger and bigger… This company will be the most important company on Earth in less than 10 years… maybe less than 5… Google is definitely not a searching company… check out for the next stuff from the big G.

I’ve read interesting articles on Kottke.org about an Operating System and a browser… They are great articles that will help you understand what google is (probably going to be) all about.

oh by the way… the 15th of November will be published The Google Story. Personally I think I’m going to order a copy of it… I’m just curious.

This is the amazon book description:

Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors’ and Ford’s combined, its staff eats for free in a dining room run by the Grateful Dead’s former chef, and its employees traverse the firm’s colorful Silicon Valley campus on scooters and inline skates.

…In 1998, Moscow-born Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University to, in their own words, “change the worldâ€? through a search engine that would organize every bit of information on the Web for free.

While the company has done exactly that in more than one hundred languages, Google’s quest continues as it seeks to add millions of library books, television broadcasts, and more to its searchable database. Readers will learn about the amazing business acumen and computer wizardry that started the company on its astonishing course; the secret network of computers delivering lightning-fast search results; the unorthodox approach that has enabled it to challenge Microsoft’s dominance and shake up Wall Street. Even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult choices that will enable it to continue expanding while sustaining the guiding vision of its founders’ mantra: DO NO EVIL.

Still other great online articles are Defining Google from CBS and Can Google Stay Google?. I especially enjoyed the last one… speculating about a possible future of the company (will we see another SGI? ). Have fun reading at these… Think I’m going to have a drink now.