14 DAY TRIAL // Because the year 2006 is now ended, many employees of the search giant talked about the last year and Google's achievements. If you look back over the year, you should observe many important events: the YouTube acquisition, new amazing releases and other moments that marked the company's evolution.
The Google team posted a message on the official blog to mention all the important achievements of the last year. Karen Wickre, Google Blog team, mentioned that the company launched blogs in multiple countries including China, Japan, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Poland and Russia, specific blogs for AdSense publishers who speak Dutch, German, Portuguese and Spanish. Google also introduced several search engine methods that allow you to search for patents, books and even blog posts.
"This post marks the 294th time this year you're reading a post from us -- nearly 100 times more often than in 2005. In the last 12 months, we unveiled 24 new products here. We wrote up 128 product upgrades, new features and how-to-use-it items. We told you about 7 acquisitions. We blogged about policies or issues 23 times, on subjects including Google in China, how Book Search works, click fraud, and Net Neutrality. Google.org yielded 7 posts, and 29 times we said various services are available in many countries and languages. Then there was a pug, Google's custom It's It, our compelling matchmaking service, and a nearly-cosmic Stardate," the employee said.
"More for the numerically inclined: 7.6 million unique visitors generated nearly 15 million pageviews this year. Aside from the U.S. and UK, readers come from India, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Italy and the Netherlands. Which sites send us the most readers? The top non-Google referrers this year are the influential Digg.com and Slashdot," it is also mentioned.