SitePoint reminds us that this month the world’s most powerful brand is turning 10 years old, and Google today launched a web site to celebrate its first double digit birthday. The 10th birthday site, which is currently linked from the main page at Google.com, features an interactive time line detailing Google’s history.
The time line, which is actually a visual representation of the milestones page from Google’s corporate information site, details the company’s history from Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s fortuitous meeting on the Stanford campus in 1995, to Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim’s initial $100,000 investment, through their 2004 IPO, and this July’s announcement that Google now recognizes over 1 trillion unique URLs.
The site also gathers and links to all of the ten years out blog posts that Google published this month to celebrate its birthday, in which its top engineers and executives predict what the web might look like ten years from now. While none of the content is really new, the presentation is nice and it’s fun to scan through the time line.
Perhaps the bigger piece of Google’s birthday celebration, though, is the launch of Project 10100. Project 10100 is “a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.” Google is committing $10 million to fund five ideas that its advisory panel and the public think will have the biggest impact on the world.
Google is calling for idea submissions in eight categories including energy, environment, education, and health until October 20th. Google employees will then choose their favorite 100 ideas and the public will vote for the top twenty. An advisory board will then select the top 5 ideas sometime in early February of 2009.
- Source: http://www.sitepoint.com
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