Posted on September 15th, 2007 by dhirender
Google Australia on Friday unveiled what it described as the world’s most powerful dedicated election website, capable of exposing inconsistencies in the public pronouncements of political leaders.
With an election due in Australia before the end of the year, Google claims its website would be a powerful tool for voters and would help generate debate during […]
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Posted on September 15th, 2007 by dhirender
A microfinance Web site that lets people lend as little as $25 to small businesses from Vietnam to Kenya is drawing so much interest from lenders that it’s struggling to keep up.
Kiva works with dozens of microcredit groups who pick needy businesses - from a Honduran woman selling cosmetics to a Cambodian weaving business or […]
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Posted on September 15th, 2007 by dhirender
On the 10th anniversary of Google, some trivia:
On September 15, 1997 Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two 24 year-old Stanford University students, registered the domain name of “google.com.” The word is a variation of ‘googol,’ which refers to the number 10 to the power of 100, a term popularized by US mathematician Edward Kasner.
Google was […]
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