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A year in Google blogging
December 30, 2006
Posted by Karen Wickre, Google Blog team
The
definition of "googol"
is a number, and Google lives by numbers. So how else should we look back over the year but with numerical bits? Here goes: This post marks the 294th time this year you're reading a post from us -- that's nearly 100 more posts 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
.
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
.
But we didn't just hope that readers would come to us. We also launched company blogs in
China
,
Japan
,
Italy
,
Brazil
,
Mexico
,
Poland
, and
Russia
(and more are coming in 2007). We also launched AdSense-specific blogs for publishers who speak
Dutch
,
German
,
Portuguese
and
Spanish
. Product teams also started up quite a roster of new blogs covering everything from
Custom Search Engines
to
Google Book Search
to our
Mac
and
Enterprise
endeavors. If you want to keep current with nearly 40 corporate blogs we now publish, here's the
Atom feed
, the
Google Reader share
option, and the
OPML file
(English language blogs only).
Which posts caught your eye? Apart from the front page, these were among the most popular:
Google Earth for Macs
our (classic?) 2005 explanation of
how "Googlebombing" works
downloading public domain books
Gmail open signup
(from August 2005, but apparently word kept spreading)
the
Writely acquisition
(now part of Google Docs & Spreadsheets)
It wasn't all fun, though; there was the time the blog
disappeared
. (Of course, that was before the
recent Blogger revamp
.) But even if real-time, all-too-human goof-ups make it a bit harrowing on occasion, the fact is a company blog is the fastest way to reach out. So we hope you continue to enjoy the rich stew we aim to serve. And before long, perhaps you can begin leaving comments directly. We're working on that. Meanwhile, our very best for a satisfying 2007 to you and yours.
Update:
Clarified the fact that the number of posts increased by 100 over a year.
Labels
accessibility
41
acquisition
26
ads
131
Africa
19
Android
58
apps
419
April 1
4
Asia
39
books + book search
48
commerce
12
computing history
7
crisis response
33
culture
12
developers
120
diversity
35
doodles
68
education and research
144
entrepreneurs at Google
14
Europe
46
faster web
16
free expression
61
google.org
73
googleplus
50
googlers and culture
202
green
102
Latin America
18
maps and earth
194
mobile
124
online safety
19
open source
19
photos
39
policy and issues
139
politics
71
privacy
66
recruiting and hiring
32
scholarships
31
search
505
search quality
24
search trends
118
security
36
small business
31
user experience and usability
41
youtube and video
140
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