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Google blogging in 2008
December 31, 2008
Every year right about now we round up our blogging activity across Google. Ready? Here goes.
This is our 368th post of the year on the main Google blog, which is 23% more than in 2007. In addition to more posts, we are thrilled to know that we have many more readers now — 78% more, to be exact. The number of unique visitors jumped from 6,738,830 last year to more than 12 million (12,000,723) in 2008. And readers are coming from all over: the UK, Canada, India, Australia, Germany, France, Spain, Japan and beyond. The top non-Google referrers are Yahoo, Digg, Reddit, Lifehacker and Slashdot.
We posted quite a bit about new products (10) and new product features (56), but nothing caused as much excitement as our
earlier-than-planned unveiling of Google Chrome
. This post alone had 1,735,093 unique visitors and generated 12% of our total-year pageviews on the blog! There was also the much-anticipated announcement of the
first Android-powered phone
. And people enjoyed reading about our
design philosophies
. Who knew a little change to a
favicon
would generate such interest?
But it wasn't all just product news; there was much else to cover in 2008. To mark Google's 10th birthday, we took a moment to reflect on the enormous impact the Internet has had on people's lives since our founding. Some of our in-house experts
shared their thoughts
on how various technologies will evolve in the next 10 years.
Like many of you, we were on the edge of seats watching all of the U.S. election action. We posted 27 times about political subjects, providing information about
voting tools
,
how the political process works
, and
what was top of mind
on Election Day. It's clear that technology will be playing an
even bigger role
in politics in years to come.
Of course, we had some fun too: We kept our long-standing April Fools' Day tradition going with the announcement of
Project Virgle
; we covered
new ways to get around
the Googleplex and the masterminding of a
giant Ferris wheel
; and we raised our glass to a couple who
got married with Google
.
And the Google blog network keeps on growing: 44 new blogs launched this year, for a total of 127 active company blogs. A few highlights: eight new developer blogs (the
Open Source blog
is shining star, with 370,000 unique visitors since its start in February), and 22 new ads-related blogs, nearly half of which are in languages other than English (there are AdSense blogs in
Traditional Chinese
and
Russian
; and AdWords blogs in
Danish
,
German
,
Turkish
,
French
,
Russian
,
Korean
,
Swedish
,
Norwegian
,
Finnish
, and
Spanish
). There's even an Analytics blog in
French
. And we also welcomed three new regional blogs, for
India
,
Africa
, and
the Ukraine
. Sharing information with people wherever they are in whatever language they speak is a priority for us, and each of these new blogs helps us get a little bit closer to this goal. If the total number of Google blogs makes your head spin, don't worry. We've developed a new
blog directory
and
gadget
to help you more easily track news and updates from us.
We're looking forward to another robust year of keeping you informed of all the goings-on at Google. In the meantime, we wish you and yours a very happy New Year.
Posted by Susan Straccia, Google Blog Team
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