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* StealthInsult: The Google Doodle celebrating the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics has a rainbow background. Think about that for a moment.
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* StealthInsult: The Google Doodle celebrating the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics has a rainbow background. Think about that for This is a moment.subtle jab against the ban of LGBT propaganda in Russia.
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* StealthInsult: The Google Doodle celebrating the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics has a rainbow background. Think about that for a moment.
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* {{Defictionalization}}: Apparently Google Earth was inspired by the fictional CIA computer program known simply as "Earth" featured in ''SnowCrash''.
** In actuality, Google acquired a software company called Keyhole, Inc. and transformed their main app, Earth Viewer, into Google Earth.
** In actuality, Google acquired a software company called Keyhole, Inc. and transformed their main app, Earth Viewer, into Google Earth.
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** In actuality, Google acquired a software company called Keyhole, Inc. and transformed their main app, Earth Viewer, into Google Earth.
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** Since Google's search bar automatically kicks you into search results now, the now useless "I'm Feeling Lucky" button redirects to their logos. Only if that feature is on, though. If you have it off, the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button will work as usual. And when it's off, you can get some pretty funny stuff - try searching "French Military Victories" and hit "I'm feeling lucky."
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** Since Google's search bar automatically kicks you into search results now, the now useless "I'm Feeling Lucky" button redirects to their logos. a randomly selected item, chosen when you put your mouse over the button, e.g. "I'm Feeling Trendy" or "Artistic", etc. Only happens if that feature is Instant searches are on, though. If you have it off, the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button will work as usual. And when it's off, you can get some pretty funny stuff - try searching "French Military Victories" and hit "I'm feeling lucky."
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The search engine with the greatest user share, by a large margin. The company that creates/maintains it also works on a wide variety of other products, including things like translators, the webmail provider Gmail, the interactive map [=GoogleEarth=], the web browser Google Chrome, the social networking hub Website/GooglePlus, TheAdvertisementServer, and one of their most successful products, Website/YouTube. [[http://www.google.com Find it here.]] It also has a mirror site called [[http://www.kidrex.org/ KidRex]], a {{bowdlerise}}d version of Google for kids. The only difference is that [=KidRex=] blacklists inappropriate sites. Wiki/TVTropes' search engine is also run by Google.
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The search engine with the greatest user share, by a large margin. The company that creates/maintains it also works on a wide variety of other products, including things like translators, the webmail provider Gmail, the interactive map [=GoogleEarth=], the web browser Google Chrome, Chrome (and an operating system of the same name), Android, the social networking hub Website/GooglePlus, TheAdvertisementServer, and one of their most successful products, Website/YouTube. [[http://www.google.com Find it here.]] It also has a mirror site called [[http://www.kidrex.org/ KidRex]], a {{bowdlerise}}d version of Google for kids. The only difference is that [=KidRex=] blacklists inappropriate sites. Wiki/TVTropes' search engine is also run by Google.
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** Regarding the safe-for-kids Kidrex mirror site, if you try to search for something inappropriate (e.g. porn), it'll give you an image saying "Oops! Try again!" in place of where the results would be.
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[[caption-width-right:340: Enjoy that logo, because [[LogoGag you'll rarely ever see it on the actual site]].]]
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* ArtifactTitle: [=AdSense=], the company's cash cow, was originally a feature called [=AdWords=] Select, a premium version of a paid-search function called [=AdWords=] it had launched in 2002. [=AdWords=] Select became so popular that [[http://www.slate.com/articles/business/when_big_businesses_were_small/2013/10/google_s_big_break_how_bill_gross_goto_com_inspired_the_adwords_business.2.html Google dropped the original AdWords altogether]] shortly afterwards, but didn't rename it.
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* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: [[http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-elmer One of the languages]] that can be set via search settings. [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything It gives you the option to switch back to English if you don't want it to be the default language]].
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* LeetLingo: [[http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-hacker One of the languages]] that can be set via search settings. [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything It gives you the option to switch back to English if you don't want it to be the default language]].
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** Swedish Chef's "bork bork bork" [[http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-bork is one of the languages]] that can be set via search settings. [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything It gives you the option to switch back to English if you don't want it to be the default language]].
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* PigLatin: A currently DummiedOut [[http://www.google.com/?hl=xx-piglatin language option]].
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** When searching for "[[http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=&oq=google+in+&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4NDKB_enUS519US520&q=google+in+sc&gs_l=hp..4.0l5j41.0.0.0.3463...........0.9QDQp-XPaGM&surl=1&safe=active#q=google+in+1998&safe=active&surl=1&undefined=undefined Google In 1998]]", the page will display as it did in Google's first few years. It even uses Wayback Machine for the search results.
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* TalkLikeAPirate: [[http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-pirate One of the languages]] that can be set via search settings. [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything It gives you the option to switch back to English if you don't want it to be the default language]].
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** Since Google's search bar automatically kicks you into search results now, the now useless "I'm Feeling Lucky" button redirects to their logos.
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*** And when it's off, you can get some pretty funny stuff - try searching "French Military Victories" and hit "I'm feeling lucky."
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** Since Google's search bar automatically kicks you into search results now, the now useless "I'm Feeling Lucky" button redirects to their logos.
***logos. Only if that feature is on, though. If you have it off, the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button will work as usual.
***usual. And when it's off, you can get some pretty funny stuff - try searching "French Military Victories" and hit "I'm feeling lucky."
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* SelfDeprecation: You can start typing "why google s" and one of the term suggestions is "Why Google sucks". If you type "google is", two of the suggestions will be "Google is evil" and "Google is making us stupid". Typing "I hate g" will instantly show you "I hate Google". And so on.
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Surely a company this wildly successful can afford to rest on its laurels for awhile? Nope. Fuelled by their success in commercializing software products and services, Google is now using its vast financial resources, data collection and analysis ability to explore the frontier edge of technology. Of particular note are its AugmentedReality glasses, AutomatedAutomobiles, and the Knowledge Graph/Knowledge Vault unified framework and database system to allow its [[RobotBuddy personal assistant]] Google Now unprecedented ability to understand you and process any kind of information on demand, with the aim to eventually develop it into a true ArtificialIntelligence (for which purpose it hired many specialists in the field, including the renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil). To show that the potential of Big Data is truly endless, Google has established the [[http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/03/tech/innovation/google-calico-aging-death/ California Life Company (CALICO)]], whose aim is advancements in personalized medicine through advanced monitoring devices, [[WeWillHavePerfectHealthInTheFuture preventative medicine]], coordinating medical data from researchers and medical centres across the world and ultimately [[TheAgeless the defeat of aging itself]].
Currently believed to be the most likely company to result in TheSingularity.
Currently believed to be the most likely company to result in TheSingularity.
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* SignificantAnagram: Search for "anagram" and it will ask if you meant "Nag a ram".
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* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: It's amazing what you can do in the search bar.
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The search engine with the greatest user share, by a large margin. The company that creates/maintains it also works on a wide variety of other products, including things like translators, the webmail provider Gmail, the interactive map [=GoogleEarth=], the web browser Google Chrome, the social networking hub Website/GooglePlus, TheAdvertisementServer, and one of their most successful products products, Website/YouTube. [[http://www.google.com Find it here.]] It also has a mirror site called [[http://www.kidrex.org/ KidRex]], a {{Bowdlerise}}d {{bowdlerise}}d version of Google for kids. The only difference is that it [=KidRex=] blacklists inappropriate sites. Wiki/TVTropes' search engine is also run by Google.
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* BuiltWithLEGO: Google built its first server racks out of {{LEGO}}.
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** Google itself appears in ''{{Hitch}}'' and during the TimeCompressionMontage in ''Film/{{The Muppets}}''.
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** Google itself appears in ''{{Hitch}}'' ''Film/{{Hitch}}'' and during the TimeCompressionMontage in ''Film/{{The Muppets}}''.
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* CargoCult: [[http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org The church of google.]]
* CloudCuckoolander: Even Google thought [[http://www.google.com/loon/ bringing internet to rural areas via balloons]] was both CrazyEnoughToWork and [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs just crazy]].
* CloudCuckoolander: Even Google thought [[http://www.google.com/loon/ bringing internet to rural areas via balloons]] was both CrazyEnoughToWork and [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs just crazy]].
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* CargoCult: [[http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org org/ The church Church of google.Google.]]
*CloudCuckoolander: {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Even Google thought [[http://www.google.com/loon/ bringing internet Internet service to rural areas via balloons]] was both CrazyEnoughToWork and [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs just crazy]].
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** For Creator/JimHenson's 75th birthday they had a special puppet [[note]]Google worked with The Jim Henson Company on the project, which had sold the Muppet trademark to Disney in 2004[[/note]] logo: you could make them eat each other.
** Inverted in ''Film/TheMuppets'' where Google makes a cameo as Scooter's place of employment during the TimeCompressionMontage.
** Inverted in ''Film/TheMuppets'' where Google makes a cameo as Scooter's place of employment during the TimeCompressionMontage.
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* NobodyOver50IsGay: Averted in an ad for Chrome featuring somebody coming out as homosexual over the Internet. Among the responses is a seventy-something man who says, "It just gets better with age."
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* NobodyOver50IsGay: Averted in an ad for Chrome featuring somebody coming out as homosexual over the Internet. Among the responses is a seventy-something 70-something man who says, "It just gets better with age."
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* ShoutOut: The "crashed tab" page in Google Chrome looks a lot like the "Sad Mac" icon in old {{Mac}}s.
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* ShoutOut: The "crashed tab" page in Google Chrome looks a lot like the "Sad Mac" icon in old {{Mac}}s.{{Apple Macintosh}}es.
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* UnwinnableJokeGame: Type "ZergRush" and you'll get to play a game where you must defend your search results against a bunch of O's. There's too many of them, and they'll eventually defeat you. [[spoiler:[[MemeticMutation gg]]]]
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* UnwinnableJokeGame: Type "ZergRush" and you'll get to play a game where you must defend your search results against a bunch of O's. There's There are too many of them, and they'll eventually defeat you. [[spoiler:[[MemeticMutation gg]]]]
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The search engine with the greatest user share, by a large margin. The company that creates/maintains it also works on a wide variety of other products, including things like translators, the interactive map [=GoogleEarth=], the web browser Google Chrome, the social networking hub Website/GooglePlus, TheAdvertisementServer, and one of their most successful products Website/YouTube. [[http://www.google.com Find it here.]] It also has a mirror site called [[http://www.kidrex.org/ KidRex]], a {{Bowdlerise}}d version of Google for kids. The only difference is that it whitelists blacklists inappropriate sites. Wiki/TVTropes' search engine is also run by Google.
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The search engine with the greatest user share, by a large margin. The company that creates/maintains it also works on a wide variety of other products, including things like translators, the interactive map [=GoogleEarth=], the web browser Google Chrome, the social networking hub Website/GooglePlus, TheAdvertisementServer, and one of their most successful products Website/YouTube. [[http://www.google.com Find it here.]] It also has a mirror site called [[http://www.kidrex.org/ KidRex]], a {{Bowdlerise}}d version of Google for kids. The only difference is that it whitelists inappropriate sites. Wiki/TVTropes' search engine is also run by Google.
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* CargoCult: [[http;//www.thechurchofgoogle.org The church of google.]]
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** For Creator/JimHenson's 75th birthday they had a special puppet [[hottip:note:Google worked with The Jim Henson Company on the project, which had sold the Muppet trademark to Disney in 2004]] logo: you could make them eat each other.
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* BannedInChina: If RealLife were fiction, this would be a {{deconstruction}}: For a time, Google caved in to China's demand for censorship to avoid being banned. Then later, amid suspicions that the Chinese Government was trying to spy on Gmail users, [[WhyTheFandomCantHaveNiceThings they apparently decided it wasn't worth it and left the country entirely.]]
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* BannedInChina: If RealLife were fiction, this would be a {{deconstruction}}: For a time, Google caved in to China's demand for censorship to avoid being banned. Then later, amid suspicions that the Chinese Government was trying to spy on Gmail users, [[WhyTheFandomCantHaveNiceThings [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings they apparently decided it wasn't worth it and left the country entirely.]]
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