Happy Birthday, Google

The world-shrinking company that launched a verb turns 10 this week, and the event (so my trusty Google search tells me) is gaining plenty of media attention. The Globe and Mail has a list of 10 ways Google has changed the world (No. 1: “perpetual beta”), while the San Francisco Chronicle takes a look back at the early years of the “nascent search engine, operated from a couple of cramped dorm rooms and burdened with a goofy name.” Cnet’s Charles Cooper, meanwhile, explains why he won’t be showing up to the party.

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