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Imagining A World Without Google

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Google. It is unquestionably one of the most well-known companies in the world. It has empowered everyday people with information and given online businesses reasons to exist. Most importantly, it has proven that free can be profitable. But all this has to make you wonder — what would have become of the world if Google didn’t exist? There are so many potential questions that could be asked. Could Microsoft have actually ended up in a worse position than it is today? Would Apple have gone bankrupt? Perhaps Yahoo! could have ended up as the most powerful company in the world? Would the Internet be anything like it is today? Yahoo! Without Google You can’t go through this scenario without considering Yahoo, previously one of Google’s biggest competitors, which is now hardly a blip on the radar anymore. Yahoo had it all: the money, the user-base, the functionality. And all it really needed was a vision and the leadership to act upon it to reach success. If Googl

Customize the Google Home Page With Your Favorite Pics Now

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If you were just fed up of the plain white Google home page and had lately developed some liking for Microsoft’s search engine Bing because of its colorful pictures in the background, Google wont’t let you go so easily. Bringing the customization option to its home page, Google has once again proved that the company is always striving to achieve its goals of innovation and customer satisfaction. Enabling adding a little more personal feel to your Google home page, Google now allows its users to add their favorite images to the background. Whether the pictures are loaded on your Picasa web album, in the hard drive of your system or public gallery hosted by Picasa, you may now add any of your favorite images for a personalized experience. But the sad part is that you use the colorful Google logo that is replaced with a white one instead. Those of you who are happy with the clean and simple interface can stick to it as long as you want. Also if at any time you wish to sw