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Google search - Index size. ~ 1998: ~ 25,000,000 August 2000: 1,060,000,000 January 2002: 2,073,000,000 February 2003: 3,083,000,000 September 2004: 4,285,000,000 November 2004: 8,058,044,651 web pages, 880,000,000 images, 845,000,000 Usenet messages, 4,500 news sources June 2005: 8,058,044,651 web pages, 1,187,630,000 images, 1 billion Usenet messag ...

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Google search, Google search - History, Google search - The name Google, Google search - Etymology, Google search - Trademark and domain names, Google search - The search engine, Google search - Index size, Google search - Physical structure, Google search - Programming technology, Google search - PageRank and indexing, Google search - Google optimization, Google search - Services and tools, Google search - Jargon, Google search - Games with Google, Google search - Books, Google search - Search Engine Charts

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Google search - Index size. ~ 1998: ~ 25,000,000 August 2000: 1,060,000,000 January 2002: 2,073,000,000 February 2003: 3,083,000,000 September 2004: 4,285,000,000 November 2004: 8,058,044,651 web pages, 880,000,000 images, 845,000,000 Usenet messages, 4,500 news sources June 2005: 8,058,044,651 web pages, 1,187,630,000 images, 1 billion Usenet messag ...

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Google search, Google search - History, Google search - The name Google, Google search - Etymology, Google search - Trademark and domain names, Google search - The search engine, Google search - Index size, Google search - Physical structure, Google search - Programming technology, Google search - PageRank and indexing, Google search - Google optimization, Google search - Services and tools, Google search - Jargon, Google search - Games with Google, Google search - Books

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By default, a mistyped URL in Internet Explorer will send the user to MSN Search. This is seen some critics as a means to increase traffic on their search tool, and a loose form of typosquatting. A configuration menu is available to change the default search engine in Explorer, but Google, MSN's main competitor, is absent, and a custom URL cannot be entered. To change this behaviour users may install an add-on. For example, the Google Toolbar add-on, can be used t ...

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MSN Search, MSN Search - Criticisms, MSN Search - Languages

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Advance fee fraud, often also known as the Nigerian money transfer fraud, Nigerian scam or 419 scam after the relevant section of the Nigerian Criminal Code that it violates[1], is a fraudulent scheme to extract money from victims after making them believe they will get an immense fortune. Victims are requested to pay an upfront fee before their purported fortune is released. This type of scam, originally known as the "Spanish Prisoner Letter" [2], has been carried out since at least the sixteenth century v ...

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• Advance fee fraud - How the scam operates
• Advance fee fraud - Estimates of losses
• Advance fee fraud - Consequences
• Advance fee fraud - Origin of the scam
• Advance fee fraud - Scam baiting
• Advance fee fraud - 419 guestbook spamming
• Advance fee fraud - Example mugu guestbook entries
• Advance fee fraud - Sample scam letter
• Advance fee fraud - Proposed legislation
• Advance fee fraud - Lottery scam
• Advance fee fraud - Fake escrow
• Advance fee fraud - 419 fraudsters' criminal argot

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Google - Beginning. Google began as a research project in January 1996 [1] by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford. They hypothesized that a search engine that analyzed the relationships between Web sites would produce better results than existing techniques. (Contemporary search engines essentially ranked results according to how many times the search term appeared on a page.) It was originally nicknamed BackRub because the system checked backlinks to estimate a site's imp ...

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Google, Google - History, Google - Beginning, Google - Financing and IPO, Google - Today, Google - Salaries, Google - Management, Google - Corporate culture, Google - Twenty percent time, Google - Googleplex, Google - April Fool's Day jokes, Google - IPO and culture, Google - Google partnerships, Google - Criticism and controversy, Google - Copyright issues, Google - Multinational corporation, Google - Past legal issues, Google - Current legal issue, Google - Personnel issues, Google - Partiality, Google - Offensive Search results, Google - Privacy, Google - The PageRank system, Google - Digital rights management in Google Video, Google - Specific searches

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Google - Beginnings. Google began as a research project in January 1996 [2] by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford. They hypothesized that a search engine that analyzed the relationships between Web sites would produce better results than existing techniques. (Contemporary search engines essentially ranked results according to how many times the search term appeared on a page.) It was originally nicknamed BackRub because the system checked backlinks to estimate a site's im ...

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Google, Google - History, Google - Beginnings, Google - Etymology, Google - Financing and IPO, Google - Today, Google - Salaries, Google - Management, Google - Technology, Google - Corporate culture, Google - Twenty percent time, Google - Googleplex, Google - April Fool's Day jokes, Google - IPO and culture, Google - Google partnerships, Google - Criticism and controversy, Google - Copyright issues, Google - Multinational corporation, Google - Legal issues, Google - Personnel issues, Google - Partiality, Google - Offensive search results, Google - Privacy, Google - The PageRank system, Google - DRM in Google Video, Google - Specific searches

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Search engine marketing - Search engine optimization. Main articles: search engine optimization, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]]See also:

Search engine marketing, Search engine marketing - Methods, Search engine marketing - Search engine optimization, Search engine marketing - Search engine advertising, Search engine marketing - Paid inclusion, Search engine marketing - Ethical considerations

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The 'investors' are contacted, typically with an offer of the type "A rich person from the needy country needs to discreetly move money abroad, would it be possible to use your account?". The sums involved are usually in the millions of dollars, and the investor is promised a large percentage, often forty percent. The proposed deal is often presented as a "harmless" white-collar crime, in order to dissuade participants from later contacting the authorities. The operation is professionally organized in Nigeria, with offices, working fax numbe ...

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Advance fee fraud, Advance fee fraud - How the scam operates, Advance fee fraud - Estimates of losses, Advance fee fraud - Consequences, Advance fee fraud - Origin of the scam, Advance fee fraud - Scam baiting, Advance fee fraud - 419 guestbook spamming, Advance fee fraud - Example mugu guestbook entries, Advance fee fraud - Sample scam letter, Advance fee fraud - Proposed legislation, Advance fee fraud - Lottery scam, Advance fee fraud - Fake escrow, Advance fee fraud - 419 fraudsters' criminal argot

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Position: name, age, compensation in USD (as of June 2005) CEO: Eric E. Schmidt, 50, $1 see [13] CFO: George Reyes, 51, $781K President of Technology: Sergey Brin, 31, $1 see [14] President of Products: Larry E. Page, 32, $1 see [15] Sr. VP of Worldwide Sales: Omid Kordestani, 41, $572K VP of Corp. Development, Secretary and Gen. Counsel: David C. Drummond, 42, $776K Founders Brin and Page reportedly earned $1 billion in 2004, but after the IPO in Aug 2004, it became pub ...

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Google, Google - History, Google - Beginning, Google - Financing and IPO, Google - Today, Google - Salaries, Google - Management, Google - Corporate culture, Google - Twenty percent time, Google - Googleplex, Google - April Fool's Day jokes, Google - IPO and culture, Google - Google partnerships, Google - Criticism and controversy, Google - Copyright issues, Google - Multinational corporation, Google - Past legal issues, Google - Current legal issue, Google - Personnel issues, Google - Partiality, Google - Offensive Search results, Google - Privacy, Google - The PageRank system, Google - Digital rights management in Google Video, Google - Specific searches

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A number of Internet groups have invented the hobby of scam baiting. The object is to pretend to be interested in the scammer's scheme, while convincing the scammer to waste his time, perform ridiculous tasks, or otherwise entertain the baiter. Some scam baiters have even persuaded scammers to travel to another country to meet them. One scam baiter was able to convince a scammer to go to a local Western Union agency to collect a nonexistent money transfer twenty-three times before the scammer realized what was going on. This activity, which ...

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Advance fee fraud, Advance fee fraud - How the scam operates, Advance fee fraud - Estimates of losses, Advance fee fraud - Consequences, Advance fee fraud - Origin of the scam, Advance fee fraud - Scam baiting, Advance fee fraud - 419 guestbook spamming, Advance fee fraud - Example mugu guestbook entries, Advance fee fraud - Sample scam letter, Advance fee fraud - Proposed legislation, Advance fee fraud - Lottery scam, Advance fee fraud - Fake escrow, Advance fee fraud - 419 fraudsters' criminal argot

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Google is known for its relaxed corporate culture, reminiscent of the Dot-com boom. Google's corporate philosophy is based on many casual principles including: "You can make money without doing evil", "You can be serious without a suit" and "Work should be challenging and the challenge should be fun." A complete list of corporate fundamentals is available on Google's Web site [18]. The company encourages equality within corporate levels. Twice a week there is a roller hockey game in the company parking lot. Google's relaxed corporate culture can also be seen externally through their holiday variations of the Google logo. See also:

Google, Google - History, Google - Beginning, Google - Financing and IPO, Google - Today, Google - Salaries, Google - Management, Google - Corporate culture, Google - Twenty percent time, Google - Googleplex, Google - April Fool's Day jokes, Google - IPO and culture, Google - Google partnerships, Google - Criticism and controversy, Google - Copyright issues, Google - Multinational corporation, Google - Past legal issues, Google - Current legal issue, Google - Personnel issues, Google - Partiality, Google - Offensive Search results, Google - Privacy, Google - The PageRank system, Google - Digital rights management in Google Video, Google - Specific searches

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See also List of Google services and tools For users searching for more specific results, at the top of Google pages are additional tabs to more narrowly define a user's search results. Images: Allows the user to limit a search to images on the Internet; the images are identified by Google by the image name saved on the webpage and context information about the page. Groups: Allows the user to create, search and browse groups for discussion. News: Brings the user directly to t ...

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Google, Google - History, Google - Beginning, Google - Financing and IPO, Google - Today, Google - Salaries, Google - Management, Google - Corporate culture, Google - Twenty percent time, Google - Googleplex, Google - April Fool's Day jokes, Google - IPO and culture, Google - Google partnerships, Google - Criticism and controversy, Google - Copyright issues, Google - Multinational corporation, Google - Past legal issues, Google - Current legal issue, Google - Personnel issues, Google - Partiality, Google - Offensive Search results, Google - Privacy, Google - The PageRank system, Google - Digital rights management in Google Video, Google - Specific searches

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Estimates of the total losses due to the scam vary widely, the Snopes website lists the following estimate: "The Nigerian scam is hugely successful. According to a 1997 newspaper article: "We have confirmed losses just in the United States of over $100 million in the last 15 months," said Special Agent James Caldwell, of the Secret Service financial crimes division. "And that's just the ones we know of. W ...

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Advance fee fraud, Advance fee fraud - How the scam operates, Advance fee fraud - Estimates of losses, Advance fee fraud - Consequences, Advance fee fraud - Origin of the scam, Advance fee fraud - Scam baiting, Advance fee fraud - 419 guestbook spamming, Advance fee fraud - Example mugu guestbook entries, Advance fee fraud - Sample scam letter, Advance fee fraud - Proposed legislation, Advance fee fraud - Lottery scam, Advance fee fraud - Fake escrow, Advance fee fraud - 419 fraudsters' criminal argot

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Google - Copyright issues. A number of organizations have used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to demand that Google remove references to allegedly copyrighted material on other sites. Google typically handles this by removing the link as requested and including a link to the complaint in the search results. There have also been complaints that Google's Web cache feature violates copyright. However, Google provides mechanisms for requesting that caching be disabled (which Google respects; it also hono ...

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Time Warner's AOL unit and Google unveiled an expanded partnership on Dec. 21, including an enhanced global advertising partnership and a $1 billion investment by Google for a 5% stake in AOL. [24] As part of the collaboration, Google plans to work with AOL on video search and offer AOL's premium-video service within Google Video. This will allow users of Google Video to search for AOL's premium-video services. Display advertising thr ...

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Google, Google - History, Google - Beginning, Google - Financing and IPO, Google - Today, Google - Salaries, Google - Management, Google - Corporate culture, Google - Twenty percent time, Google - Googleplex, Google - April Fool's Day jokes, Google - IPO and culture, Google - Google partnerships, Google - Criticism and controversy, Google - Copyright issues, Google - Multinational corporation, Google - Past legal issues, Google - Current legal issue, Google - Personnel issues, Google - Partiality, Google - Offensive Search results, Google - Privacy, Google - The PageRank system, Google - Digital rights management in Google Video, Google - Specific searches

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Prior to the IPO offering, typical salaries at Google were considered within the industry to be quite low. For instance, some system administrators earned no more than $33,000 — while $40,000 at that time was considered to be low by Bay Area employment market levels. Nevertheless, Google's excellent stock performance following the IPO has enabled these early employees to be competitively compensated by participation in the corporation's remarkable equity growth. In 2005 Google has implemented other employee incentives such as the Google Founders' Award, as well making hig ...

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Google, Google - History, Google - Beginning, Google - Financing and IPO, Google - Today, Google - Salaries, Google - Management, Google - Corporate culture, Google - Twenty percent time, Google - Googleplex, Google - April Fool's Day jokes, Google - IPO and culture, Google - Google partnerships, Google - Criticism and controversy, Google - Copyright issues, Google - Multinational corporation, Google - Past legal issues, Google - Current legal issue, Google - Personnel issues, Google - Partiality, Google - Offensive Search results, Google - Privacy, Google - The PageRank system, Google - Digital rights management in Google Video, Google - Specific searches

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Prior to the IPO offering, typical salaries at Google were considered within the industry to be quite low. For instance, some system administrators earned no more than $33,000 — while $40,000 at that time was considered to be low by Bay Area employment market levels. Nevertheless, Google's excellent stock performance following the IPO has enabled these early employees to be competitively compensated by participation in the corporation's remarkable equity growth. In 2005 Google has implemented other employee incentives such as the Founder's award, as well making hig ...

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Google, Google - History, Google - Beginnings, Google - Etymology, Google - Financing and IPO, Google - Today, Google - Salaries, Google - Management, Google - Technology, Google - Corporate culture, Google - Twenty percent time, Google - Googleplex, Google - April Fool's Day jokes, Google - IPO and culture, Google - Google partnerships, Google - Criticism and controversy, Google - Copyright issues, Google - Multinational corporation, Google - Legal issues, Google - Personnel issues, Google - Partiality, Google - Offensive search results, Google - Privacy, Google - The PageRank system, Google - DRM in Google Video, Google - Specific searches

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Some investors have hired private investigators in Nigeria or have personally travelled to Nigeria, without ever retrieving their money. One American was murdered in Nigeria while pursuing his lost money. In February 2003, a scam victim from the Czech Republic shot and killed an official at the Nigerian embassy. A Greek man was murdered in South Africa after responding to a 419 scam. [5] Victims of 419 Advance Fee Fraud have little recourse. Since 1995, the United States Secret Service has been (somewhat) involved in combating these s ...

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Advance fee fraud, Advance fee fraud - How the scam operates, Advance fee fraud - Estimates of losses, Advance fee fraud - Consequences, Advance fee fraud - Origin of the scam, Advance fee fraud - Scam baiting, Advance fee fraud - 419 guestbook spamming, Advance fee fraud - Example mugu guestbook entries, Advance fee fraud - Sample scam letter, Advance fee fraud - Proposed legislation, Advance fee fraud - Lottery scam, Advance fee fraud - Fake escrow, Advance fee fraud - 419 fraudsters' criminal argot

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Here is an example of a typical email message which attempts to attract victims: From: "BIBI LUCKY" <bibialora1@example.com> Subject: Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:03:44 +0100 To: John.Doe@example.com Reply-To: bibialora1@example.com Dear Sir, ASSISTANCE REQUIRED FOR ACQUISITION OF ESTATE I write to inform you of my desire to acquire estates or landed properties in your country on behalf of the Director of Contracts and Finance Allocations of the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing in Nigeria. Considering his very strategic ...

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Advance fee fraud, Advance fee fraud - How the scam operates, Advance fee fraud - Estimates of losses, Advance fee fraud - Consequences, Advance fee fraud - Origin of the scam, Advance fee fraud - Scam baiting, Advance fee fraud - 419 guestbook spamming, Advance fee fraud - Example mugu guestbook entries, Advance fee fraud - Sample scam letter, Advance fee fraud - Proposed legislation, Advance fee fraud - Lottery scam, Advance fee fraud - Fake escrow, Advance fee fraud - 419 fraudsters' criminal argot

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419 guestbook spam is a type of spam in which Nigerian 419 scammers attempt to mark their "guestbook turf." The "lads", as the scammers are sometimes referred to, apparently depend in large part upon guestbook entries to harvest usable email addresses. Since most of the nigerian scammers act from public terminals such as internet cafés, which do not allow users to have stored "bookmarks", such entries enable the scammers to use a search engi ...

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Advance fee fraud, Advance fee fraud - How the scam operates, Advance fee fraud - Estimates of losses, Advance fee fraud - Consequences, Advance fee fraud - Origin of the scam, Advance fee fraud - Scam baiting, Advance fee fraud - 419 guestbook spamming, Advance fee fraud - Example mugu guestbook entries, Advance fee fraud - Sample scam letter, Advance fee fraud - Proposed legislation, Advance fee fraud - Lottery scam, Advance fee fraud - Fake escrow, Advance fee fraud - 419 fraudsters' criminal argot

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