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• The very popular search engine Google and several of its websites and features experienced a brief outage around 6:30 p.m. EST on October 9, 2009.

  The site was restored after a short time.

• Fast Facts

  1. Google and its member sites went down on October 9, 2009
  2. Outage was brief
  3. Occurred around 6:30 p.m. EST
  4. Google.com, Google Maps and other services were affected
  5. Services restored after a short time
  6. Previous incident saw Gmail go down, among other services

• Google Fast Facts

  1. Stock Symbol: GOOG (NASDAQ)
  2. Annual revenue (2007): $16.594 billion (United States)
  3. Founders: Sergey Brin and Larry Page
  4. Year established: 1998
  5. Phone: (650) 330-0100
  6. Fax: (650) 618-1499
  7. HQ: Mountain View, California
  8. CEO: Eric E. Schmidt
  9. CFO: George Reyes
  10. Staff: 19,156
  11. Products: Desktop, Mobile, Web and Hardware Computer products
  12. Google named in a 2009 Time Magazine article as one of ten U.S. companies not likely to experience layoffsTime Magazine: Ten American Companies That Won't Cut Jobs (February 20, 2009)
  13. On February 4, 2009, Google introduced Google Latitude, an add-on feature to Google Maps that uses GPS tracking to allow users to see where their contacts are on a map via a smartphoneCBS News: Google Offers "Latitude" To Track People (February 4, 2009)
  14. On February 24, 2009, Google launched a new tool bar for Internet Explorer that allows the user to search without opening the browserCNET: New Google toolbar for IE includes desktop search (February 24, 2009)

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