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Article milestones Date Process Result May 15, 2004 Featured article candidate Not promoted April 25, 2005 Featured article candidate Not promoted December 20, 2005 Good article nominee Listed May 17, 2006 Peer review Reviewed March 3, 2007 Featured article candidate Not promoted April 13, 2007 Peer review Reviewed October 5, 2007 Peer review Reviewed August 2, 2008 Good article reassessment Delisted March 19, 2010 Peer review Reviewed April 1, 2010 Good article nominee Not listed August 11, 2010 Good article nominee Listed August 14, 2010 Peer review Reviewed November 20, 2015 Good article reassessment Delisted A news item involving this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "In the news" column on August 15, 2011. Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on September 7, 2008, September 4, 2010, September 4, 2012, September 4, 2015, and September 4, 2018. Current status: Delisted good article

Google CodeFGoogle CodeF was merged into this article. The discussion was closed on 2 February 2016 with a consensus to merge. The original page is now a redirect to this article. Its history now serves to provide attribution for the content in this article, and it must not be deleted as long as this article exists.

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Change quantum computing to quantum physical AGI ~2026-41225-50 (talk) 08:11, 24 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

•  Not done: This would need a source and Google Quantum AI is linked for a more detailed explanation.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 08:22, 24 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

What should the structure of the Google article be?

I previously performed this exercise on OpenAI which I think was beneficial. Google is a much larger topic. I will start with a review of Category:Google. This Category has 24 sub cats.

I also reviewed the talk archive for section and organization. Which I do not think warrants further discussion.

• Google.org - not planned to represent
• Google Events- not planned to represent
• Google lists - not planned to represent
• Criticism of Google - obviously needs to be represented. Following WP:CRITS I would prefer to try to include this content as it belongs in other sections
• Games on Google Platforms - will mention Google Stadia but not a whole section. The Andriod section should mention games
• Google aquisitions - planned section
• Google disambiguation pages- not planned to represent
• Google domain names - not planned to represent
• Google India - not planned to represent
• GV (company) - just mention existence
• Google hardware - planned section
• History of google - several mentions
• List of programming languages designed by Google- mention
• Google litigation - section
• Google people -These people should be mentioned where they apply in other sections
• Google buildings and structures - plan to mention some of these but not all, no section
• Screenshots of Google-owned web pages- not planned to represent
• Google services - section
• Google Docs Editors - mention in above
• Google software - include in services section
• Works about Google - good for sources, no plan to include
• X Development - maybe mention? No section
• Lunar X prize - No plan to represent
• Stubs - No plan to represent
• China - some mention

• Google Chrome
• Google Gemini - planning an AI section
• Side project time - potential mention
• Google Maps

Proposed Structure Each of these would be a top level section

Introduce the creation and growth of search. Largely leave advertising out so that has its own section. Several of the above sources should be used here as well. I think the Google Search page can be made into a GA itself. This article can excerpt the lead.

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Largely the same as current section

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Largely the same as the current beginning of history

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Briefly mention offices in here. Some mention of union stuff, don't be evil, project maven, 20% time, lobbying

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Maven^[17][18]

Sexual Harrasment^{[19][20][21][22]}

COVID^[23][24]

Union^[25]

Try to chronologically introduce all the companies Google acquired. All the notable motivations for the acquisition. Anything notable about the acquisition itself.

End this with the Alphabet creation.

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MotorolaMobile^[32][33]

Waze^[34]

DeepMind^[35][36][37]

Alphabet^[38][39][40]

Focus on what advertising means for google with a bit of the history of the advertising part of the business. I feel like this section is missing good sources on wikipedia right now.

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Some info in the acquisitions section and then anything else here.

For all the software not including, Chrome, Youtube, and search.

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Section on phones, fiber, others

Some mention of google energy in here

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For litigation that is notable but not easily covered in other sections. Planning to include monopoly stuff here too.

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Czarking0 (talk) 01:14, 10 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi, regarding the overall plan, it seems reasonable overall as far as I can tell, but I have some doubt that the IPO is worth a top-level section. Would it make sense to have both "Corporate affairs" and "Company culture" as top-level sections, with IPO inside "Corporate affairs"? It's also a little awkward to have a "Software" section despite having another section, "Chrome", that is also about software. It's hard to cleanly decompose "Products and services" into multiple sections. Alenoach (talk) 01:29, 16 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

I see your point on the IPO, I will adjust this plan to fit that. I think a products and services is too broad and for a topic this large will lead to a bloated mega section. To me, it is more important that the organization leads to a good article for the reader and gives structure to where future editors add content than that it 100% makes taxonomic sense. At a minimum I think advertising and search should have top level sections. Personally I think Youtube and Chrome also deserve top level sections but I could see the argument against it.

One of my problems with the current organization is the mindset of an editor who comes to this page to add a new fact. The editor will ask themselves does my fact belong in section X. A history section is bad because it will almost always lead the editor to answer this question in the affirmative. I feel similarly about Product and services. Czarking0 (talk) 15:14, 16 August 2026 (UTC)Reply