{"id":619717,"date":"2010-01-04T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Google-s-Most-Popular-Announcements-of-2009-Chrome-Os-and-Wave-131072.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-04T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T15:48:00","slug":"googles-most-popular-announcements-of-2009-chrome-os-and-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/619717","title":{"rendered":"Google's Most Popular Announcements of 2009: Chrome Os and Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google is now a huge company with several dozen big products. Yet, it’s struggling to maintain some of the things that people loved about it when it was a wee stratup. One aspect has been the way it chose to communicate with its customers and users, blogging, giving it a more human face while also showing that its eager to ‘eat its own dogfood’ by using Blogger, the company’s blog hosting platform. As 2009 came to a close, Google has taken a moment to look back on the year, as many have around this time, and to give itself a little pat on the back for five years of blogging.<\/p>\n

“You may have noticed 2009 marked our fifth year here on the Official Google Blog — our first post was in April 2004 — and it was our busiest year yet. This is our 423rd post of 2009 — a 15 percent increase over last year. We’re also pleased to note that a total of 14,493,472 readers stopped by this year, a 21 percent increase. You hail from all over: more than half of visitors are outside of the U.S,” Emily Wood and Jordan Newman, editors from Google Blog Team wrote.<\/p>\n

Not too shabby for the multi-billion dollar company, with almost 15 million readers, it would be quite a powerful blog in its own right. While the number of posts may have increased significantly, a relatively small number of post… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google is now a huge company with several dozen big products. Yet, it’s struggling to maintain some of the things that people loved about it when it was a wee stratup. One aspect has been the way it chose to communicate with its customers and users, blogging, giving it a more human face while also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Bdr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}