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Surprising Google domains predict the future
March 17th, 2007 by 
Jay Westerdal
We took a look at all the domains Google owns and we found some interesting things. Domains often predict the future because a company can’t announce something publicly without having the domain name first. So to get the scoop on a Google we started to look at some of the domains they own.
- Oct 2000 - Sergey Brin.com - Defensive Registration of a co-founder but they forgot to get Larry Page.com.
- Oct 2001 - Schoogle.com - Perhaps an alternative name to Google Scholar.
- March 2002 - Fourth-Party.com - Why would Google register this?
- May 2002 - Fire Hunt.com - Looks like Google quietly bought this company.
- June 2002 - Blazing Search.com - Related to Fire Hunt
- July 2002 - Cobra Search.com - Related to Fire Hunt
- Jan 2003 - Charity Visa.com & Charity Debit Card.com - Perhaps Google wants to get into the Credit Card business.
- Feb 2003 - Got Google.com - Marketing department wanted to make bumper stickers or shirts.
- Feb 2004 - Google MasterCard.com - Google wrestled this away from the copycat
- May 2004 - Google Time Warner.com - Just in case they bought Time Warner back in 2004.
- Feb 2005 - Every Classified.com - Google’s alternative name to Google Base.
- June 2005 - Free-Wifi.info - But they don’t own the non-hyphen version or the .COM, bad tip off they want better names.
- April 2006 - Participating Store.com - Two months before Google Checkout launches.
- June 2006 - Bay Area Burritos.com - Maybe a Google local search sample site that never launched.
- Aug 2006 - Image Labeler.com & Google Image Labeler.com - One day before launching they bought the domain.
- Aug 2006 - Bench-Index.com - Secret Benchmark Utility?
- Aug 2006 - Beach Wood Car Care.com - Maybe another future Google local search sample site.
- Sept 2006 - Search Mash.com - Registered twenty days before they silently launched this new search engine.
- Feb 2007 - Guxiang Com.com - A miss-spelling of a chinese portal.
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March 18th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Anyone know the history of Forth Party? That domain seems out of place for Google.
March 18th, 2007 at 10:35 am
I would nominate BeachWoodCarCare.com as the weirdest domain Google owns as well. Either they plan to become Domain parkers or this will be a sample site for Google Local.
March 18th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Hmmm… I think that Google is planning to get into the AdSense business. lol
March 28th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Wednesday Tech Buzz - March 28, 2007
A list of all the domains Google owns and the interesting things behind them.