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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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9 Comments »
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.