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Latest comment: 4 days ago by Alenoach in topic Organization
Former good articleGoogle was one of the Engineering and technology good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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Semi-protected edit request on 24 July 2026

Latest comment: 2 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

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

Organization

Latest comment: 4 days ago4 comments2 people in discussion

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.

Subcats

  • 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

Notable pages (without subcat)

  • 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.

Articles

[1] [2] [3] [4]

News

This might be a bias thing because the media loves to promote itself but I see a lot of sources about Google News. Since this is really part of the search, I'll include here.

Corporate Affairs

IPO

Largely the same as current section

Articles

[5] [6] [7]

Founding

Largely the same as the current beginning of history

primary

[8] [9]

[10]

book

[11]

[12]

[13]

articles

[14][15]

Company culture

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

Articles

[16]

Don't be evil starts chapter 4.[13]

Maven[17][18]

Sexual Harrasment[19][20][21][22]

COVID[23][24]

Union[25]

Contractors has dated statement from 2019 probably should be replaced with a graph of contractors over time as any one year statement cannot really capture what is going on here.

Acquisitions

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.

Articles

Youtube [26] [27][28]

DoubleClick [29] [30] [31]

MotorolaMobile[32][33]

Waze[34]

DeepMind[35][36][37]

Alphabet[38][39][40]

Advertising

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.

books

[41]

Cost per click model is first introduced to Google in 2000 by Overture but founders reject mixing organic and paid results. "In October 2000, Google introduced its first advertising program, called AdWords." Charged based on number of views, companies select which keywords to display for. "GoTo had already tied up other search engines, making Google less attractive to advertisers." "advertisers were not inclined to place their dollars on search keywords" as this was not an idea they were accustomed to. "Page and Brin insisted that all advertising be relevant to the keywords, Google only allowed ads to appear in 15 percent of all searches, which meant that Google was forgoing advertising dollars if the ads were not judged “relevant.”"[11]

Through 2001 this remains the advertising program with only four employees. In February 2002, the cost per click model was introduced. This was a significant change in advertising models because it rewarded advertisers for making their adds relevant as measured by the click frequency on search terms selected by the advertiser. The prices were set by a Vickery auction and ads had a syndicated display on many websites rather than websites selected by the advertisers.[13] (chapter 4)

In 2003, AdSense began as a way for Google and third party websites to make money. Keywords from search, emails, and other webistes were aggregated to select ads for display on the websites. Then the website and Google split the fee from the advertisers.[13] (chapter 4)

articles

[42] [43] [44] [45]

On profit [46][47][48]

Chrome

Youtube

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

Articles

[49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59]

Software

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

Google Books is mentioned extensively in Auletta's book. Will probably include here.

Articles

[60] [61]

Consumer Hardware

Section on phones, fiber, others

Data centers

Some mention of google energy in here

Articles

[62] [63] [64]

Artificial Intelligence

Articles

[65] [66] [67] [68] [69] [70]

Litigation

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

Need Author's guild lawsuit. Viacom video content.

Articles

[71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77]


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
I changed back the section name "Corporate Affairs" to "History" for now, because there was already a "Corporate affairs" section. Also, I think the paragraph removed here was quite good and is probably worth keeping somewhere, let me know if you disagree. Alenoach (talk) 01:08, 20 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Why re-edit the words people type text with gets adjusted to be typed differently

Latest comment: 14 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Something I noticed ~2026-47627-11 (talk) 20:03, 2 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

~2026-47627-11, the Talk page is for discussing how an article can be improved. For questions about a subject in general, you might consider asking the Wikipedia reference desk instead. GrinningIodize (you just lost the game) (talk) 22:39, 9 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
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