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Money Saving Rules

Here are a few rules that will help you understand what you should change in order to feel financially stable for a rest of your life!

Rule 1) Always spend less than you earn

In fact, this is an excellent idea, because it is a very natural condition for a human being – the more we earn, the more we tend to spend as well.

But take notice – if all those additional purchases are only your wishes and dreams, rather than something significant and crucial for your comfortable lifestyle, start rethinking the way you are spending your money and maybe don’t always spend every single penny you own just because you can.

In fact, that money you saved will be pretty needed in the future, for instance, then you retire, or you need to pay your loans for house or education.

It always pays off to keep your money for a rainy day, rather than spend everything on fashionable outfits which won’t be necessary the next season. On the other hand, if something just has to be bought, you can start using a few money-saving tricks as well.

Rule 2) Money can’t buy happiness

The law is as old as the world, but is it entirely correct? The rule tells the truth then it comes to the knowledge that you have money, and that directly helps you to avoid stress and anxiety that often occurs when a person is unable to meet its basic needs just because of lack of money.

You will feel much freer, calmer and certainly happier when you do not have to save the last slice of bread and count every penny.

People with an annual income of 75 thousand dollars were feeling happier than those who had less income. Of course, this did not confirm the rule “the richer, the happier.”

People with an annual income of more than 75 thousand dollars did not feel happier than those who have less money. So here, we should remember one thing – money isn’t everything, and sometimes the more money you have, the more problems you have!

Rule 3) It’s not worth saving money because you won’t be able to take that with you in afterlife

The right idea?

As it turns out – not quite. In everyday life, this idea can actually be dangerous! First, you cannot know when your last hour will come, and you need money now to pay your bills and cover the loans.

Second, if you follow this idea, you will spend money on various unnecessary things just because life is short, and tomorrow might not come.

Such behavior will sooner or later lead to financial problems and impose a debt burden.

Also, note that in some cases, your spouse or another family member will have to take
responsibility for your loans and pay them after your time on Earth is over.

So, maybe forget this ancient rule and better think of people who you are going to leave behind – you don’t want to make more problems, do you?

Rule 4) Never borrow money and never ask for money yourself

Great idea. But not nowadays.

This rule maybe made sense 500 years ago, but in realities of the present day, we have to borrow money to buy an apartment or a car, to have a healthy, functional life!

In fact, Harvard University studies have shown that people can achieve a lot more in their lives if they have some property of their own, rather than people who don’t, even if their incomes are the same.

If you are more experienced with money, you can even take part in investment and gradually improve your financial well-being. Rich people know that money makes money, so in some cases, borrowing can be that one option to increase your life’s quality.

Rule 5) Do not borrow money from Peter to return money to John

Of course, this is a good idea. But it is not always practicable.

Nowadays, this rule can be applied for loans from the bank and not from individuals. This means if you borrowed money from one bank, do not borrow money from the second bank to return to the first.

Such behavior can help you only if the second bank gives you a loan with a lower interest rate than the first.

For example, you can save if the first bank loan is 8 percent per annum while the second – with 3 percent. But keep in mind that you can lose a lot of money by doing inter-bank transfers and get in more trouble than you had!

-BE INSPIRED

 Things To Do To Change Your Life Forever

The one constant thing in our life is CHANGE. We cannot avoid it and the more we resist change the tougher our life becomes. Trust me, I know this because I was very skilled at deflecting change in my life. We are surrounded by change and it is the one thing that has the most dramatic impact on our lives. Change has the ability to catch up with you at some point in your life. There is no avoiding it because it will find you, challenge you, and force you to reconsider how you live your life.

Change can come into our lives as a result of a crisis, as a result of choice or by chance. In either situation we are all faced with having to make a choice – do we make the change or not? I believe it is always better to make changes in your life when you choose to rather than being forced to.

We however cannot avoid the unexpected events (crisis) in our lives because it is these events that challenge our complacency in life. What we can control when we are experiencing these challenging events, is how we choose to respond to them. It is our power of choice that enables us to activate positive change in our lives.

Acting on our power of choice provides us with more opportunity to change our lives for the better. THE MORE OPPORTUNITIES WE CREATE TO CHANGE OUR LIVES THE MORE FULFILLED AND HAPPIER OUR LIVES BECOMES. Here are what you can do in your life that will change your life for the good, forever:

1. Find Meaning In Life

Spend some time trying to sort out what is important in your life and why is it important. What is it that you want to achieve in your life? What are your dreams? What makes your happy? Your meaning in life gives you purpose and sets the direction of how you want to live your life. Without meaning you will spend the rest of your life wandering through life aimlessly with no direction, focus, or purpose.

2. Create A Dream Board

When we were children we would daydream all the time. We were skilled at dreaming and visualising what we would be when we grew up. We believed that anything was possible. As we grew into adults we lost our ability to dream. Our dreams became hidden and once we started to feel like achieving our dreams was impossible.

A dream board is a great way for us to start believing in your own dreams again. Seeing our dreams every day on a dream board brings our dreams to life. Our dreams become real and we start to have believe in the possibility of achieving these dreams.

3. Set Your Goals To Achieve Your Dreams

Once you know what is important in your life and what your dream life looks like for you, you need to take action and set your long-term, medium, and short-term goals. It is acting on these goals that enable you to achieve your dreams

Remember your goals may change. Always be flexible with setting and achieving your goals as things in life change and your goals need to reflect these changes. It’s the small steps that you take that create the momentum for change to happen in your life.

4. Let Go Of Your Regrets

Regrets will only hold you back in life. Regrets are events of the past and if you spend all your time thinking about the past you will miss the present and the future. You cannot change what you did or did not do in the past, so let it go. The only thing you have control over now is how you choose to live your present and future life.

I had a heap of regrets that were holding me back in my life. I came across the “Balloon Exercise” and got rid of my regrets for good. What is it? It’s simple — blow up as many balloons as you need. On each balloon write a regret and then let the balloon go. As the balloon drifts off into the sky say goodbye to that regret forever. A simple and powerful exercise that works and can change how you live your life.

5. Start Living A Well-Balanced Life

Our health does not remain the same. Our physical, emotional, and spiritual state changes, as we get older. What we can control however is how we feed our minds and our bodies. Living a balanced and healthy life builds our resilience to the physical changes of our body. Exercise is the best way in which we can attain a positive and optimistic attitude toward life.

Living a healthy, well-balanced life with lots of exercise is a lifestyle choice that without a doubt will give you a happier more satisfied and fulfilled life.

6. Face Your Fears

Its easy to ignore our fears and hope that they will go away. Unfortunately, it does not work like that. If you want to change your life, learn to master your fears so they can’t control you any longer. Our fears are only thoughts in our minds that are not real but over time we have become to believe that they are true. It is our fears in life that stop us from living our life to the fullest. We know when our fears are controlling our lives because we feel discontent, dissatisfied and unfulfilled.

Once we face our fears we take back our power to choose how we want to live our lives and when we do this we change our lives forever.

7. Accept You

The only person who is going to create change in your life is you! and to create that change you have to like you. There will be times in your life where you will face rejection and there will be people who will not like you that much. Accepting who you are and loving yourself helps you to move forward in your life. Putting yourself down all the time and wishing you could be better will only lead you to a life of unhappiness and discontent.

Find your courage, love yourself, and step out and do something crazy. Don’t worry about what anyone thinks or whether it is the right thing to do. In your heart if it feels right, act on it and go create the life you love.

8. Live In The Moment

Many of us tend to think that the grass is greener on the other side. Often, we get to the other side of the fence we find that this is not so. The motivation to change our lives comes from our desire to be happy. We are often so busy focusing on our pursuit of happiness that we miss the joy of actually living in the moment. Our desire to have happiness in our lives is a desire of a future state not of the present. We become so consumed with all our problems and discontent in the present we miss the precious beauty of the moment.

Sitting on the beach eating an ice-cream with your best friend or partner is a moment of happiness. Appreciating and showing gratitude on a daily basis is experiencing happiness in the moment. Helping those in need brings joy and happiness to us. This is what living our life in the moment is all about – don’t miss these moments because you are too busy focusing on your pursuit of happiness.

9. Experience The Joy Of Learning

Each time you learn something new you gain more knowledge and with more knowledge comes more confidence. Learning helps us to be more adaptable and flexible to new situations. Learning encourages us to be more creative and innovative in our thinking and we are therefor more comfortable with the unknown.

Reading books is a great way for us to learn. To fully embrace the joy of learning, never stop reading nor searching for more knowledge. Learning gives our life meaning and this is what makes our life worthwhile.

You have a choice to make as to how you want to change your life. Choosing to act on these 10 things will, without a doubt change your life forever. So what are you waiting for? Go do these 10 things now!

-BE INPIRED

PEOPLE THAT HAVE CHANGED THE WORLD THAT WE ARE.

Billionaires and Top 20 Richest People in the Country Nigeria 2016

1. Alhaji Aliko Dangote – Dangote Group, (Manufacturing, oil & gas,)

2. Mike Adenuga – Conoil, Globacom (Oil & gas, Banking, Telecom)

3. Femi Otedola – Forte Oil and Gas (Oil & gas)

4. Orji Uzor Kalu – Slok Group (Aviation, Shipping, publishing, manufacturing)

5. Cosmos Maduka – Coscharis Group (Automobile, manufacturing)

6. Jimoh Ibrahim – Nicon Insurance, Global Fleet (Insurance, transportation, oil & gas)

7. Jim Ovia – Zenith Bank, Visafone (Banking, Telecom)

8. Pascal Dozie – MTN Nigeria, Diamond Bank (Banking, Telecom)

9. Oba Otudeko – Honeywell Group Nigeria, Pivotal Engineering, Airtel (Manufacturing, oil & gas, telecom)

10. Alhaji Sayyu Dantata – MRS Group (Oil & gas, construction)

11. Umaru Abdul Mutallab – former Chairman First Bank Plc, Mutallab Group

12. Prince Samuel Adedoyin – Doyin Group (manufacturing, pharmaceuticals)

13. Dele Fajemirokun – Chaiman Aiico Insurance, Xerox Nigeria, Chicken Republic, Kings Guards (Insurance, Security, Technology, Food retailing)

14. Chief Cletus Ibeto – Ibeto Group (Trading, manufacturing, oil & gas)

15. Tony Ezenna – Orange Group (Pharmaceutical, oil & gas)

16. Chief Molade Okoya Thomas – Chairman CFAO Nig and other six french companies(Automobiles)

17. Leo Stan Ekeh – Zinox (Computer, technology)

18. Fola Adeola – GTBank (Banking)

19. Chief Ade Ojo - Elizade Motor Nig LTD, Distributor of Toyota cars (Auto retailing)

20. Abdulsamad Rabiu – Bua Group (Oil & gas, manufacturing)

Note:

Purpose of this list is to inform you, Educate and inspire you. And this list changes from time to time as the time changes… I will be glad to include your name soon Fam. See you at the top.

• BE INSPIRED.

-        AM LIKE AN OCEAN THAT NEVER GET DRY CAUSE I'VE FOUND MY SPOT..... HAVE YOU FOUND YOURS?

BEST WAYS TO MAKE A FAST GROWTH.

1.     STAY AWAY FROM PEOPLE THAT DON’T BELIEVE IN YOU: 

      You don’t want to waste your time with these people, spending too much time with them kills your self esteem and morale. They won’t do you any good kill that dream, swag, motivation and energy of yours. Just run for your safety, don’t discuss your dreams with them. But you can wave them from a distance.

2.     ALWAYS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT LIFE (NEVER STOP BELIEVING YOU CAN MAKE IT): 

      What we become is what we think about, and what we say shows who we’re. The difference between achievers and the others is what they think about always. The worse thing a man can do to himself is given up. Always think the end from the beginning.

3.     BUILD YOUR OWN ENVIRONMENT IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE ONE YOU ARE:

Maybe you find yourself in a place that is affecting your thought and growth negatively, you have to create your own environment. Buy yourself some materials that will get you busy and take your mind off that environment that you’re. It might be music, book, and video or attend tutorial classes.

4.     BE VERY CLEAR OF WHAT GOD WANT YOU TO DO: 

      Sometimes we run our own race forgetting that we are all built and created for a purpose. You need to know that purpose. The earlier the better for you Fam. Being clear of what God want from you help you in every area, it help you psychologically to produce excellent things.. (lol. I can write a whole book on this).

5.     STAY FOCUS: 

      Be successful in one thing before you move to another. Focus your energy to one direction and when you are successful at that, you can move to another.  Jack of all trade mostly leads to nothing.

6.     SET YOUR MIND ON THINGS THAT YOU WANT ALWAYS: 

      If you want to experience fast growth you need to start thinking about things you want to achieve and not things that you don’t want. Our mind is the most powerful tool, its bigger than anything you can see with your physical eyes.

7.     WAKE UP EVERYDAY AND PRACTISE: 

      Time has thought me that if you can practise that thing you want to achieve for 6-weeks max, you will be addicted to it. Your body can riot against your practise but remember that if you can control your mind, you can control anything you want.

8.     HAVE A COMPETITOR AND SET A TAGET:  

      Get a rival, not a weak link but someone that you can compete with (mostly someone better than you). It can be your friend, family or someone else. Use your mouth to set a competition with him or them. It will make you do more and achieve more. CR7 once said, “ Messi made me a better player”.

9.     ASK YOURSELF SOME SINCERE QUESTIONS:

1. WHY AM I DOING?

2. CAN THIS THING AM DOING CHANGE LIFES AND NOT ONLY MINE?

3. IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, WILL I STILL BE DOING THIS?

4. AM I IN-CHARGE OF MY SITUATION OR THE OTHER WAY ROUND?

5. HOW DO I WANT PEOPLE TO SEE ME?

1.  DO A SELF REVISION: 

    Get a pen and write out things you have achieved and things that you haven’t achieved. And map out what it will take for you to achieve them. 

-        BE INSPIRED.

10 Things To Do To CHANGE Your Life For Good.

The one constant thing in our life is change. We cannot avoid it and the more we resist change the tougher our life becomes. Trust me, I know this because I was very skilled at deflecting change in my life. We are surrounded by change and it is the one thing that has the most dramatic impact on our lives. Change has the ability to catch up with you at some point in your life. There is no avoiding it because it will find you, challenge you, and force you to reconsider how you live your life.

Change can come into our lives as a result of a crisis, as a result of choice or by chance. In either situation we are all faced with having to make a choice – do we make the change or not? I believe it is always better to make changes in your life when you choose to rather than being forced to.

We however cannot avoid the unexpected events (crisis) in our lives because it is these events that challenge our complacency in life. What we can control when we are experiencing these challenging events, is how we choose to respond to them. It is our power of choice that enables us to activate positive change in our lives.

Acting on our power of choice provides us with more opportunity to change our lives for the better. The more opportunities we create to change our lives the more fulfilled and happier our lives become. Here are 10 things that you can do in your life that will change your life for the good, forever:

1. Find Meaning In Life

Spend some time trying to sort out what is important in your life and why is it important. What is it that you want to achieve in your life? What are your dreams? What makes your happy? Your meaning in life gives you purpose and sets the direction of how you want to live your life. Without meaning you will spend the rest of your life wandering through life aimlessly with no direction, focus, or purpose.

2. Create A Dream Board

When we were children we would daydream all the time. We were skilled at dreaming and visualising what we would be when we grew up. We believed that anything was possible. As we grew into adults we lost our ability to dream. Our dreams became hidden and once we started to feel like achieving our dreams was impossible.

A dream board is a great way for us to start believing in your own dreams again. Seeing our dreams every day on a dream board brings our dreams to life. Our dreams become real and we start to have believe in the possibility of achieving these dreams.

3. Set Your Goals To Achieve Your Dreams

Once you know what is important in your life and what your dream life looks like for you, you need to take action and set your long-term, medium, and short-term goals. It is acting on these goals that enable you to achieve your dreams

Remember your goals may change. Always be flexible with setting and achieving your goals as things in life change and your goals need to reflect these changes. It’s the small steps that you take that create the momentum for change to happen in your life.

4. Let Go Of Your Regrets

Regrets will only hold you back in life. Regrets are events of the past and if you spend all your time thinking about the past you will miss the present and the future. You cannot change what you did or did not do in the past, so let it go. The only thing you have control over now is how you choose to live your present and future life.

I had a heap of regrets that were holding me back in my life. I came across the “Balloon Exercise” and got rid of my regrets for good. What is it? It’s simple — blow up as many balloons as you need. On each balloon write a regret and then let the balloon go. As the balloon drifts off into the sky say goodbye to that regret forever. A simple and powerful exercise that works and can change how you live your life.

5. Choose Some Really Scary Things To Do And Then Do Them

This is all about you choosing to step out of your comfort zone. Public speaking is one of the most frightening things anyone can do. I was petrified of public speaking however, I knew that I wanted to be a motivational speaker. So I joined Toast Masters to overcome my fear of public speaking. My first speech was terrible, my knees were knocking, I broke out in a sweat and I couldn’t stop shaking. But I did it and the feeling of completing this speech, even though it was terrible was great. I chose to keep going and now I earn a living as a motivational speaker. I am still nervous when I get up to speak however it is an excited nervous and I love it.

Make a list of scary things that you would kind of like to do but are too afraid to. Put a plan in place and then go do them. Never stop doing scary things because if you do your life will become one of complacency and comfort.

6. Start Living A Well-Balanced Life

Our health does not remain the same. Our physical, emotional, and spiritual state changes, as we get older. What we can control however is how we feed our minds and our bodies. Living a balanced and healthy life builds our resilience to the physical changes of our body. Exercise is the best way in which we can attain a positive and optimistic attitude toward life.

Living a healthy, well-balanced life with lots of exercise is a lifestyle choice that without a doubt will give you a happier more satisfied and fulfilled life.

7. Face Your Fears

Its easy to ignore our fears and hope that they will go away. Unfortunately, it does not work like that. If you want to change your life, learn to master your fears so they can’t control you any longer. Our fears are only thoughts in our minds that are not real but over time we have become to believe that they are true. It is our fears in life that stop us from living our life to the fullest. We know when our fears are controlling our lives because we feel discontent, dissatisfied and unfulfilled.

Once we face our fears we take back our power to choose how we want to live our lives and when we do this we change our lives forever.

8. Accept You

The only person who is going to create change in your life is you! and to create that change you have to like you. There will be times in your life where you will face rejection and there will be people who will not like you that much. Accepting who you are and loving yourself helps you to move forward in your life. Putting yourself down all the time and wishing you could be better will only lead you to a life of unhappiness and discontent.

Find your courage, love yourself, and step out and do something crazy. Don’t worry about what anyone thinks or whether it is the right thing to do. In your heart if it feels right, act on it and go create the life you love.

9. Live In The Moment

Many of us tend to think that the grass is greener on the other side. Often, we get to the other side of the fence we find that this is not so. The motivation to change our lives comes from our desire to be happy. We are often so busy focusing on our pursuit of happiness that we miss the joy of actually living in the moment. Our desire to have happiness in our lives is a desire of a future state not of the present. We become so consumed with all our problems and discontent in the present we miss the precious beauty of the moment.

Sitting on the beach eating an ice-cream with your best friend or partner is a moment of happiness. Appreciating and showing gratitude on a daily basis is experiencing happiness in the moment. Helping those in need brings joy and happiness to us. This is what living our life in the moment is all about – don’t miss these moments because you are too busy focusing on your pursuit of happiness.

10. Experience The Joy Of Learning

Each time you learn something new you gain more knowledge and with more knowledge comes more confidence. Learning helps us to be more adaptable and flexible to new situations. Learning encourages us to be more creative and innovative in our thinking and we are therefor more comfortable with the unknown.

Reading books is a great way for us to learn. To fully embrace the joy of learning, never stop reading nor searching for more knowledge. Learning gives our life meaning and this is what makes our life worthwhile.

You have a choice to make as to how you want to change your life. Choosing to act on these 10 things will, without a doubt change your life forever. So what are you waiting for? Go do these 10 things now!

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future”

~ John F. Kennedy.

- Be Inspired.

Names Of The Most Popular 

Adopted People In The World.  

Faith Hill

Daunte Culpepper

Sheryl Crow

Tom Cruise

Nicole Kidman

Bill Clinton

Oprah Winfrey

Angelina Jolie

Brad pitt

Bruce willis

Dave Thomas

Sandra Bullock

Jamie Lee Curtis

Hugh Jackman

Steve Jobs (co-founder of Apple)

Nelson Mandela (human rights activist)

Allan "apl.de.ap" Pineda Lindo, jr. (singer, member of Black Eyed Peas)

Jamie Foxx (singer, actor)

Larry Ellison (co-founder and CEO of Oracle)

The Late First Lady Nancy Reagan

Malcolm X (human rights activist)

Mother Teresa (humanitarian)

Moses (biblical leader)

Lynette Cole (Miss USA 2000)

Nat King Cole (singer)

Tim McGraw (singer)

Tom Monaghan (founder of Domino's Pizza, owner of Detroit Tigers)

 THE JOURNEY SO FAR (GOOGLE BRIEF).

Google began in March 1995 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford University.^[2]

In search of a dissertation theme, Page had been considering—among other things—exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge graph.^[3] His supervisor, Terry Winograd, encouraged him to pick this idea (which Page later recalled as "the best advice I ever got"^[4]) and Page focused on the problem of finding out which web pages link to a given page, based on the consideration that the number and nature of such backlinks was valuable information for an analysis of that page (with the role of citations in academic publishing in mind).^[3]

In his research project, nicknamed "BackRub", Page was soon joined by Brin, who was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.^[5] Brin was already a close friend, whom Page had first met in the summer of 1995—Page was part of a group of potential new students that Brin had volunteered to show around the campus.^[3] Both Brin and Page were working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The SDLP's goal was “to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library" and it was funded through the National Science Foundation, among other federal agencies.^[5][6][7][8]

Page's web crawler began exploring the web in March 1996, with Page's own Stanford home page serving as the only starting point.^[3]To convert the backlink data that it gathered for a given web page into a measure of importance, Brin and Page developed thePageRank algorithm.^[3] While analyzing BackRub's output—which, for a given URL, consisted of a list of backlinks ranked by importance—the pair realized that a search engine based on PageRank would produce better results than existing techniques (existing search engines at the time essentially ranked results according to how many times the search term appeared on a page).^[3][9]

Convinced that the pages with the most links to them from other highly relevant Web pages must be the most relevant pages associated with the search, Page and Brin tested their thesis as part of their studies, and laid the foundation for their search engine

Some Rough Statistics (from August 29th, 1996)

Total indexable HTML urls: 75.2306 Million

Total content downloaded: 207.022 gigabytes

BackRub is written in Java and Python and runs on several Sun Ultras and Intel Pentiums running Linux. The primary database is kept on a Sun Ultra II with 28GB of disk. Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg have provided a great deal of very talented implementation help. Sergey Brin has also been very involved and deserves many thanks.

The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol",^[70][71] which refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros. Page and Brin write in their original paper on PageRank:^[72] "We chose our systems name, Google, because it is a common spelling of googol, or 10¹⁰⁰ and fits well with our goal of building very large-scale search engines."

There are uses of the name going back at least as far as the creation of the comic strip character Barney Google in 1919. Enid Blyton used the phrase "Google Bun" inThe Magic Faraway Tree (published 1941) The Folk of the Faraway Tree (published 1946),^[73] and called a clown character "Google" in Circus Days Again (published 1942).^[74] There is also the Googleplex Star Thinker from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In March 1996 a business called Groove Track Productions applied for a United States trademark for "Google" for various products including several categories of clothing, stuffed toys, board games, and candy. The firm abandoned its application in July 1997.

Having found its way increasingly into everyday language, the verb "google" was added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006, meaning "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet." The use of the term itself reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.^[71] In November 2009, the Global Language Monitor named "Google" No. 7 on its Top Words of the Decade list.^[78] In December 2009 the BBC highlighted Google in their "Portrait of the Decade (Words)" series.^[79] In May 2012, David Elliott filed a complaint against Google, Inc. claiming that Google’s once distinctive mark GOOGLE® has become generic and lacks trademark significance due to its common use as a transitive verb. After losing to Google in UDRP proceedings involving many “Google-related” domain name registrations that he owns, Elliott now seeks a declaratory judgment that his domain names are rightfully his, that they do not infringe any trademark rights Google may own, and that all Google’s registered GOOGLE® marks should be cancelled since “Google” is now a common generic word worldwide that means “to search the Internet.”

Google has worked with several corporations, in order to improve production and services. On September 28, 2005, Google announced a long-term research partnership with NASA which would involve Google building a 1,000,000-square-foot (93,000 m²) R&D center at NASA's Ames Research Center. NASA and Google are planning to work together on a variety of areas, including large-scale data management, massively distributed computing, bio-info-nano convergence, and encouragement of the entrepreneurial space industry. The new building would also include labs, offices, and housing for Google engineers.^[89] In October 2006, Google formed a partnership with Sun Microsystems to help share and distribute each other's technologies. As part of the partnership Google will hire employees to help theopen source office program OpenOffice.org.^[34]

Time Warner's AOL unit and Google unveiled an expanded partnership on December 21, 2005, including an enhanced global advertising partnership and a US$1 billion investment by Google for a 5% stake in AOL.^[90] As part of the collaboration, Google plans to work with AOL on video search and offer AOL's premium-video service within Google Video. This did not allow users of Google Video to search for AOL's premium-video services. Display advertising throughout the Google network will also increase.

In August 2006, Google signed a $900 million offer with News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media unit to provide search and advertising on MySpace and other News Corp. websites including IGN, AmericanIdol.com, Fox.com, and Rotten Tomatoes, although Fox Sports is not included as a deal already exists between News Corp. andMSN.^[91][92]

On December 6, 2006, British Sky Broadcasting released details of a Sky and Google alliance.^[93] This includes a feature where Gmail will link with Sky and host a mail service for Sky, incorporating the email domain "@sky.com".

In 2007, Google displaced America Online as a key partner and sponsor of the NORAD Tracks Santa program.^[94][95][96] Google Earth was used for the first time to give visitors to the website the impression that they were following Santa Claus' progress i. The program also made its presence known on YouTube in 2007 as part of its partnership with Google.^[98]

In January 2009, Google announced a partnership with the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, allowing the Pope to have his own channel on YouTube.

In January 2013, Google announced a partnership with Kia Motors and Hyundai. The partnership integrates Google Maps and Place into new car models to be released later in 2013.^[100]

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