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Google Summer of Code's first results

On: Google's Summer of Code Over

[Sep 03, 2005] After September 1st (deadline for all student work), the first results of Google Summer of Code are being launched. These are some of the 'Open Source' projects developed with the help of the $4,500 provided by Google:

http://google-blog.dirson.com/post.new/0279/

Students only get $3150 from original $4500

On: Google Summer of Code Project Breakdown

"Students will receive only $3150 from the original $4500. According to Pedro Macedo, US government takes 30% of the grant via taxes."

http://google-blog.dirson.com/post.new/0265/

Google didn't cash 400,000 US$ during that time

On: Google DNS Glitch Caused Outage

According to gigaom.com, Google acknowledges having suffered a 'DNS blackout' for two hours (aprox) this past Saturday, and users couldn't access the search engine.

During Q1 2005, Google cashed $657 million by showing sponsored links on search results. This means 300,000 US$ per hour. Taking into account that this issue happened on Saturday (less users), we can estimate the 'non-revenue' figure in 400,000 US$ aprox, without considering other non-working services like Google AdSense, which probably suffered problems during this time.

http://google-blog.dirson.com/post.new/0260/

Some examples

On: Google Launches Google Print

via Google Blog I found two examples:

search mastering digital photography

search king lear