A 'Thank You' from Google

Re:A 'Thank You' from Google by foobob on Sunday December 19, 2010 @10:29PM (#2023211)

20 million.

That's less than 0.1% of what Gates donates. That's about 0.01% of Google's market cap. That's about 4.6 work-hours of Google revenues.

Google is counting on people not having a feeling for what "million" and "billion" mean, aside from both being big numbers.

And part of what was advertised was charities using Google Apps.

I like Google, but this feels pretty cynical.

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Re:A 'Thank You' from Google by magicalist on Sunday December 19, 2010 @11:14PM (#2023289)

according to http://www.google.org/ they gave "over $100 million in 2009." I'm not sure what this 20 million refers to, but it's not their total giving.

also, with Bill Gates you appear to be comparing total donations vs some yearly amount.

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