MEETING DATE: Fri April 21, 2006 

Mike Austin has been a Networking and Computer professional for many years. In the past, he’s presented to our group on subjects such as Networking and most recently on "Speedup and Cleanup Your PC". He’s a long time loyal member of BCUG. He served on our board at one time and has contributed many software products, training tapes, CDs and books to the club over the years.

This month, Mike is back to give us the scoop on Google. We all know Google as a great search engine, but the company has become much more than that. Mike Austin will talk to us about the corporation itself and the many faces of Google from Google News, their current affairs site, Froogle, shopping, Google Videos, the site that scores TV & movie descriptions, Google Local, their Business Phone Directory, and G-Mail, Google's web based email service and more. Find out how Google and the US government are going head-to-head on privacy and how Microsoft and Apple are watching over their corporate shoulders as Google pops up everywhere.