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Google is celebrating its 28th anniversary, marking the occasion with a retro-style doodle on its homepage. Mexican outlet Excélsior notes the milestone and revisits the origin of the company's name, a play on the word 'googol', the mathematical term for a very large number. Readers are sharing memories of how the search engine has changed daily life since its founding in 1998.
- 2Conversations Chat App Goes Free, Drops Google Play●Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
Daniel Gultsch, developer of the Android XMPP chat app Conversations, has announced the app is now free and is breaking up with Google Play. In a blog post he explains the decision to leave Google's store and stop charging for the app, a move drawing attention among open-source and messaging communities who see it as a notable stance against app store fees and platform dependence.