Google takes Top CHOICE Technology Innovator award over Apple and Amazon
Posted on March 20, 2010 by by valerirojas
It seems that search engine giant Google is also the most popular technology company in Australia beating Apple and Amazon to the top CHOICE Innovator award.
CHOICE, the independent consumer advocacy group named Google the Best Technology Innovator on Monday 15th of March and Apple and Amazon were the runners-up.
For the 2009 Best Technology Innovator Award, the winning company had to meet the following criteria and deliver innovative products over the past 12 months.
- Award criteria
- Innovation
- Value
- Transparency
- Social benefits
- Competition
- Reliability
Reason why Google won the award via CHOICE:
Winner: Google
Google continues to release innovative products that are often completely free for consumers to use.
In 2009 Google released Android, a new open-source smartphone operating system that promises to give the iPhone a run for its money; Google Wave, a new take on communication and collaboration tools; and Google Chrome, competing with browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Chrome also came top in CHOICE Computer’s 2010 browser test comparing performance, features and compliance with web standards.
Google also takes social responsibility seriously. In response to the Haiti earthquake, appeals were posted on the Google homepage – the most viewed webpage in the world – with no promotion of any kind. And in a widely supported decision, Google has threatened to pull out its entire business from China, the world’s largest market, over alleged censorship by the government.
