Google X was a project released by Google Labs on March 15, 2005 and rescinded a day later. Google Labs is a website demonstrating new Google projects "that aren't quite ready for prime time" Events 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. It consisted of the traditional Google search bar, but it was made to look like the Dock user interface feature of Apple's Mac OS X operating system. Google Inc is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online A dock is a User interface feature of a number of Operating systems that typically provides a user with a way of launching and switching Interface generally refers to an abstraction that an entity provides of itself to the outside Apple Inc, ( formerly Apple Computer Inc, is an American Multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing Consumer electronics Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently An operating system (commonly abbreviated OS and O/S) is the software component of a Computer system that is responsible for the management and coordination [1]
Google has not released any official statement as to why the project was shut down. Apple has patent protection covering the implementation of the Dock effect, together with trademark protection for the graphical design elements of the Dock. Software patent does not have a universally accepted definition A trademark or trade mark, represented by the symbols ™ and ®, or mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual
Since Google X has been taken down, several mirrors still exist.