{"id":31,"date":"2007-12-11T19:17:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T00:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/11\/500000-dollar-google-usb-drive\/"},"modified":"2011-06-14T13:25:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T18:25:07","slug":"500000-dollar-google-usb-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/500000-dollar-google-usb-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"500,000 Dollar Google USB Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you might be expecting a USB  drive made of Gold with inlay diamonds sparkling away, but all that glitters isn&#8217;t gold, and as a matter of fact, you won&#8217;t find anything at all that is absolutely stunning. We merely want to show you what you could expect if you were to lay down about 500 big ones for Google advertising. We received the annual gift from Google and just wanted to show you what its all about.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation was nice and Google does a good job of customizing their gifts while incorporating a touch of advertising. The video below shows us opening the gift, and you can see by our excitement that when you get something from Google, it&#8217;s special. This is the video of what we like to call the $500,000 Google USB Drive.<\/p>\n<p><center> <object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/O_JsYncv_qM&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/O_JsYncv_qM&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/object><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/images\/google-xmas\/flashdrive1.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<h3>You choose where it goes<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nSo if you watched the video you will notice we received a card for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\" title=\"Donors Choose\" rel=\"nofollow\">DonorsChoose.org<\/a>, and it appears we have $100 dollars in credit to donate to a cause related to schooling. 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