Google: Not American’s Most Admired Company (But Almost)
FORTUNE magazine released its America’s Most Admired Companies of 2008 list, and guess what? Google was not rated number one. Hard to believe? Well, they did make number four. Apple took the top position, which doesn’t surprise me since everyone I know is buying Macs, even oureditor-in-chief, Danny. Google ranked at number four while Microsoft […]
Barry Schwartz on March 4, 2008 at 8:42 am | Reading time: 1 minute
FORTUNE magazine released its America’s Most Admired Companies of 2008 list, and guess what? Google was not rated number one. Hard to believe? Well, they did make number four. Apple took the top position, which doesn’t surprise me since everyone I know is buying Macs, even oureditor-in-chief, Danny.
Google ranked at number four while Microsoft ranked at sixteen. Yahoo did not make the list.
Here are the top 20:
- Apple
- Berkshire Hathaway
- General Electric
- Toyota Motor
- Starbucks
- FedEx
- Procter & Gamble
- Johnson & Johnson
- Goldman Sachs Group
- Target
- Southwest Airlines
- American Express
- BMW
- Costco Wholesale
- Microsoft
- United Parcel Service
- Cisco Systems
- 3M
- Nordstrom
Hat tip to Gary Price for spotting this ranking.
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.