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Some facts about google• Google is the most widely used search engine in the world• Google‘s name

– Google is a misspelling of the world googol. Googol means the number 1 followed by one hundred zeros• The name was chosen to show the large number of data provided

– The search engine was named BackRub before they changed the name to Google

• The algorithm that gives a rank to each page on the Google database, depending on it’s usefulness is called PageRank.

• The inofficial slogan of Google is “Don’t be evil.”• Google’s idea is to make “all of the world’s information

‘universally accessible and useful.”

Sources:[1], [2], [8]

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FOUNDING OF GOOGLEIn March 1996, the history of Google started.

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History of Google• The history of Google started as a research project in March 1996

– It was founded by the ‚Doctor of Philosophy‘ students Larry Page and Sergey Brin at the Stanford University.

– It was originally developed while working on the ‚Stanford Digital Library Project‘• Google was named ‚BackRub‘ at this time

• The PageRank algorithm was founded– The PageRank algorithm made the difference compared to other search

engines• The PageRank algorithm ranked the importance of websites based on the backlinks to

them from other websites• The PageRank algorithm is consisting of complicated Maths• Funny fact: It was not named after web pages, it was named after the Google founder

Larry Page– The Google Crawler started in March 1996 at the homepage of Page.

Sources:[2], [4], [5]

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Larry Page

• Lawrence Page is one of the co-founders of Google.

• He was born at March 26, 1973. He is 37 years old at the moment.

• Page will be Google‘s CEO from April 4, 2011 – replacing Eric Schmidt who becomes executive chairman

Sources:[6], [7]

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Sergey Brin• Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin was born in

August 21, 1973 in Russia• He immigrated into the USA at the

age of six• He received the bachelor of science

degree with honors in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland

• After the graduation he moved to Stanford– He wanted to receive a Ph.D in

Computer Science there

Sources:[10], [11]

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History of Google

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History of Google• Andy Bechtolsheim gave the first founding for Google on

August 1998 (100,000$). Google as a company didn‘t even exist at this time.

• They set up their „Google Workspace“ in a rented garage• In June 1999 they got a funding of 25$ million by the rival

venture capital firms „Kleiner Perkins“ and „Sequoia Capital“• Google started displaying text ads on their websites• Sequoia Capital forced Google to hire a CEO „or they would

take back the borrowed $12.5 million“ [4]– Google hired Eric Schmidt

Sources:[18], [4]

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Eric Schmidt

• Eric Schmidt was born on April 27, 1955 in Washington, DC

• In August 2001, he became Google CEO

• From August 28, 2006 to August 3, 2009 he was a member of the „board of directors“ of Apple Inc.

Sources:[27], [28]

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GOOGLE TODAY

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Working at Google• Google has achieved a Top 5 ranking in „FORTUNE‘s 100 Best Companies to

Work For“• Free breakfast, lunch, dinner• Free drinks at everytime, free snacks at everytime• „The goal is to strip away everything that gets in our employees‘ way. We

provide a standard package of fringe benefits, but on top of that are first-class dining factilities, gyms, laundry rooms, massage rooms, haircuts, carwashes, dry cleaning, commuting buses – just about anything a hardworking employee might want. Let‘s face it: programmers want to program, they don‘t want to do their laundry. So we make it easy for them to do both.“ – Eric Schmidt, CEO Google [20]

• You can read more at http://mashable.com/2010/07/05/google-employees-working-google/ and at http://www.google.com/jobs/lifeatgoogle/toptenreasons/index.html

Sources:[19], [20], [21], [25]

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Googleplex

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Googleplex• The „Googleplex“ is the headquarter of Google• It was built in 1997

– In 2003, Google leased the building• In 2006, Google purchased the Googleplex (for 319 mio.$) [15]

• It‘s located in Mountain View, California (near San Jose)• There are offices of Google in a lot of countries [14]• While „Google“ is a reference to „Googol“ - a 1 followed by 100 zeros – Googleplex is a

reference to „Googolplex“ which is a 10 followed by a googol zeros• Google offers their employees (from San Francisco, the East Bay or the South Bay) a free bus

shuttle („Google shuttle“) to and from work– It includes a free wifi hotspot– The shuttles run on biodiesel– When buses run late, riders can sign up to receive an alert on their computer or smartphone

• You can see photos of the Googleplex at http://goo.gl/HTGxR– A video tour through the Googleplex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFeLKXbnxxg

• Fun fact: There is a big green statue of the Android logo on the Google Campus– You can see it at http://goo.gl/lBgs8

Sources:[12], [13], [14], [15]

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Important milestones in the development of Google

• 2000– Google keyword advertising system „AdWords“ launched [22]

• 2001– Schmidt becomes CEO of Google and chairman of the board of directors [23]

• 2004– Intial offering of 19.6 million shares (Opening price: $85 per share) [24]

• 2006– Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion

• 2008– Google announces that their indexing system searches 1 trillion unique URLs [26]

• 2011– Page becomes CEO of Google on April 4

Sources:[16], [22], [23], [24], [4], [26]

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Google – the most powerful brand in the world

• Google was ranked the “most powerful brand in the world”

• Google‘s vision was often compared to Gutenberg – the authors of „The Google Story“ wrote: „Not since Gutenberg… has any new invention empowered individuals, and transformed access to information, as profoundly as Google.“ [9]

• You can read more over googles philosophy at http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html

Sources:[17], [9]

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Google products• Standalone applications

– Google Chrome– Google Earth– Picasa

• Online– AdSense– AdWords– Blogger– Calender– Docs– FeedBurner– Reader– Voice– YouTube

• Android• Search

– Blog search– Books– News

• And a lot more…

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