A search engine was built in January 1996, as a research project by Larry Page, who was soon joined by Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford University, California. This search engine was named “BackRub,” and it was the beginning of a new era. The name of this website was changed afterward to what we know now as “Google.” I have been studying the business case of Google in one of my MIS classes and using the information I gained from that course, I am able to talk about Google. Since my audience is the instructor and my classmates, Google helps you find information that you need for your daily life in college. I want my audience to know by the end of my speech about Google //what is the history of Google, /what makes it special, //and lessons to learn from the experience of Google’s founders.
First of all, where does the word “Google” come from? The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol,” which refers to 10100, the number represented by a 1 followed by one hundred zeros. It found its way to the English language, now the verb "Google", was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006, meaning, "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet." Their search engine was originally nicknamed "BackRub" because the system checked back links to estimate a site's importance. /// The start of Google was pretty much like the start of every website. It was a research project to these two Ph.D. Students where they hypothesized that a search engine that analyzed the relationships between websites would produce better ranking of results than existing techniques, which ranked results according to the number of times the search term appeared on a page. It was first related to the university’s domain, but then the traffic was so heavy that the university asked them to move their website to a domain outside the university. What made Google this popular was the speed it pulls out information, which is counted in parts of seconds. And also, the size of their data base, according to the instructor of our instructor in MIS class only 60% of data you found on Google are in other web search engines.
Google’s Stock Price was around $ 110, but it is now traded at around $500. What made this big difference? In order to understand why google’s stock price increased to reach this level we have to understand what makes it special from the way they treat their employees.
Google is multinational public corporation of United States of America that invested in cloud computing, Internet search and several advertising technologies. Its main business is to develop and host Internet based products and services. The company makes profit through “AdWords” which is internet based advertising program. The CEO of the company is Eric Schmidt. The company was founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page who are known as the “Google Guys”. In the beginning the company was registered as a private entity. In 2004 the company’s status changed from private to public concern. After the status of company changed Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page signed an agreement to work together at Google for twenty five year. The agreement will expire in 2029. The aim of the company was to make information universally available in an organized manner. Since then they have been doing this job excellently. The company’s headquarter is located at Mountain View, California.
Google is a well-known free net-search service that millions of people use around the world every day. Every time we don’t know the answer to something right away we take out our smart phones from our pockets and google it. The possibility to be able to google in a search engine is all to co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google was created in September 1998. The website can be used in 120 different language and more. It has 97% revenue in advertisement, making almost all of its profit on advertisement. Google is valued at USD $100 billion, first company to be known to be valued at this amount. The company was started up from a garage in Menlo Park, California.
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Google has many competitive advantages over other search engines in its industry. According to the textbook, the four building blocks of competitive advantage are efficiency, quality, innovation, and customer responsiveness. Google’s performance in all of these categories supersedes its competitors in the internet information provider industry.
Google makes our life easier. The company has grown from when it was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, to provide around fifty different products beyond the basic Google search. With the multitude of technologies, that vary from maps to docs, Google’s job consists of making it quicker and easier to find the information needed to get what you need to your task done. Google builds the background programs and helpful tools that millions of businesses use to succeed, as well as create products for the web that help the environment, and people get what they want on the Web faster. The culture at Google is based all around the people. The people are very intelligent and determined to achieve the companies shared goals. Everyone at Google has an o...
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, NASDAQ: GOOGL), is an international information technology pioneer that specializes in what way individuals access and interrelate with information over a wide variety of platforms. Google has changed a lot since it first started. In 1996 Google's creators, Larry Page and Sergey Brin made BackRub, the first version of Google. It was online for a year before they renamed it Google. The company continued to change after that by releasing Google Toolbar and Google AdWords in 2000, and in 2001 Google Groups. In 2001 the image search was released, and in 2002 Google News. In 2003 Google bought Pyra, the creators of Blogger, and released Google Book Search. Then, in 2005 Google Maps, Google Earth, Gmail and Google Talk were released. In 2006 Google acquired YouTube and SketchUp, and released Picasa, Google Docs, Google Financial, Google Calendar, and Google Trends. In 2007 the sky was featured in Google Earth, and Street View was introduced for a few cities in the U .S. Google Chrome was released in 2008 and 10 more languages were added to Google Translate, making the total of supported languages 23. The ocean began being shown in Google Earth in 2009, and the Nexus One smartphone was also released. Today, Google has many more projects than those listed and seems to want to expand into almost anything it can get its hands into.
Two graduate students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin came together to work on a research project at Stanford University's computer science department. At the time they began working together in 1995, they looked into developing a new search technology that would operate more efficiently and on a completely different principle than existing web search engines. At the time, the most common method utilized by the major search engines on the internet was returns based on how often keywords appear in a particular website. The theory behind Google...
Google is leader in global technology, and it has concentrated in making sure it improves how information is organized, and retrieved. This is through creation of search engines, which help users to locate information with ease, and quickly. Google has incorporated innovation in search engines, and advertising. This has made Google to be one of the leaders in internet, maintaining its lead in online index. It has always been competing with Yahoo, Microsoft and Bing in search engines, and Facebook in online advertisements (Google.com, 2010).
The Google company has engaged the controlling location and position in its industry since the launching due to its unique product which is a result of its unparalleled working location. Google has moved out on to achieve the largest share of online searching engine as it affords its users with a product that is difficulty exchanged even though there are a lot of challengers. By analyzing and examining the internal and external environment of the company, it is obvious that Google company is running un efficient machine, giving attention to the most of customers and it ensure that it offers a quick and reliable product to its customers.
Google is the most popular search engine used all over the world. Every month there are more than a billion searches conducted on Google. What makes Google so popular? The brain behind Google is its ranking algorithm. Every search engine provides essentially the same function, but this was not the case when the World Wide Web was originally created. The founders of Google created pagerank which set it apart from all other search engines. Google uses keywords and links from other pages to help sort the relevance of webpages on the WWW and determine if they are useful to the contents of the search. When a user searches a term, pagerank attempts to present the data in the most viable way. The purpose of this research paper is to explain and demonstrate how the pagerank algorithm works. The paper will first outline the origin of pagerank and why it was created. It will also discuss what has set it apart from other ranking systems that others developed around the same time. Secondly, it will demonstrate the method used to rank the listings from a web search. Lastly, th...
Google’s mission is to organize information from all around the world to be universally accessible and useful for users. Google is also well-known in Internet-related
Google continues to grow and innovate. Google focuses on the user and all else will follow. Since the beginning, they have focused on providing the best user experience possible, and take great care to ensure that they will ultimately serve their customers(Google.com n.d.). In relation to market development and product development the core values “Its best to do one thing really, really well (Google.com n.d.),” fits in with these strategies. “You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer (Google.com n.d.),” describes Goggle’s innovation to mobile platforms. “The need for information crosses all borders (Google.com n.d.).” Google company has grown and has offices in more then 60 countries, maintaining more then 180 internet domains, and serve more then half of their results to people outside of the United States, and this relates to concentrated growth strategy. “Great just isn’t good enough(Google.com n.d.).” Google continues to strive to reach for better ways of doing things, through innovation and integration, continue to improve things in unexpected ways (Google.com n.d.).
Google Inc. is a company that started in 2002 and has gradually grown to become an international technology company. Google’s business is mainly focused around vital areas, like advertising, search, operating platforms and systems and platforms, hardware products and enterprise. The company produces its revenue mainly by distributing online advertising. Google also produces revenues from Motorola through selling products. The company offers its services and products in over 100 languages and in over 50 regions, territories and countries. The company assimilates various features in its search service and gives dedicated search services to aid users modify their search. Google also gives product-listing advertisements, which comprise of product information, like price, merchant information and product image without needing ad text or extra keywords.
Search engines, specifically Google, have probably contributed more to the distribution of knowledge than any other invention since the creation of the printing press. Google was created by Larry Page and Serge...
2009 was a negative period for the United States economy. A big recession hit the country, and the founders of Google were trying to make a plan in order to make to limit the damage caused by an economic decline. Brin and Page the two creators of the giant Google were shocked form the situation that was occurring. Their company was feeling the effect of the economic downturn. Google’s stock price dropped 51 percent. The two entrepreneurs were trying to figure out a way to keep the company from drowning. Google main problem was how to maintain the culture that made the company successful in the previous two years. Some consequences that the company had to face was eliminating products that