- Motto: don't be evil
- founded in 1998
- started out with just a search engine, become global vacuum
- founder: Stanford, Sergey Brin , Larry inventor
- created server with off the shelf computer hardware, borrowed from the university.
-Better more user friendly (google: looked at the number of the links, altavista: looked at the number of the times it's been written.)
- goal: to make the world a better place
- changed dramatically over 10 years
-had problems with copyright in the beginning ( books, YouTube, streets( privacy) **I think it's a good idea**
- googol: the number 10^100, or 1 followed by 100 zeros
- first employer : Craig silver stein
- the 3 of them opened up the corporation in a garage in California
-Raymond Stanley joined in 1999
-started google ads
- thinks that it's important to spend 20% of the week for your own time
- came up with the idea of posting targeted ads through scanning emails
- receives more than 1 million job applications
- google headquarters tries to make it's employees feel as comfortable as possible
- as technological as google is, they still use whiteboards for creativity
- operate mainly electronically so it can be shared among people
- google owns google earth, Picasa, YouTube
they have enough money to experiment on different things
- google believes in cloud computing (being able to access information anywhere anytime)
- tries to put all the memory onto the google servers, so that it can stay there safely
- 4PB= 4 million GB
- about 3 dozen database centers (powerhouse) around the globe
- china blocks google sometimes
- china average age using Internet 25, USA 42
- china tends to use the internet to entertain themselves
-Cloud Computing cons: Government can force google to handover all the information (subpoena)
- google social networking : ofrienda?
-googles future depends on trust (people not hacking information)
- goal: to make information accessible anywhere within 300 years
I think Gogle is an excellent site. It makes people be able access information easier. I use Google very often in my life. I think that Google will change the world.
