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Vocabulary
The burning man The burning man organization (black rock city LLC) creates the infrastructure of black rock city, wherein attendees (or "participants") dedicate themselves to the spirit of community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance.
Spare Additional to what is required for ordinary use.
Antitrust Preventing or controlling trusts or other monopolies,
Era A long and distinct period of history.
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Industry: Internet
Computer software
Telecoms equipment
Founded: Menlo Park, California
(September 4, 1998)
Founder(s): Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Headquarter: Googleplex, Mountain View, California, U.S.[3]
Area served: Worldwide
Key people: Larry Page (CEO)
Eric Schmidt (Chairman)
Sergey Brin
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to sell Google in 1999 because they felt it was taking too much time away from their studies.
They offered Excite CEO George Bell the opportunity to buy the company for $1 million but he rejected the offer.
Today, Google’s total assets amount to $110 billion and it pulled in $59 billion in revenue in 2013. It has over a billion unique visitors every month.
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THE FIRST GOOGLE LOGO
Google’s first name was Backrub.
Backrub’s logo was simply a scan Larry Page’s hand from a flatbed scanner.
Later Larry and Sergey decided a new name Google –
a play on the word “googol,” a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.
It reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
After the name change, the new logo is designed in 1997. The first logo looks like a ‘Wordart’.
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THE FIRST GOOGLE DOODLE was an out-of-office message. The day was August 30, 1998 -- Brin and Larry Page spent the last week of August 1998 to go to the Burning Man festival. they needed a way to let people know they were away.
The pair decided on a little icon -- the Burning Man logo -- and placed the spare stick figure behind Google's second "o." They published the new image to their site on the World Wide Web.
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CRITICISM OF GOOGLE
Criticism of Google includes alleged misuse and manipulation of search results, its use of others' intellectual property, concerns that its compilation of data may violate people's privacy, censorship of search results and content, and the energy consumption of its servers as well as concerns over traditional business issues such as antitrust, monopoly, and restraint of trade.
Google's stated mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"; this mission, and the means used to accomplish it, have raised concerns among the company's critics. Much of the criticism pertains to issues that have not yet been addressed by cyber law.
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MILESTONE
Milestone #1: September 4, 1997 — Google Launched: Here’s an early version of the Google home page. Notice the standard font, the “Stanford Search” link, and, more impressively, the note that the “Index contains ~25 million Web pages (soon to be much bigger).”
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Milestone #2: June 26, 2000 — The Search Index
Google kicked off the new millennium Internet Era as the largest search engine in the world. In just three short years, Google had indexed over one billion Web documents; it would reach three billion less than two years after, and 1 trillion unique URLs were indexed by 2008.
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Milestone #3: July 28, 2001 — Google Image Search
Searching through the billions of images published online is truly one of the most valuable things Google Search offers after its Web page crawler.
Milestone #4: April 1, 2004 — Gmail
Milestone #5: May 16, 2007 — Universal Search
Marissa Mayer, then VP of Search Products & User Experience at Google, described Universal Search as “one of the biggest architectural, ranking, and interface challenges we would face at Google.” This was the first step in changing the Google Search Engine Results Page (SERP) into the rich search experience that it has become today.
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Milestone #6:
August 25, 2008 — Google Suggest
Milestone #7:
May 12, 2009 –
Google Search Options
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IN THE COMPANY
New employees are called "Nooglers,“ and are given apropeller beanie cap to wear on their first Friday.
Bicycles painted in the corporate color scheme are available for free use by any employee travelling around the Googleplex
Google's first production server. Google's production servers continue to be built with inexpensive hardware
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HOW IMPORTANT IS GOOGLE FOR YOU?