Larry
Page, Co-Founder of Google •
January
23, 2011. • 102 Larry
Page New Google CEO / •
Google Inc. announced that it's
co-founder
-- Larry Page, Google's
37-year-old --will
reclaim the top job from Eric
Schmidt, the boardroom veteran
who brought corporate discipline
to the fledgling Web start-up a
decade ago, helping it become the
world's most popular search
engine.
•••
But even though it has matured
into a powerful company with a
rich stock price and enviable
profits, Google is facing
increasing competition from
younger upstarts such as Facebook
Inc., the social networking
phenomenon that is vying with
Google for Internet advertising
revenue.
•••
To get back its mojo, Google may
be returning to its start-up
roots.
•••
"A lot of the growth of the
company used to be driven by
innovation," said Yun Kim, an
analyst at investment firm
Gleacher & Co. "Having
someone with the very strong
products background that Larry
has could bring some in Schmidt,
55, will remain as executive
chairman and will advise Page and
Sergey Brin, Google's other
co-founder. Brin will give up his
title as co-president to work on
high-priority projects.
•••
One of those projects is believed
to be social networking tools to
counter the growing popularity of
Facebook, which has supplanted
Google as Internet's most
talked-about and closely watched
company.
•••
While Google is showing great
promise with its Android
operating system that will power
a new generation of smart phones
and tablet computers, it has yet
to come up with a satisfactory
counterpunch to the growing
competitive threat of Facebook,
prompting a period of
soul-searching at the company,
which is facing one of its few
direct challenges in the years it
has ruled Internet
advertising.
•••
The surprise shake-up, which will
take effect April 4, was
announced Thursday after the
close of regular trading on Wall
Street.
•••
Investors liked the move. Google
shares jumped to $635.50 in
after-hours trading, after
falling $4.98 to $626.77 in the
regular session.
•••
Schmidt took over as chief
executive from Page, then 28, in
July 2001. Schmidt, a seasoned
Silicon Valley veteran who had
served as CEO of Novell and chief
technology officer of Sun
Microsystems, was brought in to
provide some "adult
supervision."
He helped the
company earn a profit in 2002 and
guided it a 2004 initial public
offering that at the time was the
biggest for an Internet company.
Over the years, he won kudos for
shepherding the company's
fast-growing business and its
headstrong founders, who remained
deeply involved in the company's
products and strategic direction
and didn't always see eye to eye
with Schmidt.
•••
On his Twitter account on
Thursday, Schmidt wrote:
"Day-to-day adult supervision is
no longer needed."
•••
"I believe Larry is ready" to
take over as CEO, Schmidt said
during a call with analysts.
"It's time for him to have a shot
at running this." •
In recent months, Schmidt had
assumed more -- of an
ambassador role for Google, which
is under heavy scrutiny from
regulators in the United States
and abroad and faces growing
questions about its ability to
innovate and compete against
Internet upstarts such as
Facebook, whose CEO is its
tech-savvy founder Mark
Zuckerberg.
•••
"We will see if Larry can
integrate more tightly the
technology with the business
model," BGC Partners analyst
Colin Gillis said.
•••
Few were surprised that Schmidt
desired more of a
behind-the-scenes role as he had
grown increasingly weary of the
intense scrutiny and heavy
demands of running a public
company with the international
profile of Google.
•••
He had stopped participating in
Google's quarterly calls to
discuss earnings with analysts.
And he had expressed frustration
with how his comments -- some say
gaffes -- on how Google
approaches consumer privacy had
been picked apart by pundits and
lampooned on late-night
television.
•••
But many in Silicon Valley were
stunned that Page had decided to
retake the reins, having given no
public hints of his personal
ambitions.
•••
"It was a big surprise," said
Danny Sullivan, editor of the
blog SearchEngineLand, who has
tracked Google since it was
founded. "I'd seen no indications
that this was something he
wanted." • Page, a prodigy who
began playing with computers at the age of 6, has always
been more reclusive than either
Schmidt or Brin.
•••
Page and Brin were Stanford
graduate students in the
mid-1990s when they undertook a
research project to find a better
way to search the Internet,
creating the foundation of
Google. Google's search algorithm
PageRank is named after Page.
•••
They formed the company in a Palo
Alto garage in 1998, and Page ran
the company for three years until
it reached 200 employees. Page
and Brin have always approached
business differently. In a
founders' letter to investors,
they said: "Google is not a
conventional company. We do not
intend to become one."
•••
One of the best examples of its
unusual approach was its
management triumvirate. The
company had maintained that the
leadership arrangement helped
boost its business.
•••
Though the move to install Page
was widely seen as an effort to
put engineering first, analysts
noted that he has been closely
involved with business operations
as well.
•••
"There's always a risk with a CEO
change, but I'm sure Larry has
had a fair amount of input into
the strategic direction and even
the day-to-day operations of the
company already, so I would not
expect dramatic changes," said
John Lutz, senior research
analyst at Frost Investment
Advisors, which owns Google
shares. •
Page will take over a company
that is, by most measures, a gold
mine. •••
Google, bolstered by the uptick
in holiday spending, said its
fourth-quarter profit rose 29% to
$2.54 billion from $1.97 billion
a year earlier. Revenue for the
Web search giant climbed to $8.44
billion, up 26% from the same
quarter in 2009.
•••
Paid clicks, which include clicks
related to ads served on Google
sites and the sites of its
partners, increased about 18%,
Google said.
•••
In a conference call, Schmidt
said the three men for years had
made decisions together but that
it was a slow process. The new
management structure will
streamline decision making, he
said.
•••
That decision making will be
crucial in the coming year as
Google attempts to reclaim its
status as one of technology's
companies to watch.
•••
Google's sweeping ambition is to
reach people wherever they are
and on whatever device they are
using and connect them to a wide
array of services and content.
All that information collected
across devices and services could
give Google valuable insight into
users and better means to deliver
personalized advertising
campaigns. If it's successful,
Google could regain its clout on
Wall Street as a growth rather
than a value player.
•••
With the rising popularity of
smart phones and tablet
computers, Google has pushed its
Android mobile operating system
that is powering new devices to
compete with Apple Inc.'s fleet
of consumer gadgets.
•••
"I don't think the Street is
particularly aware of what is
coming with Android and tablets.
And the accelerating use of smart
phones and tablets plays directly
to Google's strengths," Macquarie
Securities analyst Ben Schachter
said.
•••
"The more people using the
Internet, the more Google
wins." • Schmidt calls it "the
big mobile revolution." "As I think about Google's
strategic initiatives in 2011, I
realize they're all about
mobile," Schmidt wrote recently
in the Harvard Business
Review.
•••
To achieve its goals, Schmidt
said, Google would have to do
"some serious spade work" on
three fronts: speed up networks,
turn mobile phones into virtual
wallets and lower the cost of
smart phones in the poorest
reaches of the world.
•••
"We envision literally a billion
people getting inexpensive,
browser-based touch-screen phones
over the next few years," he
wrote. "Can you imagine how this
will change their awareness of
local and global information and
their notion of education? And
that will be just the start."
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02.
TIMELINE
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Life
- ACHIEVEMENTS
• 2010 - Jan 23:Google
Inc. co-founders Larry Page and
Sergey Brin plan to sell 5
million shares apiece of their
company stock, worth $5.5 billion
combined at current prices. •••
According to regulatory
documents, Page and Brin will
still own 47.7 million shares or
48% of the voting power, combined
after their personal stock sales.
Google Chief Executive Eric
Schmidt controls nearly 10%
voting power. The trio will still
continue to control the
company.
•
The sales will occur
periodically during the next five
years and leave the two with 48%
of the voting power among
stockholders, down from roughly
59% now. A tviNews blog
report ---- The
beginings of Google
Along with Sergey Brin, Larry
Page brought Google to life in
September 1998. By April 2001,
Page moved into his role as
products president, heading 200
employees. ----As
of June 30, 2007.
the
company has expanded itself to
more than
13,748
full-time employees.
----
By August
19, 2004, Google raised $1.67
billion in their IPO efforts,
making Google worth more than $23
billion. In June 2004, Google had
2,292
workers. ----He
continues to share responsibility
for Google's day-to-day
operations with both Eric Schmidt
and Sergey Brin. CLICK
FOR MORE WiTEL Internet
TIMELINE AT
A GLANCE: Name origin: A play
on "googol," the number
represented by the numeral 1
followed by 100
zeros.
•
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Headquarters:
The Googleplex in Mountain View,
Calif.
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CEO: Eric
Schmidt, a veteran of Novell Inc.
and Sun Microsystems, who joined
in August 2001.
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Founders:
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, while
Stanford University graduate
students
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IPO: Aug.
19, 2004; raised $1.67 billion,
making Google worth more than $23
billion
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Current
market value: $177 billion
•
•
2006
revenue: $10.6 billion
•
•
Employees:
13,748 full-time employees as of
June 30. In June 2004, Google had
2,292 workers. Employees are
"Googlers"; new workers,
"Nooglers"; and former employees,
"Xooglers."
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•
Amenities:
Gourmet food, on-site doctors,
shuttle service, oil change,
carwash, dry cleaning, massage
therapy, gym, hair stylist,
fitness classes, bike repair.
Source: LATimes
research.
---- Right
from the start, Google was well
suited for the television screen.
Page envisioned the big picture
right from the beginning.
See
YouTube. ---- It
has always been part of Google's
mission to enable user
contributed content, such as
blogs and now video content,
because the Internet and the
digital tools create a platform
for millions of directors, said
Page's co-founder Sergey Brin,
who along with Page was
responding to press questions in
the hallway after the keynote.
Page was asked about how Google
would deal with porn and other
unsavory submissions. He said
that there are "tons of issues,
but we have found in
experimenting not to try to have
too many barriers. It's hard to
predict what will happen, but we
have done this ten times and we
figure out ways to make it
work."
-----2003
- 2004 - 2005. In the
beginning Forbes estimated his
net worth at $550 million.
"Whoops", says Forbes, in 2004,
since taking his Internet search
engine public in August 2004, the
dynamic thinkers behind Google
has seen their combined fortune
soar to $8 billion. Both of the
thinkers, Sergey Brin and his
partner, Larry Page, have math
teacher parents. (see
Troy Cory's story about his first
story in a Google chat
room). ---- Google
also has a service that searches
what's on TV. To search TV
programming you enter search
terms and Google Video search the
closed captioning text of all the
programs it has
archived. ---- It's
not hard to imaging Google
building out its infrastructure
to allow for billing
applications, such as
micropayments, so that the
millions of directors, authors
and chatterers can get paid if
they choose, and even a DVR
hosting service to go along with
Gmail and other Google apps. It's
safe to say the the cable
industry just looks like fat
pipes and content to Google, and
everything else is fair game. Larry
Page, Google Co-Founder &
President, Products ---- Larry
Page, along with Sergey Brin,
came up with the idea for a
better search engine while
working on their Ph.D.s in
computer science at Stanford.
---The
son of Michigan State University
computer science professor Dr.
Carl Victor Page, Page's love of
computers began at age
six. While following in his
father's footsteps in academics,
Page became an honors graduate
from the University of Michigan,
where he earned a bachelor of
science degree in engineering,
with a concentration on computer
engineering. During his time in
Ann Arbor, Page served as
president of the University's Eta
Kappa Nu Honor Society and built
a programmable plotter and inkjet
printer out of Lego™. ----While
in the Ph.D. program in computer
science at Stanford University,
Page met Sergey Brin and together
they developed and ran Google,
which began operating in 1998.
Page went on leave from Stanford
after earning his master's
degree. He was granted an
honorary MBA by Instituto de
Empresa and was the first
recipient of the University of
Michigan Alumni Society Recent
Engineering Graduate
Award. ----Larry
has been a speaker at such forums
as the Technology, Entertainment
and Design Conference, The Wall
Street Journal Technology Summit,
the World Economic Forum and the
Commonwealth Club. He was named a
World Economic Forum Global
Leader for Tomorrow in 2002 as
well as a "Young Innovator Who
Will Create the Future" by MIT's
Technology Review magazine. Page
is a member of the National
Advisory Committee (NAC) for the
University of Michigan College of
Engineering, has been recognized
as Research and Development
Magazine's Innovator of the Year
and was elected to the National
Academy of Engineering in
2004.
-----
It
was at Stanford where Larry met
Brin, and where they worked on
the project that they named
Google. Together, in 1998, they
founded Google Inc., where Larry
continues to share responsibility
for day-to-day operations with
Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt.
-----Like
Brin, Larry's research interests
include search engines,
information extraction from
unstructured sources, and data
mining of large text collections
and scientific data. Along with
Sergey, Larry has published;
"Scalable Techniques for Mining
Casual Structures"; "Dynamic
Itemset Counting and Implication
Rules for Market Basket Data";
and "Beyond Market Baskets:
Generalizing Association Rules to
Correlations."
-----Larry
has been a featured speaker at
several international academic,
business and technology forums,
including the World Economic
Forum and the Technology,
Entertainment and Design
Conference. He and Sergey were
named "Persons of the Week" by
ABC World News
Tonight.
•
1973
-
Larry
Page: Born, ; Born: March 26,
1973 (1973-03-26), Lansing,
Michigan Marital
Status: single; Hometown:
San Francisco, CA; Graduate:
University of Michigan, where he
earned a bachelor of science
degree in engineering, majoring
in computer
engineering.••Google
co-founder Larry Pag, and
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates
personally lobbied FCC
commissioners to open up access
to the vacant channels, which
range from about a third of the
TV airwaves in major cities such
as Los Angeles to three-quarters
of the airwaves in rural
areas.
•••These
companies are plaaning to build
the WiTEL, WiFi and WiMAX-187
infrastructure to connect the
airwaves to their Internet WiTEL
devices, such as installing
transmitters on existing WiTEL
cellular towers.
•••Although
they could charge users for those
connections -- in the same way
that some coffee shops charge for
access to their Wi-Fi hot spots
-- Google and others are expected
to offer them for free, recouping
the cost through sales of
white-space-enabled devices and
online advertising.
•••"This
is a clear victory for Internet
users and anyone who wants good
wireless communications," Google
co-founder Larry Page said.
1995
March-December 1995 Larry
Page and Sergey Brin meet at a
spring gathering of new Stanford
University Ph.D. computer science
candidates. By year's end, they
collaborate to develop technology
that will become the foundation
for the Google search
engine.
1996-1997
January 1996-December 1997 Larry
and Sergey Brin create
BackRub, the precursor to
the Google search
engine.
1998
January-July 1998 Larry
and Sergey continue to perfect
Google's search technology.
Larry's Stanford dorm room
becomes Google's data center
while Sergey's room serves as the
business office. They start their
own company with the
encouragement of Yahoo!
co-founder and fellow Stanford
alumi David Filo. August-December 1998
Larry and Sergey Brin, putting
their studies on hold, raise $1
million in funding from family,
friends, and angel investors to
start Google. On September 7,
1998 Google is incorporated and
moves to its first office in a
friend's Menlo Park, Calif.
garage with four employees.
Google answers 10,000 search
queries per day. PC Magazine
includes Google, which is still
in beta, in the list of Top 100
Web Sites and Search Engines for
1998. In
1998 - With partner
Sergey
Brin, Larry
founded
Google. Larry Page grew up in
Michigan, and met Sergey at
Stanford while pursuing graduate
degrees in computer science.
Created Google: Internet gateway
uses more than 10,000 networked
computers to comb through 3
billion Web pages.
-----
They
Raised $25 million from starmaker
venture capital firms Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers and
Sequoia Capital. Recruited
seasoned tech exec Eric Schmidt
(see) to run company
-----Page
heads products division. Eschewed
traditional Wall Street IPO in
favor of Dutch auction, then
riled SEC after Playboy published
interview in the mandated "quiet
period." No matter. Google
founders still bigger stars than
any centerfold. Title: President
(Products) and Co-founder. 1995 to 2000 Highlights
-Sergey
Brin, along with Larry Page came
up with the idea for a better
search engine while working on
their Ph.D.s in computer science
at Stanford. Since then, the
company has expanded to more than
1,900 employees worldwide, with a
management team that represents
some of the most experienced
technology professionals in the
industry. Dr. Eric E. Schmidt
joined Google as chairman and
chief executive officer in
2001.
1999
February-June 1999 Google
moves its headquarters to
University Avenue in Palo Alto,
Calif. with eight employees and
answers 500,000 search queries
per day. Red Hat becomes
Google's first commercial
customer. Google receives $25
million in equity funding from
Sequoia Capital and Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Sequoia's Michael Moritz, Kleiner
Perkins' John Doerr and angel
investor Ram Shriram join
Google's board of directors.
AOL/Netscape incorporates
Google's search technology into
its Netcenter portal. August-December 1999
Google moves its headquarters to
Mountain View, Calif. and
officially launches its
destination site. The company
performs 3 million searches
per day and has 39 employees.
Virgilio, the leading online
portal in Italy, selects Google
to provide Google WebSearch™
services. Google wins a number of
awards less than four months
later, including PC
Magazine's Technical
Excellence Award for Innovation
in Web Application Development,
Shift and P.O.V.
magazines' list of 100 Best Web
Sites for 1999 lists, and
TIME magazine's Top Ten
Best Cybertech list for
1999.
2000
January-April 2000 Google
introduces the first
comprehensive wireless search
technology for WAP phones and
handheld devices, and launches a
full suite of automated, highly
customizable Google WebSearch
services. Google also
incorporates Netscape's Open
Directory Project, which expands
and augments Google's Web search
results with hand-selected
directory listings. Yahoo!
Internet Life magazine names
Google the Best Search Engine
on the Internet; Smart
Computing magazine names
Google to its 50 Hot Technologies
list. May-June 2000
Google launches search
capabilities in 10 non-English
language versions, and wins the
prestigious Webby awards for Best
Technical Achievement for 2000
and People's Voice Award in the
Technical Achievement category
for 2000.
Google becomes the largest search
engine on the Web, with a new
index comprising 1 billion URLs.
Yahoo! selects Google as its
default search results provider
to complement Yahoo!'s Web
directory and navigational guide.
Google answers 18 million
search queries per day. August-October
2000
Google signs
agreements with leading portals
and websites in the United
States, Europe and Asia; launches
advertising programs to
complement its growing search
services business; and introduces
a number of expanded search
features including Google Number
Search™ (GNS) which makes
wireless data entry easy and
faster on WAP phones. Forbes
includes Google in its Best of
the Web round-up, PC World
calls Google the Best Bet Search
Engine; and Google is awarded
WIRED Readers Raves for
Most Intelligent Agent on the
Internet. November-December
2000
Google answers
more than 60 million searches
per day. The Google index
comprises more than 1.3 billion
Web pages. Google launches the
Google Toolbar™, a
downloadable browser plug-in that
increases users' ability to find
information from any web page
anywhere on the web. PC
Magazine UK honors Google
with Best Internet Innovation
Award.
2001
/ January-February Google answers more
than 100 million searches per
day. Google acquires
Deja.com's Usenet archive dating
back to 1995. Google releases new
wireless search technology
specifically designed for i-mode
mobile phones in Japan. Vizzavi's
European multi-access portal
chooses Google for its search
engine. Google also launches
Google PhoneBook, which provides
publicly available phone numbers
and addresses search results. •
2001
- January-February - Google
answers more than 100 million
searches per day. Google acquires
Deja.com's Usenet archive dating
back to 1995. Google releases new
wireless search technology
specifically designed for i-mode
mobile phones in Japan. Vizzavi's
European multi-access portal
chooses Google for its search
engine. Google also launches
Google PhoneBook, which provides
publicly available phone numbers
and addresses search results. •
2001
- March-April - Dr. Eric
Schmidt, chairman and CEO of
Novell and a former CTO at Sun
Microsystems, joins Google as
chairman of the board of
directors. Google powers search
services at Yahoo! Japan, Fujitsu
NIFTY and NEC BIGLOBE, the top
three portals in Japan, as well
as corporate sites Procter &
Gamble, IDG.net (comprising 300
sites), Vodaphone, and
MarthaStewart.com. •
2001
- May-June - Handspring
integrates Google's search
technology into its Blazer web
browser, available for any
Palm-based handheld computer.
Google powers 130 portal and
destination sites in 30
countries. Google adds Yahoo!,
Procter & Gamble, IDG.net
(comprising more than 300 sites),
Vodafone, MarthaStewart.com,
Sprint and Handspring to its
growing list of search services
customers. Google's advertising
programs attract more than 350
Premium Sponsorship advertisers
and thousands of AdWords
advertisers, and delivers
clickthrough rates four to five
times higher than clickthrough
rates for traditional banner
ads. •
2001
- Google offers country
domains in the U.K., Germany,
France, Italy, Switzerland,
Canada, Japan, and Korea. Users
can select Google's interface in
nearly 40 non-English languages.
Users can also restrict their
searches to pages written in any
one of 26 languages supported by
Google's language search
capability. Google's automatic
translation feature translates
pages found in the search results
into a user's preferred
language. •
2001
- July-August - Dr. Eric E.
Schmidt is appointed new Google
CEO while co-founders Larry Page
and Sergey Brin become president,
products and president,
technology respectively. Google
wins another Webby, this time in
the new Best Practices category.
Google brings search to Cingular
Wireless users and to more than
300 of Sony's corporate websites.
New Google Image Search index
launches with 250 million images
and date range search becomes
available through the Google
advanced search page. Search
patterns, trends and surprises
are published in the Google
Zeitgeist. Google partners with
Logitech to provide
iTouch™-enabled mice and
keyboard users instant access to
the Google search engine. •
2001
- September-October - Google
purchases the technology assets
of Outride, Inc. Universo Online
(UOL) partners with Google to
provide millions of UOL users
throughout Brazil and Latin
America immediate access to the
Google search engine. The new
tabbed home page interface goes
live on Google.com and 25
international sites. With the
addition of Arabic and Turkish,
Google users can now limit their
searches to web pages written in
28 languages. The Google Toolbar
launches versions in five new
languages. Google provides search
to Lycos Korea users. Google
partners with AT&T Wireless
to provide AT&T Digital
PocketNet® customers access
to the world's largest search
engine. Google expands
partnership with NEC to provide
site search for NEC's corporate
website. Google launches file
type search and expands its
search into more than a dozen
formats. •
2001
- November-December - Google
increases the size and scope of
searchable information available
through the Google Search Engine
to 3 billion web documents.
Included in the 3 billion web
documents is an archive of Usenet
messages dating back to 1981.
Google offers users an overview
of the day's news with Google
News Headlines. With the addition
of an advanced search page and a
larger collection of images,
Google Image Search comes out of
beta. Google launches a beta test
of Google Catalog Search and
enables users to search and
browse more than 1,100 mail-order
catalogs. Google continues global
expansion with new sales offices
in Hamburg, Germany and Tokyo,
Japan. Google publishes a unique
retrospective on 2001 search
patterns and trends with the
Year-End Google
Zeitgeist.
2003 •
2002
- January-February - Google
announces the availability of the
Google Search Appliance, an
integrated hardware/software
solution that extends the power
of Google to corporate intranets
and web servers. To commemorate
its third year of delivering the
best search experience on the
web, Google initiates its first
annual Programming Contest.
Earthlink launches a redesigned
search function powered by the
Google search engine. Google
launches AdWords Select™, an
updated version of the AdWords
self-service advertising system
with a number of new
enhancements, including
cost-per-click (CPC)-based
pricing. •
2002
- Google is honored with
"Outstanding Search Service",
"Best Image Search Engine", "Best
Design", "Most Webmaster Friendly
Search Engine", and "Best Search
Feature" (Google Toolbar and
Google Cache) in the 2001 Search
Engine Watch Awards. Google
continues the expansion of its
global capabilities by launching
interface translations for
Belarusian, Javanese, Occitan,
Thai, Urdu, Klingon, Bihari, and
Gujarati, bringing the total
number of interface language
options to 74. Google also
increases the number of languages
restricts to 35 with the
additions of Bulgarian, Catalan,
Croatian, Indonesian, Serbian,
Slovak, and Slovenian. •
2002
- March-April - Google
enhances its search service with
several new features designed to
enrich search and navigation on
the World Wide Web. A beta
version of Google News is
launched which presents
continuously updated information
culled from many of the world's
news sources. The company offers
Google Compute, a new Google
Toolbar feature that accesses
idle cycles on Google users'
computers for working on complex
scientific problems. The first
beneficiary of this effort is
Folding@home, a non-profit
research project at Stanford
University that is trying to
understand the structure of
proteins so they can develop
better treatments for a number of
illnesses. •
2002
- Google reaches out to the
software developer community with
the Google Web APIs service,
which enables programmers and
researchers to develop software
that accesses billions of web
documents as a resource in their
applications. PigeonRank, an
April's Fools play on our own
patented PageRank technology, is
revealed on the Google home page.
Google's founders, Larry Page and
Sergey Brin, are named to
InfoWorld's list of "Top Ten
Technology Innovators" and Google
wins an M.I.T Sloan eBusiness
award as the "Student's
Choice." •
2002
- May-June - Google and AOL
announce a search services and
syndicated advertising agreement
to provide results to AOL's 34
million members and millions of
visitors to AOL.com. Google
launches Google Labs
(http://labs.google.com), where
users can play with Google's
latest search technologies while
they're still in the early stages
of development. Google also
reveals several new enhancements
to its popular Google Toolbar
software, including an
Experimental Features page
(linked from the bottom of the
Google Toolbar options page) that
offers the latest search tools
developed by the Google Toolbar
team. Seven new Google Toolbar
interface languages are
introduced, including traditional
and simplified Chinese, Catalan,
Polish, Swedish, Russian, and
Romanian. With the addition of
these languages, the Google
Toolbar is now available in 20
interface languages. •
2002
- Google continues its
international expansion, opening
an office in Paris to complement
its existing international
offices in London, Toronto,
Hamburg and Tokyo. Google
announces the winner of the 2002
Google Programming Contest, its
first. The $10,000 prize goes to
Daniel Egnor of New York, who
created a geographic search
program that enables users to
search for web pages within a
specified geographic area. •
2002
- July - August - Google and
Ask Jeeves announce a syndicated
advertising agreement to provide
Google ads on Ask.com properties.
An agreement is signed with
InfoSpace.com to provide Google
advertising and search results on
InfoSpace.com and its properties
including Dogpile, MetaCrawler,
WebCrawler, and Excite, among
others. And a syndicated
advertising and search services
agreement is inked with AT&T
for its AT&T WorldNet
service. The Google Index
increases in size to nearly 2.5
billion web pages. Google adds
former Sun Microsystems executive
George Reyes to its management
team as Chief Financial Officer.
Google hosts its first
GoogleDance at the Googleplex,
entertaining more than 500
attendees from the Search Engine
Strategies conference in San
Jose, Calif., with food, drink,
music, and lively
conversation. •
2002
- September - October -
Google takes its self-service
advertising program to a global
audience, launching the Google
AdWords service in the United
Kingdom, Germany, France, and
Japan. Google announces the
GB-5005, a midrange Google Search
Appliance that complements the
existing GB-1001 and GB-8008,
launched in February, 2002.
Google also introduces an updated
beta version of its Google News
product, bringing to market the
first-ever news service compiled
solely by computer algorithms
without human intervention.
Google News crawls approximately
4,000 online news sources
continuously throughout the
day. •
2002
- Google continues its
international expansion,
launching Bosnia and Sinhalese
(Sri Lanka) language interfaces
and its Google.ie Irish site,
offering both English and Gaelic.
Google makes available 16 new
versions of the Google Toolbar,
including Czech, Elmer Fudd,
Farsi, Hebrew, Slovak, and Thai.
Google receives the IDGNow! "Best
Search Engine" Internet Award and
the San Francisco Business Times'
"Crowd Pleaser" HotTech Award.
Google remembers to celebrate its
fourth birthday with a special
home page logo created by
assistant webmaster Dennis
Hwang. •
2002
- November - December -
Google introduces a beta version
of Froogle, a product search
engine that enables users to
search for millions of products
across the web. Google further
expands by introducing sites in
Australia, Finland, Greece,
Singapore, United Arab Emirates,
Poland, and Thailand, bringing to
40 the number of its
international domains. Google
expands the size of its web index
to more than 4 billion web
documents. Yahoo! Japan joins
Google's global advertising
syndication network. Google
releases its second annual
Year-End Google Zeitgeist,
highlighting search trends and
patterns that mirror the key
social and news events of
2002
2003 •
2003
- January - February - Google
acquires Pyra Labs, creator of
web self-publishing tool Blogger.
International expansion
continues, adding Google Paraguay
and Google Puerto Rico domains to
the list of available countries.
Google releases two new Google
Labs experiments &endash;
Google Viewer, which enables a
surfer to view search results as
a scrolling slide show, and
Google WebQuotes, which
incorporates quotes taken from
other sites to provide third
party commentary on search
results. Google introduces its
advertising programs in Italy and
opens a sales office in Milan.
Interbrand, an international
branding consultancy, names
Google the 2002 Brand of the
Year. Wired magazine awards its
4th Annual Wired Rave "Business
People of the Year" Award to
Google co-founders Larry Page and
Sergey Brin, and CEO Eric
Schmidt. •
2003
- March - April - Google
surpasses 100,000 active
advertisers in its Google AdWords
program. Google announces its new
content-targeted advertising
program and the acquisition of
Applied Semantics, to strengthen
and enhance the program's
underlying technology. Support
for two new languages, Xhosa and
Zulu, and 12 new international
domains are added to bring the
total available to 63 domains and
88 languages. New customers are
announced including Amazon.com
and Walt Disney Internet Group
properties. Google Labs adds
Google Compute, a toolbar feature
that donates a computer's idle
time to scientific research.
Google introduces its advertising
programs in Australia and opens a
sales office in Sydney. •
2003
- May - June - Google
AdSense, a program designed to
maximize the revenue potential of
a website by serving highly
relevant ads specific to the
content of the page, launches
with initial partners, including
ABC.com, HowStuffWorks, Internet
Broadcasting Systems, Inc., Lycos
Europe, Knight Ridder Digital,
About.com, CNET and others.
Google and MapQuest sign an
agreement to display Google's
sponsored links on MapQuest maps
and directions pages. Google wins
the Webby People's Voice Award
for Technical Achievement. BtoB
Magazine names Google the No. 3
top business-to-business
advertising property. Google News
wins a Webby Award in the News
category and is expanded to local
versions for English-language
domains, including Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, U.K. and
India. Version 2.0 of the Google
Toolbar is released and includes
new functions such as a pop-up
blocker and autofill, which can
automatically fill in the fields
of a form with a user's
information. Google introduces
its advertising program in the
Benelux region and opens a sales
office in Amsterdam. •
2003
- July - August - Google
announces additional customers of
the Google Search Appliance,
including Xerox, Pfizer, the U.S.
Army, Procter & Gamble,
Nextel Communications, Hitachi
Data Systems and others. Google
launches new international
domains including Denmark,
Azerbaijan, El Salvador, Saint
Vincent and the Grenadines,
India, Malaysia and Libya,
bringing the total of Google's
worldwide sites to 82. Google
signs online weather site,
weather.com, as a partner for its
web search, AdWords and AdSense
programs. A calculator function
is launched, enabling users to
solve mathematic problems by
entering numeric expressions into
the google.com or the Google
Toolbar search boxes. The new
version of the Google Toolbar
that includes a pop-up blocker
and form autofill, originally
introduced in June 2003, is
launched out of beta. Google News
launches in German and French,
the first non-English language
versions of the news service. •
2003
- September - October -
Google Glossary is launched,
enabling users to use the
Google.com search field to
retrieve definitions that Google
has found on the Internet for a
specific term or concept.
Additionally, two new projects
are made available on Google Labs
&endash; Search by Location,
which enables users to find
information by geographic
location, and Google News Alerts,
an automatic news alert system
that notifies subscribers via
e-mail about the latest Google
News listings related to a
specified subject. Google
introduces enhancements to its
AdWords service, including a
conversion tracking tool and
expanded match technology. Google
continues its growth
internationally, opening a new
sales office in Madrid and
introducing a beta version of
Google News in Spanish •
2003
- November - December - The
Google Deskbar, a free software
download which enables users to
search Google without using a web
browser, is introduced on Google
Labs. Google celebrates the 100th
anniversary of flight with a
special 'Wright Flyer' logo on
its homepage. A new layout is
unveiled for Froogle, Google's
product search engine (beta) that
enables users to search for
millions of products across the
web. Several new features are
made available to Google AdWords
users including a visual
click-through rate indicator and
a refined billing summary page.
Slovakia is the latest domain to
join the growing list of Google
international domains. Several
new search features are launched
on Google.com that enable users
to search for flight information,
track USPS, UPS or Federal
Express packages, and look up
area codes and VIN
information.
2004 •
2004
- January - February -
Brandchannel again names Google"
Brand of the Year," as the site's
index increases to 4.28 billion
web pages. ABC News marks the
occasion by naming Larry and
Sergey "Persons of the Week."
Google consolidates much of its
Mountain View operations into a
new headquarters building. •
2004
- March - April - Google
introduces personalized search on
Google Labs, enabling users to
specify their interests and to
adjust the level of customization
in their search results, based on
that profile. On April 1, Google
posts plans to open a research
facility on the Moon and
announces a new web-based mail
service called Gmail that will
include a gigabyte of free
storage for each user. The
service also includes a powerful
search engine to locate and
retrieve messages, which are
displayed in a "conversation
view" that chronologically
arranges all emails sent or
received with the same subject
line. Gmail also includes
relevant advertising delivered
with the same technology that
scans web pages as part of the
AdSense service. The AdWords
program itself is enhanced with
the addition of local search
targeting capability, enabling
advertisers to specify a
geographic range for delivery of
their ads.
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Reinforcing its intent to expand
beyond the Internet searching
that made it a household name,
Google Inc. on August 20,
announced plans to launch
software that pulls news stories,
photographs, weather updates,
stock quotes and other features
onto a user's computer without
opening a Web browser
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2006
- Profits nearly double in
3Q 3rd quarter profit
that catapulted 92%, handily
beating expectations as users
increasingly clicked on
advertisements. See Bay Area
Stocks & Earnings Timeline
•
2006
- Google To Run HQ On Solar
Power •
2006
- Oct. 9 - Google buys
YouTube for
$1.65bn Google is
buying video-sharing website for
$1.65bn in shares. The companies
will continue to operate
independently •
2006
- Oct. 6 - Google In Talks To
Acquire YouTube •
2006
- Jul. 20 -2Q earnings soar
past expectations The
company earned $721.1 million, or
$2.33 per share. Comapre to the
net income of $342.8 million last
year •
2006
- Jun. 7 - Google goes to
Congress •
2006
- Apr. 20 - Quarter profit
soars •
2006
- Mar. 23 - Google Will Be
Added To S&P 500 •
2006
- Jan. 31 - Profits Nearly
Double, Off Analyst Target •
2006
- Jan 1 - Google Opens Doors
Of Online Video
•
2007 •
2007
- Jan. 6 - Google Opens Doors
Of Online WiFi. •
2008
- Jan. 6 - Google Opens Doors
Of Online Wireless
gPhones.
•
2009
•
2009 - August 22 -
Ophan Book Project. Three
powerful technology companies
have banded together to oppose
Google Inc.'s proposed settlement
with the Authors Guild and the
Assn. of American Publishers over
the Internet search giant's book
scanning project.
102GoogleScanDealOrphanBooks"ORPHAN
BOOK SCANS". Google
book scanning project gains three
major tech opponents / Microsoft,
Yahoo and Amazon have signed on
to a coalition that opposes the
search giant's proposed
settlement with the Authors Guild
and the Assn. of American
Publishers.
•• •
August 22, 2009 / Three
powerful technology companies
have banded together to oppose
Google Inc.'s proposed settlement
with the Authors Guild and the
Assn. of American Publishers over
the Internet search giant's book
scanning project.
•• •Microsoft
Corp., Yahoo Inc. and Amazon.com
Inc. have signed on to a
coalition being assembled by the
Internet Archive and Gary Reback,
a Silicon Valley antitrust
lawyer, said Peter Brantley,
director of the Internet Archive,
a San Francisco nonprofit that is
trying to build a free digital
library of Internet content.
•• •Though
the coalition has not been
formally announced, several
library and journalism
associations have already agreed
to take part, including the New
York Library Assn., the Special
Libraries Assn. and the American
Society of Journalists and
Authors. The group is expected to
issue a joint statement next
week.
•• •The
coalition's members include
players who normally would be
sitting at opposite sides of the
table. Reback, for example, is
known for instigating the
antitrust efforts against
Microsoft. That they have agreed
to join forces suggests the
magnitude of the concern raised
by Google's book scanning
efforts, Brantley said.
•• •"By
having a set of organizations
speaking together, we can
demonstrate the seriousness which
we all confront by the issues
raised by the proposal," Brantley
said in an interview. "We are all
united in our understanding of
the core issues, such as its
impact on competitiveness and the
threat to reader privacy."
•• •The
settlement, reached last October
and subject to court approval,
would allow Google to continue to
digitize millions of out-of-print
books, with the help of several
of the nation's largest
libraries.
•• •The
agreement sets up a way for
authors and publishers to get 70%
of the sale of those books, with
Google keeping 30%. It also lets
Google sell ads around book
searches that involve
out-of-print books that are still
under copyright protection.
•• •With
a Sept. 4 deadline for comments
on the settlement fast
approaching, a growing number of
parties have voiced their
opposition in recent weeks,
including William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment, which represents
hundreds of writers, the National
Writers Union and a group of
professors from the University of
California.
•• •Much
of the concern stems from fear
that Google would have the power
to raise prices to prohibitive
levels or that Google would not
guarantee the privacy of its
readers.
•• •The
agreement is also the subject of
a Justice Department antitrust
inquiry.
Microsoft Corp.,
Yahoo Inc. and Amazon.com Inc.
have signed on to a coalition
being assembled by the Internet
Archive and Gary Reback, a
Silicon Valley antitrust lawyer,
said Peter Brantley, director of
the Internet Archive, a San
Francisco nonprofit that is
trying to build a free digital
library of Internet content.
•• •Though
the coalition has not been
formally announced, several
library and journalism
associations have already agreed
to take part, including the New
York Library Assn., the Special
Libraries Assn. and the American
Society of Journalists and
Authors. The group is expected to
issue a joint statement next
week.
•• •The
coalition's members include
players who normally would be
sitting at opposite sides of the
table. Reback, for example, is
known for instigating the
antitrust efforts against
Microsoft. That they have agreed
to join forces suggests the
magnitude of the concern raised
by Google's book scanning
efforts, Brantley said.
•• •"By
having a set of organizations
speaking together, we can
demonstrate the seriousness which
we all confront by the issues
raised by the proposal," Brantley
said in an interview. "We are all
united in our understanding of
the core issues, such as its
impact on competitiveness and the
threat to reader privacy."
•• •The
settlement, reached last October
and subject to court approval,
would allow Google to continue to
digitize millions of out-of-print
books, with the help of several
of the nation's largest
libraries.
•• •The
agreement sets up a way for
authors and publishers to get 70%
of the sale of those books, with
Google keeping 30%. It also lets
Google sell ads around book
searches that involve
out-of-print books that are still
under copyright protection.
•• •With
a Sept. 4 deadline for comments
on the settlement fast
approaching, a growing number of
parties have voiced their
opposition in recent weeks,
including William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment, which represents
hundreds of writers, the National
Writers Union and a group of
professors from the University of
California.
•• •Much
of the concern stems from fear
that Google would have the power
to raise prices to prohibitive
levels or that Google would not
guarantee the privacy of its
readers.
•• •The
agreement is also the subject of
a Justice Department antitrust
inquiry.
•
2009
- Sep 28 -Google
bids in Los Angeles for a
$7.25-million contract to replace
an outdated e-mail system.
City officials have been told
that both Google CEO Eric Schmidt
or Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
and "would be more than happy to
come and visit with us," said
City Councilman Tony Cardenas,
who chairs the council's
information and technology
committee. As
Google and Microsoft battle for
dominance in technology, a
skirmish in Los Angeles City Hall
is offering a rare public glimpse
into a rivalry that could help
determine the fortunes of both
companies -- and, quite possibly,
how workers in the future will
communicate.
•• •Mayor
Antonio Villaraigosa favors the
effort to modernize the e-mail
system. His spokesman, Matt
Szabo, described the current
software, which is neither from
Microsoft nor Google, as a slow,
"inefficient, crash-prone e-mail
system."
•• •Los
Angeles city officials last year
solicited bids for a new system.
Both Microsoft and Google
submitted proposals; Google Apps
got the nod because city
administrators believed it would
be cheaper and less
labor-intensive.
•• •The
matter is expected to go to the
budget committee, headed by
Parks, on Oct. 5. Parks' office
said he was still reviewing the
proposal and had not yet stated
his position.
•• •Google
recently announced it would
launch a "government cloud" next
year, designed to meet the more
strenuous security and regulatory
requirements of government
entities.
•• •To
date, some of Google's
highest-profile converts have
been college campuses. Officials
at UC Davis, Notre Dame and
Arizona State University all
reported that students were happy
with the system -- and that
administrators were happy with
the cost.
•• •"I
think it's one of the most
amazing things we've done for
students in the last five years,"
said Kari Barlow, an assistant
vice president in Arizona State's
technology office.
•• •With
those victories under its belt,
Google appears bent on gaining
even more ground. In a rare move,
the advertising-shy company
launched a billboard campaign in
San Francisco, New York, Boston
and Chicago last month
encouraging businesses to switch
to Google Apps.
•• •"Just
heard about going Google," the
boards said on the first day of
the campaign. "I want to know
more."
Andrew
Carnegie (November 25, 1835 --
August 11, 1919) was a
Scottish-born American
businessman, a major
philanthropist, and the founder
of the Carnegie Steel Company
which later became U.S. Steel. He
is known for having built one of
the most powerful and influential
corporations in United States
history, and, later in his life,
giving away most of his riches to
fund the establishment of many
libraries, schools, and
universities in Scotland, America
and worldwide. CLICK
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