|
 Larry
Page, Co-Founder 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.
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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.
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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
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2006 revenue: $10.6 billion
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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.
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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."
-----Brin
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.
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02
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Life
- ACHIEVEMENTS
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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.
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.
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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
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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 2001
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.
March-April 2001
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.
May-June 2001
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.
-----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.
July-August 2001
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.
September-October 2001
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.
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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.
November-December 2001
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.
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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.
2002
January-February
2002
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.
-----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.
March-April 2002
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.
-----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."
May-June 2002
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.
-----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.
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.
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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.
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.
-----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.
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
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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
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
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.
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.
2005
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Editor's Note / Google - Pasadena
----"The
first time I heard the names Larry Page,
Sergey Brin and Google, was around
Pasadena, California, in 1996," says
Entertainer, tviNews ePublisher Troy Cory.
"Google -- was just a small search engine
ready to stream itself out of old
town".
----The
unique name was just a dream come true
when in 1998, the two founders put their
college studies on hold to evolute Google
into one of the world's most important
billion dollar organization.
----Of
course, that meant, "a timeout" to raise
capital, based on their theory that their
Web Zeitgeist was brewing the juices
needed to stimulate the busy Go-To "tech
minds" working in "old
town" -- on Pasadena Avenue. Go-To
at the time, literally was the guiding
spirit and pulse of the browser
business.
----The
Pasadena browser development team at Go-To
guided me to a story about my China
adventures. The Google story was about the
rock 'n roll group that was my back-up and
featured band in China. "In fact",
continued Troy, "at that time,
the Google site
still looked like a browser catering to
kids."
----
The chat room
Bonhomie Baby
storyline read read somethng like
this:
"In 1990 the band toured the People's
Republic of China along with the Troy Cory
Show playing in front of over 64,000
people in five shows. The
climax of the tour came when Bonhomie Baby
played two sold-out shows at the Peking
Coliseum in front of 22,000 per night."
http://smart90.com/bonhomiebaby/
ABOUT BUSH BABIES Bonhomie Baby was
founded in July of 1988. The Band was
originally called "Bushbaby" but that name
was sold to Warner Bros. in 1994. The
band's members are: Sam Stavros (guitar,
vocals, songwriting), Shawn Nourse
(drums), and Jeff Mayer (bass) CLICK
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