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Sergey
Brin, co-founder of
Google
----Along
with Larry Page, Sergey Brin, brought
Google to life in September 1998. By April
2001, Brin moved into his role as
technology president, heading 200
employees.
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Google iPhone Unveiled on Sept. 23rd.
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For those who have been
anticipating the so-called Google Phone as
if it were the next iPhone, the wait is
almost over.
•••T-Mobile
USA said Tuesday that it would unveil the
much-anticipated mobile phone loaded with
Google Inc.'s Android software next
Tuesday at a news conference in New York.
The G1 phone, which is being manufactured
by HTC, won't be for sale until October.
But expect T-Mobile to finally divulge
some key details such as pricing.
•••T-Mobile
is just the first carrier to market the
phone. Other cellphone manufacturers and
carriers are expected to dial for dollars
using the Google brand as bait, but they
apparently have hit some snags. The
Android phone is being positioned as a
rival to Apple's iPhone and Research in
Motion's BlackBerry.
•••For
Google, this seems like a no-lose
proposition. The Internet search giant
wants to make sure that all of its
services, including its lucrative
advertising, are available on all
cellphones. So it created software for
mobile phones that does that.
•••Pundits
have been saying for years that the mobile
Web will dwarf the nonmobile Web once
enough people have access to so-called
smart phones and all of the bells and
whistles that come with them. Already
Google is readying a store for
downloadable mobile software similar to
the one that has proved so successful for
the iPhone.
•••Google
showed off the handset at a developer
conference in London on Tuesday.
•••Next
week, Google and T-Mobile should start to
reveal whether Android will live up to the
hype. ---- It
was on August 19, 2004 that Google raised
$1.67 billion in their IPO efforts, making
Google worth more than $23 billion. In
June 2004, Google had 2,292
workers.
----Sergey
continues to share responsibility for
Google's day-to-day operations with both
Eric Schmidt and Larry Page.
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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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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: 15,916 full-time
employees as of October 2007. In June
2004, Google had 2,292 workers. Employees
are "Googlers"; new workers, "Nooglers";
and former employees, "Xooglers."
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The hiring binge continued
throughout October, when Google added
2,130 employees, bringing its staff to
15,916. The additions included 1,000 hires
out of college and 300 employees Google
picked up in its $625-million acquisition
of e-mail company Postini Inc.
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In an interview, Google co-founder
Sergey Brin said Google would scale back
on hiring, stating,"You cannot turn on a
dime."
• The Google co-founders give
credit to their experiments and their
affiliated profit sharing program. With
those project, they have discovered the
new ways to distribute ads, including in
videos from Google's YouTube subsidiary,
in interactive widgets and on television
through its partner EchoStar
Communications Corp. Brin highlights their
big success in the way Google sells ads on
mobile phones, particularly in Asia -- a
possible prelude to an announcement of a
mobile operating system or even the
often-rumored
"Gphone."
Brin at this date, remains
confident that regulators would approve
Google's $3.1-billion acquisition of
DoubleClick Inc., an online ad placement
service that would further bolster efforts
to dominate online advertising.
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On October 19, 2007 -- Google's
stock had a market value just shy of $200
billion, Google edged past Cisco Systems
Inc. as Silicon Valley's most valuable
company. The day ended at $639.62 per
share, then gained $3.28 more in
after-hours
trading.
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As Brin sees it, Google's profit
jumped 46% to $1.07 billion because of the
57% rise in revenue to $4.23 billion,
"propelled by simple text ads on Web
pages."
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Brad Adgate, director of research for
Horizon Media, which helps advertisers buy
TV ads, confirmed Brin's predictions about
Google trend setting events in selling
more ads in the mainstream media. In
striking a deal for
Nielsen Co.,
Google will be enabled
to obtain detailed
information about the kinds of people who
watch specific TV shows.
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The breakdown, drawn from Nielsen's rating
service, typically provides viewers' ages,
gender, marital status and other personal
data that help advertisers choose the
audience most likely to be interested in
their product or service.
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The set-top "bunny boxes" used by EchoStar
and Astound have enabled Google to track
when commercials were watched and for how
long. By drawing on Nielsen's data, Google
will now have information on what kinds of
viewers watch a particular commercial.
"This was a missing piece of the puzzle
for us."
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The Google Nielsen deal is an experiment
to extend Google's reach into such digital
media such as iPods and cellphones.
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The Mountain View, Calif.,
company's shares have risen nearly 40%
since the beginning of the year, including
a nearly 20% surge in the last month.
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Sergey
Brin, Google Co-Founder & President,
Technology
---- Brin
is currently the President of Technology
at Google and has a net worth estimated at
$16.6 billion as of March 9, 2007, making
him the 26th richest person in the world
together with Larry Page and the 9th
richest person in the United
States.[3] He is also the 4th
youngest billionaire in the
world.
-----Sergey
Brin, a native of Moscow, Russia, received
a bachelor of science degree with honors
in mathematics and computer science from
the University of Maryland at College
Park. Brin is a recipient of a National
Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship as
well as an honorary MBA from Instituto de
Empresa.
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He continues
to share responsibility for Google's
day-to-day operations with both Eric
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It was at
Stanford where Brin met Larry Page, and
where they worked on the project that they
name Google. Together, in 1998, they
founded Google Inc., where Brin continues
to share responsibility for day-to-day
operations with Larry Page and Eric
Schmidt.
-----Brin's
research interests include search engines,
information extraction from unstructured
sources, and data mining of large text
collections and scientific data. He has
published more than a dozen academic
papers, including "Extracting Patterns and
Relations from the World Wide Web";
"Dynamic Data Mining: A New Architecture
for Data with High Dimensionality", which
he published with Larry Page; "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
has shared his views on the technology
industry and the future of search engines
on the "Charlie Rose Show", CNBC, and
CNNfn. In 2004, he and Larry Page were
named "Persons of the Week" by ABC World
News Tonight.
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Life
- ACHIEVEMENTS
 1973
- Sergey Brin (Russian: (born August 21,
1973 in Moscow, Russia) is an American
entrepreneur who co-founded Google with
Larry Page. Marital Status: single;
Hometown: San Francisco, CA; Graduate:
Stanford University, Master of
Science.
Family
background
-----Sergey
was born in Moscow, Russia, to a Jewish
family, the son of a mathematician and
economist. In 1979, when Sergey was six,
his family emigrated to the United States.
Brin attended grade school at Paint Branch
Montessori School in Adelphi, Maryland,
but he received further education at home;
his father Michael Brin, a professor in
the department of mathematics at the
University of Maryland, nurtured his
interest in mathematics and his family
helped him retain his Russian language
skills.
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In
September 1990, after having attended
Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Sergey
enrolled in the University of Maryland,
College Park to study Computer Science and
Mathematics, where he received his
Bachelors of Science in May 1993 with high
honors.
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After
graduating from Maryland, Sergey received
a graduate fellowship from the National
Science Foundation, which allowed him to
study for his masters degree in Computer
Science at Stanford University. Sergey
received his masters degree in August 1995
ahead of schedule in the process of his
Ph.D. studies. Although he is still
enrolled in the Stanford doctoral program,
Sergey has suspended his Ph.D. studies
indefinitely while he is working at
Google. Sergey also received an honorary
MBA from the Instituto de Empresa.
1995
March-December 1995
Sergey Brin and
Larry Page 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
Sergey and
Larry 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 alum David
Filo.
August-December
1998
Sergey and Larry, 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 Larry page (see),
Sergey 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
-----Brin
serves as president of technology, 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.
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Life
- ACHIEVEMENTS
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.
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.
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. 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.
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. 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.
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
2003
to 2007 - Forbes estimated his net
worth at $550 million. "Whoops", says
Forbes, in 2007, 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 and his
partner, Larry Page, have math teacher
parents. Brin born in Moscow, Russia, and
emigrated to the
U.S.
----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
•
2006
•
2007
SEE
Feature UpDates
ABOVE
(Click
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  3.
Editor's Note / Google - Pasadena
---"The
first time I heard the names Sergey Brin,
Larry Page, 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
FOR MORE STORY.
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Google New Sidebar & Widgets
36th Week 2005 / SAN FRANCISCO --
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 (Click
to Download Google
Sidebar).
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