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The Google brand is so well know that I just used the name as a verb.
We now say I'll Google it instead of I'll search for it or I'll look in the dictionary.
We all use Google many times a day.
But do you know what is behind their colourful logo?
A lot more than you might think...
Worldwide, Google holds a marketshare of 44.1%. The biggest rival Yahoo holds 28.7%, and MSN has 12.5%. Even more distinct are the numbers in Germany: with a market share just under 90%, Google outclasses the international competitors.
Shortly after the founders of Google developed the PageRank algorithm in 1997 the search engine was quickly enjoying enormous popularity. The search engine was better than everything known so far. The number of enthusiastic users rapidly increases daily.
Today, Google is one of the fastest growing companies worldwide. Within 4 years Google had a 70-fold increase in sales.
From the beginning, money was not important to the founders of Google. they wanted to make the world a better place. It's their vision to make any kind of information accessible to anybody. Controlled by Google, of course.
Today, Google offers its search function in more than 100 languages. In addition, they offer a constantly growing list of currently over 80 free features. Using these services (like gmail) users reveal more and more private information to Google.
In the beginning, Larry Page and Sergey Brin assembled their computers themselves from individual parts. so they always had the ideal hardware for the self-written software. Even today the so-called Googleware is tailored specific to Google's requirements.
Gmail, Google's free email service today offers nearly 3GB of storage. And it increases every day. So you'll never need to delete an email, ever. This huge data storage is financed by advertising.
Using all these data, Google could very easily create very detailed profiles of its users. Google is denying this, but some facts actually point to this intention.
Google's turnover speaks its own language. Google is the biggest existing provider for online services. But Google has now also reached the offline market. In North America, Google already provides advertising to magazines, newspapers, and radiostations.
Google is cooperating with the leading molecular scientist Dr. Craig Venter, who profoundly participated in decoding the human genome. Google is able to contribute enormous computing power as well as the required data storage for this work. More than the government could ever provide.
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And now google buys youtube...
Posted March 02, 2008
| MarkMBravura
Hi Lewis, Posted February 21, 2008 |
Seth, Thanks for bringing this to light.
Keep an eye on this
http://www.travelinasia.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5782
Posted December 12, 2007