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Speed
Chrome is designed to be fast in every possible way. It's quick to start up from your desktop, loads web pages in a snap, and runs complex web applications lightning fast. Learn more about Chrome and speed.
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Signing in
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... Its performance is the envy of executives and engineers around the world ... For techno-evangelists, Google is a marvel of Web brilliance ... For Wall Street, it may be the IPO that changes everything (again) ... But Google is also a case study in savvy management -- a company filled with cutting-edge ideas, rigorous accountability, and relentless attention to detail ... Here's a search for the growth secrets of one of the world's most exciting young companies -- a company from which every company can learn.
On Tuesday morning, January 21, the world awoke to nine new words on the home page of Google Inc., purveyor of the most popular search engine on the Web: "New! Take your search further. Take a Google Tour." The pitch, linked to a demo of the site's often overlooked tools and services, stayed up for 14 days and then disappeared.
To most reasonable people, the fleeting house ad seemed inconsequential. But imagine that you're unreasonable. For a moment, try to think like a Google engineer -- which pretty much requires being both insanely passionate about delivering the best search results and obsessive about how you do that.
If you're a Google engineer, you know that those nine words comprised about 120 bytes of data, enough to slow download time for users with modems by 20 to 50 milliseconds. You can estimate the stress that 120 bytes, times millions of searches per minute, put on Google's 10,000 servers. On the other hand, you can also measure precisely how many visitors took the tour, how many of those downloaded the Google Toolbar, and how many clicked through for the first time to Google News.
This is what it's like inside Google. It is a joint founded by geeks and run by geeks. It is a collection of 650 really smart people who are almost frighteningly single-minded. "These are people who think they are creating something that's the best in the world," says Peter Norvig, a Google engineering director. "And that product is changing people's lives."
Geeks are different from the rest of us, so it's no surprise that they've created a different sort of company. Google is, in fact, their dream house. It also happens to be among the best-run companies in the technology sector. At a moment when much of business has resigned itself to the pursuit of sameness and safety, Google proposes an almost joyous antidote to mediocrity, a model for smart innovation in challenging times.
Google's tale is a familiar one: Two Stanford doctoral students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, developed a set of algorithms that in 1998 sparked a holy-shit leap in Web-search performance. Basically, they turned search into a popularity contest. In addition to gauging a phrase's appearance on a Web page, as other engines did, it assessed relevance by counting the number and importance of other pages that linked to that page.
Since then, newer search products such as Teoma and Fast have essentially matched Google's advance. But Google remains the undisputed search heavyweight. Google says it processes more than 150 million searches a day -- and the true number is probably much higher than that. Google's revenue model is notoriously tough to deconstruct: Analysts guess that its revenue last year was anywhere from $60 million to $300 million. But they also guess that Google made quite a bit of money.
As a result, there is constant, hopeful speculation among financiers around an initial public offering, a deal that could be this decade's equivalent of the 1995 Netscape IPO. A few years back, such a deal might have valued Google at $3 billion or more. Even today, a Google offering might fetch $1 billion.
For now, though, most of the cars in the lot outside Google's modest offices in a Mountain View, California office park are beat-up Volvos and Subarus, not Porsches. And while Googlers may relish their shot at impossible wealth, they appear driven more by the quest for impossible perfection. They want to build something that searches every bit of information on the Web. More important, they want to deliver exactly what the user is looking for, every time. They know that this won't ever happen, and yet they keep at it. They also pursue a seemingly gratuitous quest for speed: Four years ago, the average search took approximately 3 seconds. Now it's down to about 0.2 seconds. And since 0.2 is more than zero, it's not quite fast enough.
Google understands that its two most important assets are the attention and trust of its users. If it takes too long to deliver results or an additional word of text on the home page is too distracting, Google risks losing people's attention. If the search results are lousy, or if they are compromised by advertising, it risks losing people's trust. Attention and trust are sacrosanct.
Google also understands the capacity of the Web to leverage expertise. Its product-engineering effort is more like an ongoing, all-hands discussion. The site features about 10 technologies in development, many of which may never be products per se. They are there because Google wants to see how people react. It wants feedback and ideas. Having people in on the game who know a lot of stuff tells you earlier whether good ideas are good ideas that will actually work.
When it comes to the Internet, it just doesn't get much bigger than Google. In the United States, Google consistently gobbles up 70 to 75 percent of the search engine market [source: Garner]. In places like the United Kingdom, Switzerland and South America, that number soars to more than 90 percent of the market share [source: Google Operating System].
Google has conquered the search engine world so completely that its very name is synonymous with Internet search. How many companies (besides Xerox, of course) are recognized by Merriam-Webster's dictionary as a verb?
Success on this scale is bound to attract some attention, and Google's success has garnered a lot of it. In fact, an enthusiastic press corps and caffeine-fueled blogosphere scrutinize Google's every move. Is Google buying Twitter? Is it going to launch its own cell phone network? Is it thinking about removing blueberries from the Google cafeteria's fruit salad?
The following is a list of the top 5 myths about Google, Inc., in no particular order. If any of these rumors sound too weird to believe, don't take our word for it. Google it.
The original nickname was BackRub due to the backlink technology used to determine site importance but eventually changed the name to Google originating from the misspelling of the word “Googol (the mathematician’s term for the number one followed by one hundred zeros) to signify the large quantities of information for people that it would provide.
Google began as a research project in 1996
Google.com domain went online in 1997
The first funding of $100,000 for Google was provided by Andy Bechtolsheim the co-founder of Sun Microsystems
The CEO for ‘Excite’ George Bell rejected to buy Google when it was offered to him for $1 million when Brin and Page were finding the search engine taking up to much time from their research in 1999
The first round of venture capital of $25 million was provided in 1999 by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital 5 years before it floated
Google incorporated in 1998
30 million pages indexed in 1998
1 billion pages indexed in 2000
Eric Schmidt named CEO in in 2001
Acquired Blogger in 2003
Adsense launched in 2003
Gmail launched in 2004
Google IPO in 2004
8 billion pages indexed in in 2004
Acquired YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion
1 Trillion pages indexed in in 2008
Android announced in 2007
Chrome launched in 2008
1.8 million shares given to Stanford University for its PageRank Patent sold by Stanford in 2005 for $336 million
It currently runs over 1 million computer servers in data centers around the world
Google search handles over 1 billion searches per day
7.2 billion daily page views
87.8 billion monthly worldwide searches conducted on Google sites
Google’s global search market share is 85%
Daily visitors to Google is 620 million
Google.com’s worldwide ranking is number 1
Revenue in 2000 was $19 million
Profit in 200 was a loss of $14 million
In 2009 Google’s revenue was nearly $23 billion
In 2009 Google’s profit was $6.5 billion
97% is the percentage of revenue from advertising
Stock price at its IPO in 2004 was $85
Stock price in 2010 was $535
Over 19,000 employees
37% are research staff
37% are sales staff
A ‘Noogler’ is a new person at Google
45% of Google’s products are currently in Beta
YouTube market share is 39.4%
270,000 words a minute are written on Blogger
146 million Gmail users
Google analytics is used on 57% of the top 10,000 websites
400,000 new Android devices are activated every day
100 million activated Android devices
200,000 Apps available for the Android
4.5 billion Apps have been installed from the Android Market
Google’s Android mobile operating system is the world’s leading smart phone platform surpassing Nokia and Apple with a 33% share
33 million Android operating systems were shipped in the the fourth quarter of 2010
The Google Driverless car named the ‘Stanley’ won the DARPA Grand challenge and the $2 million in prize money from the US Department of Defense in 2005
1996 წელს სტენფორდის კომპიუტერული მეცნიერებების კურსდამთავრებულებმა, ლერი პეიჯმა და სერგეი ბრინმა შექმნეს საძიებო სისტემა BackRub, რომელიც 1 წელზე მეტი ფუნქციონირებდა უნივერსიტეტის სერვერებზე,შედეგად მას მიქონდა დიდი რაოდენობის bandwidth რაც არ იყო უნივერსიტეტისთვის შესაფერისი. ამ ყველაფრის გათვალისწინებით ლერიმ და სერგეიმ გადაწყვიტეს შეეცვალათ საიტის სახელი,საბლოოდ გადაწყვიტეს გამოეყენებინათ სიტყვა Google, რაც დააკავშირებულია მათემატიკურ ტერმინთან Googol, რომელიც ნიშნავს რიცხვს 1 მოყოლებული ასი ნულით.1997 წელს დარეგისტრირდა დომეინი Google.com ეს სახელი ასახავდა მათ მიზანს შეექმნათ აურაცხელი რაოდენობის ინფორმაციის მომცველი საიტი. უმთავრესი მიზეზი იმისა, რომ გუგლის საწყისი გვერდი არის თითქმის ცარიელი,არის მათი არცოდნა HTML-ისა და მათ უბრალოდ სურდათ სწრაფი ინტერფეისი.
მათი საწყისი ბიუჯეტი იყო 100 000 $ და მუშაობდნენ ნაქირავები "გარაჟიდან", დღესდღეობით კი მათი წლიური შემოსავლის 97% რომელიც მხოლოდ რეკლამებს მოიცავს,შეადგენს $ 25 მილიარდს.
დიდი პროგრესი განიცადა გუგლმა,როდესაც შემოიღეს წერის შესწორება "Did you mean..." მომხმარებლებს ძალიან მოეწონათ ეს ინოვაცია,საკითხავი იყო სად იქნებოდა ჩასწორება მითითებული,რაც მომხმრებლების გამოკითხვის თანახმად გადაწყდა ჩაესვათ ძიების რეზულტატების ბოლოს.
ღილაკს "I feel lucky" ძალიან იშვიათად იყენებენ მომხმარებლები,გამოკითხვბის თანახმად მისი გაუქმება უარყოფითად იმოქმედებს გუგლზე,მიუხედაავად იმისა,რომ მომხმარებლები თითქმის არასდროს იყენებენ მას, იგი მაინც სასურველია. ეს ღილაკი გუგლს წლიურად $ 110 მილიონი უჯდება. Gmail-ის შექმნაზე მუშაობდნენ 2 წელი,მათ გამოიკვლიეს,რომ არსებობს დაახლოებით 6 ტიპის იმეილ მომხმარებელი და Gmail ექვსივესთვის კომფორტული მოსახმარებელი იქნებოდა. Google სხვადასხვა დღესასწაულებთან და მოვლენებთან დაკავშირებით ცვლის ლოგოს, პირველად იგი შეიცვალა წიგნის "burning man" ლოგოთი. 2001 წლამდე ლოგო არ იყო ცენტრში,როგორც დღესაა,იგი განთავსებული იყო მარცხნივ.
2000 წლის 1 აპრილს,გუგლმა პირველად გამოაქვეყნა საპირველაპრილო ხუმრობა სახელად "MentalPlex" , რაც გულისხმობს გუგლის აზრების კითხვის შესაძლებლობას.
გუგლი ფუნქციონირებს 117 ენაზე,მათ შორის 5 "ყალბ" ენაზე,როგორიცაა Elmer Fudd. ინგლისურის გარდა ყველაზე ხშირად გამოყენებული ენებია: ესპანური, ფრანგული, გერმანული და იაპონური.
2000 წელს გუგლმა მიიღო პრესტიჟული ჯილდო ტექნიკურ მიღწევებში, ნომინანტებს შორის არ იყო არც ერთი სხვა საძიებო სისტემა.
გუგლის პირველი მომუშავე პერსონალის წევრია Creig Silverstein , რომელმაც შექმნა "ზუსტი ძიება". 1999 წელს გუგლში მუშაობდა 19 ადამიანი, დღეს კი 2700-ზე მეტი გუგლერია. დაახლოებით 300 წელი დასჭირდება გუგლს მთელი მსოფლიოს ინფორმაციის ონლაინში გაშვებისთვის. დღეისათვის მსოფლიოს ინფორმაციის 10 % - ია.
ერთი ძიების განსახორციელებლად გუგლის ათასობით კომპიუტერი ერთვება პროცესში.
უდაოა, რომ გუგლის გარეშე დღევანდელი ინტერნეტ სივრცე წარმოუდგენელი იქნებოდა,რადგან ის გვიმარტივებს ნებისმიერი ინფორმაციის მიღების საშუალებას, იქნება ეს ადგილი რომელსაც ვეძებთ,ამინდის პროგნოზი,მათემატიკური კალკულაციები,ახალი ამბები,ფილმი,მუსიკა,ნახატი და უამრავი სხვა რამ რაც შეიძლება გვაინტერესებდეს,მოქცეულია ამ ერთ უნიკალურ ადგილას. იგი დღითი დღე განიცდის პროგრესს,ემატება ახალ-ახალი ფუნქციები ისეთი როგორიცაა სურათით ძიება და Google Earth Mars Mode. ეს ყველაფერი მხოლოდ დასაწყისია.
