Google

[daz|n00by]

Just a bit of crap info that most of you probably already know.

I heard today that the 2 men who own Google,(1 is Russian i think) i heard are worth 10 billion pounds each .
And they are also classed as 2 of the most influential men in the world.

So there you go i heard i shared.
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[WR450_geezer]

Thanx for sharing.

Not worth too much then, the mother fuckers!!

WR
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[Klause]

To be fair it's the best search engine, I remember when yahoo was the only one that people used.
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[WR450_geezer]

Alta Vista

Ask Momma

Ask Jeeves

They were the days.

WR
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Siggi, ''Fack, having Daz around is like living next door to PC-World, with a hole in the wall.''

[Rookie]

When I first got the net, I used Ask Jeeves for a few months, then I found out about Google, and never went back. Used it ever since.

They have turned an incredibly efficient, but simple, service into a huge money making operation. Probably the most successful single business in the world, alongside eBay and Microsoft.

[daz|n00by]

According to Google lore, company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were not terribly fond of each other when they first met as Stanford University graduate students in computer science in 1995. Larry was a 24-year-old University of Michigan alumnus on a weekend visit; Sergey, 23, was among a group of students assigned to show him around. They argued about every topic they discussed. Their strong opinions and divergent viewpoints would eventually find common ground in a unique approach to solving one of computing's biggest challenges: retrieving relevant information from a massive set of data.

By January of 1996, Larry and Sergey had begun collaboration on a search engine called BackRub, named for its unique ability to analyze the "back links" pointing to a given website. Larry, who had always enjoyed tinkering with machinery and had gained some notoriety for building a working printer out of Lego™ bricks, took on the task of creating a new kind of server environment that used low-end PCs instead of big expensive machines. Afflicted by the perennial shortage of cash common to graduate students everywhere, the pair took to haunting the department's loading docks in hopes of tracking down newly arrived computers that they could borrow for their network.

A year later, their unique approach to link analysis was earning BackRub a growing reputation among those who had seen it. Buzz about the new search technology began to build as word spread around campus.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/history.html

Very interesting realy
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[stinkwheel]

[anders]

that is some big bucks!



well done to them, though how do they do it via google?
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From yesterdays news : The firm ( Google ) said late on Tuesday that fourth-quarter profit rose by 82% to $372.2m (£209m)

While profits may have missed,( expected targets ) sales were in line and grew by 86% to $1.92bn as new features including its e-mail service Gmail helped it attract advertisers.

Their shares went down because they only made a £209,000,000 profit
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