Google….Google…..Google. There will not be single day I
hope, when the IT people do not open Google for getting the
information to do their job and Google never disappoints
anyone. It lets you find anything and everything from the Web
quickly. It is the world’s most accomplished search engine.
Let us spare some time to know how exactly google was
evaluated and who made your job much easier by introducing
Google.Com
In
very young age, 3 People found google.com, which is world ‘s
Best Search Engine. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Sergey.
Google's
mission is to organize the world's information, making it
universally accessible and useful. They started working on
Google in 1995, as a research project at Stanford University.
In 1998, they formed the company, Google Inc., and launched
the search engine in beta to the outside world. This happened
in September 1998. The goal was to create a very simple and
easy-to-use website that offers the best search engine in the
world.
Google
have over 100 customers in over 20 countries. Some of the
banner customers include Yahoo!, AOL/Netscape, Cisco,
WashingtonPost.com, and VirginNet (in the UK). Google
customers license their technology because they are looking
for the fastest, most relevant search on the Internet. Google
currently supports 25 language searches, and will continue to
aggressively add to this list. They ultimately hope to support
all major languages in the world.
They
are very happy with their business plan. Revenues are growing
every quarter and they've made very few changes to their
business strategy since they started the company. An IPO is
something they're considering, but is not in their near-term
plans. They've always managed the finances of their company
very carefully, and they are fortunate to still have a very
strong cash position from their initial venture financing,
which was in June 1999.
They
have millions of users a day who use Google to search for
products and product information related to their purchasing
decisions. For example, they index almost the entire
Amazon.com website. As more and more information appears on
the Internet, Google plans to index it and offer this content
to the users. Google currently is the world's largest search
engine, with over 1 billion web pages in google’s index.
Sergey
Brin and partner Larry Page are very involved in almost all
aspects of their business. They spend quite a bit of time each
day on hiring, internal management, and marketing.
Each
of their partner relationships is unique, They support their
partners in a variety of ways, from simply providing the
world's best search technology, to
co-marketing, to providing technological assistance, etc.
Google
actually relies on their users to help with their marketing.
They have a very high percentage of their users who often tell
others about their search engine. This has helped Google
immensely, and has helped their website traffic grow over 20%
per month since they started our company in 1998.
Google
has two offices. Their headquarters are in the heart of
Silicon Valley -- in Mountain View, California, which is about
10 minutes from Stanford University, where Google was born.
They also have a small sales office in New York City, with
about 10 employees who sell advertising for google. In total,
they have just over 150 employees. Most of these employees are
involved with their technology and engineering department.
They have over 30 PhD's in this group!
Google's
servers (they have over 6,000 servers that run RedHat
6.2) are hosted at three data centers across the U.S. -- one
in the Washington DC area, and two in Silicon Valley.
Google currently servers over 20 million searches per day on
google’s own website (www.google.com),
and over 50 million searches per day on their own site and
their partner websites (Yahoo, Netscape, Cisco, etc.). Have so
many smart and talented employees has really helped our
company succeed. There are over 25,000 websites on the
Internet that use the Google search engine.
Google offers users better quality search results, a simple,
easy-to-use interface, high performance, and an exclusive
focus on just being a search engine. We also offer cool
features like caches pages, stock quotes, news headlines,
links to online maps.
Google
have about 80 engineers and R&D team members, and they are
big fans of investing heavily in R&D.
Founders are very closely intertwined; developers do research
and vice versa, and everyone talks a lot. Communication is
very good between both of these groups.
For programming they use gnu tools: gcc, gdb, gnats. They
use p4 for version control. For network installs, they use a
variety of our own software, in addition to rsync. Machines
are built on-site here at Google, configured, then shipped
over to one of our three data centers. They have a detailed
regimen for code reviews and testing (QA). The main projects
they are working on, outside of improving the overall quality
of their search engine are: Google wireless search technology,
a variety of voice recognition projects, and Google
international search technology bringing Google to more users
worldwide. Actually, They currently run over 6,000 RedHat
servers.
Linux is used everywhere...on the 6,000+ servers themselves,
as well as desktop machines for all of our technical
employees. They chose Linux because if offers them the
price for performance ratio. It's so nice to be able to
customize any part of the operating system that they like, at
anytime. They have a large degree of in-house Linux expertise,
too. Most of our administrative tools were developed in-house,
as well.
Most
of google machines are behind a router and not accessible to
the outside world. The outside-accessible machines (webservers)
are carefully audited for security holes.
Google and its insiders hope to raise about $3 billion by
selling stock at a price ranging from $108 to $135 per share.
But the so-called Dutch auction could change that price,
particularly if most of the bids fall below the minimum $108
target.
Google founder Brin said "We have more than 150,000
advertisers and a lot of salespeople," he said.
"Millions of people use Google. It's a completely
different thing."
In this way Google's search engine has helped save people's
precious time.
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