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Revision as of 01:06, March 19, 2007
Google is a popular Internet search engine. The CEO of Google since 2001 is Eric Schmidt. Google is headquartered in Mountain View, California. Google was founded on September 7th, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Since then, it has grown to be the largest internet search engine in the world. According to Alexa Internet, over 25% of all Internet users visit Google monthly.[1] Google also owns YouTube, the home made video clip site. Viacom are suing YouTube, and thus Google, for a reported $1 billion, arguing that the economic model of YouTube is based on copyright infringement.[2]
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History
Founding
Google was originally a research project, started by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996, when the two attended Stanford University. The two registered the domain name google.stanford.edu, and the small search engine went online for the first time.[3]
Google Goes Public
Growth
Purchase of Smaller Parties
PageRank Algorithm
Perhaps the most innovative contribution Google has made to internet searching is it's PageRank algorithm. This system works by counting the number of sites that link to another site; the more links pointing to a page, the higher that page will be ranked. The engine also takes note of how often the page is updated. Due to this, Wikipedia is consistently ranked very highly by Google, due to it's constant updating and heavy linkage. More recently, internet-savvy Googlers have discovered ways to game the system; creating massive numbers of pages with links pointing to one page form what is known as a "Google Bomb". Some examples can be found below.
"Miserable Failure" Incident
For nearly two years, searching "Miserable Failure" in the Google search engine would return the White House Biography of George W. Bush.[4] Many ideas have been debated, though this was most likely due to the regular use of the PageRank system. Due to this incident (the biography remained the top result for over two years), Google has been accused (sometimes baselessly) of having a liberal bias.
