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Illustration by Joon Mo Kang Google’s Earth By Nicholson Baker Published, New York Times: November 27, 2009 GOOGLED The End of the World as We Know It By Ken Auletta 384 pp. The Penguin Press. $27.95 I’m fond of Google, I have to say. I like Larry Page, who seems, at least in the YouTube videos I’ve watched, shy and smart, with salt-and-pepper bangs; and Sergey Brin, who seems less...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Facebook has created a dual-class stock structure designed to give founder Mark Zuckerberg and other existing shareholders control over the company. The move could be seen as laying the groundwork for an initial public offering, though the social network said it had no plans to go public "at this time". The dual-class structure is what Google Inc's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, created...
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Consider yourself forewarned: the official line is that "Facebook has no plans to go public at this time." Just the same, a financial maneuver the company's performing has raised a few eyebrows since it seems to point towards that possibility. Jessica E. Vascellaro reported this afternoon, "The company is in the process of converting all current shareholders to Class B stock, which...
Silicon Valley Watcher (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Yesterday I argued that a single search index administered by a non-profit could address issues around de-listing and indexing out-of-print books. Google's founders supported the idea when they were at Stanford university. A single index would allow Google and others to apply their analysis and their algorithms to the same data set creating a level playing field. A single index would also speed up...
Silicon Valley Watcher (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
All the recent debate about the Google index and newspapers, and Google's interest (and problems) in indexing out-of-print books, would all be a much different discussion if the Google index were run as a non-profit. And it is rather ironic to note that Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, once believed that search engines should not be commercial enterprises. Take a look at page 39...
My Fun Zone (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
You can't find this Google brand toilet paper elsewhere except in Vietnam because this "100% virgin pulp" toilet rolls were made in this Asia country. The subtext of this Google toilet paper reads, "Very long, soft, smooth. Of high vacuum, because you always!" I wonder whether Google's bosses know about this product. BTW, is Google's bosses are still Larry Page, Sergey Brin and...
HomeATM (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Image via CrunchBase Who: Google Inc. What: Webcast of Google's update on Google Chrome OS , held at its Mountain View, Calif. headquarters. When: Anytime you'd like to click on the link below. Where: http://investor.shareholder.com/googpr/eventdetail.cfm'eventid=75092 Why: Google to offer an update on Google Chrome OS and provide at the work that has been done thus far, an overview of the technology,...
Procure IQ (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A recent article over on Fortune by Ken Auletta lists 10 things Google has taught us. Now, it's obvious the 10 lessons provide a path to success (as you just have to look at where Google stands), but did Google teach us well? Before we can answer that, we have to review the 10 lessons. Passion Wins Larry Page and Sergey Brin are involved with Google full-time, unlike Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo....
..the thing is... (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Once upon a time, in the far, far away land of Techgeeks lived two university chums named Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They spent long hours dreaming of a company that one day would be the biggest search engine in the world, offering mere mortals the opportunity to traverse the great plains of the planet without moving their lazy asses. Information
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Before Craig Nevill-Manning became Google's first engineer in New York in 2003, he had to get Google (GOOG) cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin as well as CEO Eric Schmidt to sign off on the idea. Check out the offices → Read the rest of this story » See Also: Etsy: Brooklyn's $135 Million Arts & Craft Powerhouse Gawker Media: 394 Million Pageviews, 1 Steampunk Office Touring New...
Download Squad (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Filed under: Google , Search , Web Google sure seems hung up on the speed of the web these days, and I have to say, I like it. After announcing the SPDY protocol they're working on to speed up page loading time, it has come out that Google is seriously considering using page loading time as a factor when returning search results . This isn't some unsubstantiated rumor, either; it comes from none other...
Gadgetopia (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Google: Firms can 'get rid' of Office in a year : I hope that this is true, but I’m skeptical. In a year, most enterprises will have the choice to "get rid of [Microsoft] Office if they chose to", suggests Dave Girouard, president of Google's enterprise division. Girouard, one of the company's four presidents including founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, said in an interview with...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Harsh economic winds blow away old ways of doing business, clearing spaces for new companies to spring up Necessity is the mother of invention, at least when it comes to the conception of technology companies. Many of America's biggest names in the technology world were born or rose to prominence in downturns, from Cisco and Hewlett- Packard to Apple and Google. The harsh economic winds that blew...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch could be shooting himself in the foot if he withdraws stories from Google News The threat to exclude Google from News International websites won't have caused much lost sleep over in the search engine's headquarters in Mountain View in California. Sergey Brin and Larry Page have declared before that if news organisations don't like Google indexing their content, then...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Larry Page is now the co-creator of something other than the most important internet site in the world: A tipster whispers he is a father, as of Thursday. (Updated: We have a gender.) More on Billionaires
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