Google has become a part of our vocabulary; people use it as a verb interchangeably with the word search. If you want to find out about something you “Google it”. How did Google become such a big influence? Why didn’t Yahoo get there? I’m not sure I have an answer to this, but I do find this company fascinating.Some interesting facts about Google
- Google started as a project of two Stanford Computer Science grad students back in 1996.
- Their original project was called BackRub, but was quickly changed to Google - a play on the word googol – a mathematical term.
- By Feb 1999 they outgrew their garage office and moved to a real office with their 8 employees
- April 1 2000 started with the tradition of April fool’s day hoaxes, by announcing a tool that can read your mind and visualize the search results.
- By September of 2000, Google was offering search in 15 languages, it grows to 72 less than 2 years later
- By October of 2000, AdWords is introduced with 350 customers
- By March of 2009, even the white house becomes a major user, holding an online town hall to answer questions submitted by Google Moderator
Google has evolved to be more than just a search engine, you can do so much with all the different tools that Google offers these days, from email (Gmail) to Instant message (gtalk), through cheap international phone calls (Google Voice), sharing your photos (Picasa), sharing documents (Google Docs), finding directions (Google Maps), Blogging (Blogger), Monitoring your health (Google Health) and so much more. Google is everywhere in your web experience and now also with its own operating system (Android) who knows where it would take us. 
In the Gartner’ Magic Quadrant, Google is a strong leader, it has a complete vision with the ability to keep growing and the power to execute all of those. The competitors do not seem to be able to keep up with the pace.
When Microsoft launched Bing, some people started doing comparisons with Google, however, Google is still the number one in search engines.
ReplyDeleteGoogle mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accesible and useful." this universality makes of Google the people choice in many countries.
In addition to be in the highest rank of woelwide surfers preferences, Google also has been called the best place to work. Its working environment and benefits results in happy employees, Google makes its people feel part of an organization and not only one more in the industry. Google is an example of diversity and and inclusion, its employees don't see themselves as advertisers or code writers with an atractive package of benefits, they believe they are participants of the worldwide information.
So, as long as I don't hear "bing it" I think I will keep on thinking that "google it" is still the way to go.
September 26, 2010 9:47 AM
Thanks for the comment Esther. Yes, I also read about Google being a good place to work and it sounds like a great organization to be a part of.
ReplyDeleteHey Frog, I heard the FaceBook me one but not the tweetox but it's a good one :)
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