it is wonderful and a lot informative. On 9/18/08, Shadab Husain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi friends, I made this article a couple of days back but the editors > rejected it. Can anyone write to me privately to tell me how is it? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Be frank in criticising. > > How Google Careered to Top > > It all began when a decade ago two graduate students from Stanford > University launched an internet-exploring system – which soon became > an essential part of life for millions. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, > the founders of Google cheered breakfast at a Burger King on getting > their first cash of $100,000. There on the morning of September 7 1998 > these two pathbreakers kicked off an exceptionally rapid journey for > meteoric rise to success – naming the company "Google, Ink". > > The internet was expanding with an accelerated pace Then years ago. > Yahoo, the leading search engine of the time, was jampacked with > surfers, though the features it offered were limited. AltaVista was > offering the facility of exploring the net, however, like other search > engines of the time, it wasn't efficient enough to provide relevant > results. > > But Page and Grin suddenly knocked the stuffing out of their > counterparts because they offered the easiest and picture-perfect > technique to find the information the folks were looking for. > > This success was the outcome of two brainchild ideas. Page Ranking > system, named after its developer Larry Page and later modified by > Sergey Grin, revolutionised the way of searching being practiced at > that time. This first idea provided the basis for Google search. > > Page and Grin, the Thomas Edisons of the internet, well knew where the > land was lying. Cyber space was exploding as new sites were frequently > ushering, so it became imperative for them to make an automatic way to > aggregate these eclectic sources. Finding out such a technique they > ensconced Google on top of all the admirations. This was the second > idea which jelled swimmingly well with searching. > > Luck was assisting Google. Craig Silverstein, the first college friend > to join Page and Grin, said "That people were concentrating on other > things was crucial". Considerably, their counterparts never knew that > web search will become so important, which helped Google stole the > limelight. > > These facets, however, aren't solely responsible for the success of Google. > > The nub lies in the folksy atmosphere which Google maintains for its > employees. Headquartered at California, the Googleplex has been called > an "extraordinary cultural aura" by John Battelle – the author of The > Search. Mario Queiroz, one of the company's vice-presidents, says, "We > have an environment where people feel free to have their hobbies". > > Provided with free food and best surrounding – the employees get a > free day every week to enjoy whatever they wish to; if they feel like > working in open then says Queiroz: "there's a bean bag down there in > the atrium that one can take a laptop to"; they are at freedom to > scribble around to banish boredom and are gently asked: "Don't be > evil." > > Google isn't confined to search only. It has introduced online > applications and offered features like email, instant messaging, word > processing, spreadsheets, maps, the internet video – YouTube and a > virtual avatar – Lively. Pretty curtly, over the past few years Google > has hijacked the internet. > > Google, in its latest effort, by launching its own internet browser – > Chrome has challenged the giant of computers – Microsoft. Chrome, as > the initial reviews have flashed, is quicker and lightweight in > comparison to all the browsers available. Its real rivalry, however, > is with the present version of Internet Explorer; and, curiously, the > early testers give Chrome an edge over it. > > Whatever be the initial results – the web world is going to witness a > colossal browser war. Will indomitable Microsoft be able to drub > Google as it did with Netscape Navigator? Or is Google through its > defensive – Chrome heading to alter the rules of the web? > > Let's see. > > Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: > http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm > September 21 &22!! > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >
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