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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...headquarters in Mountain View, California, really understanding why Google is so successful? Google's triumph lies in its enormous user base. Growing that base to infinity plus one is far more important than ad revenues. Once you have the most wanted product in the universe, you have a googol (1 followed by 100 zeros) possible ways to make money. John Skelly Mons, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

...headquarters in Mountain View, California, really understanding why Google is so successful? Google's triumph lies in its enormous user base. Growing that base to infinity plus one is far more important than ad revenues. Once you have the most wanted product in the universe, you have a googol (1 followed by 100 zeros) possible ways to make money. John Skelly Mons, France Despite Google's refusal to turn over data on people's Internet use to U.S. prosecutors, the company is actually betraying its customers' trust by retaining information on every search and resultant Web-page retrieval. If phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Google Empire | 3/9/2006 | See Source »

...headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., really understanding why Google is so successful? Google's triumph lies in its enormous user base. Growing that base to infinity plus one is far more important than ad revenues. Once you have the most wanted product in the universe, you have a googol (1 followed by 100 zeros) possible ways to make money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 13, 2006 | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...their search engine crawled the Web, it did more than just look for word matches; it also tallied and ranked a host of other critical factors like how websites link to one another. That delivered far better results than anything else. Brin and Page meant to name their creation Googol (the mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes), but someone misspelled the word so it stuck as Google. They raised money from prescient professors and venture capitalists, and moved off campus to turn Google into a business. Perhaps their biggest stroke of luck came early on when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of The Real Google | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...next page.Nevertheless, as a reference tool, the book is indispensable, and, regardless of style, provides truckloads of trivia, such as the genesis of the word “google.” To arrive at that household name, Brin and Page unintentionally misspelled the math term “googol,” proving that even Stanford educated computer junkies make mistakes (if they were Harvard-educated, things might have been different). Brin and Page did not invent the search engine concept, but they certainly refined it. Unlike most of its competitors, Google used PageRank technology to compile results according...

Author: By Lindsay A. Maizel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Story Behind One (Misspelled) Word | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

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