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...there's one thing in the Googleplex that's cooler and more popular than free ice cream, it's the company's product (found, of course, at google.com) The brainchild of Stanford University pals Larry Page, 27, and Sergey Brin, 26, Google is the Web's largest and hippest search engine. In just two years it has gained a reputation for uncanny speed and accuracy, delivering exactly what you're looking for in a fraction of a second. The site now does this 40 million times a day--not quite a googol (10100, which is 1 followed by 100 zeroes...
...Google's rivals scramble to imitate its best features--Ask Jeeves, for one, now offers popularity rankings--it's worth remembering how recently another pair of Stanford grads seemed similarly unrivaled: David Filo and Jerry Yang of Yahoo. "The darkest cloud on your horizon is if a couple of students come up with something even better," Stanford professor Rajeev Motwani told former student Page over dinner recently. No, replied Page, that will never happen. Still, you can forgive him a little hubris. Enough massages and free ice cream can make anyone feel invincible...
After leaving Stanford, Woods electrified the PGA Tour. He joined the Tour in late August of 1996 and immediately won two tournaments that fall. He signed $60 million worth of deals with Nike, Titleist and others. And he became miserable...
...suddenly living alone, in his own place near Orlando. "I feel completely overwhelmed," he told a Stanford friend after his first pro tournament. Just before the 1997 Masters, an article in GQ quoted him telling a stream of off-color, racist and homophobic jokes. Woods thought the remarks had been off the record. Once burned, he has been cool with reporters ever since...
...listening to him and his coach and caddy discussing the types of shots he should hit on different holes in different conditions. Says Goodgame, who played golf for Oxford University: "I've seen good players rework their swings and never recover. What Tiger did took guts." Ratnesar, who attended Stanford with Tiger and is based in London, flew in to interview the athlete. "What struck me," he says, "is his self-assurance, his almost other-worldly belief that things will come in their own time and that they will work out well for him. He seemed in utter control...