Presented By Group 5 Google History Google began in March 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin‚ Ph.D. students at Stanford working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The SDLP’s goal was “to develop the enabling technologies for a single‚ integrated and universal digital library" and was funded through the National Science Foundation among other federal agencies. In search for a dissertation theme‚ Page considered—among other things—exploring the mathematical
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more concentrated (i.e.: dominated by fewer firms)? ● Is search a winner-take-all business? ● In renewing its deal with AOL‚ could Google afford to pay AOL more than 100% of the revenue generated from AOL searches? ● How did Microsoft’s maximum affordable bid for AOL’s search traffic compare to Google’s? In addition to enhancing its core search business‚ should Google also branch out into new arenas? Which of the follow would you recommend: ● Building a full-fledged portal like Yahoo’s; ● Targeting
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Google ’s Business Environment Michael Lubrano Management 521 February 6‚ 2012 Sam Cunningham Google ’s Business Environment Investigating Google as a leader in the search engine industry proved to be extremely interesting. The company began back in 1996 under the guidance of Larry Page and Sergey Brin both graduate students from Stanford University. The original search engine was called “BackRub” a search engine working with connecting the importance of web pages using links.
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CASE ANALYSIS: GOOGLE Submitted to: Antonio Errol Ybanez‚ Jr.‚ DBA CSEE Submitted by: Oliver A. Javier TABLE OF CONTENTS • COMPANY BACKGROUND • TOWS MATRIX • MICHAEL PORTER’S COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS • BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP • THE COMPETITIVE PROFILE MATRIX Company Background Google Inc. is a multinational
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Competitive Strategy Assessment 2 Case Study Google Inc. INTRODUCTION This Business Report primarily addresses 4 questions asked on the Google Inc. case study. Information is primarily obtained from the case study and from publicly available news reports and articles. KEY QUESTIONS 1. What were the key factors behind Google’s early success? A number of key factors contributed to Google’s early success. Google had unassailable competitive advantage in
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results. Google was able to target its ads to specific users based on the user’s browsing history. This allow Google to increase annual revenue from $220‚000 in 1999 to more than $86 million in 2001 Google’s strategies have proven to be both successful and unsuccessful. In forms of dominating the internet through advertising (Extracted from case study) Google maps‚ local search‚ airline travel information‚ weather‚ book search‚ Gmail‚ blogger and other features increased traffic to Google sites
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Current Situation It has been over six years since Google has gone public with an opening of $83 per share and over 19 million shares released. The stock topped over $600 per share in 2009. At the end of the 52-week period in 2010 the stock had dropped 4.7%. Google continues to grow at a rapid pace. Past purchases of YouTube and Postini as well as DoubleClick have secured its potential for future growth. While legal issues regarding the acquisition of personal information over Wi-Fi sources‚
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renamed Google.com‚ which was the domain registration in September 15th‚ 1997. They then formally established their company Google Inc. September 4th‚‚ 1998‚ a year later. As Google became more global the establishers tried to avoid any pop-ups as much as possible‚ but later changed their mind as to them it was a major importance for their company. By the end of the year 1998 Google had an index of 60 million pages an enormous growth. Then later in 1999 the company moved into their own offices at 165
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BUSS110: Marketing Principles Mr. Thomas Baltakis June 24‚ 2013 Marketing Research Paper Google was started by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. Google was not always called Google. In 1996 Page and Brin met at the University of Stanford‚ the two had initially built a search engine that they called backrub; backrub was linked to determine the importance of individual web pages. What Google does for consumers is provide the best possible solutions to finding the information that we need
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Preparing for the Google IPO: A revolution in the making Wenying Li‚ Xue Lin‚ Yankai Wang October 28‚ 2014 Upon deciding to raise capital for operations and growth‚ a company looks into preparing an initial public offering to get access to capital market. Unlike other companies following conventional IPO processes‚ Google‚ the largest search engine company‚ revolutionized equity markets with unconventional price-setting mechanism‚ reduced role for the underwriters‚ and dual-class shareholder structure
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