Google Inc. in 2014 – Case Analysis Q1: How did Google create a competitive advantage initially (before 2004)? Google’s competitive advantage prior to 2004 was based on exploiting their capabilities. Through their company culture‚ core values‚ and skilled work force Google created an environment that fostered and generated constant innovation in technology. This innovation allowed their highly skilled engineers to continually capitalize on what was happening/missing in the marketplace by improving
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1) Discuss competition in the search engine industry. Which of the five competitive forces seems strongest? Weakest? What is your assessment of overall industry attractiveness? Google constantly has to maneuver to improve their services‚ and stay ahead of other competitors. Google also faces low switching cost which increases rivalry among competitors: o Name recognition‚ image o Services provided o Relationship with Internet users‚ web sites‚ & advertisers o Relevancy of a search results
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Early history[edit] Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 2003 The first Google computer at Stanford was housed in custom-made enclosures constructed from Lego bricks.[1] Beginning[edit] Google began in March 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin‚ Ph.D. students at Stanford University.[2] In search of a dissertation theme‚ Page had been considering—among other things—exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web‚ understanding its link structure as a huge graph
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Why did Google issue the statement of January 12? 1). The direct reason was Google detected highly sophisticated attacks from China on its computer systems‚ which tried to access email accounts of Chinese human rights activists. 2). The real reason was Chinese government’s censorship regulation against to the core principles in Google. Since both of them insisted with their own principles and cannot cp 2. Can Google take comfort
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Case Study: Google in China Google issued a statement mentioning the attacks across the Internet generated from China and declaring its unwillingness to censor search results any more and indicating its decision of exiting China. Several months later‚ the company moved from Beijing to Hong Kong‚ out of Mainland China‚ and still has provided services to users in Mainland China‚ but also has faced many difficulties. This case is very typical and meaningful for foreign companies‚ which have willingness
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Company Overview History Google Inc. is an Internet/computer software company which hosts many internet based and software services and products. At its core is google.com –the world’s top search engine. Google’s stated mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. Google was founded by two PhD candidates at Stanford University –Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It was incorporated on Sept. 4‚ 1998 and went public on Aug. 19‚ 2004. The company’s
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communications standpoint? Google entered China in 2006 with high hopes of taking over the Chinese internet market. In order to become a major player for internet search engines in China‚ however‚ they had buckled and filtered search results according to the Chinese government. When Google.cn was launched‚ a loud public outcry over its giving in to the Chinese government on censoring and filtering search engine results‚ the company faced a communications crisis. Since Google had always been known for
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Google Inc. began in 1996 as the brainchild of two bright computer science grad students‚ Sergey Brin and Larry Page. These two intellectually gifted men met in 1995 at Stanford University where they were doing their PhDs. During their time together at Stanford‚ both came up with creative ways of finding and organizing large amounts of data. After that‚ Brin and Page developed a technology called PageRank that enabled them to analyze a particular website’s significance. The idea of a search engine
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1) Factor behind Google early success: a) Advanced Algorithm. b) The high growth of World Wide Web c) Better and more efficient algorithm d) Receive great funding from two huge venture capitals e) Well combined CPC and CPR to charge the advertisers f) Business Model innovation (Search engine‚ contextual‚ Froogle‚ local advertiser‚ etc.) g) Product Improvement (fine tune the algorithm‚ give software to optimize clients’ ads) h) Innovation management (Google unique atmosphere that is very supportive
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The Google Way Anna Gatdula BCOM/230 July 2013 Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. The two met in Stanford University in 1995. In 1996 they had collaborated on a project called BackRub‚ a search engine that operated on Stanford University’s servers. The project eventually took too much bandwidth to fit the university‚ and shortly after Google was born (Google‚ n.d.). The company’s mission statement is‚ “To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible
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