Q.: How do social networking sites work? What has contributed to their immense popularity? A.: The first phase of the Web was all about content publishing by “experts”‚ without any possibility of interaction between user and author. The second phase of the Web‚ Web 2.0‚ is defined by social media tools‚ which support social interactions and connections with people‚ as well as collaboration and sharing‚ and the creation of user-generated content. This was the major change that allowed the beginning
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GOOGLE INC. History of Google Inc. Google ’s founders‚ Larry Page and Sergey Brin‚ met by chance on a Stanford University tour in the summer of 1995. Page‚ at the time‚ was working on a PhD research project involving the mathematical properties of the link structure on the internet. The research project‚ "BackRub"‚ used an algorithm to follow the links in a webpage and analyze all the connections. The PageRank algorithm generated a popularity index for each web page based on the quantity and
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executives and engineers around the world. For techno-evangelists‚ Google is a marvel of Web brilliance. For Wall Street‚ it may be the IPO that changes everything (again) …”. Those are general comments which provide us a certain perception about Google‚ a leading search engine in the world these days. Google’s business strategy is to provide useful and related information to millions of people all over the world who rely on Google to disentangle their troubles. Meanwhile‚ Google’s mission is “to
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Google Inc. Marketing Case Study Analysis Submitted by: Lynne Abt Prof. Paul Guyette BUS 689: Marketing Strategy & Policy Rivier College May 06‚ 2007 Industry Background Search engine companies haven’t been around for very long with most of them coming into existence in the mid 1990’s. Many of these companies are already gone or in a state of gobbling each other up to compete with the bigger companies. Yahoo seems to be the grandfather of the currently existing crop starting in 1994. The
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Executive Summary / Introduction Google Inc (Google) is the world leader in internet searches. By 2007 63% of internet searches were through Google‚ surpassing other search engines such as Yahoo and Microsoft MSN. Goggle has also developed web based tools such maps‚ toolbars‚ G-Mail and acquired the popular you Tube. After dominating the web search industry since its search engine was introduction in 1998‚ however‚ Google has attracted many competitors who try to provide millions of users worldwide
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modern’s time. Suppose the facility of internet given to us taken by someone forcibly‚ then imagine our life without it. In recent development china and iran have restricted the information flow throughout their country‚ specially china have ban Google-universal search engine and email in its country. Firstly question arises why any country will ban if internet is so useful. There lots of hidden agenda of the govt that has to be protected‚ if there is free flow of information is there public start
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KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY “KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT – GOOGLE INC.” Santiago Loyola One of the leading global corporations that incorporate KM within their company is Google Inc. The corporation has been dominating as the world’s most valuable brand for the last four years‚ until Apple Inc. overtook them in May 2011. 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
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Google has many challenges in motivating their current employees. In an industry that is extremely competitive and always changing‚ Google has found themselves losing employees to competitors (like Facebook) and smaller startup companies. Google offers their employees many perks and benefits that most people that work for large companies think are quite lavish. From offering massages‚ on-site laundry‚ and spa treatments (just to name a few)‚ Google has to keep their talented employees happy of
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Apple versus Google: No comparison Am I the only one who gets annoyed by the never-ending doomsday articles that profile Apple as "struggling" to maintain its market share‚ and doomed to lose a "bitter battle" to Google’s Android? Has it ever occurred to anyone that it’s like comparing the proverbial Apples - no pun intended - to Oranges? Or rather‚ it’s like comparing a Rolls Royce to a Toyota. Unlike Google‚ which makes Android openly available to a whole host of handset manufacturers (most
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three companies and three very different managing styles. The articles look at how three very important people keep a handle on their employees. Steve Jobs co-founder of Apple and his non-text book approach to an autocratic managing style‚ CEO of Google Eric Schmit and his laissez-faire catastrophe and Ricardo Semler CEO of SEMCO and his participative ways that surprisingly seem to be working. All run in different markets and have created their own rules to follow. They are the companies paving the
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