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Google’s Starting and Founding “’s current Philosophy” • Google began in January 1996 as a research project Ten things we know to be true by and when they were both PhD We first wrote these “10 things” when Google was just a few years old. From time to time we revisit this list to see if it still holds true. We hope it does—and you can hold us to that. students at in Stanford, California. • While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how 1. Focus on the user and all else will follow. many times the search terms appeared on the page, the two theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships 2. It’s best to do one thing really, really well. between websites.[27] They called this new technology PageRank; it 3. Fast is better than slow. determined a website's relevance by the number of pages, and the importance of those pages, that linked back to the original site. The 4. Democracy on the web works. domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997, and the Email, Calendars, Online Storage Etc. company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was based in a 5. You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer. friend's (Susan Wojcicki) garage in Menlo Park, California. Craig 6. You can make money without doing evil. Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the first November 9th employee. 7. There’s always more information out there. • In May 2011, the number of monthly unique visitors to Google surpassed 8. The need for information crosses all borders. one billion for the first time, an 8.4 percent increase from May 2010 (931 million).In January 2013, Google announced it had earned 9. You can be serious without a suit. $50 billion in annual revenue for the year of 2012. This marked the first 10. Great just isn’t good enough. time the company had reached this feat, topping their 2011 total of http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/company/philosophy/ $38 billion. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google

• The best way to google yourself The Name “Google” automatically is to google yourself • The word “Google” is said to be within and set an alert “originating from a misspelling of around your name in quotation the word "googol", the number marks. one followed by one hundred • Then select Result Type: Everything zeros, which was picked to signify and How Many: All Results. that the search engine was intended to provide large • Google will then email you anything quantities of information.” regarding your name as it finds it and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google http://umdcareers.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/google-yourself.jpg indexes it.

Filter results by type of content • 1- Along the top of your page, you'll see a number of Google products to filter your content by. When you select More, you'll see a drop down of additional products to choose from. Web: By default, your will show unfiltered results that can include all the types of content below.

Images: See only results from . Maps: See only results from . Videos: See only video results from YouTube. News: See only results from Google News. Shopping: See only results from . Books: See only results from , including reviews, excerpts, and where you can buy the book. Places: See only results from places and businesses using Google+ Local. Blogs: See only results from . Flights: See only results from Google Flight Search. Discussions: See what people are saying in discussion groups, forums, and question- and-answer sites. Recipes: See only results for recipes. Customize and filter these results to show http://img.labnol.org/images/2008/05/google-boolean-search.png recipes with your ideal ingredients, cook time and calorie count. Applications: See only results for non-Google and Google applications for your mobile devices and desktop. Patents: See only results from Google Patent Search, which allows you to search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you.

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4- Translated foreign pages: 8- Safe Search • Sometimes the best results 6- Dictionary tool: • Activate Safe search to filter sexually explicit for your search are written in content. another language. Based on • You can find definitions, synonyms, images To activate it, your search term, this filter and more for your search term. chooses the best language click on the (or languages) to search in, gear icon in translates your search, and then translates the results the right back to the language you corner, then prefer to read. click on search The automatic language selection isn't perfect, of course, so setting, then if you'd like to search specific languages, select them in the tick the safe panel above the results. search box.

A full current list G+, Shared Endorsement - my take • this new type of ad doesn’t really collect any new of all Google programs information. http://www.minterest.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/google-products-services.png • These are things you’re already choosing to give to Google (your reviews, your +1′s, and so on), and Google is simply deciding to use that information while displaying ads to make them more effective. • It’s a very smart move on Google’s part, and it’s your decision whether you’re OK with being displayed in ads or not. • it’s just a simple strategy by Google to made ads more effective. And who can blame them — their primary business model is advertising.

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