Monday, May 10, 2010

THE SEARCH



A story about GOOGLE. Inspired by Altavista.com the first truly good search engine developed by DEC to test the Alpha (their latest computer) speed. Google was created by Larry page and Sergey Brin which attempted to improvise algorithm to search information on the internet

The name google is taken from the word GOOGOL ( 1 followed by 100 zeroes). They expand their company in 2003 where google bought blogger,picasa and keyhole to expand their services. The latest CEO is Eric Schmidt a Berkeley student just like the founders.

In 2002 the have problems with the Chinese government where the Chinese authority start to filter google.com content and they sorted out the problem and uses www.google.cn as the solution.

TOTAL NUMBER OF BOOKS (AS OF JUNE 2009)

1400
Latest addition (90 fictions from Payless Warehouse)
(10 non fictions from Boosk Xcess @ Amcorp Mall)