Sunday, November 25, 2007



Google is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Kasner and James Newman. It refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google's use of the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.According to Google lore, company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were not terribly fond of each other when they first met as Stanford University graduate students in computer science in 1995. Larry was a 24-year-old University of Michigan alumnus on a weekend visit; Sergey, 23, was among a group of students assigned to show him around. They argued about every topic they discussed. Their strong opinions and divergent viewpoints would eventually find common ground in a unique approach to solving one of computing's biggest challenges: retrieving relevant information from a massive set of data.

By January of 1996, Larry and Sergey had begun collaboration on a search engine called BackRub, named for its unique ability to analyze the "back links" pointing to a given website. Larry, who had always enjoyed tinkering with machinery and had gained some notoriety for building a working printer out of Lego™ bricks, took on the task of creating a new kind of server environment that used low-end PCs instead of big expensive machines. Afflicted by the perennial shortage of cash common to graduate students everywhere, the pair took to haunting the department's loading docks in hopes of tracking down newly arrived computers that they could borrow for their network.

A year later, their unique approach to link analysis was earning BackRub a growing reputation among those who had seen it. Buzz about the new search technology began to build as word spread around campus.

PRODUCTS....LINKS


http://pack.google.com/intl/en/pack_installer.html?hl=en&gl=us

* Google EarthZoom


* Google EarthZoom from space to street level —
* Find maps, driving directions, hotels, restaurants, and more

Picasa


* Find, edit, and share your photos in seconds
* Easily remove red eye and fix photos

Google Desktop

* Google DesktopFind all your email, files, web history, and more
* Get all your personalized info in one place with Sidebar

Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar

# Browse the web quickly and securely
# Switch between pages quickly with tabbed browsing

Skype

* SkypeMake free voice and video calls to anyone else on Skype
* Call landlines and mobile phones at pretty low rates

StarOffice
(broadband recommended)Word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and more
# Includes Java™ Runtime Environment


Alerts
Get email updates on the topics of your choice

Blog Search

Find blogs on your favorite topics

Book Search

Search the full text of books

Checkout
Complete online purchases more quickly and securely

Desktop Desktop
Search and personalize your computer

Earth Earth
Explore the world from your computer

Finance Finance
Business info, news, and interactive charts

iGoogle iGoogle
Add news, games and more to the Google homepage

Images Images
Search for images on the web

Maps Maps
View maps and directions

News News - now with archive search
Search thousands of news stories

Notebook Notebook
Clip and collect information as you surf the web

Patent Search Patent Search
Search the full text of US Patents

Product Search Product Search
Search for stuff to buy

Scholar Scholar
Search scholarly papers

Special Searches Special Searches
Search within specific topics

Toolbar Toolbar
Add a search box to your browser

Video Video
Search for videos on Google Video and YouTube

Web Search Web Search

Search over billions of web pages

Web Search Features Web Search Features

Find movies, music, stocks, books, and more
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