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The founders

0) Structure

1)Introduction 2)HistoryDorota 3)FactsNatascha 4)ServicesAnnika 5)CriticismFarina 6)Conclusion 7)Bibliography

1) Introduction

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2) History - By Dorota -

The founders

Sergey Brin Sergey Brin was born in August 1973 in Moscow Sergey Brin was born in August 1973 in Moscow At the age of five he emigrated with his family to California, in the USA At the age of five he emigrated with his family to California, in the USA He was interested in computers and mathematics from early in his childhood on He was interested in computers and mathematics from early in his childhood on

Sergey studied Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Maryland and he received his Bachelor Degree with high honors. Sergey studied Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Maryland and he received his Bachelor Degree with high honors. He studied for his masters degree in Computer Science at the Standford University He studied for his masters degree in Computer Science at the Standford University

Lawrence Page Lawrence Page, also known as Larry Page, was born in March 1973 in Michigan Lawrence Page, also known as Larry Page, was born in March 1973 in Michigan Computers played an important part in his life Computers played an important part in his life

Larry has a Bachelor of Science Degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan Larry has a Bachelor of Science Degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan He received his Masters Degree at the Standford University He received his Masters Degree at the Standford University

1995: The history of Google began when Lawrence Page and Sergey Brin met each other at the Stan+ford University 1995: The history of Google began when Lawrence Page and Sergey Brin met each other at the Stan+ford University 1996: The founders began to work on a research program the search engine, a project for their studies. They wanted to develop a search engine that is based on relationships between websites. 1996: The founders began to work on a research program the search engine, a project for their studies. They wanted to develop a search engine that is based on relationships between websites. 1997: Google became an independant website, after it originally used to be the Stanford website → google.stanford.edu 1997: Google became an independant website, after it originally used to be the Stanford website → google.stanford.edu

1998: The founders found an investor, Andy Bechtolsheim, who helped them to accomplish their aim and gave the company Google Inc. $100, : The founders found an investor, Andy Bechtolsheim, who helped them to accomplish their aim and gave the company Google Inc. $100, : The company moved into offices in Palo Alto, California. 1999: The company moved into offices in Palo Alto, California. 2000: Google became the best search engine on the market! 2000: Google became the best search engine on the market! 2003: The company moved into a complex of buildings in Mountain View, California 2003: The company moved into a complex of buildings in Mountain View, California 2004: Google on the stock exchange 2004: Google on the stock exchange

Googleplex

3) Facts - By Natascha -  Where does the name come from?  Interesting Facts

 Where does the name come from?

Googol= a number with a one and one hundred zeros Googol= a number with a one and one hundred zeros

 Interesting Facts

Google exists in over a hundred languages Indonesian Indonesian Japanese Japanese Korean Korean Latin Latin Latvian Latvian Macedonian Macedonian Maltese Maltese Mongolian Mongolian Somali Somali Swedish Swedish Thai Thai Ukrainian Ukrainian Vietnamese Vietnamese Welsh Welsh Yiddish Yiddish Afrikaans Afrikaans Albanian Albanian Arabic Arabic Bosnian Bosnian Bulgarian Bulgarian Cambodian Cambodian Chinese Chinese Croatian Croatian Danish Danish Dutch Dutch Estonian Estonian Esperanto Esperanto Finnish Finnish Hindi Hindi Icelandic Icelandic For example:

Google is the 5th biggest website Google is the 5th biggest website Over 8 billion websites (December 2004) Over 8 billion websites (December 2004) Most visited search engine worldwide Most visited search engine worldwide

Google has over 300 employee, the so-called “Googler” Google has over 300 employee, the so-called “Googler”

Possible income 2003: between Possible income 2003: between Million dollars Nominated for Nominated for Big Brother Award 2003

Visited by half of the German Internet Users every month Visited by half of the German Internet Users every month More than one half of the Google users are non - American More than one half of the Google users are non - American 116,6 billion dollars is Google worth 116,6 billion dollars is Google worth

4) Services - By Annika -  Google Search  What(ever) happened to George W. Bush

Google: more than a search engine provides more than 30 services, tools and functions for its users (e.g the search for definitions, the “I'm feeling lucky“search, Froogle, Google Earth) The bread-and-butter service: Google Search

 Google Search

Basis: PageRank system examines the number and relative popularity of each website linked to another one every link counts as a vote “important“ sites have a strong vote for other sites

Google combines PageRank with a complex text retrieval in order to find sites that a.are important b.AND fit the query Google analyzes the number and closeness of search keys (and the content of the linked sites) to do the whole PageRank

 What(ever) happened to George W. Bush

Entering the query “failure“ or “miserable failure“ plus using the “I'm feeling lucky“ search leads directly to George W. Bush's official websites

2 reasons The other one refers to the PageRank system A number of webmasters use the phrase “failure“ or “miserable failure“ to describe and link to Bush's websites

Site ranks on top of Google's result list due to a.its importance and popularity b.the descriptions on pages connected to this site Influencing the ranking of a given page in results returned by the Google search engine is called Googlebombing

5) Criticism - By Farina -

protection of data privacy is not transparent for the user protection of data privacy is not transparent for the user a.Cookies: data about the user and user's activities online b. can be read through for advertisement Google Earth: detailed maps are easier to access Google Earth: detailed maps are easier to access

Screening of information: editors and user decide on what search result turns up Screening of information: editors and user decide on what search result turns up Copying of books: some authors regard as dismissive of their rights and illegal Copying of books: some authors regard as dismissive of their rights and illegal Google Base: takes over the classifieds in newspapers Google Base: takes over the classifieds in newspapers Google for everything: you can even plan a murder with this search engine Google for everything: you can even plan a murder with this search engine

6) Conclusion

... and also I will be critical and open for other sources.

Thank you for your attention!

7) Bibliography

Mayer, Marissa. “Googlebombing 'failure'.“ g-failure.html. (Visited on Oct, ) g-failure.html Dr Jens E. Wolf. “Vorlesung Information Retrieval.” bonn.de/III/lehre/vorlesungen/InformationRetrieval/W S04/Vorlesung pdf. (visited on Jan, ) (visited on Jan, ) Florian Luther, Jochen Felsner, Yuexin Huang. “Google - Eine ökonomische Analyse.” berlin.de/oldstatic/w2003/ir1/uebref/LutherEtAl- Referat-G pdf (visited on Jan, ) (visited on Jan, )

“Google Corporate Information.” URL: (Visited on Jan. 4, 2006.) “History.” URL: (Visited on Dec. 29, 2005.) "Lawrence Page."URL: _Page (Visited on Jan. 3, 2006.) Schüller, Thorsten. “Die Google Geschichte.” URL: p?thread=3251&forum=1. (Visited on Jan. 4, 2006.) p?thread=3251&forum=1 "Sergey Brin."URL: (Visited on Jan. 3, 2006.) Wolff, Jens E. “Google.”URL: bonn.de/ІІІ/lehre/Vorlesunge n/InformationRetrieval/WS04/ Vorlesung pdf. (Visited on Dec. 28, 2005.) bonn.de/ІІІ/lehre/Vorlesunge n/InformationRetrieval/WS04/