“…they see their work as more of a vocation than as a means of getting rich. “We feel like we’re making a difference in the world giving people information that they want really quickly and effectively,” Page said.”
and while we’re on the topic of the Google Guys…
The planned sale of Google shares by Sergey Brin is underway. TheSteet.com reports that he sold about 149,700 shares priced around $178, grossing around $26.6 million. You can track the SEC filings here or here.
Fun fact #1: "Wow, you looked at a lot of pages from my web site. How did you like it?" - people encountering a crawler for the first time. This and other quality snippets pulled from the original paper presenting Google in 1997.
Google quietly made a huge change to its core search technology in the past month, one that affects about 90 percent of searches worldwide. Calling it Hummingbird, the technological update of Google search is designed to handle more complex queries.
When you think search, no doubt you think Google. But there are other popular major search engines (e.g., Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, and Baidu) that you can turn when searching for information, images, maps, videos, products, or something local.
