As Google celebrates its seventh birthday the NY Daily News reports that the “Google Guys” (Sergey Brin and Larry Page) have debuted on Vanity Fair’s annual list of business “powerbrokers” at number one. Dropping to second place in the rankings is Wal-Mart (a company that Google has been compared with) CEO, H. Lee Scott.
Yahoo’s CEO, Terry Semel, made the list. Others powerbrokers include Rupert Murdoch, Sumner Redstone, and Larry Ellison. More in the article: Google duo tops power list.
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.
Vic Gundotra, the driving force behind the Google+ platform, has announced he is leaving Google, which has many people pondering the future of Google+. Gundotra, who has been with Google for eight years, is leaving the company effective immediately.
Google has revealed profits for the first quarter of 2014 of $3.45 billion, up from $3.35 billion in the same period last year, but its average cost-per-click income has fallen by 9 percent year-over-year.