Can Google Stay Google? from Fast Company, spotted
via John Battelle, does the usual "can they stay ahead" type of thing we’ve seen before but with some fresh quotes
from Google cofounder Sergey Brin, who disarms the interviewer with his bare legs after a volleyball game. Brin still thinks Google is the type of place he’d like to work at,
if being asked to join now, because of the challenges and opportunities it offers to scientists who want to solve problems. And while Google has tons of employees now, he’s
still like to see new ones get the big time — or at least semi-big time — compensation as if Google still was a start up. Hence the Founders Awards we’ve blogged abut
before, plus "bonuses and refreshers."
Google’s Brin On Keeping The Googlers Happy
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View more10 fun facts (and a typo) from the original Google paper by Larry and Sergey
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 Hummingbird Takes Flight: Biggest Change to Search Since Caffeine
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.
Major Search Engines and Directories
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.