Google co-founder takes reins as CEO

Google has a new CEO. Company co-founder Larry Page took over the reins of the internet giant Monday from Eric Schmidt, who was brought on board in 2001 to provide adult guidance to the then young company, dpa reported.

Schmidt will now serve as chairman.

The company announced the move in January, ending a ten-year stint in which Schmidt ran the company through an elaborate decision- sharing system in a triumvirate with Page, 38, and Sergey Brin, 37, the other co-founder of Google.

All three men are among the richest people in the world, with the two co-founders fortunes each estimated by Forbes to be around 20 billion dollars, while Schmidt is worth some 6 billion dollars.

Page is expected to attempt to revitalize Google and return the world's leading search engine and smartphone company to its aggressive start-up roots after largely missing out on the social networking trend that allowed the rise of new rivals like Facebook.

Google History and Sources of Revenue

We may be familiar with Google. The search engine allows us to find relevant information and fast on the internet. Both have made Google's search engine in the world's most widely used (53.6%), followed by Yahoo (19.9%), and MSN (12.9%). 

In this post I would like to invite you to know better the history of Google in terms of establishment and the main source of revenue. Google history

Google's history began in January 1996. It was Larry Page and Sergey Brin (both PhD students at Stanford University, USA) conducted a study to create a new search engine that provides better search results (relevant) for its users. They hypothesize that relevant search results will be generated when a search engine that can analyze the relationship between websites. They finally produced a new search engine called BackRub. The name is taken because this search engine to analyze the backlinks of the website. 

British Police Rely on Google to Track Down Car Thief

Track Down Car Thief

A British man absurdly dizziness after a car caravan worth £ 7,000 stolen thief vanished. Fortunately, there are bright spots thanks to the Google service Street View maps. 

Google Street View which features views of the streets around the UK do not accidentally turn off the presence of foreigners in the location of theft. He stood right in front of a caravan stolen cars, so that he strongly suspected the culprit. As quoted from the Telegraph, Tuesday (11/09/2010), this picture is then spread by the Derbyshire area police handling the case. 

They asked for community assistance to identify who he is. Although it is uncertain if he was a thief, police judge had information that could be a clue. In addition, it is believed, he was present just before the theft in progress.

European Commission Investigating Google

Google Investigation

The European Commission launched an investigation into the Google search engine after a few other online companies complain that Google is abusing a dominant position. 

The agency said it would investigate whether the world's largest search engine company revealed rival in Google search results. 

The investigation was launched after the UK price comparison sites and search engines Foundem French legal issues ejustice.fr filed a formal complaint. Google said it will cooperate with the European Commission to "deal with various rioting".

Earlier this year the Texas state attorney general in the United States launched a similar investigation after a number of companies, including Foundem, filed a complaint. Complaints in both cases the investigation of companies that blame rival Google Google manipulates search results. 

10 Unique and interesting facts about google

Here are some unique and interesting facts about Google: Everyone 

1.Google first doodle.

Google

Will know with the Google logo, simple, and once we enter the google web page be greeted by our words / logo of Google's large enough so that we can remember the Google logo clearly. But you Taukah, google doodle first designed with the message "out of office". In 1998, Brin and Page took their holiday weekend to go to the Burning Man Festival in Nevada. Burning Man doodle, designed by the people who put on google and google homepage, so users understand that they are out of the office and unable to fix the technical problems such as server crashnya. 

Facebook Challenge Google

Google vs Facebook

To challenge the supremacy of Google on the Web by introducing a radically different approach to how people live, work, play and find it online. 

When Google sends the selected search results based on algorithms that consider Web History users, Facebook offers a rich level of personalization based on its own will and recommendations from friends and users. 

Mark Zuckerberg founded in his Harvard dorm room in six years ago and now has assets valued at $ 6.9 billion United States, call the recommendation as a "social graph".

"I think what we find is when you can use the product together with friends, family, and people you care for the more familiar", Zuckerberg said in an interview on the program "60 Minutes" on CBS. 

Chinese officials 'actor behind' attack on Google

Google China

Chinese top officials behind the cyber attack against Google which then pushed the company to pull out of China, thus said the leaked contents of the diplomatic wires on Wikileaks.
One wire diplomatic, who leaked the site known as a place of leakage of confidential information,''says the contacts have a good position against Google's''state action''100%''political.