Google - The revolution of Internet
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Google? How was it born? How does it work? This book wants to answer all
these questions through a detailed description of this phenomenon that
completely "revolutionized" the history of Internet.
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Google - The revolution of Internet - Marco Casella
Introduction
The aim of this book is provide the reader with a large landscape of Google Universe
, analyzing its nature of search engine, exchange-listed company, prestigious brand and, above all, real symbolic element of the Internet era.
The book revolves around two main questions: how did it all begin?
and how does Google work?
.
The first part, therefore, tells about the beginning of Google’s history, born from the meeting of its founders to their realization until the rise of the society Google Inc. The growing affirmation on the market, the difficulties of the business model, the relationship with the competition and, finally, the problems of the listing will complete the picture.
The second part analyzes the growth and the domination of the company, with the description of the most innovative elements of the Google world, namely the positioning techniques on Google, the additional services that enlarge and strengthen the users’ web and the philosophy of the company.
The third part focuses its attention on the real potentials of Google and on the main challenges that the company is facing.
Finally, the last part shows all the attempts of Google of expansion in other market fields, such as mobile, telephony, e-commerce and communication.
In conclusion, the book wants to provide useful elements to understand the reasons why Google became a colossus at world level, revolutionizing
the Internet era.
Google: the evolution of a phenomenon
1.1 How it all began: the research before Google
The first search engine was Archie, created in 1990 by a student of the McGill University. In those years, students and technicians regularly used Archie to keep essays and technical documents in publicly accessible machines. The architecture of Archie was similar to that of the current search engines: it made crawls on the sources, carefully examining the Internet-based archives, it realized an index of any file and it had a research interface.
In 1993, some students of the University of Nevada created Veronica that allowed researchers to connect directly to the document required and not only to the machine in which that file was. Both Archie and Veronica didn’t have semantic abilities: they didn’t index the whole text of the document but only the title, with the huge user’s disadvantage to be forced to know the title of the searched document.
Between 1993 and 1996, the Web grew, passing from 130 to more than 600,000 websites. The first powerful search engine, WebCrawler, becomes operational in 1994 thanks to a financing of the University of Washington. The innovations introduced by this search engine were extraordinary: it worked like a website, it gave the possibility to make full text researches (it indexed the whole text of the documents) and it had a instrument to catalogue automatically the pages, the spider, a software that stores the information contained in the web pages during the Internet browsing and make them accessible to the users of the research service.
In the last months of 1994, the search engine Lycos managed to index more than 90% of the web pages (about ten millions) in a few months. The main innovation of Lycos was to exclude full text systems for cataloguing, analyzing only the first twenty lines of any indexed page.
With the coming of Excite, in December 1995, the results begin to be ordered according to the importance of pages. After acquiring WebCrawler, Excite provided users with custom settings and free e-mail boxes, turning into one of the first web portals.
The Digital Equipment Corp., a colossus of the hardware world, was about to launch its superfast processor, Alpha, and was looking for a way to test it: so it was that Altavista was born. In 1997, Altavista was the Google of its time, the best and most popular search engine. It received twenty-five millions of demands a day and fifty millions of dollars of sponsors a year and provided the search engine for the users of Yahoo!
In February 1994, David Filo and Jerry Yang created a link deposit able to keep track of their personal interests on Internet, dividing the list into categories and sub-categories.
The name originally chosen for the website was Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web, soon replaced by Yahoo!
The project became a point of reference before for the students of Stanford and then for the whole Internet community: in autumn 1994, Yahoo! reached a million of contacts a day, counting 100,000 visitors. Given the great success, Filo and Yang looked for an investor able to support financially their project: they found it in Sequoia Capital, a company known thanks to the previous success with Apple Computer, Atari, Oracle and Cisco Systems.
Thanks to an initial investment of two millions of pounds, they founded Yahoo! in April 1995.
Filo and Yang found in Tim Koogle the figure of leader of the executive office and in Jeffrey Mallett the leader of the operational office. At the end of 1996, after finding new investors ready to spend important figures, the company had forty-nine employees and got ready to impose itself at the top of the technologic and computer field.
1.2 The birth of Google
In 1995, Larry Page and Sergei Brin met at the University of Stanford. After the degree at the University of Michigan, Page was visiting the university with the idea of getting the PhD in computer science. Brin, a particularly sociable student of the second year, was a guide for the future students.
Stanford was the ideal place for the development of innovative projects from the technological point of view: it provided cutting-edge research laboratories and guaranteed close relationships with the greatest companies of the Information Technology and with financers interested and available to invest big figures and to bet on the most promising academic researches.
That meeting was decisive. Brin and Page were strongly convinced that a search engine based on the mathematic analysis of the relationships between websites would have produced better results as regards the empiric results used until then.
Both of them were charmed by the incredible growth of the Web and by the questions linked to the research and the organization of information. Page, who had chosen the World Wide Web as subject of his PhD thesis, considered the Web interesting above all for its mathematical characteristics: any computer was a node and any link on a webpage was a connection between nodes, so as to form a classic "graph