MORE than 10 years ago, Google as a search engine research ideas Sergey Brin and Larry Page to get a PhD.
But now after more than a decade, Google's search engine transformed so money and making the two friends were given the title as the richest person in the world that young age. Wealthy, young, and the results of his own effort. Various predicate was pinned to Sergey Brin (36), and Larry Page (37), which has successfully entered the ranks of the world's richest people Forbes for several years in a row. In the ranking of the year 2010, the two Google founders are ranked 24th with a net worth of each USD17, 5 billion or equivalent to Rp159, 68 trillion. While the previous year, the friends are ranked 26th with a net asset value of each for $ 12 billion or equivalent to Rp109, 5 trillion.
While Google Inc. as the company recorded gross revenue of USD23, 651 billion in 2009, equivalent to Rp215, 81 trillion. Google's operating income in 2009 for $ 8, 312 billion, or Rp75, 84 trillion, with profits reaching $ 6, 52 billion, or Rp59, 4 trillion. This figure is up compared to the year 2008 with revenues reaching USD21, 8 billion and $ 4 profit, 23 billion. Total assets owned by Google Inc. in 2009 for $ 40, 49 billion and total equity $ 36 billion. Google has hired as many as 19,835 employees in 2009 spread all over the world with subsidiaries YouTube LLC, Double-Click, GrandCentral, and Picnik. Even Google's revenue and profit has surpassed eBay, Amazon and Yahoo!.
Last year, Ebay registered a profit of $ 2, 3 billion of revenues $ 8, 7 billion. As in 2008, eBay recorded a profit of USD1, 78 billion of total income $ 8, 54 billion or 34% increase. This year, eBay's total income estimate $ 8, 8 billion to USD9, 1 billion. The Amazon in 2009 to record income of USD24, 5 billion with net income of USD902 million. Amazonini net profit rose nearly 40% compared to record 2008 profit of just USD645 million from USD19 revenues, 17 billion.Amazon has hired approximately 20 thousand employees.
Last incomes Yahoo! in 2009 for $ 6, 4 billion, slightly down from 2008 revenue of $ $ 7, 21 billion. But the profit in 2009 increased to USD598 million from the previously only USD419 million. Yahoo! supported by approximately 14 thousand employees. According to Forbes, Google's profit of $ 5, 5 billion earned in just 12 months with a market share rose to 70% on last year. Even Google has implemented applications in smart phones (smartphones), so further increasing Google's market share since November 2008.
With this performance, natural search engine Google has been incarnated as a search engine for the money its founder. For her, the father of one child who lives in Polo Alto California is Google's main source of income. No different than Page. According to Forbes notes the main income source man who lives in San Francisco, California This is from Google. At present besides the founder, Page served as President of Google Inc. Product Development. While she served as President of Google Inc. Technology Division.
Meeting of Two Friends
The story of the journey of life Brin and Page were somewhat unique. It's hard to imagine two doctoral students who did not complete college is now incarnated as a man who entered the ranks of the world's richest people. She was born in Moscow, August 21, 1973, has a full name Sergey Mikhailovich Brin. Prior to founding Google with a friend Page, Brin had been studying computer science and mathematics. She went on her computer science education at Stanford University through a scholarship from the National Science Foundation. He received his master's degree in August 1995.
In addition, she has an MBA from IE Business School. Mentioned, Page and Brin were not initially like each other when they first met at the Graduate School of Computer Science Stanford University in 1995. However, their interest in the same field, eventually they became friends. Together they search for and find relevant information from large data set. They were then write a research paper entitled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" which is considered as a seed for establishing their careers in Google.
While the Page, the man who was born March 26, 1973, has the full name of Lawrence Edward Page. Husband of Lucinda Southworth is a graduate of East Lansing High School. Page earned a bachelor of science in computer engineering from the University of Michigan. He is also a graduate of Stanford University master's from. After meeting with her at the Computer Science PhD program at Stanford University, they run a business search engine Google, which began operating in 1998.
So Googol Google
Given Google's history of the establishment, originally a name Googol. A mathematical terminology means one followed by 100 zeros. Page and Brin to use this name because it has a mission to organize the information around the world and makes it accessible and universally useful. As a company founded Google Inc. on September 7, 1998 in the garage of a friend Brin and Page in Menlo Park, California.
In February 1999, the company moved into offices at 165 University Ave, Palo Alto, California before finally moving to the "Googleplex", Mountain View, California at the end of the same year.Google started from the research project Page and Brin in early 1996 to develop the theory that a search engine based on mathematical analysis of the relationship between web sites will provide better results than by using the search techniques used on the basis of the time. This system was originally called BackRub for using backlinks to estimate how important a site.
Page and Sergey continued to improve Google technologies throughout early 1998. Finally, companies can set up Google on September 7, 1998 and officially opened in Menlo Park, California. Currently Google is a company predicated number one in the top 100 most popular company in America with the number of employees nearly 20,000 people.
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