I thought I will check out on the huge number of reviews on Google on MS and the search was as interesting and vast as the Google site but they all fetched the same result Because most of them had the same basic string like entering a keyword on Google Engine as follows.
Gooooooooooooooooogle
Google zindabad
Have you googled yet
Googly
Google is great
There is God, then there is Google . . . . . . . goes on to Go Gaga about Google
I thought as an Entrepreneur to tread a different path and give information which was not found in the 109 reviews on Google because I know there won’t be any takers on Bla Bla about Google as to how quick it is, how easy it makes the life of professionals and so many add ons and innovations that google has been making which are integral part of the growth strategy of Google.
The Founders of Google
Google was coined from the word Googol by Milton Sirotta. , picked from his nephew’s Mathematics book Mathematics and the imagination. It means the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros and shows the immense potential of Internet the company has envisaged with infinite levels of information content that could go into the search Engine.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page the founders of Google were computer graduates from Stanford University, both of whom had gone through enough and more trials and tribulations including heavy arguments on the feasibility of finding a linking device to various internet sites and their first efforts fetched the Blackrub which analyses the back links of a website.
They started their Business office with huge potential but limited resources of money, being Graduates with just Brains.
The Angel who changed their lives and ours.
Kavitark Ram Shriram is a 49 year old Indian in California and has graduated from Chennai University. He is called the Sherpa of Google not because he wrote a check for 100, 000.00 $ for the Google’s growth but was actually involved in the formation of the DNA of the company. Incidentally Ram Shriram an Angel investor and Bechtolsheim were invited by the professor Jeff Ullman to look at their demo and back the two guys who were just 23 & 24 on their new development which has made sensation in the world today.
Bechtolsheim who was involved in making of Network Computer workstation for Stanford and also founder of Sun Microsystems has been projected by the world as the main man behind the Google’s entrepreneurship (he also made a check for the same amount) but Ram remains the Indian behind Google’s early investors and Directors on Board and the main Brain behind changing technology to a Business solution.
Unfortunately Sergey and Page did not have any offices nor legal entity in the form of Google inc and in the matter of 2 months they scooped up 1 million dollars for which they set up the Corporation.
Ram’s contribution and Google’s success.
Shriram’s magical words for success are , ” There is no magical formula for success , rather it comes from continual small “Block and tackle” moves. Ram’s experience with Junglee before Google venture has helped him evolve a great worthiness for the platform.
When Ram sat in the Garage of Sergey with his Book of mistakes, he went about the two essential ingredients of a successful Business Venture
To become 80% better than any other company in the field you need to make the right decisions which comes from correcting the mistakes you do at every step early enough to prevent a spiraling effect.
The major part that Ram Shriram played in Google’s evolution was to hire the best guys for the company and groom them in the right direction. It was in all three of them which went to eight.
How do you identify the best? Ram says he checks out on their mothers because it is they who grow them into successful citizens , employees and entrepreneurs.
Google grew from a humble 10000 search queries a day to 500000 search queries from 1998 to 1999.and found a major investment from two diametrically opposite companies Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers for 25 million $ and rest is History.
Google’s amazing features and performance has contineouly enabled the Company to grow in terms of employees, investors and most importantly users. When Google officially became the World’s largest search Engine, Sergey Brin and Lary Page had this to say.
“ We love you, Google users.”
From the year 2002 Google went on conteneous innovation of its platform to give more value to customers in the form of Google in Box, Google news, Adwords, & Froogle
The Google toolbar and the Google deskbar were to follow in 2003.2004 saw the web mail service gmail and the Google SMS which are simply superb tools for an internet user.
The world at their feet
Last year the Google company brought the world at their feet, sorry on to the Desktop with Google Earth by keyhole acquisition. Google talk is another innovative feature that enables people to talk around the world through the computer.
Google till date remains the biggest company that Bill Gates envies because Microsoft and Google as Business ventures have been at the two poles of the world.
Shiram keeps growing like Google too.
Kavtark Ram Shriram is 258th richest American according to forbes list now not only because he is one of the biggest shareholders in Google but also because of Business Ventures in Plaxo, Yodlee, Tellme Podshow and Zazzle .
There are enumerable Indians in the Board as well as employee strength of Google which we are proud of today.
Thanks to the Google Corporate sites and Forbes Lists which have enabled me to add relevant information on this amazing company Google.