Crisis In kitchen.My dad’s officers were coming to dinner.Mom went for shopping and called from their.I’m very bad in cooking, but still my mom asked me to get started with things as she’ll be delayed.Some mushroom was lying in the fridge and wanting to impress mom I remembered the delicious roast mushroom we’d enjoyed in my last vacations.But there was no time to search mom’s cookbook for recipe.Then came the brainwave.I’ll Google it!
The computer was already hooked into the internet.So I typed two words-roast mushroom-into Google search engine( http://www.google.com), the most widely used service for finding information on net.In 0.12 second, Google flicked through 2, 469, 940, 685 pages of the World Wide Web, selected 135, 000 containing both the words and sent summaries of
the first ten to my computer.I clicked on the first page listed, form a website called Recipe Source.Abd there it was a detailed recipe for SEITAN ROAST WITH MUSHROOM GRAVY.
Ace chef!
It wasn’t the first time I’d got in a flash just the information I needed, and I’m hardly the only one.Everyday Google responds to 150 million queries from around the world, almost 40 percent of all internet search requests.
The speedy results can be more than a convenience.Yet, while I was slicing the mushrooms, I got wondering.How does Google work? Unlike other popular search engines such as Alta Vista and Lycos, how is it that, nearly every time I ask a question, Google seemingly reads my mind and come up with what I’m looking for?
The ’’GOOGLEPLEX’’ , in California’s famed Silicon Valley is a modern, two-storey office building amid trees and gardens, just off a highway.The atmosphere inside is a laid back, even by California standards.Row of lava lamps line the walls;huge multi-coloured exercise balls roll around on the carpets and members of the 300 HQ-based staff even play roller hockey in the parking lot.The tone is set from the top.Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both 29, share a small office heaped with computer gear, games, hockey sticks, helmets, cameras and gadgets.Although they now mastermind one of the few remaining dot-com success stories, their first meeting was not too friendly.They came up with ’’Google’’, a play on the word ’googol’, a number with 100 zeroes.
They never advertised, but Google’s speed and effectiveness spread by word of mouth.Their private company makes most of its estimated $50-$100 million a year from big-name corporations such as Virgin.net, BBC, AOL and Netscape which use its technologies.
Today some 55 million people around the world use Google.To keep up with the rocketing growth of the World Wide Web, more computers are continually slotted in-the number is secret but though to be 16, 000.
At the GOOGLEPLEX front desk, a scrolling list of phrases is projected on the white wall behind the receptionist.Samples of the search-requests pouring into the Google, thousands every second, a wierd but compelling barometer of world curiosity:shark cages, taxi fares Madrid, beaches France, harry potter rumours.....
The queries take every imaginable forms.To answer every question, Google sifts through almost two and a half billion pages.It’s a classic needle-and-haystack job.Brin and Page have an even larger dream and mission that is to make all the information in the world instantly available to everyone.
One day they’ll do it and get their PhD’s.
Mom was back!
By the time our visitors rang the bell, my roasted mushrooms were sizzling in the microwave, giving off mouth-watering aromas of garlic and onion.Our guests loved it.Even my mom dad appreciated a lot and I was named an ’’Ace Chef’’ ! ;-) Thanks to GOOGLE..