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By Samantha Felix | Business Insider –  Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:13 AM EDT
Most people don't realize that Facebook (FB) can continue to monitor their internet activity, even if they are no longer logged into the site.

Using "Facebook Connect," and other social plug-ins, Facebook is able to set up a cookie on any site that has a "Like" or "share" button, giving Facebook access to a startling amount of user information. Technically, the purpose of these plug-ins is to authenticate users, but it still has theability to collect personal information such as the IP address of your computer, browsing data, outside login information, phone numbers, etc.

The cookie, known as the "datr" cookie, has been a controversial topic for the past year. Using this cookie, among other things, Facebook knows what you have read on a web page even if you did not click the "like" button. As the Wall Street Journal reported, "for this to work, a person only needs to have logged into Facebook or Twitter once in the past month. The sites will continue to collect browsing data, even if the person closes their browser or turns off their computers."

To help users control how and when their information is tracked and distributed, companies such as Abine and Ghostery have developed tools that allow users to block Facebook social plug-ins, cookies, and other trackers.

We identified five practical options for consideration, including an option for web site publishers that will help protect their customers from trackers while keeping their websites running smoothly.
As Business Insider previously reported, Abine's DNT+ tool is a FREE add-on that monitors, tracks, and allows users to block any trackers and requests that may be following their internet activity. It is compatible with MAC or PC for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer. It is currently able to block more than 600 trackers, and automatically updates to catch new trackers. Ghostery — similar to DNT+ but this add-on is also available for Opera. 
Similar to DNT+, Ghostery is a browser add-on, owned by Evidon, that protects consumer privacy while online. By giving the consumer visibility into who is tracking their online activity and allowing them to block all or specific trackers, it empowers users with the ability to stop third parties from collecting their personal information without permission. It currently has more than 16 million monthly users and pulls data from over 26 million web domains via an opt-in service of 7 million users.

Ghostery is free to download, free to use, and does not contain any adware or spyware. It is available for all major browsers: Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer.





Disconnect and Collusion for Chrome — A robust tool that will identify and block trackers, but is only available for Chrome.

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Similar to DNT+ and Ghostery, Chrome Disconnect allows you to stop third parties and search engines from tracking your web activity. Specifically, this tool focuses on allowing users to disconnect from sites such as Facebook, Digg, Google, Twitter, and Yahoo without risking the performance of the sites. The tool blocks identifiable cookies while allowing you stay logged into various sites.

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This site allows users to then see which third parties are tracking them by graphing the spread of the data from sites to tracks, exposing them, and giving users the ability to block the trackers.

Consider adjusting browser settings to control trackers.

(Business Insider)Before downloading yet another piece of software on your computer, consider simply adjusting the settings on your browser.

Firefox: Firefox> Tools> Options> Privacy> click the box that says, "Tell websites I do not want to be tracked." Then you should set it to "never save your history" and remove cookies frequently.

Chrome: Chrome> Preferences> Settings> Advanced Settings> Privacy> Content Settings> Click, "Block Third Party Cookies and Site Data."

Safari: Safari> Preferences> Security> Accept Cookies> select "never." You might also want to consider browsing privately so your history and passwords are not stored, and thus accessible.

Internet Explorer 10: Microsoft's latest version of Internet Explorer 10 will default to a "Do Not Track" position. The browser will send a signal to advertisers altering them that users do not want to be tracked.

Evidon — A blocking and tracking tool for web publishers.

(Evidon)Evidon Encompass Revenue Protection: This product is designed for website owners who want to keep the intentional tracking code on their sites from spawning additional code from third parties. It allows websites to see all trackers and how they are affecting the site's performance, while securing the site's customer data.

Evidon Encompass Privacy: This is a tool designed specifically for web publishers to help them both comply with privacy regulations, ePrivacy Directive and “AdChoices” self-regulatory programs, and protect the private information of their customers. In addition to showing all of the trackers on a site, and where they are originating from, this tool also alerts web site owners of everything that needs to be disclosed to consumers about how their information is being used.
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    "The perfect search engine," says co-founder Larry Page, "would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want." When Google began, you would have been pleasantly surprised to enter a search query and immediately find the right answer. Google became successful precisely because we were better and faster at finding the right answer than other search engines at the time.

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    1. Focus on the user and all else will follow.

    Since the beginning, we've focused on providing the best user experience possible. Whether we're designing a new Internet browser or a new tweak to the look of the homepage, we take great care to ensure that they will ultimately serve you, rather than our own internal goal or bottom line. Our homepage interface is clear and simple, and pages load instantly. Placement in search results is never sold to anyone, and advertising is not only clearly marked as such, it offers relevant content and is not distracting. And when we build new tools and applications, we believe they should work so well you don't have to consider how they might have been designed differently.

    2. It's best to do one thing really, really well.

    We do search. With one of the world's largest research groups focused exclusively on solving search problems, we know what we do well, and how we could do it better. Through continued iteration on difficult problems, we've been able to solve complex issues and provide continuous improvements to a service that already makes finding information a fast and seamless experience for millions of people. Our dedication to improving search helps us apply what we've learned to new products, like Gmail and Google Maps. Our hope is to bring the power of search to previously unexplored areas, and to help people access and use even more of the ever-expanding information in their lives.

    3. Fast is better than slow.

    We know your time is valuable, so when you're seeking an answer on the web you want it right away – and we aim to please. We may be the only people in the world who can say our goal is to have people leave our homepage as quickly as possible. By shaving excess bits and bytes from our pages and increasing the efficiency of our serving environment, we've broken our own speed records many times over, so that the average response time on a search result is a fraction of a second. We keep speed in mind with each new product we release, whether it's a mobile application or Google Chrome, a browser designed to be fast enough for the modern web. And we continue to work on making it all go even faster.

    4. Democracy on the web works.

    Google search works because it relies on the millions of individuals posting links on websites to help determine which other sites offer content of value. We assess the importance of every web page using more than 200 signals and a variety of techniques, including our patented PageRank™ algorithm, which analyzes which sites have been "voted" to be the best sources of information by other pages across the web. As the web gets bigger, this approach actually improves, as each new site is another point of information and another vote to be counted. In the same vein, we are active in open source software development, where innovation takes place through the collective effort of many programmers.

    5. You don't need to be at your desk to need an answer.

    The world is increasingly mobile: people want access to information wherever they are, whenever they need it. We're pioneering new technologies and offering new solutions for mobile services that help people all over the globe to do any number of tasks on their phone, from checking email and calendar events to watching videos, not to mention the several different ways to access Google search on a phone. In addition, we're hoping to fuel greater innovation for mobile users everywhere with Android, a free, open source mobile platform. Android brings the openness that shaped the Internet to the mobile world. Not only does Android benefit consumers, who have more choice and innovative new mobile experiences, but it opens up revenue opportunities for carriers, manufacturers and developers.

    6. You can make money without doing evil.

    Google is a business. The revenue we generate is derived from offering search technology to companies and from the sale of advertising displayed on our site and on other sites across the web. Hundreds of thousands of advertisers worldwide use AdWords to promote their products; hundreds of thousands of publishers take advantage of our AdSense program to deliver ads relevant to their site content. To ensure that we're ultimately serving all our users (whether they are advertisers or not), we have a set of guiding principles for our advertising programs and practices:

    • We don't allow ads to be displayed on our results pages unless they are relevant where they are shown. And we firmly believe that ads can provide useful information if, and only if, they are relevant to what you wish to find – so it's possible that certain searches won't lead to any ads at all.
    • We believe that advertising can be effective without being flashy. We don't accept pop-up advertising, which interferes with your ability to see the content you've requested. We've found that text ads that are relevant to the person reading them draw much higher clickthrough rates than ads appearing randomly. Any advertiser, whether small or large, can take advantage of this highly targeted medium.
    • Advertising on Google is always clearly identified as a "Sponsored Link," so it does not compromise the integrity of our search results. We never manipulate rankings to put our partners higher in our search results and no one can buy better PageRank. Our users trust our objectivity and no short-term gain could ever justify breaching that trust.

    7. There's always more information out there.

    Once we'd indexed more of the HTML pages on the Internet than any other search service, our engineers turned their attention to information that was not as readily accessible. Sometimes it was just a matter of integrating new databases into search, such as adding a phone number and address lookup and a business directory. Other efforts required a bit more creativity, like adding the ability to search news archives, patents, academic journals, billions of images and millions of books. And our researchers continue looking into ways to bring all the world's information to people seeking answers.

    8. The need for information crosses all borders.

    Our company was founded in California, but our mission is to facilitate access to information for the entire world, and in every language. To that end, we have offices in dozens of countries, maintain more than 150 Internet domains, and serve more than half of our results to people living outside the United States. We offer Google's search interface in more than 110 languages, offer people the ability to restrict results to content written in their own language, and aim to provide the rest of our applications and products in as many languages as possible. Using our translation tools, people can discover content written on the other side of the world in languages they don't speak. With these tools and the help of volunteer translators, we have been able to greatly improve both the variety and quality of services we can offer in even the most far-flung corners of the globe.

    9. You can be serious without a suit.

    Our founders built Google around the idea that work should be challenging, and the challenge should be fun. We believe that great, creative things are more likely to happen with the right company culture – and that doesn't just mean lava lamps and rubber balls. There is an emphasis on team achievements and pride in individual accomplishments that contribute to our overall success. We put great stock in our employees – energetic, passionate people from diverse backgrounds with creative approaches to work, play and life. Our atmosphere may be casual, but as new ideas emerge in a café line, at a team meeting or at the gym, they are traded, tested and put into practice with dizzying speed – and they may be the launch pad for a new project destined for worldwide use.

    10. Great just isn't good enough.

    We see being great at something as a starting point, not an endpoint. We set ourselves goals we know we can't reach yet, because we know that by stretching to meet them we can get further than we expected. Through innovation and iteration, we aim to take things that work well and improve upon them in unexpected ways. For example, when one of our engineers saw that search worked well for properly spelled words, he wondered about how it handled typos. That led him to create an intuitive and more helpful spell checker.

    Even if you don't know exactly what you're looking for, finding an answer on the web is our problem, not yours. We try to anticipate needs not yet articulated by our global audience, and meet them with products and services that set new standards. When we launched Gmail, it had more storage space than any email service available. In retrospect offering that seems obvious – but that's because now we have new standards for email storage. Those are the kinds of changes we seek to make, and we're always looking for new places where we can make a difference. Ultimately, our constant dissatisfaction with the way things are becomes the driving force behind everything we do.


    Update: We first wrote these "10 things" several years ago. From time to time we revisit this list to see if it still holds true. We hope it does – and you can hold us to that. (September 2009)

    The Google Culture

    Though Google has grown a lot since it opened in 1998, we still maintain a small company feel. At lunchtime, almost everyone eats in the office café, sitting at whatever table has an opening and enjoying conversations with Googlers from different teams. Our commitment to innovation depends on everyone being comfortable sharing ideas and opinions. Every employee is a hands-on contributor, and everyone wears several hats. Because we believe that each Googler is an equally important part of our success, no one hesitates to pose questions directly to Larry or Sergey in our weekly all-hands ("TGIF") meetings – or spike a volleyball across the net at a corporate officer.

    We are aggressively inclusive in our hiring, and we favor ability over experience. We have offices around the world and dozens of languages are spoken by Google staffers, from Turkish to Telugu. The result is a team that reflects the global audience Google serves. When not at work, Googlers pursue interests from cross-country cycling to wine tasting, from flying to frisbee.

    As we continue to grow, we are always looking for those who share a commitment to creating search perfection and having a great time doing it.

    ABOUT GOOGLE OFFICES

    Our corporate headquarters, fondly nicknamed the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. Today it's one of our many offices around the globe. While our offices are not identical, they tend to share some essential elements. Here are a few things you might see in a Google workspace:

    • Local expressions of each location, from a mural in Buenos Aires to ski gondolas in Zurich, showcasing each office's region and personality.
    • Bicycles or scooters for efficient travel between meetings; dogs; lava lamps; massage chairs; large inflatable balls.
    • Googlers sharing cubes, yurts and huddle rooms – and very few solo offices.
    • Laptops everywhere – standard issue for mobile coding, email on the go and note-taking.
    • Foosball, pool tables, volleyball courts, assorted video games, pianos, ping pong tables, and gyms that offer yoga and dance classes.
    • Grassroots employee groups for all interests, like meditation, film, wine tasting and salsa dancing.
    • Healthy lunches and dinners for all staff at a variety of cafés.
    • Break rooms packed with a variety of snacks and drinks to keep Googlers going.
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    ACCORDING TO Angela Chan, the Chairperson of the Ethnic Communities Council of NSW,

    ownership of a major television network and newspaper by the same company could amount to

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    It is becoming rare to see in the print media truly independent investigative journalism.

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    the power bases whom effectively control Australia taking advantage of the easygoing nature of Australians,

    and partly because there simply is no truly independent mainstream media outlet in Australia.

    What is urgently needed is independent press where average Australians can have a say when they

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    the legal and political system – a system that is meant to belong to all Australians, not just a select and

    powerful few.

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    by Marvyn Moore 

    In 1997 a massive $28 billion was devoured in equities by small investors, who have now realised that

    there is more instant and retrievable profit in taking up parcels of shares in new promising share floats

    before listing.

    This option has been recognised as being better than investing in real estate, and as a result,

    the stock market is poised for exciting new growth, according to a report by Macquarie Equities.

    The report predicted that support fro small share issues would see an 88 percent increase in

    private sector floats from 1996 onwards, when they were $4.1 billion.

    Robert Credaro, Kim Ta and Roy Shackley, analysts for the McQuarie report describe retail investors as

    "very resilient".

    The now famous Telstra Float saw the appearance in the market of thousands of average small investors,

    most of whom were buying shares for the first time.

    These investors made instant profits on the day the Telstra shares were listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

    The difference between these profits and profits made in real estate is that they are instantly retrievable

    with a simple phone call to your stock broker.

    INL expected to float at good price

    One of the reasons it is expected that the International News Limited (INL) shares will float at a good price

    is that none of the big institutional investors will be able to buy any large parcels of shares before the float.

    They will need to line up with ordinary people to subscribe to the Australian Weekend News, and be within

    the first 20,000 subscribers in order to receive their option to take up 2000 $1 shares.

    This will frustrate big institional investors who will end up having to try to buy the large shareholdings

    they would like to own in INL after the float from the ordinary people at a price the ordinary people are

    prepared to sell to them - if they want to sell their shares at all.

    Big institutional investors spend more than $3 billion on new share floats  each year and like to buy shares

    in all media floats.

    It will take only a few of these institutional investors to place buying orders at best after the float of INL

    on the stock exchange to make the shares in INL go to a fair price.

    It is expected that INL shares will go above the $5 price West Australian Newspapers Ltd sells for,

    because they will be tightly held with no large parcels of shares available for sale on the market.

    Share prices are set by supply and demand and if the demand is high, with few shares available to

    supply that demand, then the price must rise.

    For this reason we urge readers to subscribe to the Australian Weekend News and be the first 20,000

    who will receive a prospectus and an option for the purchase of 2000 $1 shares in the float.

    Win a block of land in Collie

    All who subscribe will receive a card that they will be able to use for discounts at various WA businesses.

    A list of these businesses will be supplied with the card.

    Subscribers' names will also go into a draw for the prize of a residential block of land in Collie,

    just 30 minutes drive from the City of Bunbury, in WA South West.

     

    The way we were

    New Shares Rocket in Record Debut
    DAILY NEWS 1969,
    PERTH, WA:

    Kia Ora Gold Corporation fully paid (25 cents) shares hit $5.50 in their stock exchange debut today.

    It was the most spectacular share opening in memory.

    It dwarfed the records of the Consolidated Gold Fields of Australia and Hamersley Holding debuts,

    which make history on the stock exchanges.

    Fortunes were made within minutes of the Adelaide and Sydney exchanges opening. Trading in other

    stocks was closed for 15 minutes in Adelaide while brokers bid frantically.

    The 10 per cent paid shares hit $5.30 in the opening burst.

    In Adelaide Kia Ora's 32-year-old executive director, Brian Hill, is reputed to hold more than 300,000 shares,

    a paper profit of more than $1.5 million.

    It is believed that one of the biggest gains to come from the Kia Ora float was by a Sydney stockbroker who

    could have made about $1 million in paper profit.

    Queensland senator Ian Woods - who still regards a bicycle as the best means of transport today -

    made a $250,000 paper profit in just one minute flat.

    He held just over 50,000 Kia Ora shares.

    The company's brilliant opening stemmed from its piggings in the nickel hot spot.

    Among its wide spread WA nickel leases, is one bordering the Poseidon nickel strike at Windarra,

    more than 100 miles north of Kalgoorlie.

    Kia Ora has also pegged and applied for 11 claims at Pioneer, the other hot nickel spot, and has claims

    in the Mount Keith area.

    Rigby returns to back a cause

    WORLD FAMOUS West Australian cartoonist Paul Rigby has agreed to provide

    the Australian Weekend News with a special collectors item cartoon which will appear next issue.

    Paul Rigby was the cartoonist whose art graced the back page of the Daily and Weekend News for many years.

    He saw himself as "the people's cartoonist", using his talent for drawing and humour to bring to light

    the common person's view of the games played by powerbrokers.

    In addition to Paul's cartoon, his son Pete will write an article for the collectors' edition.

    Be sure to get your subscription in today!

    "The Australian Weekend News will provide a reasonably priced

    alternative,

    that will be owned by the Australian people. "

    By subscribing to Australian Weekend Newsyou will help make history and you'll be sure to receive

    your copy of each edition.

    In relaunching the Weekend News as the Australian Weekend News, we are endeavouring to put the power

    of the press into the hands on the people.

    In WA advertisers have little choice about where to spend their money - and advertising rates continue to climb.

    The West Australian, for instance, promised economy of scale after the closure of the Daily-Weekend News,

    but has regularly increased its ad rates.

    The Australian Weekend News will provide a reasonably priced alternative, that will be owned by

    the Australian people.  Ed.

    RIGBY (in London) ON THE MOONWALK 
    Tuesday November 18, 1969

    "You'll hafta burn them off at the lights, or it's goodbye rock collection!!"



    Media giants reap $10m from WA each weekend

    by Marvyn Moore 

    Do West Australians want to keep ploughing money into giant media bodies?

    It is estimated that in WA alone, each weekend more than $1 million is spent on
    the West Australian Newspaper and the Sunday Times, and advertising revenue in
    both papers would amount to about $9 million.

    Independents fight on

    Five brave independent newspapers serve various areas of Perth and Fremantle and each week
    they fight against the might of the suburban Community Newspapers for advertising dollars.

    Because the Community Newspapers are 50 per cent owned by the West and 50 per cent
    by the Murdoch group, the independents face a situation in which the lion's share of advertising
    is out of reach.

    A reliable source in the media industry claims that the Sunday Times and the West Australian
    have cornered the real estate advertising market, as only a small degree of this advertising appears
    each week in the Community Newspapers. According to the source, a directive regarding this matter
     has apparently been handed down by the Sunday Times and the West Australian.

    An advertising manager from one of these independent newspapers said there was the constant
    fear of being extinguished.

    1980s monopoly ruling

    In the late 1980s, a former Trade Practices Commissioner Bob Baxt ruled that
    the West Australian's ownership of the Daily-Weekend News constituted a monopoly.
    But the owners of the West Australian have kept their grip on WA's advertising dollars.

    First, some time after Mr Baxt's ruling, the then owners of the West Autralian put
     the Daily-Weekend News into liquidation, throwing many people out of work.

    Second, it edged into obtaining control of the lucrative suburban newspaper advertising dollars.

    If Mr Baxt were to look at the situation as it is today, would he view it as a monopoly?

    Would he be surprised to see that the newspaper bosses have avoided tipping the scale of
     ownership of just 51 per cent of Community News to ensure they cannot be ruled as monopolising
     the industry? The West Australian owns 50 per cent of Community News while Murdoch owns
     the Sunday Times, which owns the other 50 per cent of Community News.

    This means neither can legally be ruled to be in control.

    As it stands, these two media giants maintain their stranglehold on WA's lucrative advertising market
    and control much of what West Australian's read.

    Many ordinary West Australians view the West Australian and the Sunday Times as monolithic media institutions that make a lot of money, charge too much for advertising and have lost the art of being entertaining.

    When a West Australian is asked "why do you buy one or other of the weekend pape
    rs" the reply often is: "I choose one of the weekend papers just for the colour TV Guide!".
    Another frequent reply is "I buy a weekend paper only for the classified ads".

    The Australian Weekend News interviewed a well established advertising agent in Adelaide recently who said that in his opinion most Australian buy newspapers for the classified ads, rather than for entertainment or editorial.

    The Weekend News/INL Publishing Group has managed to wrestle the
    108 Weekend News Masthead from WAN and is able to relaunch it as the Austarlian Weekend News.

    New cartoon characters have been created for the Australian Weekend News.
    Members of famous cartoonist Paul Rigby's family have offered to help develop them for
    use in a new cartoon.

    A "greenie" character, Erf the Worm, will be hidden inside the cartoon for readers to find,
    as in the old days when they had to find Paul Rigby's man and dog.

    Paul Rigby reminisces

    The Australian Weekend News spoke to Paul Rigby before he went into semi-retirement
    after years of working for the New York Daily.

    He reminisced about his many years as a feature cartoonist with the Daily-Weekend News, recalling how the paper was run like one big happy family.

    The West Australian, which had controlled it for 108 years, managed to give it the status of the "poor sister" paper, while the Saturday West made all the money.

    This resulted in keeping others from gaining a strong foothold on the weekend newspaper
    advertising market and ensured that hte West did not have to share its yearly profits of more
     than $100 million.

    This profit is now shared by the West Australian and the Murdoch controlled mastehead,
    the Sunday Times.

    Today, the old Daily-Weekend News building on the corner of Roe and Lake Street has been
    turned into the Community Newspaper group's headquarters.

    Blood, sweat and tears

    It was within these walls that much blood sweat and tears of the staff to the Daily-Weekend News
    was expended.

    The old Daily-Weekend News used to print Paul Rigby's cartoon on the back page, with his famous
     man and dog hidden in it somewhere. West Australians used to pick up the paper, turn it over,
    and read Rigby's cartoon first.

    In the suburbs, the topic around dinner was often whatever Rigby was tilting at that day.

    The Daily-Weekend News was always lively, interesting and entertaining.

    It is with this standard in mind that the relaunching
    of the Australian Weekend News will be undertaken.

    Said of the
    West Australian and Sunday Times:
    "lost the art of being entertaining"

    "charge too much for advertising" Said by Paul Rigby about the old
    Daily-Weekend News:
    "the paper was run like one big happy family:" Marvyn Moore writes:
    The Daily-Weekend News was always lively, interesting and entertaining.
     
    It is with this standard in mind that the relaunching of
     the Australian Weekend News will be undertaken.


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                             No matter how much God gives us, We still want more and more,
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    The Google Culture

    Though Google has grown a lot since it opened in 1998, we still maintain a small company feel. At lunchtime, almost everyone eats in the office café, sitting at whatever table has an opening and enjoying conversations with Googlers from different teams. Our commitment to innovation depends on everyone being comfortable sharing ideas and opinions. Every employee is a hands-on contributor, and everyone wears several hats. Because we believe that each Googler is an equally important part of our success, no one hesitates to pose questions directly to Larry or Sergey in our weekly all-hands ("TGIF") meetings – or spike a volleyball across the net at a corporate officer.

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    As with its technology, Google has chosen to ignore conventional wisdom in designing its business. The company started with seed money from angel investors and brought together two competing venture capital firms to fund its first equity round. While the dotcom boom exploded around it and competitors spent millions on marketing campaigns to "build brand," Google focused instead on quietly building a better search engine.

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      PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value. We have always taken a pragmatic approach to help improve search quality and create useful products, and our technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to determine a page's importance.

    • Hypertext-Matching Analysis: Our search engine also analyzes page content. However, instead of simply scanning for page-based text (which can be manipulated by site publishers through meta-tags), our technology analyzes the full content of a page and factors in fonts, subdivisions and the precise location of each word. We also analyze the content of neighboring web pages to ensure the results returned are the most relevant to a user's query.

    Our innovations don't stop at the desktop. To give people access to the information they need, whenever and wherever they need it, we continue to develop new mobile applications and services that are more accessible and customizable. And we're partnering with industry-leading carriers and device manufacturers to deliver these innovative services globally. We're working with many of these industry leaders through the Open Handset Alliance to develop Android, the first complete, open, and free mobile platform, which will offer people a less expensive and better mobile experience.

    Life of a Google Query

    The life span of a Google query normally lasts less than half a second, yet involves a number of different steps that must be completed before results can be delivered to a person seeking information.

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     The search results are returned to the user in a fraction of a second.
        1. The web server sends the query to the index servers. The content inside the index servers is similar to the index in the back of a book - it tells which pages contain the words that match the query.
    2.The query travels to the doc servers, which actually retrieve the stored documents. Snippets are generated to describe each search result.

    Google Management

    Co-founders Larry Page, president of Products, and Sergey Brin, president of Technology, brought Google to life in September 1998. Since then, the company has grown to more than 10,000 employees worldwide, with a management team that represents some of the most experienced technology professionals in the industry. Eric Schmidt joined Google as chairman and chief executive officer in 2001.

    Board of Directors

    Operating Committee

    Key executives by function:

    Engineering

    Products

    Sales

    Legal

    • Kent Walker, Vice President & General Counsel
    • David Lawee, Vice President, Corporate Development
    • Megan Smith, Vice President, New Business Development, and General Manager, Google.org

    Finance

    Business Operations

    Google.org

    • Megan Smith, Vice President, New Business Development, and General Manager, Google.org

    Google's Operating Committee



    Eric Schmidt  Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

    Since joining Google in 2001, Eric Schmidt has helped grow the company from a Silicon Valley startup to a global enterprise. Under his leadership, Google has dramatically scaled its infrastructure and broadened its offerings while maintaining a culture of strong innovation. His background uniquely prepares him to lead Google's efforts toward technological solutions that focus on users. With founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and the rest of the executive team, Eric oversees the company's technical and business strategy. Prior to joining Google, Eric was the Chairman and CEO of Novell and Chief Technology Officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he led the development of Java, Sun's platform-independent programming technology. Earlier in his career, Eric was a member of the research staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and held positions at Bell Laboratories and Zilog. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University as well as a master's and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. Eric is a member of President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a fellow in 2007. Eric also chairs the board of the New America Foundation.



    Larry Page Co-Founder & President, Products

    Larry Page was Google's founding CEO and grew the company to more than 200 employees and profitability before moving into his role as president of products in April 2001. He continues to share responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations with Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin. The son of Michigan State University computer science professor Dr. Carl Victor Page, Larry's love of computers began at age six. While following in his father's footsteps in academics, he became an honors graduate from the University of Michigan, where he earned a bachelor's degree in engineering, with a concentration on computer engineering. During his time in Ann Arbor, Larry built an inkjet printer out of Lego™ bricks. While in the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, Larry met Sergey Brin, and together they developed and ran Google, which began operating in 1998. Larry went on leave from Stanford after earning his master's degree. In 2002, Larry was named a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow. He is a member of the National Advisory Committee (NAC) of the University of Michigan College of Engineering, and together with co-founder Sergey Brin, Larry was honored with the Marconi Prize in 2004. He is a trustee on the board of the X PRIZE, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.



    Sergey Brin Co-Founder & President, Technology

    Sergey Brin, a native of Moscow, received a bachelor of science degree with honors in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is currently on leave from the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, where he received his master's degree. Sergey is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship as well as an honorary MBA from Instituto de Empresa. It was at Stanford where he met Larry Page and worked on the project that became Google. Together they founded Google Inc. in 1998, and Sergey continues to share responsibility for day-to-day operations with Larry Page and Eric Schmidt.

    Sergey's research interests include search engines, information extraction from unstructured sources, and data mining of large text collections and scientific data. He has published more than a dozen academic papers, including Extracting Patterns and Relations from the World Wide Web; Dynamic Data Mining: A New Architecture for Data with High Dimensionality, which he published with Larry Page; Scalable Techniques for Mining Casual Structures; Dynamic Itemset Counting and Implication Rules for Market Basket Data; and Beyond Market Baskets: Generalizing Association Rules to Correlations.

    Sergey has been a featured speaker at several international academic, business and technology forums, including the World Economic Forum and the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference. He has shared his views on the technology industry and the future of search on theCharlie Rose Show, CNBC, and CNNfn. In 2004, he and Larry Page were named "Persons of the Week" by ABC World News Tonight.


    Nikesh Arora President, Global Sales Operations and Business Development

    Nikesh oversees all revenue and customer operations, as well as marketing and partnerships. Since joining Google in 2004, he has held several positions with the company. Most recently, he led Google's global direct sales operations. He also developed and managed the company's operations in the European, Middle Eastern and African markets and was responsible for creating and expanding strategic partnerships in those regions for the benefit of Google's growing number of users and advertisers. With a background as an analyst, Nikesh's main areas of focus have been consulting, IT, marketing and finance. Prior to joining Google, he was chief marketing officer and a member of the management board at T-Mobile. While there, he spearheaded all product development, terminals, brand and marketing activities of T-Mobile Europe. In 1999, he started working with Deutsche Telekom and founded T-Motion PLC, a mobile multimedia subsidiary of T-Mobile International. Prior to joining Deutsche Telekom, Nikesh held management positions at Putnam Investments and Fidelity Investments in Boston. Nikesh holds a master's degree from Boston College and an MBA from Northeastern University, both of which were awarded with distinction. He also holds the CFA designation. In 1989, Nikesh graduated from the Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering.


    Laszlo Bock Vice President, People Operations

    Laszlo Bock leads Google's people function globally, which includes all areas related to the attraction, development and retention of "Googlers." Laszlo joined Google from the General Electric Company, where most recently he was a vice president of human resources within GE Capital Solutions. He had earlier served as vice president of compensation and benefits for GE Commercial Equipment Financing. Before GE, Laszlo was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, serving clients in the technology, private equity and media industries on issues of organizational design, talent acquisition and development, and cultural transformation. Laszlo's client work also extended to broader business growth and turnaround strategy. Earlier, he worked as a compensation consultant at Hewitt Associates, an HR consultancy. Laszlo earned an MBA from the Yale University School of Management and a bachelor's degree in international relations from Pomona College.


    Shona L. Brown Senior Vice President, Business Operations, Google Inc.

    Shona L. Brown joined Google in 2003 and took on the responsibility of building both the People Operations and Business Operations groups. Prior to joining Google she was a partner at McKinsey & Company, a management consulting company, where her focus was working with consumer technology companies on growth, innovation and transformation. Shona is the author of Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos, which introduced a new strategic model for competing in volatile markets. She is a director of the following non-profit organizations: San Francisco Jazz Organization, The Bridgespan Group and the Exploratorium. She also serves on the board of PepsiCo. Shona has a bachelor's degree in computer systems engineering from Carleton University in Canada, an M.A. in economics and philosophy from Oxford University (which she attended as a Rhodes scholar), and a Ph.D. and postdoctoral degree from Stanford University's Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management.


    W. M. Coughran, Jr. Senior Vice President, Engineering

    Bill Coughran leads the broad systems infrastructure group underlying Google's products and services, including cluster management, storage, search systems, and a number of product engineering efforts. He joined Google engineering in early 2003. Throughout his extensive career in computing, Bill has been involved with networking, secure, and distributed systems as well as computational science and engineering. Before joining Google, Bill co-founded and served as CEO and in other executive roles at Entrisphere in Silicon Valley. Earlier, he was head of Bell Labs' Computing Sciences Research Center, where C, C++, Unix, Plan 9, and Inferno were created. He has also worked in computational science and distributed systems. Bill currently serves on the boards of directors for nSolutions Inc and Clearwell Systems Inc. In addition, he is an author of more than 50 publications and has served on several scientific boards/committees and technical advisory bodies. He has also held adjunct and visiting positions at Stanford, the ETH, and Duke. Bill holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University as well as degrees in mathematics from Caltech.


    David C. Drummond Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer

    David Drummond joined Google in 2002, initially as vice president of corporate development. Today as senior vice president and chief legal officer, he leads Google's global teams for legal, government relations, corporate development (M&A and investment projects) and new business development (strategic partnerships and licensing opportunities). David was first introduced to Google in 1998 as a partner in the corporate transactions group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, one of the nation's leading law firms representing technology businesses. He served as Google's first outside counsel and worked with Larry Page and Sergey Brin to incorporate the company and secure its initial rounds of financing. During his tenure at Wilson Sonsini, David worked with a wide variety of technology companies to help them manage complex transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and initial public offerings. David earned his bachelor's degree in history from Santa Clara University and his JD from Stanford Law School.


    Alan Eustace Senior Vice President, Engineering & Research

    Alan Eustace is one of Google's senior vice presidents of engineering. He joined Google in the summer of 2002. Prior to Google, Alan spent 15 years at Digital/Compaq/HP's Western Research Laboratory where he worked on a variety of chip design and architecture projects, including the MicroTitan Floating Point unit, BIPS – the fastest microprocessor of its era. Alan also worked with Amitabh Srivastava on ATOM, a binary code instrumentation system that forms the basis for a wide variety of program analysis and computer architecture analysis tools. These tools had a profound influence on the design of the EV5, EV6 and EV7 chip designs. Alan was promoted to director of the Western Research Laboratory in 1999. WRL had active projects in pocket computing, chip multi-processors, power and energy management, internet performance, and frequency and voltage scaling. In addition to directing Google's engineering efforts, Alan is actively involved in a number of Google's community-related activities such as The Second Harvest Food Bank and the Anita Borg Scholarship Fund. Alan is an author of 9 publications and holds 10 patents. He earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Central Florida.



    Urs Hölzle Senior Vice President, Operations & Google Fellow

    Urs Hölzle served as the company's first vice president of engineering and led the development of Google's technical infrastructure. His current responsibilities include the design and operation of the servers, networks and datacenters that power Google. He is also renowned for both his red socks and his free-range Leonberger, Yoshka (Google's top dog). Urs joined Google from the University of California, Santa Barbara where he was an associate professor of computer science. He received a master's degree in computer science from ETH Zurich in 1988 and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship that same year. In 1994, he earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University, where his research focused on programming languages and their efficient implementation. As one of the pioneers of dynamic compilation, also known as "just-in-time compilation," Urs invented fundamental techniques used in most of today's leading Java compilers. Before joining Google, Urs was a co-founder of Animorphic Systems, which developed compilers for Smalltalk and Java. After Sun Microsystems acquired Animorphic Systems in 1997, he helped build Javasoft's high-performance Hotspot Java compiler. In 1996, Urs received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for his work on high-performance implementations of object-oriented languages. He was also a leading contributor to DARPA's National Compiler Infrastructure project. Urs has served on program committees for major conferences in the field of programming language implementation, and is the author of numerous scientific papers and U.S. patents.



    Jeff Huber Senior Vice President, Engineering

    Jeff Huber joined Google in 2003 and is a senior vice president of engineering. In this role, Jeff leads the technology development and innovation efforts for the company's advertising and monetization systems, including Google's AdWords and AdSense programs, as well as Google Apps, including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Reader, Google Groups, Orkut, Blogger and Picasa. Jeff brings more than 15 years of experience in large scale systems design and operation, online consumer product development, high volume transaction processing and engineering management. Prior to joining Google, Jeff was vice president of architecture & and systems development at eBay, where he championed the development of their product search infrastructure and expansion of the platform API program. Before eBay, Jeff was senior vice president of engineering at Excite@Home, where he led consumer product and infrastructure development for the largest broadband service provider. Earlier in his career, he was a technology consultant with McKinsey & Company, and founded a software development start-up. Jeff holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois and a master's degree from Harvard University.



    Omid Kordestani Senior Advisor, Office of the CEO and Founders

    As senior advisor to the CEO and founders, Omid is focused on identifying new revenue opportunities for the company. Previously, he was senior vice president of global sales and business development, and was directly responsible for Google's worldwide revenue generation efforts as well as the day-to-day operations of the company’s sales organization. As Google's "business founder," Omid led the development and implementation of the company's initial business model. After joining the company in 1999, he brought Google to profitability in record time, generating more than $10 billion in revenue in 2006. Omid has more than 20 years of high-technology consumer and enterprise experience, holding key positions at several start-ups, including Internet pioneer Netscape Communications. As vice president of business development and sales, he grew Netscape's online revenue from an annual run-rate of $88 million to more than $200 million in 18 months. Prior to Netscape, he held positions in marketing, product management, and business development at The 3DO Company, Go Corporation and Hewlett-Packard. Omid received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from San Jose State University.



    Patrick Pichette Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

    Patrick Pichette is Google's chief financial officer. He has nearly 20 years of experience in financial operations and management in the telecommunications sector, including seven years at Bell Canada, which he joined in 2001 as executive vice president of planning and performance management. During his time at Bell Canada, he held various executive positions, including CFO from 2002 until the end of 2003, and was instrumental in the management of the most extensive communications network in Canada and its ongoing migration to a new national IP-based infrastructure. Prior to joining Bell Canada, Patrick was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was a lead member of McKinsey's North American Telecom Practice. He also served as vice president and chief financial officer of Call-Net Enterprises, a Canadian telecommunications company. Patrick earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Université du Québec à Montréal. He holds a master's degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University, where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He also serves on the board of Engineers Without Borders (Canada).



    Jonathan Rosenberg Senior Vice President, Product Management

    Jonathan Rosenberg is an industry veteran who oversees the teams that manage Google's innovative product portfolio and go-to-market strategies. In this role, Jonathan oversees the design, creation and improvement of all of Google's products, from consumer offerings to publisher and business services. He directs the teams with a special focus on delivering exceptional user experience, continuous innovation, and highly relevant, accountable, and untraditional marketing. Prior to joining Google in 2002, Jonathan founded, led and managed some of the most innovative product development teams of the Internet's first era. He was the founding member of @Home's product group and served as senior vice president of online products and services after the merger of Excite and @Home. Prior to that, Jonathan managed the eWorld product line for Apple Computer. Earlier, he was director of product marketing for Knight Ridder Information Services in Palo Alto, California, where he directed development of one of the first commercially deployed online relevance ranking engines and menu-driven Boolean search services for consumers.  Jonathan holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a bachelor's degree with honors in economics from Claremont McKenna College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.



    Rachel Whetstone Vice President, Public Policy and Communications

    Rachel Whetstone joined Google in 2005, after 15 years advising senior politicians and companies on their strategic communications. She leads the company's global teams for public policy and communications.Rachel has a bachelor’s degree in history from Bristol University.



    Susan Wojcicki Vice President, Product Management

    Susan Wojcicki is vice president of product management responsible for managing Google's monetization and measurement platform products including AdWords, AdSense and Google Analytics. Susan has a long history with Google. She has been responsible for AdSense since 2002, and has managed both AdSense and AdWords since 2006. Prior to that, she led the initial development of several consumer products including Google Books, Google Images and Google Video. Before joining Google, Susan worked at Intel and was a management consultant at Bain and R.B. Webber & Company. She graduated with honors from Harvard University, holds an MS from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

    Engineering



    Vinton G. Cerf Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist

    Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications on the Internet and other platforms for the company. Widely known as a "Father of the Internet," Vint is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet. In 1997, President Clinton recognized their work with the U.S. National Medal of Technology. In 2005, Vint and Bob received the highest civilian honor bestowed in the U.S., the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It recognizes the fact that their work on the software code used to transmit data across the Internet has put them "at the forefront of a digital revolution that has transformed global commerce, communication, and entertainment." From 1994-2005, Vint served as Senior Vice President at MCI. Prior to that, he was Vice President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), and from 1982-86 he served as Vice President of MCI. During his tenure with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1976-1982, Vint played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies. Since 2000, Vint has served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and he has been a Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1998. He served as founding president of the Internet Society (ISOC) from 1992-1995 and was on the ISOC board until 2000. Vint is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, AAAS, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering. Vint has received numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet, including the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computer Machinery, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, among many others. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA and more than a dozen honorary degrees.



    Stuart Feldman Vice President, Engineering

    Stu is responsible for engineering activities at Google’s offices in the eastern half of the Americas. Before joining Google, he worked at IBM for eleven years. Most recently, he was Vice President for Computer Science in IBM Research, where he drove the long-term and exploratory worldwide science strategy in computer science and related fields, led programs for open collaborative research with universities, and influenced national and global computer science policy. Prior to that, Stu served as Vice President for Internet Technology and was responsible for IBM strategies, standards, and policies relating to the future of the Internet, and managed a department that created experimental Internet-based applications. Earlier, he was the founding Director of IBM's Institute for Advanced Commerce, which was dedicated to creating intellectual leadership in e-commerce. Before joining IBM in mid-1995, Stu was a computer science researcher at Bell Labs and a research manager at Bellcore. In addition he was the creator of Make as well as the architect for a large new line of software products at Bellcore. Stu did his academic work in astrophysics and mathematics and earned his AB at Princeton and his PhD at MIT. He is President of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and received the 2003 ACM Software System Award. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the ACM, and serves on a number of government advisory committees.


    Ben Fried Chief Information Officer

    Ben is Chief Information Officer, overseeing the company's global technology systems. His extensive hands-on experience in technology includes stints as a dBASE II programmer, front-line support manager, Macintosh developer, Windows 1.0 programmer, and Unix systems programmer. Prior to joining Google, he spent more than 13 years in Morgan Stanley's technology department, where he rose to the level of Managing Director. During his time there, he led teams responsible for software development technology, web and electronic commerce technologies and operations, and technologies for knowledge workers. Ben earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from Columbia University








    Megan Smith Vice President, New Business Development, and General Manager, Google.org
    Megan oversees teams that manage early-stage partnerships, explorations and technology licensing. She also leads the Google.org team, guiding strategy and developing new partnerships and internal projects with Google's engineering and product teams. She joined Google in 2003 and has led several of the company's acquisitions, including Keyhole (Google Earth), Where2Tech (Google Maps), and Picasa. She also co-led the company's early work with publishers for Google Book Search. Previously, Megan was the CEO and, earlier, COO of PlanetOut, the leading gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender online community. Under her leadership, PlanetOut grew tenfold in reach and revenue. Prior to that, Megan was at General Magic for six years working on handheld communications products and partnerships. She also worked in multimedia at Apple Japan in Tokyo. Over the years, Megan has contributed to a wide range of engineering projects, such as designing an award-winning bicycle lock; working on a space station construction research project that eventually flew on the U.S. space shuttle; and running a field-research study on solar cookstoves in South America. She was also a member of the MIT-Solectria student team that designed, built, and raced a solar car in the first cross-continental solar car race, covering 2000 miles of the Australian outback. She was selected as one of the 100 World Economic Forum technology pioneers for 2001 and 2002. Megan holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from MIT, where she now serves on the board. She completed her master's thesis work at the MIT Media Lab.


    Vic Gundotra Vice President, Engineering

    Vic joined Google in 2007 as a Vice President of Engineering, responsible for mobile applications and developer evangelism. In addition, he is responsible for product management and marketing for mobile products at Google. He also oversees applications development. Previously, Vic spent 15 years at Microsoft, where he worked on a variety of products and operating systems, including Windows 3.0, NT, Windows XP, and Vista. He was recognized by MIT as a "Young Innovator under 35" for his work in sparking the Microsoft's change from Win32 to the .NET programming model. Most recently, Vic was General Manager of Microsoft's developer outreach efforts worldwide, including evangelism and strategy for products like Windows Vista, Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, Microsoft CRM, and Windows Mobile. Vic holds two patents in the area of distributed computing and identity-based access to cloud resources.