Google.com - The World's Number One Internet Search Engine
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Case Code : ITSY019
Case Length : 18 Pages
Period : 1996-2002
Pub Date : 2003
Teaching Note :Not Available
Organization : Google.com
Industry : Information Technology Countries : USA
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Google's Technology: The Success Secret
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From the very beginning, Larry and Sergey focused on building
a search engine that would fetch precise search results. Larry said, "We want to
build a search engine that understands exactly what you mean and gives you back
exactly what you want." They wanted to overcome the limitations of the existing
search engines that used a group of large servers to perform search operations.
The performance of such search engines slowed down during peak loads, which
meant that greater the number of queries, the higher the response times. Larry
and Sergey realized that they would have to develop a new kind of server set up
to provide a fast and accurate search service... |
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Google's Business Model
Most search engine companies spent a lot of money on marketing to build their
brands. Google, however, focused solely on building a 'better' search
engine...
Google Search Services
Launched in mid-1999, the WebSearch service enabled clients (destination sites
and portals) to offer Google's search services to their members...
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Google's Advertisement Programs
Google earned half of its revenues from the
advertising programs it offered to its customers. The company did not
permit advertisements on its website, but allowed advertisements based
on 'keyword targeting' on its search results pages. Advertisements based
on keyword targeting ensured that the ordinary run-of-site
advertisements did not appear indiscriminately on every page. Google
ensured that only those advertisements that were relevant to the search
appeared on each search results page... |
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