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How Google Grows...and Grows...and Grows

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the take-a-lesson dept.

orangerobot writes "The latest issue of Fast Company has an article about how Google has managed to survive beyond its peers and develop a culture of openness and innovation. The article also mentions Google memes and spin-offs such as: Googlewhack, Googlebombing, Googleshare, Googlism and Google Smackdown."

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  1. That's because it works by coolmacdude · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When was the last time anyone visited another search engine? I can't remember when I did.

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    1. Re:That's because it works by garcia · · Score: 5, Interesting

      no. are they forcing us to use it? is Google installed on ALL new computers without the option of having another?

      there is two reasons I use Google:

      1. On my p133 laptop w/Win98 Google loads faster than any other page (I never realized how slow a P133 was until I waited for /. to load as the homepage).

      2. It fucking works. Not in the way that Windows "works". It just works. I type in whatever I am looking for (phone numbers, addresses, names, random things) and it comes up w/what I wanted w/o having to search 10000000's of results.

      It's not a monopoly, it's a good product.

  2. A triumph for google is a triumph for ethics. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It is interesting to note that Google has been the only major coroporation to be successful while employing an 'ethical' policy. Unlike other search engines their page ranking system is 110% fair as they do not accept 'payments' (read bribes)to increasing ranking scores, they have not adopted widespread advertising (although most people would be happier if they had never allowed advertising on the site at all), and they have released all their search algorithms to the scientific community which has been a boon to people reaearching in Mathmatics/Computer Science.

    Finally they used Linux when most of the other web businesses were running Windows. Their example has shown that a business running linux can suceed, even though it can be more difficult than running windows.

    1. Re:A triumph for google is a triumph for ethics. by shish · · Score: 5, Interesting

      > and they have released all their search algorithms to the scientific community

      but patented them >:-(

      > although most people would be happier if they had never allowed advertising on the site at all

      I've found that google is the only site ever that actually gives useful on-topic ads, and thus the only ads I ever follow are google ones

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  3. It's pretty self-explanatory by shayborg · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Any simple search engine that has become basically a cultural icon has to be special. You don't search for anything any more, you google for it.

    Google was a good search engine in the beginning. It gained popularity, which made it a better search engine, which let it gain more popularity, which made it an even better search engine, ad infinitum.

    It's not an exaggeration to claim that, right now, Google has earned itself the enviable position of becoming the first (at least nearly) definitive search engine.

    -- shayborg

  4. Why Google is successful, really by Animats · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Fast Company doesn't get it. Google is successful because they live within their means. They started as a low-cost operation, and they didn't pour money into "expansion" until they had actual revenue to cover it. Compare, say, VA Linux, with that huge IPO for a dinky company.

    Stock market hype types keep talking about Google "going public". They're more likely to go private; the founders may buy out the venture capitalists.