The Man Who (Really) Makes Google Tick

An anonymous reader writes "Like his friends Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Craig Silverstein abandoned his PhD studies at Stanford to become employee No.1 and technology director at Google. While building the search engine in a garage, never in his wildest dreams did he think Google would become what it is today. Not only is it the envy of software giant Microsoft, Google continues to redefine the technology market with its creativity and tenacity. In this in-depth interview, Silverstein discusses a wide range of issues including the backlash against Gmail among privacy advocates, the company's cultural changes and its shifting reliance on PageRank."

Comments

If you want to know more...

[AnonymousDivinity]

If you want to know more about this guy, just google him :)

Oh yeah

[TechnologyX]

"You have portrayed the ideal search engine as one resembling the intelligence of the Starship Enterprise.."

My new geek idol

Re:Oh yeah

[DAldredge]

This is the samn damn ship that blows panels everytime it is shot, gets stolen on numerous occasions, has next to no security on any of its computer systems, allows almost anyone into the heart of the ship, and places the bridge and all the exec offices on the top of the ship?

That enterprise?

Great Results

[tobechar]

Because of this man's great efforts, we can google for 'failure' and be greeted with President Bush's Biography.

Technology never ceases to amaze me. :)

Name

[Plaeroma]

I've always wondered if Google will shut down once it hits a google of webpages indexed.

Not a bad career choice

[NightWulf]

Drop the PhD study where right now he would probably be teaching at a college to kids who really couldn't care...knocking back 40k/yr. Or now be worth a few hundred million dollars. *Sigh* Reminds me of the day some hippy asked me if I wanted to join his computer company, darn thing was in a garage somewhere. I wonder whatever happened to him. Well I turned him down and now i'm a Walmart manager! Watch out for falling prices!!!!!!!

improve porn searching

[sashang]

man - if google could improve searching for porn what a relief that would be. Currently I have to wade through bucket loads of fake links, booby pop-ups, fake free pics, virii and other crap. I hope they improve the search engine so that it delivers the best free pussy on the net.

Re:improve porn searching

[FunWithKnives]

images.google.com

Turn off SafeSearch and you can find pretty much whatever you're looking for.. Oh, and stop doing that.. You'll go blind..

Re:OT: grammar

[Anonymous Coward]

The sentance should read "I'm far more worried about the divorce lawyer or the ex-employee with an axe to grind than I am about the Government."

I've been seeing this a lot lately, and can't understand why people screw it up so badly.

"Sentance" refers to a non-existing word, but is probably a mispeling (PI) of "sundance". "Sentence" is a grammatical unit that is syntactically independent and has a subject that is expressed or, as in imperative sentences, understood and a predicate that contains at least one finite verb. The sentence should read "The sentence should read "I'm far more worried about the divorce lawyer or the ex-employee with an axe to grind than I am about the Government."" Yes, yes, typos happen, but this happens so often that I think people honestly think they're saying "sentence" when they're saying "sentance".

Re:OT: grammar

[bakes]

Yes, yes, typos happen, but this happens so often that I think people honestly think they're saying "then" when they're saying "than".

Seeing mistakes like the one you describe makes me so angry that sometimes I think I might loose control.