Leadership Within Google
Leadership Research Project: Leadership within Google
How often do you use Google a day? Most people estimate their use of Google to land somewhere between five and fifteen searches a day. Google’s company logs state that they log around two billion hits each day in Google searches alone. Google’s email service, “Gmail,” now has over four hundred twenty-five million active users (D 'Orazio, 2012). And Google’s map feature is one of the most comprehensive and overall entertaining ways to look at a map.
So, who is the man behind Google? Google was actually founded by two men: Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Larry Page is an American-born computer scientist who was seeking his Ph.D. at Stanford University. Sergey Brin, a Russian-born computer scientist, also seeking his Ph.D. at Stanford met Page at an orientation for students in the Ph.D. program at Stanford. The two became friends and ended up rooming together.
The two combined their knowledge to create a search engine that was much more accurate and efficient than any other at the time. In 1996 Brin and Page launched their “Google” system with a combination of mechanics established by both founders. The system uses a data miner developed by Brin that more efficiently realized patterns within large sets of data and the PageRank system that Larry Page developed, which determines the value of the number of times a link is used, or the pattern the data miner finds.
Since its start in 1996 Google has attracted much attention and grown considerably into the startling large and impressive company it is today. But, even with all of Google’s growth and prowess, business-wise, what can we say about the founders of the company and their ability to lead it to such astounding success?
Sergey Brin and Larry Page have done their absolute best to ensure that they keep an open atmosphere at their company that promotes the type of creativity, confidentiality and work flow that they see as necessary to a business like
How often do you use Google a day? Most people estimate their use of Google to land somewhere between five and fifteen searches a day. Google’s company logs state that they log around two billion hits each day in Google searches alone. Google’s email service, “Gmail,” now has over four hundred twenty-five million active users (D 'Orazio, 2012). And Google’s map feature is one of the most comprehensive and overall entertaining ways to look at a map.
So, who is the man behind Google? Google was actually founded by two men: Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Larry Page is an American-born computer scientist who was seeking his Ph.D. at Stanford University. Sergey Brin, a Russian-born computer scientist, also seeking his Ph.D. at Stanford met Page at an orientation for students in the Ph.D. program at Stanford. The two became friends and ended up rooming together.
The two combined their knowledge to create a search engine that was much more accurate and efficient than any other at the time. In 1996 Brin and Page launched their “Google” system with a combination of mechanics established by both founders. The system uses a data miner developed by Brin that more efficiently realized patterns within large sets of data and the PageRank system that Larry Page developed, which determines the value of the number of times a link is used, or the pattern the data miner finds.
Since its start in 1996 Google has attracted much attention and grown considerably into the startling large and impressive company it is today. But, even with all of Google’s growth and prowess, business-wise, what can we say about the founders of the company and their ability to lead it to such astounding success?
Sergey Brin and Larry Page have done their absolute best to ensure that they keep an open atmosphere at their company that promotes the type of creativity, confidentiality and work flow that they see as necessary to a business like
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