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Anna Patterson used to work for Google, after quiting in 2006. But her efforts earlier in her career led to Google buying her Internet search engine technology in 2004, to upgrade it’s own system.
Now Patterson thinks she may have struck gold again, but this time she’s not selling the search engine technology. Her goal was to [...]

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Facebook is the second largest social network on the web, second behind only MySpace in terms of site traffic. It began primarily focused on high school and college students, Facebook has been fast gaining market share, and more significantly a strong, supportive user base. Since their launch in February 2004, they’ve been able to obtain millions of [...]

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Google is experimenting in trying to pay back the many Indians who helped drive the dot-com boom in the U.S.  It opened its first R&D center outside the U.S., in Bangalore, India in 2004.  Many programmers are now moving back to their native land to help India’s economy continue to grow.  Google is loved in India. Of the [...]

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Dream of landing a coding job at an A-list tech company? It might be a good idea to prep for your interviews by pondering how many golf balls can fit inside a school bus. Or how much you would charge for washing all the windows in
Seattle. Or why, exactly, manhole covers are round and [...]

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eBay is going gaga over Google. Less than a year after the two Web giants signed a billion-dollar advertising pact proclaiming a passionate partnership, a lovers’ quarrel has broken out. How will it end and will the internet ever be the same? Full article

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It began with an argument. When he first met Larry Page in the summer of 1995, Sergey Brin was a second-year grad student in the computer science department at Stanford University. Gregarious by nature, Brin had volunteered as a guide of sorts for potential first-years - students who had been admitted, but were still deciding [...]

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Google’s share price continues to reach all-time highs. Recently it hit $518.84 with the announcement of a new partnership with marketing software maker Salesforce.com. Google, the #1 search engine, seems to defy every Internet law of gravity. But one question arises with each subsequent record-high share price: is it possible for Google to get any bigger? Full article

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Before you answer that question, consider that “Jimbo” is Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the most visited reference site on the Internet and the second most visited domain after a Google search. The success of Wikipedia should give us pause before dismissing latest challenge to seemingly unbeatable Google. Full article

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