{"id":11314,"date":"2014-06-07T18:43:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T01:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etec522m.sites.olt.ubc.ca\/?p=11314"},"modified":"2014-06-07T18:43:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T01:43:16","slug":"google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/2014\/06\/07\/google\/","title":{"rendered":"Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/etec522m.sites.olt.ubc.ca\/files\/2014\/06\/google.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11315 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/etec522m.sites.olt.ubc.ca\/files\/2014\/06\/google.jpg\" alt=\"google\" width=\"250\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a>Founded by Larry Page \u00a0and Sergey Brin, Ph.D students from Stanford university.\u00a0 Larry Page is the cofounder of Google and the inventor of PageRank, the foundation of Google\u2019s search ranking algorithm.\u00a0 Sergey Brin, originally from Russia, is the cofounder of Google and inventor of a data mining system that, combined with Pages\u2019 algorithm created a powerful search engine.<\/p>\n<p>They co-authored <em>\u201cThe Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine\u201d<\/em> together and built their first search engine that would bring all of the world\u2019s knowledge together. They put their studies on hold to start Google out of a rented garage. Google was incorporated in September of 1998 and is now an American multinational corporation that has experienced rapid growth.\u00a0 Brin and Page have been named as one of the top 100 innovators under the age of 35 by MIT Technology Review TR100 and given Honorary MBA\u2019s from IE Business School for embodying the spirit of entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p>There products, to name a few , \u00a0include their search engine, cloud computing, software, email, office suite Google Drive, social networking Google +,Operating system Chrome OS, their netbook Chromebook,\u00a0 communications software, and \u00a0augmented reality technology Google Glass.\u00a0 Google\u2019s search engine is a starting point for students.\u00a0 With increasing usage of their office suite, Google Drive, and the growing popularity of Chomebooks in schools, not to mentions Google Apps for Education, Google is poised to revolutionize K-12 education in a way we have been expecting since the invention of the internet.<\/p>\n<p>It is amazing what two great minds and a vision can accomplish.\u00a0 I believe these two embody the term \u2018innovator\u2019.\u00a0 Page and Brin\u2019s talents and combination of inventor and entrepreneur, continue to find new horizons and investors willing to explore with them.\u00a0 Their team continues to push the limits and look for new areas to expand into. With over 40,000 in staff, or \u2018Googlers\u2019 as they like to call them, they are inspiring new and creative ways to push the boundaries of technology.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded by Larry Page \u00a0and Sergey Brin, Ph.D students from Stanford university.\u00a0 Larry Page is the cofounder of Google and the inventor of PageRank, the foundation of Google\u2019s search ranking algorithm.\u00a0 Sergey Brin, originally from Russia, is the cofounder of Google and inventor of a data mining system that, combined with Pages\u2019 algorithm created a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[548408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-founders-parade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}