September 1998 Larry Page and Sergey Brin
blessed the world with a resourceful search engine, Google. Since its birth
Google has managed to excel and eventually leapfrog the competition. Google has
shown no signs of easing the pace and it’s quite obvious that employees at
Google know the expectation of working for a company of such great stature.
In its fourteen years of existence Google
has dodged the kind of image issues which were pinching tech giants such as
Microsoft and Apple. Court battle after court battle across the globe, the
company still managed to survive the whirlwinds to be able to provide us with a
clear window on the planet. Had it not been of this resourceful peasant’s entry
in a market that was largely dominated by fallen tech giant Yahoo, chances are
that information wouldn’t be shared at the speed of light.
Google over the years has played an
integral part not only in the search engine space, but in other techno spheres
too. The 2004 initial public offering ensured the Silicon Valley based entity
to acquire and add more products to its fantastic product offering.
Today we can web search, blog, image
search, video search; store documents online using Google Docs. We can access
language tools, purchase mobile devices which run on Google Operating System Android;
and we can use electronic-mail to communicate to good effect, all due to
Google.
Google has pushed web standards to new
heights and has separated itself from the pack. Though Google’s social media
platform Google+ hasn’t really gotten grip of the social media landscape,
having 150 million users in a short lifespan of the social network Larry and
Sergey surely should be pleased with the products achievement.
To Google, had it not been of your being
this blog wouldn’t be feeding the global village with interesting lifestyle
happenings across the planet.
Ashley
Mokwena
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