“The search engine that we have been waiting for, Google,
finally went live last month and already the benefits of the
service are highly visible. Google is unique amongst search
engines in that it has shunned the idea of trying to be a portal
like so many search engines nowadays. Similarly with aspirations of
becoming a media company – Google doesn’t want to do that – it
wants to search and search well, and the amazing thing is it does
search extremely well.”
“Google was started more than a year ago by Sergey Brin and
Larry Page, a couple of doctoral students in computer science at
Stanford University and it’s based around Linux – which obviously
adds to the excitement of the offering…”