Google in 2005: Innovating to Stay Ahead
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Case Details:
Case Code : BSTA140
Case Length : 08 Pages
Period : -
Organization : -
Pub Date : 2005
Teaching Note :Not Available
Countries : US
Industry : -
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Excerpts
Google in 2005
Page and Brin had long declared their mission was to "organize the world's information." But for a long time, Google had primarily been a search engine that could locate intelligently and speedily content which was freely accessible on the web. Only in recent months had the staggering scope of Google's ambition become visible...
Managing Innovation
Google's innovation initiatives were spearheaded by Marissa Mayer, Director of consumer web. It was in late 1998, when Mayer first heard about Google.
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When the Stanford University graduate was urged by her adviser to meet two people, who were developing ways to analyze the World Wide Web on the computer science building's fourth floor, she was initially skeptical...
The Road Ahead
Despite being hugely profitable and a favorite of the stock exchange, Google was a young company, largely controlled by its founders and dealing with the unavoidable pains of rapid growth. The search game was still in its infancy. Only a fraction of the content available online was actually searchable...
Exhibits
Exhibit 1: Overall Share of Visits to Top 25 Search Engines and Portals, April
2004
Exhibit 2: Some of the Major Online Services Offered by Google (Dec. 2004)
Exhibit 3: Top 5 US Destinations (January 2004)
Exhibit 4: Search Engine Global Usage Share
Exhibit 5: US Search Engine User Demographics (for the 12 weeks ending May 15,
2004)
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