Congratulations : Google Nepal

September 25th, 2009

What is Google ?

Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the “Google Guys”, while the two were attending Stanford University as Ph.D. candidates. It was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. At that time Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together at Google for twenty years, until the year 2024. The company’s mission statement from the outset was “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”, and the company’s unofficial slogan – coined by Google engineer Paul Buchheit – is “Don’t be evil”. In 2006, the company moved to its current headquarters in Mountain View, California.

Google runs over one million servers in data centers around the world, and processes over one billion search requests and about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data every day. Source : Wiki

Google’s Philosophy : Ten things

“The perfect search engine,” says co–founder Larry Page, “would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want.” When Google began, you would have been pleasantly surprised to enter a search query and immediately find the right answer. Google became successful precisely because we were better and faster at finding the right answer than other search engines at the time.

Following principles are what guides Google’s actions:

1. Focus on the user and all else will follow.
2. It’s best to do one thing really, really well.
3.Fast is better than slow.
4.Democracy on the web works.
5.You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer.
6.You can make money without doing evil.
7.There’s always more information out there.
8.The need for information crosses all borders.
9.You can be serious without a suit.
10.Great just isn’t good enough.

To read details about how these 10 principles guide Google on its decision please visit the following URL : http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html

Google offices

Guided by those fundamental principles for its “every decisions”, Google till now has expanded its office locations to most of the countries of the world except Nepal and few others.

We were worried about why there is no Google office in Nepal till last week. Oh, yes, here is a Good message. It all started June last year.