Monday, October 04, 2004

How Google Works? I read a wonderful article in the Economist Technology Quarterly September 2004, explaining the Pagerank technology behind the Google search engine It is a fine example of entrepreneurship of two Stanford graduates Mr Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page. In 1998, Mr. Brin and Page approach Mr. Andy Bechtolsheim, founder of Sun Microsystems who immediately wrote a cheque for $100,000 in favor of Google Inc.- an imaginary company at that time. Mr. Brin and Page thus started Google. This is a fine engine. No wonder students (espacially from Management studies) swear by google, their CUT-COPY-PASTE ENGINE. The only trouble is for professors like us who inturn use Google to pick out plagiarism. Google is thus an anti-plagiarism software too! While agree that Google is a plagiarism enhancer, all credit for it for making it a quick and easy to use research retrieval tool.

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