Google Searches
Costa Rica
Google Inc., the
internet's most popular
search engine, will be
opening an office in
Costa Rica, according to
a government press
release yesterday. The
announcement was made by
Costa Rican president,
Oscar Arias and Google
executives at the World
Economic Forum on Latin
America being held in
Cancun, Mexico.
According to the press
release from Casa
Presidencial in San
José, the internet giant
is interested in
expanding internet
access for students in
Costa Rica and give a
hand to small and medium
sized businesses to
promote their exports on
the internet.
Jorge Woodbridge,
ministro de
Competitividad, assures
that Costa Rica attracts
businesses like Google
because of economic,
political and social
stability.
The Google plan is to
use Costa Rica a
springboard for the
internet in Latin
America, as Google wants
in on the advancing use
of internet in the
region.
Erick Schmidt, Google's
CEO, said his company is
looking to buy
technology firms and
invest in Latin America, as it
expects sales in Latin
America to more than
double this year.
Yesterday's announcement
did not come with a
start date.
Google began in January
1996, as a research
project by Larry Page,
who was soon joined by
Sergey Brin, two Ph.D.
students at Stanford
University, California.
They hypothesized that a
search engine that
analyzed the
relationships between
websites would produce
better ranking of
results than existing
techniques, which ranked
results according to the
number of times the
search term appeared on
a page.
Their search engine was
originally nicknamed "BackRub"
because the system
checked backlinks to
estimate a site's
importance.
Google runs its services
on several server farms,
each comprising
thousands of low-cost
commodity computers
running stripped-down
versions of Linux. While
the company divulges no
details of its hardware,
a 2006 estimate cites
450,000 servers, "racked
up in clusters at data
centres around the
world.
Most of Google's revenue
is derived from
advertising programs.
Google was first
incorporated as a
privately held company
on September 7, 1998.
Google reported sales of
$4.8 billion dollars for
its last quarter of
2007. |
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