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There’s More To Google Than Search

18 Thursday Dec 2014

Posted by Prem Rao in Trends

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Google has entered into our everyday vocabulary thanks to its search engine. “Just ‘google’ it” is what we are told most often if we ask someone for any information. Yes, the Google search engine is awesome. Statistics from Netmarketshare indicate that 58 % of users all over the world seem to use Google as their search engine.

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World’s Most Sought After Employers

03 Monday Nov 2014

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Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Unilever

When we think of searching for information on the internet our first choice invariably is Google. These days, the word ” Google” has become a verb with people asking you to ” google it”.  Guess what? There’s much more to Google than this. More people chose Google as the Most Sought After Employer too as per a report from the professional networking site, LinkedIn.

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Toughest Job Interview Questions

12 Friday Sep 2014

Posted by Prem Rao in Careers, Trends

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Amazon, creativity, Google, interview questions, knowledge economy, Microsoft

Our country is in a paradoxical position. On the one hand, we have a huge reservoir of youth, perhaps more than anywhere else in the world. They say 65 % of India’s population is below the age of 35 and almost 50 % below 25 years. They have aspirations like never before mainly because of greater exposure thanks to TV and the media. Continue reading →

What Stuck In My Mind

23 Wednesday Jul 2014

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Eric Schmidt, Google, Ishant Sharma, Lord's

There is so much going on around us that we are likely to be swamped with an overload of detail from things that we take in. However, there are some things that stick in your mind and many others that don’t. If you see the last few days, here are a few of the things that stayed in my mind: Continue reading →

Trends in the Corporate World

08 Tuesday Jul 2014

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Best Companies To Work For, CFO-CHRO collaboration, Google, HR trends in India

Interested as I am in keeping an eye on trends in the corporate world, here are a few published items which caught my attention:-

  1. Increased collaboration between the CFO and the CHRO is a must for organisations to succeed in present times. Rising costs of labour and the scarcity of talent are but two of the reasons why this has become crucial. This piece from EY gives fresh insight.
  2. Satisfied employees make a huge difference to the bottom lines of organisations. What makes companies like Google feature year after year in the list of organisations which are most sought after. Here is why Google is named “India’s Best Company To Work For” in 2013.
  3. Sharad Verma, Senior HR Director at SunGard Global Technology submits his assessment of the trends for HR in 2014 in SHRM.

As the world around us becomes increasingly competitive, the only way to survive is to learn from the best. A study of the trends mentioned above could help keep us on track to stay abreast.

 

Marissa Mayer: One More Glass Ceiling Shattered

17 Tuesday Jul 2012

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Google, Marissa Mayer, Yahoo

Yahoo was very much in the news over the last year, for all the wrong reasons. It hired Scott Thompson as the CEO and he left under very dubious circumstances after a mere four.months in the hot seat. He was shown the door for a cooked up resume, perhaps the first CEO of a high-profile company to be shown up like this. What next, wondered industry watchers. What was going on at Yahoo a one time iconic company that it was being jostled with such turbulence at the top? Continue reading →

Google is Hiring

17 Thursday Feb 2011

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That’s right. Google is hiring…and how! Apparently the firm is held in such high esteem that it received over 75,000 applications in a week! This was after word got out that the company planned to add on 6,000 more new jobs. No marks for guessing how people came to know about the job openings. I guess most would have “googled” to check out job opportunities.

 

Will Bing Open With A Bang?

29 Friday May 2009

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Most of us have tried every search engine that has come up during the last few years- and stayed with Google. One more is set to compete with Google- this one is from a biggie- Microsoft. Named Bing the search- or should one say “decision”  engine is scheduled to be formally launched on June 3. Whether Bing will open with a bang remains to be seen.

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The Google Story

17 Sunday Aug 2008

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Just finished an absorbing book about Google by David A. Vise. It is an interesting story of the faith in their abilities and passion for what they believed in on the part of two young men- Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Both came from families steeped in academic excellence.They quit their graduate school studies at Stanford to pursue their dream to “change the world” through  a search engine that would organise every bit of information on the Web for free.

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Google’s Next Frontier: Renewable Energy

28 Wednesday Nov 2007

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Google, the Internet company with a seemingly limitless source of revenue, plans to get into the business of finding limitless sources of energy.

The company, based in Mountain View, Calif., announced Tuesday that it intended to develop and help stimulate the creation of renewable energy technologies that are cheaper than coal-generated power.

Google said it would spend hundreds of millions of dollars, part of that to hire engineers and energy experts to investigate alternative energies like solar, geothermal and wind power. The effort is aimed at reducing Google’s own mounting energy costs to run its vast data centers, while also fighting climate change and helping to reduce the world’s dependence on fossil fuels.

The company also said that Google.org, the philanthropic for-profit subsidiary that Google seeded in 2004 with three million shares of its stock, would invest in energy start-ups.

Google says its goal is to produce one gigawatt of renewable energy — enough to power the city of San Francisco — more cheaply than coal-generated electricity. The company predicted that this can be accomplished in “years, not decades.”

Idealism is hardly new at Google. In their Letter From the Founders before the company’s 2004 initial public stock offering, Mr. Page and Mr. Brin wrote: “Our goal is to develop services that significantly improve the lives of as many people as possible. In pursuing this goal, we may do things that we believe have a positive impact on the world, even if the near-term financial returns are not obvious.”

Amongst many other grants made by Google.org. ,beneficiaries include:-

  • Acumen Fund: $ 5,200,000 to support Acumen’s entrepreneurial approaches to address global poverty and services for the poor
  • PlanetRead: $345,000 to support Same Language Subtitling (SLS) programs in India.
  • Seva Fund: $2,000,000 to support programs to prevent blindness and restore eyesight in India, Nepal, Tibet, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Egypt, Tanzania and Guatemala

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