1. Googleborg.
- Author
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Keuffel, Warren
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TECHNOLOGY , *INTERNET advertising , *WAGES , *COMPUTER programmers , *COMPUTERS , *INTERNET searching , *CLIENT/SERVER computing - Abstract
This article focuses on technology company Google Inc. The company's real strength comes from its ability to manage and utilize data to drive the targeted advertising that appears with each search result. Google can inflate the salaries of top programmers in Silicon Valley, California, by 25 to 50 percent. According to author Stephen Arnold, Google is using the desktop to establish a beachhead from which it can conquer the enterprise search market. One of its advantages in the market is the Googleplex, which are 15 server farms hosting more than 100,000 individual commodity servers written to function as part of a hot-swappable cluster architecture.
- Published
- 2006