Brush lightly with Google

The first episode

For years every two or three days to fly in the Silicon Valley, so I really don't remember what happened to the story of a day in the summer of 98 or 99 in an afternoon.

Founder Mark v I and Excite.com. h. lunch in a restaurant in Palo Alto. Say lunch is in fact are already three o'clock in the afternoon, only we two customers in the restaurant, we sat on the floor Windows along the street side of the table. Mark is Silicon Valley's man of the hour, is a billionaire. When he was at Stanford and students founded the Excite.com search engine, Excite the heels in on Yahoo, became the world's second-largest search engine, one is of course Yahoo.

Yahoo actually created when there is not a search engine but a URL directory (Directory), so, if say Internet history, Excite (at the beginning of Architext) is probably the world's first truly popular search engines. I've been involved in at the time of 95 Chinese search technology, senior figures of the Internet may have heard a little about the matter. But Mark and I now not only the search had no interest, and even the Internet, no, is the "text" lost interest in the Internet is, we are interested in is a kind of Internet with sound, video, which is now called "broadband." At that time broadband, like all running cars on the road today all power from the gasoline into a battery, really very challenging, even in the United States, at that time most of the people on the Internet is dial by phone line. So Mark and I tried to find the killer application of broadband in the dark, are beyond the age of 3-5 years, unique feeling of Skywalker, seems to have himself through time and space, are no longer living in the world.

Legitimate we in California of Sun Xia lazy lazy to sent their disk in the of food of Shi, I both both to note to has window Road opposite Street shop of second building roof Shang suddenly climbed to has two a guy, they will a white old sheets made of banner hanging in has second building of street wall Shang, above has colorful of six a letter: "Google", following has a row black of small "The Next Generation Of Search Engine" (next generation of search engine), top party is wrote of is "Grand Opening" ("Grand opened", for with today more in words the called "gorgeous bloom").

Mark from nose humming a: "the boy is buzhitiangaodihou, what about search engines, you search! "In fact, Mark is also almost a child, just only in his early thirties. But in any event, at that time, both 200%, I firmly believe that the territory in the world of search engine on the planet already foregone conclusion, by the four major search engine companies listed at the time each party: Yahoo, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos �C like the insufferably arrogant champion.

Meal out of the restaurant, Mark put on sunglasses, driving his sports car go off. I do, because 6-7 clock to see someone else in the neighborhood, so I stroll in the streets to stroll alone, killing time. The street is not long, is a two-storey low block on either side, is on the first floor of shops along the street, many people on the second floor apartment. Worn out after a few back and forth from beginning to end in the street I was a bit upset, is looking for a convenient shop to buy a can of iced drinks refreshing, can't help but find themselves wandering to the hanging piece of "Google" white cloth in front of the shop. Perhaps is really boring, perhaps out of "next generation search engines" last drop of curiosity, I decided to down the stairs on the second floor to see what these children to play what flowers playing at.

Is a small apartment on the second floor, the door there is a roof terrace, boy, three or four guys are dragged pipes to draw water battle above, how happy we are.

See guest, boys top stop water wars, called "first" would warmly welcome came to me. I have lived its, how I was "first"? What mean? After some communication with each other, to remember the original opening party tonight was Google, watering the boys on the balcony, let the Sun all day by California sunshine balcony soon cool down, they thought I was the first at the scene of the invited guests, and in fact I was unsolicited.

I'm sure that, not in person on the scene, no one can imagine how simple the Google Office at that time, compared to around those super luxurious Yahoo, Excite, Netscape, @home ... ... Office, Google this cottage on the second floor, a few old wooden tables, wood chairs, scattered several computers (then Google probably parasitic on the campus of Stanford University), "hope primary schools" to describe the absolute is not too much, really, it is not lying to you!

For me the unexpected guest, boys dared snubbed and insult, perhaps Google is not qualified at all then worship populations from all over the world as we break the threshold. One of the low thin young man, introduce yourself say is a graduate of Stanford, on-site printing a few pages of Google server farm topology, started talking to my introduction to the principles of Google search. I listened to his explanations, he sneered, Mark did not say, what age, and also what about search engines, you search!

A moment, the chirp dial-up shout a person seems students at Stanford University, they see a white fat in I was a stranger, come and shake hands and chat with me, he even business cards are not, just tore a piece of paper to write a mail address and phone number to me. Small, local, many people, this helped even the ragged boy something to eat and drink are not ready to open some of the party, DIS n ' dat in saying the stinking thing in their own schools, Chase is really boring. Well, I think there is more or less important things in this world waiting for me to deal with what, don't stay here wasting time, and then looked at his watch, and I want to see people meet time is almost up.

So I squeezed out from the human joints, floor under clap clothing, convenient topology that printed, including fat boy in vain handwriting that breaking the note, all thrown into the roadside rubbish bins ... ...


The sequel

In 2000, to the one in my Office in Shanghai Donghua University PhD intern, computer crashed, so spare a laptop I lent her. A week later she gave it back to my computer, when I restart, I found she was set to the home page of a Google browser, I suddenly eyes light up: this is not the letters on a white banner?!

After a few days, I occasionally read online reports on the history of the VC first a round of investment of more than US $ 25 million: Google??!!

After a few weeks, I have been on the cover of a magazine to see the fat boy in vain (he seems to have strong points seems to mature some), the name is Sergey. Brin???!!!

A few years, Google as the most sensational one IPO in NASDAQ history, Sergey. bulinnian to be United States's youngest billionaire in history, only 30 years old!


Episode

Then read Google's ascent in history, a Korean Cinderella story.

Good Ah, entrepreneur brothers, don't keep carrying Google's share price in the future and I where rivalries you company valuation, the valuation is how much do you know Google has? Tell you: nothing!

Riley and Sergey, two poor students at Stanford University, in the nearly four years after the birth of Google, no less beg others knock on their door to investors, the results are without exception all eat the lockout. Even if the user traffic to Google every two or three days of the Stanford University campus network was paralysed, did not cause any investor interest in several promptingsfrom ordered two of his University Web site from a server to move out of the school, almost to two young men to compel a female to engage in prostitution. One day, Riley poguanziposhuai, Sergey said: "I fucking do not force oneself to go on doing it, simply, breaking stuff that no one wants to sell the come on! "Two people all over AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, offer psychological price of US $ 600,000, but only 300,000, a result, all been laughed at, even out.

Seamless without doors, into God, being broken by desperate time, floating down a white feather in the sky, Angels.

Angel is a lovely old man named Andy. beituoersihaimu, he was joint founder of the Sun. Andy did not say a Word, gave two young man a cheque: US $ 100,000. Thus, started by the $ 100,000 cheque, two people step by step to create a Google today, Andy. beituoersihaimu what about 100,000 dollars, became nearly 300 million, up to 3,000 times times!

What a wonderful Sparrow and the myth of the angels ... ...


PostScript

Read Google in this episode, I breast-beating, regret, the day of the year, why I did not at that broken to Rove the room upstairs for a while, I'll have to shell cover, 80,000, today even in the absence of 3,000 times times, also have a 300 times times it??

Pain will feel remorse, I locked himself in a room, in front of the mirror pointed at one's own nose scold the meal:

"Look how snob you this guy is you!

"People Sergey poorer without money to burn, not to office buildings, could not afford the high office furniture, you do not treat people as people think?!

"You ran all day long the drill a wealthy and influential family home of a rich and powerful, with what Yahoo, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos holding group engage in relations of a girl, what little they have stronger than Sergey you little brother Ah?!

"The Emperor is not comments of Yellow River water coming from the sky, running into the sea does not reply back?

"Have you not seen today, Yahoo, Microsoft Kodo out Prism sad blue Alice twilight into snow white hair, the DPRK, Excite, and Infoseek, Lycos when the Kings superstar of ancient and modern phase where? Abandoned grave a bunch grass gone?

"Do first, money has to first, heard no, remember yet?! ��

My own fan was a severely, wanted a seam on the ground, you can plunge into and hide ... ...

From House in out yihou, Ah, this world Shang of all are variable has, with to apart from snobbery, and return Park returned to really eyes, I see sky is orange red of, grassland is multicolored of, over of Ant and earthworm moving I laugh, Jin Yuer in cliff top dance, group group Himalayan bear in heaven fly, Miyazaki Chun warping with feet sat in months yaer Tsim Tsim angle Shang to I waved......

* I began to believe that this is a miracle will happen in the world
* I believe is an Angel in the sky
* I tell yourself: stand your ground, Earth station on the ground
* I remind ourselves from time to time to see clearly, think thoroughly before taking each step
* My fate: you want to push for that you make are pushing away, should not be sent to you before you are invisible, not greedy!
* Thanks to Sequoia (indeed the KPCB) found Google finally revenge to kill Bill Gates for us ... ...
* Watch out for Google in power transformation will become another Microsoft
*? ����...... If today is any young Sergey really wants to go to Google and Baidu to kill, I sell my house sell the car sell blood selling kidneys
To support him and help him buy a magic sword, sending him to brave the Dragon, and create a brave new world 2 ... ... I can thoroughly have time do angels of addiction
* Latecomers forever in the world, every birth of a giant has quack when landing at that moment, every great company has a difficult first step
* The ugly guy and his nose around us little girl, who said that they will not some day be Sergey and Hillary?
* Miracle is happening in front of you at the moment ... ...

I don't know why, every time you think of their own that just miss the opportunity of the year and Google serendipity, ears to burst into song: "Never Say Never".