List of Google Core Values
July 13, 2008
Google Mission: To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
Google Core Values
1) We want to work with great people
- We hire great people and expect a lot from them
- We create an environment where people can flourish and grow
- We treat people with fairness and respect
- We challenge each other’s ideas openly
- We value diversity in people and ideas
- We are a quantitative company that uses data to make decisions
2) Technology innovation is our lifeblood
- Build the world’s best technology and products
- We apply technology and creativity to solve important problems
3) Working at Google is fun
- We expect our people to know and enjoy each other
- We have a challenging/energetic work environment
- We celebrate our successes and each other’s accomplishments - both professional and personal
4) Be actively involved; you are Google
- Honor commitments
- We openly communicate and trust you with a great deal of information and we expect you to honor our confidentiality
- Understand when you are representing Google and act appropriately
5) Don’t take success for granted
- Think and act like an underdog
- Be humble with success; don’t be arrogant
- Be scrappy and resourceful
6) Do the right thing; don’t be evil
- Honesty and integrity in all we do
- Our business practices are beyond reproach
- We make money by doing good things
7) Earn customer and user loyalty and respect every day
- Create, enhance and maintain great products and services
Sustainable long-term growth and profitability are key to our success
- Think scale and efficiency
- Every dollar is yours
- Do things that matter
9) Google cares about and supports the communities where we work and live
- We encourage and enable our people to support local community involvement and expect them to participate
10) We aspire to improve and change the world
- Aim high; think BIG, take risks
- A healthy disregard for the impossible
Larger picture of Google Core Values:
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For College students who are approaching graduation time and looking for the best places to work, look no further, Google is here. The darling of the Internet is the most sought after best place to work for College graduates.
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A Google bomb (also referred to as a ‘link bomb’) is Internet slang for a certain kind of attempt to influence the ranking of a given page in results returned by the Google search engine, often with humorous or political intentions. Because of the way that Google’s algorithm works, a page will be ranked higher if the sites that link to that page use consistent anchor text. A Google bomb is created if a large number of sites link to the page in this manner.
Google made changes to its algorithm to prevent such attempts at manipulating a keyword. However, looks like people against Scientology have overcome Google’s attempts to prevent Googlebombing.
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Google’s GMail is one of the dominant free email providers on the internet along with Microsoft’s Hotmail and Yahoo! Email. However, GMail is more popular in the scientific and the current student community which grew up with computers and technology.
If you don’t have a GMail account, I would highly recommend that you open one right now. You can use all your fancy nicknames with Hotmail and Yahoo but I would recommend a firstnamelastname@gmail.com email. I mean when you graduate and sending out resumes to potential employers, you want your email to be alexsmith@gmail.com and not koolkat2288@yahoo.com.
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For users of Mozilla Firefox, you have an inbuilt Google Search box on the top right corner of your browser. This Google Search box, based on Google suggest feature, can be used as your personal online calculator.
Online Calculator using Firefox
To use Google’s built-in calculator function, simply enter the calculation you’d like done into the search box and hit the Enter key or click on the Google Search button. The calculator can solve math problems involving basic arithmetic, more complicated math, units of measure and conversions, and physical constants.
Now, with the Online Calculator using Firefox, you don’t have to press Enter or anything else to get the Google Calculator results.
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Now you can change customize your driving directions on Google Maps by simply dragging & dropping the default directions to your preferred roads or highways, route around traffic, or add multiple stops on your way.
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