They collaborated and worked on a search engine called "Backrub." The name came from the search engine's use of back-links to determine page relevance. This is a patented algorithm known as PageRank. Brin and Page left Stanford and founded Google Inc. in September of 1998. During the 4th of September, they incorporated Google as a closed company. By the year 2000, Google was the world's widest and largest search engine. By 2001 it did something that eluded most of the dot.com business start-ups
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Management Principles for Continuous Innovation 2 This section is about global changes—why they are bigger, come more often, and are becoming more difficult to predict. It’s also about what companies have done, and are doing, in order to take advantage of the opportunities and avoid the threats embedded in these ever accelerating changes. Certain changes are products of shifting technologies. One established technology is replaced by something new. We’ve seen this before. Steam engines were
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pag.: 1 van 13 code: LEV-PORT-art-013-bl Purchasing must become Supply management Bron: Auteur(s): Harvard Business Review, september-oktober 1983 Peter Kraljic Purchasing Must Become Supply Management Peter Kraljic Harvard Business Review No. 83509 SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 1983 HBR Peter Kraljic Purchasing Must Become Supply Management The stable way of business life many corporate purchasing departments enjoy has been increasingly imperiled. Threats of resource depletion
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processes (Kearsley, 1998). The word gestalt has no direct translation into English, but “describes a configuration or form that is unified. A gestalt may refer to a figure or object that is different from the sum of its parts. Any attempt to explain the figure by analyzing its parts results in the loss of the figure’s gestalt” (Brennan, 2003). In simpler terms” A way a thing has been ‘placed’, or ‘put together’”; common translation includes “form” and “shape” (Myers, 1998). Zakia, 1997, described gestalt
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Activity No.1 Understanding Educational Research I. Introduction We are now living in a BETTER world, a world where ignorance but truth and understanding is at trend. This could be recognize as the fruits of research; leading to better predictions, and better understanding of the world we live in. In education, we could identify research with a better understanding of the individual, and better understanding and improvement of the teaching and learning process and in other circumstances
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Effect using iPad for the students Contents Abstract 3 Introduction 4 Statement of the Problem 6 Definitions of Terms 6 Limitations of the Study 7 Literature Review 8 Methodology 10 Participants 11 Procedures 12 Results 14 Discussion 17 References 18 Abstract The study prolifically investigated the effect of using iPad for the students in Saudi Arabia and other countries around the world. The entire study was outlined randomly to test the reliability as well as the
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McShane−Von Glinow: Organizational Behavior, Second Edition Part Four Organizational Processes Organizational Culture © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2002 C H A P T E R 15 Organizational Culture AFTER READING THIS CHAPTER , YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO : Learning Objectives I Describe the elements of organizational culture. I Discuss the importance of organizational subcultures. I List four categories of artifacts through which corporate culture is communicated. I Identify three
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1 CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION Seminar Report For Electronics (ECE) / Electrical (EEE) / Instrumentation (EI or AE&I) Engineering or Sciences 1INTRODUCTION Are you tired of slow modem connections? Cellonics Incorporated has developed new technology that may end this and other communications problems forever. The new modulation and demodulation technology is called Cellonics. In general, this technology will allow for modem speeds that are 1,000 times faster than our present modems. The development
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7) econtour Edentulous Ridges—Removal of redundant soft tissue makes impression R taking and fitting complete and partial dentures more accurate and comfortable. Ideal for preparation of ovate pontic sites. Electrode recommendations: #T2; T5; #T8; #T16; #P4. Caution Federal Law restricts this device to sale by or on the order of a properly licensed practitioner. 8) emoval of Hyperplastic and Hypertrophic Tissue—Ideal in case of medication-induced R gingival hyperplasia. Electrode recommendations:
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MICHAEL E. PORTER The State of Connecticut: Strategy for Economic Development Introduction Connecticut had long been one of the most prosperous U.S. states. With a per capita income of $39,300 in 19991 compared with the U.S. average of $28,542,2 it had the highest standard of living of any state. However, Connecticut had been hit especially hard by the recession of the early 1990s, the worst since the 1930s. During the recession, Connecticut lost one out of every 10 jobs.3 Although the recession
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