Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Sergey Brin Final Copy
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ITE 115
December 2, 2012
Professor Robert Maher
Sergey
Brin
Sergey Brin is one of the major technical pioneers of our
time. He is the co-founder of Google. His invention has affected nearly
everyone who lives on this planet. Sergey with the help of Larry Page created
the largest public search engine in the entire world.
Today of all research done on the internet 70% is done
through Google, and 20% of research is done through Yahoo. Only a mere 6% of online research is done on
MSN* (Schonfield 2009). As you can tell in today’s time Google is the dominant
search engine in the world, but two decades ago this wasn’t the case. It was
predicted that over time Yahoo would be the dominant search engine of the
future. Google though would rock the foundation of the internet, and become the
world’s greatest search engine.
The invention of Google was not only the accomplishment
of Sergey Brin. A man named Larry Page also is accredited to the invention of
Google. The both of them worked in concordance to make Google. Sergey and Larry
met at Stanford University. They both were attending Stanford to receive their
Ph.Ds. Little did Larry and Sergey know that they would change the internet
world.
·
MSN
stands for Microsoft Network
The duo both realized that the search engines they had at
the time were terrible. The way these search engines would operate was to take
the search keywords that were used, and the search engine would find documents
on the internet that used those words the most on their page. This would often
lead to extremely inconclusive searches. Also would lead to a lot of wasted
time.
Brin and Page decided that it would be dramatically
better to create a search engine that got results based on citations or
“backlinks” (Vise and Malseed 2006), which means references back to one
specific page. Brin and page used a math algorithm that would determine which
sites had how much backlinks. Thus PageRank was born. PageRank would revolutionize the search
engine it would be the end to those old and un-useful search engines. With this
new “PageRank” the two would go on to start the creation of Google.
To make Google work Sergey and Larry dispatched these
programs called “spider” programs to go out and download the whole entire World
Wide Web. Each time the both of them would dispatch these spider programs it
would cost $20,000(Vise & Malseed, 2006). Google was starting to grow in
size, and it was growing in popularity. The teachers and students of Stanford
were using the new website called Google. Sergey and Larry knew that they would
need more computers to match with the growth of Google, but they also knew they
did not have the money to buy new computers. They decided they would buy old
spare parts, and they would just build their own computers.
Brin and Page decided to get the “PageRank” system
patented (Vise and Malssed 2006) , and they would go on and try to sell the
program for other websites to use. They went to AltaVista first, which was the
number one search engine of the time. AltaVista shut them down though. They
said they did not want to use something they did not invent. Sergey and Larry
went to plenty of other companies to sell there “PageRank” system, but the
story was ultimately the same. No one wanted to buy this new technology that
they did not create.
Then one day they had a scheduled meeting with Andy
Bechtolsheim. Bechtolsheim loved the idea of Google and he gave the two 100,000(Vise
& Malseed, 2006) to help fund Google. Brin and Page would then raise up
some more money to go along with Bechtolsheim’s funding. The two ended up with
1 million dollars, and with that they turned Google into a company. They also rented a building on the Stanford
campus to be the hub of their business.
Google was spreading faster than the two had ever
imagined at this point now. By 1999 Google
was having 100,000 queries a day (Vise & Malseed, 2006), and just two years
after that Google was receiving 100 million search queries a day. Google was one of the largest internet
companies in the world. Even after the dot.com collapse in 2000 Google stood
firm as one of the top internet companies of the world. It was estimated in
2003 that ¾’s of all searches by 2003 were done through Google, and in 2004 Google
went public with its stock.
In today’s times you can go to anyone in the world and
they will know what Google is. Google is and still remains the single largest
search engine in the entire world. In 2008 it was estimated the 90% of all
internet sources were done through Google (Schonfeld, 2009). Sergey and Larry have created possibly one of
the best internet inventions ever. That is there impact on modern technology.
Bibliography
Page
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Vise, D. A., & Malseed, M. (2006).
The google story. Delacorte Pr.
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Schonfeld, E. (2009, January 28).
techcrunch.com. Retrieved from http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/28/google-gobbled-up-90-percent-of-all-us-search-growth-in-2008/
Monday, December 10, 2012
My Final Evaluation
Andrew Cody Yates
English 111
Professor Brandon
December 11, 2012
My
English Evaluation
This semester I have learned many things in class. I have
learned many things, and I feel as if I have improved greatly as a student and
communicator. I know I have improved as a result of this class, because the
lessons I have learned reflect in my everyday life as well as my other classes.
Although I feel as if I have improved as a student and writer, actually there
is more room for improvement. I have
evidence though that I have improved because of this class.
Rhetorical
knowledge is one of the things we have learned the most the semester. I believe
we focused on rhetoric, because rhetoric plays a role in many things we do in
life. As the semester has worn on I realized the use of rhetoric, and the
purpose you had into drilling it into our minds. The key things you have taught
me on this topic are the rhetorical triangle, the proper way to communicate
orally and the different genres of writing. Rhetorical knowledge is possibly
one of the most important lessons we had in class.
The rhetorical triangle is one of the first things we
learned in class. It is one of the first things we learned, and it is also one
of the most important. The rhetorical triangle is comprised of three parts: the
author, the message and the audience.
These three sides of the triangle are important, and each has its own
specific role. It is the job of the author to craft the message that he/she
wants to deliver. It is the role of the message to inform and sway the about a
specific topic. The purpose of the audience is to provide feedback to the
author about his or hers piece.
The
lessons you gave on oral communication oral communication and gestures have
been one of the lessons that have stuck the most with me out of our rhetorical
knowledge section. Even since that day
were we had the lesson about body language and the neutral stance I have
noticed more what people do in a group conversation. It is funny to see the way
people re-act to certain things with their body language or gestures they put
out. It is even funnier when they do not even realize how they are re-acting.
It also was extremely interesting to me on how you can tell how confident
someone is or the mood they are in just by the way they are standing. This was
one of my favorite lessons in class, and I am glad to have learned it.
Before the class I did
not know about all the different genres of writing. I would write nearly
everything the same way, but now I know many new ways to write. The different
genres that I learned were the review, the note, the rhetorical analysis, the
profile and the evaluation. I have by no means mastered these forms, because I
am just scratching the surface of learning about them. It is fair to say though
that you have given me the tools to have a good base understanding of them.
The
purpose of the review is to give your opinion on something like a movie or a
restaurant. Ultimately it is the goal of the review to list the positives and
negatives about something. Then it is up to the author to decide whether to
recommend it or not. The goal of the profile is to chronicle the life and
accomplishments of a specific person or group. The note is a way to write down
information in an organized manner to look back on to study. An author would
use the rhetorical analysis to break down a piece of work, and see what the
author is trying to sway you on. Finally the purpose of the evaluation is to
critique yourself or someone else on their performance.
The
writing process was another big lesson we learned in class. You drilled the
different steps into my mind, and it is safe to say they stuck. Each part of
the process is important; also they do specific things to make writing easier.
The steps of the writing process are: pre-writing, drafting, revision, and
proof-reading, publish and review. These are the keys of the writing process.
Each
step builds off of each other. Pre-writing is important, because it helps you
find out what you can say in your page. This is the step that I have improved
on the most. Before this class I would never do any pre-writing. I would just
go at it, and just free write what I ended up with was what I was turning in. I
have examples of my steps toward pre-writing. As you will see in my pre-writing
that I posted on my blog from my history report this semester (codyyatesblogsohard.blogspot.com).
The
drafting stage is where you actually “put the pen to paper”. In this phase you
write multiple versions of your paper to find that perfect way to deliver your
message. I until now was never one to do rough drafts, but I see now how much
it actually helps. I find now that when I go type my rough drafts they end up
different when they become the final copy, but the rough draft helps me write a
lot better.
Revision
is the phase where as you put it Professor Brandon, “you add, cut and
reorganize.” This step is still hard for me, because I prefer to do my revision
while I type my final copy. I know this is not the way you taught it to me. I
find though I still need to improve here though.
I
also find that I proof read as I go. I know this is not the formal way of doing
this step, but again I find that this works for me. The purpose of proof
reading is to correct all the grammatical, spelling and punctual errors. Also
the purpose is to make sure that your paper makes sense.
The
publishing stage is perhaps the easiest and hardest step in the process. It is
easy, because all you have to do is deliver your message to your audience
(which in this case is your Professor Brandon). The hard part of this step is
actually letting go of your paper, knowing that your work is under scrutiny by
the audience. In a way this step is a doubled edged sword. This is the step
though that every author works and strives for.
The
review stage is the final step. This is where the author recollects on his
work, and the feedback of the audience. In my case this is where I will receive
my grade, and ultimately see if I will pass. Critical
thinking, reading and writing is a somewhat vague thing for me. I know we went
over it when we were writing our rhetorical analysis. Other than using it for
our rhetorical analysis though I cannot think of any other lessons on critical
thinking, reading and writing that we learned in class. I know we used the critical
thinking lesson to decide if we believed our author, and to see how his ethos
reflects into his piece of work.
The
lesson we recently had in oral communication was fun. I enjoyed the lesson, and
I also found it informative. I always felt as if I was a decent communicator,
but I found the lesson extremely helpful. I never really paid attention to the
way to the way a conversing acted. Like the stance people in the group are
making shows someone’s confidence, or there lack of confidence.
Also
I never really knew all the little details to conversations in a professional
setting. Like making sure you come with “ammunition”, or topics to talk about.
Also I was oblivious to the fact that is someone enters a group conversation the
last person talking does now fill in the new person. I never knew that conversations
around the water jug were successful, because the availability of props while
talking.
I
feel as if I learned a good amount in digital technologies in this class. We
went over how to create, and to keep up with a blog. I have never used a blog
before. We also were in a learning community with ITE 115. The pairing of the
two classes opened up a lot of doors of technology for our class.
Keeping
up with the blog was my favorite part of our class. It made me feel more
connected with our class and lessons. As you will see with my post about the
Yankees I dedicated that for Alyssa (codyyatesblogsohard.blogspot.com). The
blog was overall my favorite part of class.
Our
learning community with ITE 115 also really played a huge part in my learning.
Those connections we had with our papers on our inventors truly helped me. You
showing us the websites that had academic journals and Professor Maher showing
us to properly cite sources was extremely helpful. The digital technology was
in all my favorite section.
Overall
this semester has showed me many things. Before this class I thought I was a pretty
good writer. You have showed me though I still have much to learn. I have
improved on my skill as a communicator, but I have much more to learn. I truly
need to improve on my studying/reading skills. I rarely read our text book this
semester. I am sure this will reflect in my grade, but I willing to bolster my
ethos than try to tell you otherwise. I plan on setting aside more time next
semester to study and read. I may start with ten or fifteen minute blocks, then
work my way up.
I
would just like to say thank you though for this semester of learning. I am
grateful for everything you have taught me this semester. I will carry the lessons
you taught me for the rest of my life. Thanks for a great semester.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
ITE Rough Draft
Andrew Yates
ITE 115
December 2, 2012
Professor Robert Maher
Sergey
Brin
Sergey
Brin is one of the major technical pioneers of our time. He is the co-founder
of Google. His invention has affected nearly everyone who lives on this planet.
Sergey with the help of Larry Page created the largest public search engine in
the entire world.
Today
of all research done on the internet 70% is done through Google, and 20% of
research is done through Yahoo. Only a
mere 6% of online research is done on MSN. As you can tell in today’s time
Google is the dominant search engine in the world, but two decades ago this
wasn’t the case. It was predicted that over time Yahoo would be the dominant
search engine of the future. Google though would rock the foundation of the
internet, and become the world’s greatest search engine.
The
invention of Google was not only the accomplishment of Sergey Brin. A man named
Larry Page also is accredited to the invention of Google. The both of them
worked in concordance to make Google. Sergey and Larry met at Stanford
University. They both were attending Stanford to receive their Ph.Ds. Little
did Larry and Sergey know that they would change the internet world.
The
duo both realized that the search engines they had at the time were terrible.
The way these search engines would operate was to take the search keywords that
were used, and the search engine would find documents on the internet that used
those words the most on their page. This would often lead to extremely inconclusive
searches. Also would lead to a lot of wasted time.
Brin
and Page decided that it would be dramatically better to create a search engine
that got results based on citations or “backlinks”, which means references back
to one specific page. Brin and page used a math algorithm that would determine
which sites had how much backlinks. Thus PageRank was born. PageRank would revolutionize the search
engine it would be the end to those old and un-useful search engines. With this
new “PageRank” the two would go on to start the creation of Google.
To
make Google work Sergey and Larry dispatched these programs called “spider”
programs to go out and download the whole entire World Wide Web. Each time the
both of them would dispatch these spider programs it would cost $20,000(Vise
& Malseed, 2006). Google was starting to grow in size, and it was growing
in popularity. The teachers and students of Stanford were using the new website
called Google. Sergey and Larry knew that they would need more computers to
match with the growth of Google, but they also knew they did not have the money
to buy new computers. They decided they would buy old spare parts, and they would
just build their own computers.
Brin
and Page decided to get the “PageRank” system patented, and they would go on
and try to sell the program for other websites to use. They went to AltaVista
first, which was the number one search engine of the time. AltaVista shut them
down though. They said they did not want to use something they did not invent.
Sergey and Larry went to plenty of other companies to sell there “PageRank”
system, but the story was ultimately the same. No one wanted to buy this new
technology that they did not create.
Then
one day they had a scheduled meeting with Andy Bechtolsheim. Bechtolsheim loved
the idea of Google and he gave the two 100,000(Vise & Malseed, 2006) to
help fund Google. Brin and Page would then raise up some more money to go along
with Bechtolsheim’s funding. The two ended up with 1 million dollars, and with
that they turned Google into a company.
They also rented a building on the Stanford campus to be the hub of
their business.
Google
was spreading faster than the two had ever imagined at this point now. By 1999 Google was having 100,000 queries a
day (Vise & Malseed, 2006), and just two years after that Google was
receiving 100 million search queries a day. Google was one of the largest internet
companies in the world. Even after the dot.com collapse in 2000 Google stood
firm as one of the top internet companies of the world. It was estimated in
2003 that ¾’s of all searches by 2003 were done through Google, and in 2004 Google
went public with its stock.
In
today’s times you can go to anyone in the world and they will know what Google
is. Google is and still remains the single largest search engine in the entire
world. In 2008 it was estimated the 90% of all internet sources were done
through Google (Schonfeld, 2009). Sergey
and Larry have created possibly one of the best internet inventions ever. That
is there impact on modern technology.
Monday, November 5, 2012
Conjunctive Adverbs
I love baseball, because it is our national past time; as a result, baseball is my favorite sport.
Video Games are a fun way to pass time; in fact, I have spent a lot of time playing video games, because I love them.
The Revolutionary war is my favorite history topic, for many reasons; hence, The Revolutionary War is my specialization, because it is my favorite topic in history.
Video Games are a fun way to pass time; in fact, I have spent a lot of time playing video games, because I love them.
The Revolutionary war is my favorite history topic, for many reasons; hence, The Revolutionary War is my specialization, because it is my favorite topic in history.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Rudy Review
Rudy Review
On wednesday I watched the movie Rudy. The movie is about a young man who goes against all odds to achieve his dream. Which is to play football for the University of Notre Dame.
Rudy is a gripping and inspiring film. Rudy incorporates everything all great sports movies have. This includes: tragedy, hard work, perserverance and overall success. The movie is just so memorable and relatable. Rudy will make you feel many emotions. It may even for some people bring back childhood memories. I know this is the case for me.
When I was younger I admired Rudy as I still do to this day. He inspired me to persue anything I set my mind to do. The movie is also the reason that I am a Notre Dame fan. Rudy has made such an impact in my life. For this reason it is why I recomend to you to watch it.
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