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Sergey Brin: The Co-Inventor of Google By: Andrew Cody Yates December 2, 2012

 

 

 

 

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* (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

-          Vise, D. A., & Malseed, M. (2006). The google story. Delacorte Pr.

-          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/

My Voter Sticker

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cody Yates English 111 Evaluation

Andrew Cody Yates

English 111

Dr. Brandon

October 23, 2012

 

My Self Evaluation

            As a student it is my goal to absorb, and to be able to demonstrate the lessons I have learned. The purpose of me writing this evaluation is to reflect on myself as a student. Also it is my purpose to see what I have truly learned and to find areas for me to improve. By the end of this evaluation I hope to discover more about myself as your student, and I hope to continue to improve.

            When I look back on the semester so far the lesson that pops out to me the most is the rhetorical triangle. I feel as if I have learned more about rhetorical knowledge more than I have anything this semester. Ever since learning the triangle I always try to apply ethos, pathos or logos to whatever I am reading or writing. Before this semester I honestly probably could not have told you about any kind of rhetorical knowledge except for a rhetorical question, and all I knew about that was it was a question you were not supposed to answer.   

I think the reason I remember rhetorical knowledge the most is that this is what you have focused on the most. I also feel as if this is the lesson we have reinforced the most because we have written a lot of notes on this topic, and we have been working on our rhetorical analysis for around a month now (or so it seems). I can tell you off the top of my head that ethos deals with reputation. I also can tell you that logos can be used to described logic or hard facts. Finally I can tell you pathos is used to describe human emotion. I even remember you telling us that Pathos is the root word for pathetic.

The writing process is the next thing that I feel we have covered a lot in class. I already had a good base of knowledge on the writing process before I was in this class because my English teachers in high school drilled these steps into my head. The way you have taught it to me though is semi different than the way I learned it in high school. In high school we were never taught different ways to publish our writing the only way we knew was to type it, print it and turn it into my teacher. Now I know how to print it, blog it and how to share if for my peers on my Gmail. Also I never had a different audience with my papers before, but now you have given me a broader audience for my writing.

Despite having learned these tools for success though I feel as if I do not use them enough. I do not use every single step of the writing process. I do not like to use the planning step I have tried to use it before, and even on this evaluation. I just feel like for me it just wastes my time. I first like to free write a couple sentences up to a paragraph then when I go to do my final copy I use this as a guide line and completely re-write the whole entire paper. When I do this I feel like I flow better as writer. Sometimes though it does not reflect in my grade and I feel like I can and need to improve on this.

            I feel we have had a pretty good base of learning on all of our goals on the sheet. The only one to me I feel like I do not have a good base on is critical thinking. I cannot really think of anything that has to do with critical thinking except Kai Zen, and even then I am not too sure if this is part of critical thinking. I do not know if this is because we have not covered it too much this semester or if I did not good notes. Regardless though, I feel that I should know more about critical thinking.

            Like I said before though I do know about Kai Zen, and what it incorporates seems like it would be a critical thinking method. The goal of Kai Zen is to reach your long term goals by first starting from where you are presently at. Kai Zen uses an analogy that says you start by picking the fruit that is closest to you. Then once you have reached that fruit you move forward by picking the next closest fruit until you reach the top. Which ultimately means that with Kai Zen you start by achieving what you can then you work your way up step by step until you reach your goal.

            The oral communication lesson we had in class was an extremely helpful lesson to me. I already felt like I was a pretty good communicator before this class. What you taught me though helped me a lot. I did not know how much body language really matters in oral communication. That lesson you showed us about the way to look around the class room to make it seem like your making eye contact with everyone was cool. In the beginning of the semester I always thought you were staring at me, and it kind of gave me a creepy feeling.

 I was surprised at the fact of how many digital technologies that we learned and used in this class. Going into the semester I figured it would be the same old English class, but I was pleasantly surprised. I like the fact that we infuse English with modern technology like YouTube, blogger, etc.  It makes class more engaging and entertaining. I had never had a blog before this class I had never even read a blog. This class has opened my eyes to more technology on the internet that is actually useful.

Now that you have shown me blogger I have used it quite often. I made a blog about how much I and the rest of the baseball world hate the Yankees. I also have had a blog discussion about this with my classmate Alyssa. This class has opened my eyes and shown me how much I actually enjoy writing.

In conclusion, I believe that I have learned a good amount in this class. I also feel that up to this point I have been fairly successful. I have a slight problem though I do not do the readings. This is the main area in this class that I need to improve on. In all I enjoy this class and I know that I am going to stay in the class for the remainder of the semester. I am looking forward to the rest of the semester.

                        Why People Love to Hate the Yankees

Baseball has been an American past time for over a hundred years. Over the past century baseball has played a big part in American history. It has created good memories for us and the world. The Yankees are synonymous with baseball world wide. For good and bad reasons. If you are Yankees fan it is a good connection. For the rest of the baseball world it is bad. I personally am an Orioles fan and I can honestly say I hate the Yankees. They are an institution of the things to hate with baseball. Since they are rich they can just buy talent they will never be on the down end of the spectrum because they can go out and buy whoever they want. It is unfair for the lower market and mediocre teams because they can not afford to pay for these players hence these teams will always stay on the down side because they cannot afford to pull themselves out of the pit. Also these teams that are low market or just average when they do bring up talent they just serve as farm systems for the Yankees (and other teams like it). Because once their rookie contract or base contract ends once everyone knows who these players are and what they can do they want the money that follows and guess who is there to pay the money? the Yankees. It simply is unfair. Also I just hate the fact that the Yankees always seem to be the luckiest team in the league. Everything always just falls in place for them and its like angels in the outfield. It just seems fictitious. Finally the main reason I hate the Yankees is because of the fans. They believe they are better than the other fans of baseball because they are Yankees fans. They think they are the proverbial s***. They crowd every teams stadium in the league because they have so many bandwagon fans and it is annoying. Go to Baltimore or Tampa or even Oakland and it is majority Yankees fans. Since these fans crowd these stadiums it makes you not even want to see these teams play live. The Yankees fans that make these trips are rude, obnoxious and ultimately are just (excuse my french) asses. For these reasons and for more to come later are why I hate the New York Yankees.

My Rehtorical Analysis Draft

This is my rhetorical analysis draft I hope you guys like it!

Andrew Cody Yates

Professor Brandon

October 9, 2012

English 111

 

                                                                  The Next 9/11?

 

In an article published September 10, 2012 in The Washington Times Dispatch Brett Decker wrote about the topic of another possible 9/11 scenario called The Next 9/11. Decker states in his editorial that the mixture of (in his opinion) a weak Obama Presidency and the fact that in todays times Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) are readily available to any nation or militant force will bring on another national disaster similar to 9/11. After reading “The Next 9/11”, I can understand where Decker is coming from in his position on the topic. I found majority of it persuasive except in one part of the piece.

I feel that Decker is trying to play on the fear of Americans and create a sort of hysteria with this article. He is trying to prophesize an event equally or more destructive than that of 9/11 one of the worst attacks on America ever. It is an eerie feeling when you read his article because, a part of you somewhat believes what he is saying because the evidence he is providing is factual. You see his evidence in the news everyday. The only thing I do not agree with that Decker states is that part of it is Obama’s fault. It would not necessarily the Presidents fault that attack of that magnitude would happen just because Obama has been somewhat of a weak leader. Terrorists will attack America no matter who the President is they do not differentiate.

After reading this article it is easy to see this is written to all Americans as a whole. Some people may have their biases and other influential factors, but we all know in the back of our minds one day another terrorist attack will come. That is what Decker is trying to say to the American people. We all know America has enemies around the world, and now with North Korea, the Taliban, Iran and many others with the capabilities to at any moment start a nuclear war  it is frightening. Decker believes that with the recent economic collapse, the weak Obama Presidency and those forces I just listed that are armed with WMDs make for  a perfect storm in a sense for another attack on American soil. I personally find trust in what Decker has to say because of  his position in the Washington Times.

In all after reading The Next 9/11 I felt the piece really hit home for me. I can remember to this exact day where and when I was when I heard about the 9/11 attacks, and after reading this piece it frightens me. The article was overall written well in the delayed thesis style. I recommend this article to anyone. It was in my opinion a good article.   

Hello World

This is my first post/blog ever. I want a good grade, so I will do what ever Professor Brandon says.