1. CS 11: Google’s Technology and its Impact on our Culture Class 5: Google’s Beginnings January 14, 2008

2. Administrative Details Reading summaries are also due Should be posted on Google Docs Research proposals are due Friday. Post on Google Docs. Friday is the half-way point in the class Position papers are due on the day after you present in class unless otherwise specified

3. Upcoming Topics 01.09.08 Search Engine Basics Michael (Chapter) and Margaret (Readings) 01.12.08 Search Before Google Me 01.14.08 Google’s Beginnings Dan W (Chapter) and Edgar (readings) 01.16.08 A Business Model for the Internet Joey (Chapter) and Chris (readings) 01.19.08 Google’s Rise: ‘00-’04 Will (Chapter) and Sam (readings) 01.21.08 The Search Economy Nathanial (Chapter) + Daniel D. (readings) 01.23.08 Privacy, Government, and Evil Peter (Chapter) + Allen (readings) 01.26.08 Google Goes Public Mohammed (Chapter) + Zoe (readings) 01.28.09 Google Tomorrow Zach (Chapter) + Gabrielle (readings)

4. Last Time Overview of Search Engines before Google Why they didn’t succeed? Lack of innovation Management restructuring’s

5. Today’s Outline Google’s Beginnings The “Google” Paper: Anatomy of a Large- scale Hypertextual Search Engine Book: Google’s story---BackRub, PageRank, etc.