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...by accidentally gathering private wireless data while taking pictures for its "Street View" mapping service, co-founder Sergey Brin said Wednesday. Brin's remarks came as two US lawmakers asked regulators whether the Internet giant had broken the law by capturing...
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Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Biz/International-Business/Google-screwed-up-in-capturing-private-Wi-Fi-data-Co-founder-Brin/articleshow/5952760.cms
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...soar lately, and thinking, "I should be taking advantage of this," you're probably not alone. You're not, however, Sergey Brin. The Google co-founder, we just learned, is taking full advantage, and why not? He is, after all, holding a boatload of stock...
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SFNBC
http://feeds.nbcbayarea.com/click.phdo?i=2f3a1ece5ec2fcec95d74fa9fd3c36ee
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'Searching and organizing all the world's information is an unusually important task that should be carried out by a company that is trustworthy and interested in the public good."
--Larry & Sergey's statement to Wall Street in their 2004 IPO filing.
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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/dont-be-evil-how-larry-an_b_377340.html
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Nov. 24, 2009
Google co-founder Sergey Brin says that Chrome OS and Android are likely to merge at some point, say reports. Meanwhile, we sample the response to Chrome OS from across the Googleverse, and explore whether calling the cloud-oriented,
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LXer
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=128830
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Sergey Brin, one of Google’s founders, predicts that Google Chrome (newly arrived in its Google Chrome OS form) and Google’s mobile device OS Android will eventually merge.
Though Google Chrome and Android were developed separately, Brin said he
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Mirror.co.uk
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology/2009/11/23/google-s-sergey-brin-predicts-android-and-chrome-will-become-one-115875-21844471/
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When it comes to nerd obsessions, the only thing that can trump a fictional tablet developed by battling left-coast legends is the promise of a revolutionary OS from Google that relies upon nothing but a browser and the dreams of a young Larry
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Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/sergey-brin-android-and-chrome-os-will-likely-converge-over-ti/
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Ever wonder why Google gives away so many products? This might help.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin told you that "people don't buy books anymore" and that you should put your new book online for free. Your response?
Auletta: When Brin told me this I
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Silicon Alley Insider
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/kA-08D3pq5o/sergey-brin-doesnt-understand-how-book-publishing-works-2009-11
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Gawker
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gawker/full/~3/I7d7zY8ZIOc/sergey-brin-continues-to-butter-up-mother+in+law
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I know that this video of Google co-founder Sergey Brin at Web 2.0 Summit is widely circulating the interwebz, but not everyone is taking the time to watch it and highlight the interesting sound bites.
Here are some of the choicest quotes from Brin:
"I
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/10/googles-sergey-brin-says-i-did-not-try-to-buy-twitter.html
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has donated $1 million to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), the organization that played a critical role in helping his family escape anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union and migrate to the States thirty years ago.
In
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TechCrunch
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/dCYMbWmh1tk/
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HIAS RECEIVES $1 MILLION GIFT FROM SERGEY BRIN, CO-FOUNDER OF GOOGLE AND FORMER HIAS-ASSISTED REFUGEE
(New York, NY – October 25, 2009) – When Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, was seventeen, his family returned to the Soviet Union for a two-week
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JTA
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http://blogs.jta.org/philanthropy/article/2009/10/25/1008704/googles-brin-gives-1-million-to-hias
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He's wearing "freaky" five toes shoes, due to a sprained ankle playing ultimate Frisbee.
When asked if Google tried to buy Twitter, Brin says "I did not try to buy Twitter," but "when companies approach us, we definitely consider any opportunities that
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Silicon Alley Insider
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/DlvBfUeLe5I/sergey-brin-i-did-not-try-to-buy-twitter-2009-10
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Presumably stung by Microsoft's (MSFT) announcement that it had already set up a Bing Twitter search page, Google (GOOG) alpha dog Sergey Brin shook up the Web 2.0 conference by, well, showing up and walking around. Really, that's all it takes to get
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The Big Money
http://www.thebigmoney.com/blogs/feeling-lucky/2009/10/23/sergey-brin-presses-flesh
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has expressed amazement at resistance to the Internet giant's efforts to digitize the world's books and lamented a deal to have Microsoft handle online search at Yahoo!
Brin's comments came during a surprise appearance
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The Age
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-technology/google-cofounder-brin-prefers-yahoo-without-bing-20091023-hcdz.html
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...Brin Drops in at Web 2.0 Summit Written by Nicole Ferraro 10/22/2009 Post a comment no ratings Login to Rate DISCUSS Digg Del.icio.us Reddit Email This TWEET THIS SAN FRANCISCO -- Web 2.0 Summit -- While waiting for AOL LLC 's newest CEO Tim Armstrong to take...
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Internet Evolution
http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=466&doc_id=183524&f_src=internetevolution_sitedefault
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Sergey Brin Drops in at Web 2.0 Summit Written by Nicole Ferraro 10/22/2009 Post a comment no ratings Login to Rate DISCUSS Digg Del.icio.us Reddit Email This TWEET THIS SAN FRANCISCO -- Web 2.0 Summit -- While waiting for AOL LLC 's newest CEO Tim
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Internet Evolution
http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=466&doc_id=183524&f_src=internetevolution_sitedefault
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...Sergey Brin decided to drop by the Web 2.0 Summit on Thursday afternoon to spend a few minutes chatting with program chair John Battelle. You can do that sort of thing when you're the co-founder of one of the most successful companies in the world. Asked how...
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TechWeb
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/web2.0/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220900256&cid=RSSfeed_TechWeb
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Google cofounder and President of Technology Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit on Thursday, answering a variety of questions on hot-button issues affecting the search company.
Interviewed on stage by conference chairman John
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PC World
http://feeds.pcworld.com/click.phdo?i=c17c46b43af5de37783061b71675b893
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today, where he touched on a variety of topics. He was booster-ish on most topics (Google, Bing, hardware, advertising, lots more) but he did admit to one
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The Industry Standard
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IndustryStandardNewsAndPredictions/~3/gEkwAxAipxA/google-s-sergey-brin-chrome-mac-delays-are-disappointing
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today. He spoke briefly with John Battelle.
JB: So you got to chat with Tim Armstrong. Do you miss him?
SB: Oh yeah it’s great to see him here. We miss him
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TechCrunch
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/g35WJRsauNg/
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On October 8, 2009 the New York Times published an op-ed piece about the Google Books settlement, written by Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
== BACKGROUND ==
The Google Books settlement was reached in October 2008 between Google, the Authors Guild
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WebmasterWorld
http://www.webmasterworld.com/goog/4005203.htm
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At least it's an exotic experience. How many times have you had a man worth billions work so hard to whip out his google, leak on your leg, and swear to God it's raining?
Today, Sergey Brin does his best to sell you the snake-oil that his Google Book
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The Big Money
http://www.thebigmoney.com/blogs/feeling-lucky/2009/10/09/sergey-brin-blows-smoke-your-ass
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PC World
http://feeds.pcworld.com/click.phdo?i=e1fa641c0e6c5283a77fb7f1846f42cb
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eWeek – “Google co-founder Sergey Brin lashed out at critics of Google’s Book Search settlement with authors and publishers, arguing that no other company or organization has stepped up to offer to scan the millions of out-of-print books and make them
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Library Stuff
http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/10/09/google-co-founder-sergey-brin-fires-back-at-google-book-search-critics/
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin lashed out at critics of Google's Book Search settlement with authors and publishers, arguing that no other company or organization has stepped up to offer to scan the millions of out-of-print books and
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eWeek
http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~r/RSS/eweek_retail/~3/ds7BGVzwO18/
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There's been a lot of talk about that would allow Google to provide access to out-of-print books in the US. This would unlock a lot of valuable information and would make it available in the Google Books interface.
New York Times published a thoughtful
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Google Operating System
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/10/sergey-brin-on-google-books-settlement.html
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Google (GOOG) cofounder Sergey Brin is sitting down with about a dozen reporters at Google’s New York city headquarters for a Q&A session. Tune in for live coverage. This should be a wide-ranging conversation, which I’ll attempt to cover live as well
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All Things Digital
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20091007/live-from-new-york-google-cofounder-sergey-brin-meets-the-press/?mod=ATD_rss
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt are holding an audience this morning with a roomful of journalists in New York City. They talk about the Google Books settlement, antitrust scrutiny, Android, Chrome, innovations in search and the
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The Bloggers' Times
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Google as a company already regularly donates to Creative Commons, but this private donation is also a welcome addition for this valuable organization. A post over at the Creative Commons blog says:
“Today’s challenging economic climate has made it
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Mashable!
http://mashable.com/2009/08/28/sergey-brin-donation-creative-commons/
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Creative Commons is honored to have received an incredibly generous gift of $500,000 from 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki and Google co-founder Sergey Brin. We are delighted that the couple recognizes the importance of Creative Commons and has decided
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Creative Commons Blog
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17209
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...personal computers for the past two decades. Google's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, and its co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have made little attempt to conceal their disdain for Windows in recent years. Schmidt maintains Microsoft sometimes unfairly...
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New York Newsday
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/ny-bzgoog0709,0,4576079.story?track=rss
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...the seriousness that the settlement implies for publishers, for libraries, for readers." According to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the settlement is nothing but a good thing for publishers, libraries, and readers - not to mention all of humanity. But Brin...
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The Register
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/03/doj_confirms_google_book_probe/
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In 1996, computer scientist, technology innovator and IT entrepreneur Larry Page co-founded Google with Sergey Brin while they were working on their PhD dissertations at Stanford University. Google was incorporated as a private company two years later,
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AskMen.com
http://www.askmen.com/celebs/men/business_politics/larry-page/index.html
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It seems today I am into two opposite motions for the same cause, Google. Just a while ago, we talked about how Google has become weary of Bing, but now, an interview of Sergey Brin to Jemima Kiss of Guardian is something that I should share with you
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Simple Thoughts
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sergey-brin-talks-about-google-philosophy-waves-birth-and-innovations/
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Stepping up … Sergey Brin says Google frees up staff who show an instinct for successful innovation. Photograph: Paul Sakuma/AP
It was Rupert Murdoch who summed up success in the digital age when he said: "Big will not beat small any more - it will be
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jun/17/google-sergey-brin
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Your nonstory of the day has got to be rumors that Google (GOOG) cofounder Sergey Brin is panicking at the thought of Microsoft's (MSFT) Bing overtaking his search engine. The story first got going in the pages of the New York Post, which claimed that
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The Big Money
http://www.thebigmoney.com/blogs/feeling-lucky/2009/06/16/sergey-brins-panicking-unless-hes-not
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...notion that Newscorp. owner Rupert Murdoch's wife is browbeating him into hanging out with hip young kids like Larry and Sergey, and Brin used his new buddy to insert a story that showed Google as something other than an 800-pound gorilla. "When you're perceived...
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The Big Money
http://www.thebigmoney.com/blogs/feeling-lucky/2009/06/16/sergey-brins-panicking-unless-hes-not
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Nothing to see here, move along...
And Seinfeld falls into this statement where exactly?
The word "best" does not mean "good", in this context it means "everything else [Microsoft does] is even worse"
Microsoft does marketing better than everything
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Slashdot
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Rajeev Motwani, a Stanford computer science professor and an investor in technology start-ups who mentored many young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, including the founders of Google, died on Friday at his home in Atherton, Calif. He was 47.
The cause
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The New York Times
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=37b6257ebbefd5000d44160b6172dd3c
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...by drona via Flickr We know the faces of modern technology: Bill Gates. Steve Jobs. Sergey Brin and Larry Page. We don’t often know the faces behind them, the people who advise and guide and push. Stanford Professor and savvy angel investor Rajeev Motwani...
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True/Slant
http://trueslant.com/andreaitis/2009/06/06/google-founder-remembers-his-teacher/?nucrss=1
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Yep, when Larry Page and Sergey Brin begun work on their search engine, it wasn’t originally called Google. They went with the rather obscure Backrub, only changing it a year into development and yes, the hand in the logo was Larry Page’s,
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The Next Web
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/71Jb9EEZSP0/
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The size of the web isn't the problem for search, Google co-founder Sergey Brin claimed at the Google IO conference this week. Instead, the problem is the kind of questions search users want answered.
Brin says adding intelligence to search is the way
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Tech.co.uk
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/sergey-brin-search-is-going-to-get-smarter--603673?src=rss&attr=newsall
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...size of the web isn't the problem for search, Google co-founder Sergey Brin claimed at the Google IO conference this week. Instead, the problem is the kind of questions search users want answered. Brin says adding intelligence to search is the way to solve...
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Tech.co.uk
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/sergey-brin-search-is-going-to-get-smarter--603673?src=rss&attr=newsall
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The co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin, has expressed confidence
that newspapers will find a way out of their current predicament -
one that is being partly blamed on online aggregators such as
Google.
Answering a question at the Google I/O developers'
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The Age
http://theage.com.au/news/technology/biztech/google-cofounder-offers-advice-to-print-publishers/2009/05/28/1243456666001.html
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin was cornered with a hot-topic question at the tail end of a press conference at the Google I/O Developer’s Conference. A “mainstream media” reporter from Australia wanted to know his thoughts on the fate of newspapers,
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ZDNet
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ZDNetBlogs/~3/HP8OnOSn_qM/
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin covered many points in his founders letter, posted on the official Google blog, including Search and the future of Google Apps. Despite the global economic recession, Brin is optimistic about Googles ability to innovate
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eWeek
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http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~r/RSS/eweek_retail/~3/s415sz2nK1E/
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Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Mr Schmidt stuck with their usual one-dollar
annual paychecks despite tough economic times that have eroded billions of
dollars in value from their Google stock holdings.
"Eric, Larry and Sergey have voluntarily elected to
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/google/5047238/Google-executives-paid-1-each-in-2008.html
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A defender of consistency in design, Marissa Mayer stands guard over the look and feel of Googles search engine.
An impromptu meeting in 2002 in Googles offices brought Ms. Mayer together with Eric Schmidt, Googles chief, left, and the companys
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Daring Fireball
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/business/01marissa.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
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In 2001, just a few years after Sergey Brin and Larry Page formed Google out of a garage, company brass adopted the phrase "Don't Be Evil" as a corporate motto and philosophy. And why not? Their search product revolutionized the Internet and their ad
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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/13/is-google-evil-a-burning-_n_174614.html
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...co-founder Sergey Brin, who carries a gene mutation that predisposes him to Parkinson’s disease, is contributing his DNA and millions of dollars to research into the condition’s genetic basis. The study will be conducted by 23andMe, the website co-founded...
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Muckety.com
http://news.muckety.com/2009/03/13/sergey-brin-donates-dna-dollars-to-parkinsons-study/13021
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