A Google é a empresa do novo milénio. Sem qualquer dúvida representa uma nova era e por isso gosto muito de ler sobre a sua filosofia, sobre as suas pequenas (grandes), estórias.
Aqui no Webware, está um pequeno artigo escrito na numa conferência organizada pela Google. Fala um pouco da história da página da Google. Um pequeno excerto:
Mayer said that back when Google was a relatively unknown 80-person start-up, the company tested Stanford students on how well they could use Google to find which country won the most gold medals in the 1994 Olympics. The result: students would sit in front of the Google screen for 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 45 seconds, a minute…Google was perplexed.
So Mayer would eventually intervene and ask what was holding up the searchers. “I’m waiting for the rest of it,” they’d say. Clearly they expected more of the flashy ads and busy text of other search pages of the 1990s.
“The very first home page was that misunderstood. People didn’t resonate with it,” Mayer said. One woman even thought the Web site was a fake construction that was part of a psychology experiment.
As a result, the company put a copyright notice at the bottom of the page. “It’s not there for legal reasons,” Mayer said. “It’s there as punctuation. That’s it. (It tells the searcher) ‘Nothing else is coming; please start searching now.’”
O artigo completo aqui.