Internet+Success+Stories

__Internet Success Stories__ This page is dedicated to those who have made fortunes on the internet.

Google has become a well known service all around the world. It has totally revolutionized internet research and will continue to do so with its remarkable search engine. It's amazingly beneficial to those who would like to research, do business, buying and selling, and even more. It now has more than 20 thousand full-time employees. It was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergy Brin while going to Stanford. In August of 2004 it was worth 23$ billion. It is considered by Fortune Magazine as the #1 place to work. Some criticisms of Google include that there is a certain availability of personal information available, copyright issues, and censorship.

It was born in January 1996 and it was a revolutionary idea for a search engine because it produced results based on how many "backlinks" there were to the page. Old search engines only brought up web pages that had the specified content. A backlink is a link on another website that goes to the webpage. The company exploded after an initial investment of $1.1 million. People liked its simple design and useful results. It generated revenue by using keywords that brought up advertisements. Their company started in a garage and since then moved to the Googleplex in Silicon Valley.

Here's a picture of the Googleplex:

Jimmy Donal is known as the creator of Wikipedia which is a free, open-content encyclopedia. He was born in Huntsville, Alabama and his former profession was a futures and options trader and an aficionado of objectivist philosophy. In 2006, Wales was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People issue, for having brought wikies to the masses. Wales worked as a research director for Chicago Options Associates before becoming a co-founder (with Tim Shell) of the successful website Bomis.com in 1996. Wales used profits from Bomis.com to start an online encyclopedia, Nupedia, which led in 2001 to the creation of Wikipedia -- a free online encyclopedia which allowed anyone to create new entries or edit existing entries.