She's a concerned mother.
When Kathy and her husband William relocated from New Jersey with their daughter Meaghan, 6, they purchased a townhome in Streamwood.
When they outgrew that space, they faced a big decision.
"We knew we'd be in our next home for a long time, and for my daughter's sake, I wanted to be certain we settled in an area served by good schools. Since were from out of town, we didn't know much about the various Chicagoland suburbs," Kathy said.
She combed the Internet for information on new home neighborhoods, school reports and other community background.
Her final stage of research even involved interviewing "community watch" groups for feedback on an area. After months of "snooping around," the discerning buyers selected the Summerlin community in Aurora, on Ogden Avenue a few miles west of Route 59.
Comprised of 220 single-family homes, Summerlin is being developed by Cambridge Homes and is highlighted by a 10-acre park site, a biking and jogging path and more than five acres of natural open space.
The community offers eight floor plans, seven of which are modeled and available for touring.
The homes feature 1,525 to 2,782 square feet with three to five bedrooms and two to three baths.
Prices range from $155,490 to $197,490, including basements.
"We were not only impressed with the floor plans, but the fact that children attend Aurora/Oswego District 308, a highly rated school district," said Kathy.
"Having also looked at other Cambridge communities, we noticed a big difference in the quality.
Cambridge includes lots of extras as standard in their homes."
The Deatricks selected the Balsam design, base priced from $163,990. The home features three large bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, a kitchen with breakfast area and pantry; dining room; master bedroom with private bath and walk-in closet; basement, and two-car garage.
The couple chose several upgrades, including ceramic flooring and upgraded kitchen and bath cabinetry.
They also chose 9-foot ceilings in the basement.
"We plan to finish the downstairs to create additional living space and an extra bathroom.
With most of our family living on the East Coast, we get a lot of visitors," said Kathy.
They also opted to extend the family room, creating a expansive room spanning 17-by-27 1/3 feet that includes a stone fireplace and upgraded carpeting.
"This was the focal point of the home for us, so we were very particular," said Kathy.
"We spent a lot of time with the Cambridge team reviewing and redrafting the plans, and they were very patient with us."
Now "retired" from her stint as a private investigator of new homes, Kathy and her family are enjoying their new home and surroundings.
"We've got great neighbors and I'm very pleased with the school and the area amenities.
My research really paid off," she said.
Summerlin is in a prime location of Aurora, just a few miles west of the Fox Valley Center mall, and approximately five miles northeast of Oswego. The Fox Valley mall features more than 180 retailers under one roof.
A variety of recreational activities can be enjoyed along the Fox River, which runs through Oswego and offers hiking, biking and fishing.
The park district offers residents several facilities including picnic areas, ball fields and lakes.
The town of Naperville is near by, featuring a variety of amenities highlighted by downtown Riverwalk.
Located on Ogden Avenue 4 1/2 miles west of Route 59, Summerlin offers access to the East-West Tollway (Interstate 88) and the nearby Metra commuter train in Aurora.
To visit Summerlin, take I-88 west to Route 59 south to Route 34 (Ogden Avenue) west to the community.
The sales and model centers are on the southwest corner of Ogden and Hafenrichter Road. Call (630) 851-2800.
William and Kathy Deatrick, and daughter Meaghan, 6, are enjoying their new home in the Summerlin community of Aurora.
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Q. How can I find out more about "Harry Potter" books and collectibles? _Sherlyn Malloy, Stockton, Calif.
A. Nothing is hotter than "Harry Potter" books, items and objects. A terrific new book with color pictures, descriptions, history, and prices (and upcoming items) is "Harry Potter Collectibles, 2000-01 Collectors Value Guide" (LW Books /(765) 674-6450) available for $12.95 postpaid from Ace Enterprises, P.O. Box 59354, Chicago, Ill. 60659. No doubt, once out of print, the book too will become a collectible.
Q. Where can I possibly get a copy of the old song "Deck of Cards" recorded by Tex Ritter that I'm told brings tears to one's eyes? _Lillian Shannon, Lima, Ohio
A. This stirring, and soulful World War II song about a soldier who used a deck of cards for his Bible, was recorded first by Ritter and later by Phil Harris. Both recordings, transferred from the original records, are available as a pair on a cassette for $9 postpaid from George Silha (to whom checks should be made payable) c/o The House Of Music, 2057 W. 95th St., Chicago, Ill. 60643-1129. Silha also offers a "Giants of Jazz Sampler" (CD for $11 postpaid or cassette for $13.50 postpaid) and "Sophie Tucker's All-Time Memorable Hits" (CD for $27.50 postpaid or cassette for $17.50 postpaid) as well as "Comedy's Greatest Hits" ( CD for $22 postpaid or cassette for $15 postpaid). Silha locates hard-to-find records, tapes, videos, and CD's, and offers rare Downbeat music magazines from the 40's, 50's and 60's. Send your request with a self-addressed stamped envelope or phone Silha at (773) 239-4114 for information.
Incidentally, readers who want a free copy of Woody Guthrie's 1954 "Put Your Finger in the Air" with words, music, and finger instructions can send a long self-addressed stamped envelope to me at P.O. Box 597401, Chicago, Ill. 60659.
Q. I have more than 100 eight-track tapes I'd like to dispose of. Can you put me in touch with anyone who would want them, or should I throw them out? _Benny Davis, Green Bay, Wis.
A. Anyone with eight-track tapes should send a list of the titles and artists, and whether they've been played, to Steve Tkacs, 107 Paprika Place, Kissimmee, Fla. 34758; enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope for a reply or offer.
Tkacs (pronounced "tacks") accepts used eight-track tapes (in playable condition) to give to owners of cars with eight-track tape players in exchange for recent movies on videotape. He will buy eight-tracks sealed in their original packaging.
Q. Our neighbor moved, leaving behind an antique dresser that's moldy and warped with an awful odor inside the drawers. How can I restore the piece? _Sally Donovan, Wilkes Barre, Pa.
A. To make the dresser beautiful again, and get rid of its smell, mold, warps _ and insect infestation if any _ use Conrad's Furniture and Youth Wood Food Oil, available in a 16-ounce bottle for $17.50 postpaid, two 16-ounce bottles for $30, a half-gallon for $40 or one gallon for $75 from Kurt Conrad (to whom checks should be made payable), 2579 S. Commerce Road, Walled Lake, Mich. 48390-2133; phone 248-668-9577; or e-mail (include the word OIL to have your e-mail read) at kc2579(AT)aol.com.
Q. I have a small white plastic radio dating from 1938 with a figure of Charlie McCarthy sitting on the front, made by Majestic. How can I find out its value, and where can I find a buyer? _Joseph Holloway, Lima, Ohio
A. Write old radio collector and buyer Barry Janov, 2454 Dempster St., Suite 416, Des Plaines, Ill. 60016. Enclose a photo or description of the radio, stating its condition and any wording or numbers it has, and a self-addressed stamped envelope for a free evaluation or generous offer. Janov is especially interested in comic character radios, as well colorful plastic examples, peach or blue mirror types, or any unusual wood models (working or not) for which he pays quick cash.
Q. I have a big collection of match covers, as well as a big collection of business cards I'd like to sell. I tried writing people on the Internet but got no reply. Can you help? _Sandy Thurbon, Montclair, Calif.
A. To check out or sell match covers write Bill Retskin, P.O. Box 18481, Asheville, N.C. 28814-0481. Phone 828-254-4487. Fax: 828-254-1066. E-mail: bill(AT)matchcovers.com Web: http://www.matchcovers.com.
To check out or sell business cards, write business card maven Avery Pitzak, P.O. Box 460297-BC, Dept. No. 838, Aurora, Colo. 80046-0297. E-mail: bettycrow(AT)worldnet.att.net Web: http://www.geocities.com/
When writing enclose a description or copies of the covers or cards, stating their condition, and include a self-addressed stamped envelope for each of the above to receive a reply.
NOTE: Ted Hake's Nov. 14, 15, and 16 Mail/Phone/Internet/Bidding Auction Catalogue No. 161 offering 3254 sought after collectibles with their photos, descriptions and estimated values, is available for $7.50 postpaid from Hake's Americana & Collectibles, P.O. Box 1444, York, Pa. 17405-1444. Or phone Hake at 717-848-1333 for details. Or visit: www.hakes.com to see all items in color and search by key words, to place internet bids on and be in for a thrill.
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M2 PRESSWIRE-8 February 1999-GM: Delphi Automotive Systems Corporation IPO priced at $17 per share (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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NEW YORK -- Delphi Automotive Systems Corp. (NYSE: DPH) today announced that its initial public offering of 100 million shares of common stock was priced at $17 per share.
The company, with 1998 annual sales of $28.4 billion, would rank among the U.S. top 30 on Fortune's 500 list, and is the world's largest, most diversified automotive products and technology supplier.
While General Motors continues to hold over 80% of Delphi's outstanding common stock, GM has said it intends to distribute the remaining shares to GM shareholders later this year in either a split-off or spin-off, or some combination of both.
Delphi Automotive Systems (NYSE: DPH), with headquarters in Troy, Mich., USA, has more than 200,000 employees and operates 169 wholly owned manufacturing sites, some 40 joint ventures and 27 technical centers in 36 countries. Regional headquarters are located in Paris, Tokyo and Sao Paulo.
Delphi can be found on the Internet at www.delphiauto.com.
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M2 PRESSWIRE-July 19, 2011-BUYINS.NET: IEX, EGHT, MO, CLB, SABA, TRST Expected To Be Up After Next Earnings Releases(C)1994-2011 M2 COMMUNICATIONS
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EGHT 8X8 INC 6 Quarter Q1 After
MO ALTRIA GROUP INC 6 Quarter Q2 Before
CLB CORE LABORATORIES N.V. July Earnings Q2 After
SABA SABA SOFTWARE INC 6 Quarter Q4 After
TRST TRUSTCO BANK CORPORATION NY July Earnings Q2 Before
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IDEX CORP (NYSE:IEX) - IDEX Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of an array of pumps, flow meters, other fluidics systems and components, and engineered products worldwide. Its Fluid & Metering Technologies segment designs, produces, and distributes displacement pumps and flow meters, injectors, and other fluid-handling pump modules and systems; and provides flow monitoring and other services for water and wastewater. This segment serves various markets, including industrial infrastructure, chemical processing, agricultural, food and beverage, pulp and paper, transportation, plastics and resins, electronics and electrical, construction and mining, pharmaceutical and bio-pharmaceutical, and machinery. The companys Health & Science Technologies segment designs, produces, and distributes a range of precision fluidics solutions required in analytical instrumentation, clinical diagnostics and drug discovery, performance molded and extruded, biocompatible medical devices and implantables, air compressors, and precision gear and peristaltic pump technologies. Its Dispensing Equipment segment produces precision equipment for dispensing, metering, and mixing colorants, paints, hair colorants, and other personal care products. This segments products are used in retail and commercial stores, hardware stores, home centers, department stores, automotive body shops, and point-of-purchase dispensers, as well as personal care, health, and beauty industry. The companys Fire & Safety/Diversified Products segment offers firefighting pumps and controls, rescue tools, lifting bags, and other components and systems for the fire and rescue industry; and engineered stainless steel banding and clamping devices used in various industrial and commercial applications. IDEX Corporation was founded in 1987 and is based in Lake Forest, Illinois.
8X8 INC (NASDAQ:EGHT) - 8x8, Inc. develops and markets telecommunications services for Internet protocol (IP), telephony, and video applications, as well as provides Web-based conferencing and unified communications services. The company offers the 8x8 VoIP voice and video digital phone service, 8x8 Virtual Office hosted private branch exchange (PBX) service, 8x8 Complete Contact Center service, 8x8 Trunking service, 8x8 Hosted Key System service, 8x8 MobileTalk service, 8x8 Virtual Meeting Web conferencing service, and the 8x8 Virtual Office Pro unified communications solution. The 8x8 Virtual Office suite of business phone services offers high definition audio-enhanced communications services that eliminate the need for traditional telecommunications services and business phone systems. The 8x8 Virtual Office solution replaces an on-premise PBX telephone system with a hosted, Internet-based business phone service that is delivered over a managed or unmanaged Internet connection. The company also sells pre-programmed IP telephones with speakerphones and a display screen in conjunction with its Virtual Office service plans, which enable its business customers to access additional Virtual Office features through on-screen phone menus. Its 8x8 Virtual Office Pro unified communications solution bundles the 8x8 Virtual Office hosted PBX phone service with other businesses software communications services, such as Web conferencing, call recording and archiving, Internet fax, chat, voicemail, presence management, and a mobile iPhone/iPad extension. 8x8, Inc. also offers 8x8 Managed Hosting and Cloud-Based Computing solutions to business customers through its subsidiary, Central Host, Inc. The company markets its services under the 8x8 brand in the United States and internationally. As of March 31, 2010, it had approximately 20,000 business customers who use its services as their primary business telephone system. 8x8, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
ALTRIA GROUP INC (NYSE:MO) - Altria Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes, wine, and other tobacco products in the United States and internationally. It primarily offers cigarettes under the Marlboro, Virginia Slims, and Parliament brands; smokeless tobacco products under the Copenhagen, Skoal, Red Seal, and Husky brands, as well as Marlboro snus; and machine-made large cigars and pipe tobacco. The company also maintains a portfolio of leveraged and direct finance leases principally in transportation, including aircraft, as well as power generation and manufacturing equipment, and facilities. It serves wholesalers, including distributors; large retail organizations, such as chain stores; and the armed services. The company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.
CORE LABORATORIES N.V. (NYSE:CLB) - Core Laboratories N.V. provides reservoir description, production enhancement, and reservoir management products and services to the oil and gas industry worldwide. The company engages in determining quality and measuring quantity of the fluids, such as crude oil, natural gas, water, and their derived products for the characterization of petroleum reservoir rocks, fluid, and gas samples. It also analyzes samples of reservoir rocks for their porosity that determines reservoir storage capacity, and for their permeability, which defines the ability of the fluids to flow through the rock. In addition, the company provides products and services relating to reservoir well completions, perforations, stimulations, and production; and integrated services to evaluate the effectiveness of well completions and to develop solutions to improve the effectiveness of enhanced oil recovery projects. Further, it combines and integrates information from reservoir description and production enhancement services for the production and recovery of oil and gas from clients' reservoirs. The company markets and sells its services through print advertising, technical seminars, trade shows, and sales representatives, as well as through direct sales force, technical experts, operating managers, and distributors in various markets. Core Laboratories N.V. was founded in 1936 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
SABA SOFTWARE INC (NASDAQ:SABA) - Saba Software, Inc. provides a class of people systems that combine people learning, people performance, and people collaboration solutions. People-driven enterprises use the companys solutions to mobilize and engage people around new strategies and initiatives, as well as cultivate, capture, and share individual and collective knowhow. Saba's principal customer base includes organizations in financial services, life sciences and healthcare, high tech, automotive and manufacturing, retail, energy and utilities, and packaged goods sectors, as well as public sector organizations. Its solutions are available in the cloud and on-premise. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California.
TRUSTCO BANK CORPORATION NY (NASDAQ:TRST) - TrustCo Bank Corp NY operates as the holding company for Trustco Bank that provides various banking products and services to individuals, partnerships, and corporations. The company accepts deposits and originates loans and investments. It also provides asset and wealth management services, estate planning and related advice, and custodial services, as well as serves as executor of estates and trustee of personal trusts; and acts as trustee for various types of employee benefit plans, and corporate pension and profit sharing trusts. In addition, the company owns and operates a real estate investment trust, which acquires, holds, and manages real estate mortgage assets, including, residential mortgage loans and mortgage-backed securities. As of February 1, 2010, it operated 132 banking offices in 28 counties in New York, Florida, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Jersey. The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Glenville, New York.
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Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "The Couples Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, 2nd Edition" to its offerings.
In a release, Research and Markets noted that report highlights include:
The Couples Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Second Edition provides all the elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the demands of HMOs, managed care companies, third-party payors, and state and federal agencies.
-New edition features empirically supported, evidence-based treatment interventions
-New chapters on Internet sexual use, retirement, and parenthood strain
-Organized around 35 behaviorally based presenting problems including jealousy, midlife crisis, parenting conflicts, and sexual dysfunction
-Over 1,000 prewritten treatment goals, objectives, and interventionsplus space to record your own treatment plan options
-Easy-to-use reference format helps locate treatment plan components by behavioral problem
-Designed to correspond with The Couples Psychotherapy Progress Notes Planner, Second Edition and Couples Therapy Homework Planner, Second Edition
-Includes a sample treatment plan that conforms to the requirements of most third-party payors and accrediting agencies including CARF, The Joint Commission (TJC), COA, and the NCQA
Author:
ARTHUR E. JONGSMA, Jr., PhD, is the Series Editor for the bestselling PracticePlanners. Since 1971, he has provided professional mental health services to both inpatient and outpatient clients. He was the founder and director of Psychological Consultants, a group private practice in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for twenty-five years. He is the author or coauthor of over forty books and conducts training workshops for mental health professionals around the world.
K. DANIEL O'LEARY, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. His current research focuses on physical and psychological aggression in intimate relations and factors in marriage that lead to clinical depression.
RICHARD E. HEYMAN, PhD, is a Research Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. Dr. Heyman's research program focuses on the development and maintenance of family problems.
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http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/72d5a0/the_couples_psycho.
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MUSCAT: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are working to set up an electronic Internet-based service, or an "electronic gate" that would link traffic data across the six member countries, a source at the Royal Oman Police (ROP) confirmed yesterday to Times of Oman.
At a recent conference of the directors of traffic departments of the GCC countries, Oman had suggested introducing a "unified form" for driving licences containing sufficient background and security information to minimise fraud.
The conference, held in Abu Dhabi, aimed at addressing the common challenges, policies and procedures related to traffic issues in the GCC countries. "A working team will be constituted soon to work on the electronic gate linking the traffic systems of the GCC countries," the ROP source said, while adding that two working sessions had already been conducted to approve the proposal submitted by the UAE, for setting up of the electronic web service.
"The proposal submitted by Oman has been discussed. It (proposal) emphasises on a unified driving licence system that contains sufficient background and security information to help minimise fraud. The ROP will prepare a uniform guideline on traffic violations that are common with the GCC countries. The proposal will be submitted at the next meeting of the directors of traffic departments from GCC countries," the source said.
Fines and e-gate
It may be noted that a major chunk of the traffic exchange data among GCC countries pertains to fines and the e-gate, once it comes into force, would make it a lot easier for GCC residents to not only check online, but pay the traffic fines committed in other countries.
The ROP source said an awareness drive would soon be launched in the GCC countries in preparation for consultation and approval of the recommendations.
The Abu Dhabi meeting also agreed to continue hosting traffic safety weeks in their countries as it helps raise awareness among drivers on the need to abide by the rules, especially in the context of the move to create a common system in the GCC.
The meeting also agreed to hold GCC Traffic Week at the same time, beginning on March 11, 2012 under the slogan: 'Let's work together to reduce traffic accidents'. They agreed to continue working on the same slogan for the years 2012 and 2013, and raise a consolidated report on the campaigns, events and awareness-enhancing activities.
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A new approach to evaluating research papers exploits social bookmarking tools to extract relevance. Details are reported in the latest issue of the International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions.
Social bookmarking systems are almost indispensible. Very few of us do not use at least one system whether it's Delicious, Connotea, Trunk.ly, Reddit or any of countless others. For Academics and researchers CiteULike is one of the most popular and has been around since November 2004. CiteUlike [ [http://www.CiteULike.org] ] allows users to bookmark references but also embeds more conventional bibliographic management. As users of such systems quickly learn the only way to make them useful for others is to ensure that you tag your references comprehensively, but selectively.
On the whole, social bookmarking is very useful but it could be even more so if, rather than using similarity ranking or query-dependent ranking for generating search results if it had a better ranking system.
Researchers in Thailand have now proposed "CiteRank", a combination of a similarity ranking with a static ranking. "Similarity ranking measures the match between a query and a research paper index," they explain. "While a static ranking, or a query-independent ranking, measures the quality of a research paper." Siripun Sanguansintukul of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok and colleagues have used a group of factors including number of groups citing the posted paper, year of publication, research paper post date, and priority of a research paper to determine a static ranking score, which is then combined with the query-independent measure to give the CiteRank.
The team tested their new ranking algorithm by asking literature researchers to rate the results it produced in ranking research papers obtained from the search engines based on an index that uses, TTA, tag-title-abstract. The weighted algorithm CiteRank 80:20 in which a combination of similarity ranking 80% and static ranking 20% was most effective. They found that many literature researchers preferred to read more recent paper or just-posted papers but they also rated highly classic papers that emerged in the results if they were posted across different user groups or communities. Users found good papers based on priority rating but TTA was still important.
"CiteRank combines static ranking with similarity ranking to enhance the effectiveness of the ranking order," explains Sanguansintukul. "Similarity ranking measures the similarity of the text (query) with the document. Static ranking employed the factors posted on paper. Four factors used are: year of publication, posted time, priority rating and number of groups that contained the posted paper."
"Improving indexing not only enhances the performance of academic paper searches, but also all document searches in general. Future research in the area consists of extending the personalization; creating user profiling and recommender system on research paper searching." the team says. The experimental factors that emerged from the study, can help in the optimization of the algorithm to adjust rankings and to improve search results still further.
Keywords: Algorithms, Asia, Inderscience Publishers, Mathematics, Technology, Thailand.
This article was prepared by NewsRx Health & Science editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2011, NewsRx Health & Science via VerticalNews.com.
Byline: Rohit Saran, Kushan Mitra and Shankkar Aiyar
Summary: In a freewheeling chat, Nikesh Arora explains what Google really stands for, whether it's feeding on profits of other businesses and why he loves being a Googler.
In a freewheeling chat, Nikesh Arora explains what Google really stands for, whether it's feeding on profits of other businesses and why he loves being a Googler. Excerpts:
GOOGLE AS DISRUPTOR OF CONVENTIONAL BUSINESS
People look at Google as the Tom Sawyer of business. You get to eat the apple when somebody is painting the fence. Your revenue is driven by content that is free. I don't think that is a fair characterisation. Think about this: About four exabytes of data (an exabyte is one billion GB or roughly 40,000 days of video programming) was created prior to 2005. Last year, that number was 270 times that. The point is that a majority of the world's information is coming in digital form. Now, there are people who develop the content, people who create the content, and then there are people who help other people find it.
...That's where Google comes in? Yes. What's a music company? A music company doesn't sing. It finds a talent and makes it accessible around the world. What are broadcasters? They collect other peoples' content and enable people to access it. Are they adding value in the process? Yes, they are. I think the biggest tragedy will be if great content is created but it cannot be found.
Are you conceptually challenging the existing media? Conceptually, the Internet is challenging the media. It is forcing us to rethink traditional media models. That will happen with or without Google in the mix. If we didn't exist tomorrow that won't mean people are not going to post videos online or watch content online. There are other search engines. I don't think the fundamental behaviour of users changes whether Google is in the mix or not.
You can look at us as an accelerator or enabler. So with Google News, we are helping people find news. There are many newspapers who come to us and say "Thank you very much, I find 10-20 per cent of my traffic from Google News . Google doesn't make any money on this. It sends the people back to your website. Google increases the discoverability of your content. You make mental transition from "Oh ****, the world is changing, my business model is challenged to "Wow, my business is benefiting because I can do this much more cheaply and efficiently , you go from "Oh ****! Google is bad to "Google can help me!
After print and music, Internet or somebody may say Google, through YouTube is challenging television now... I don't think the video industry will make the same mistakes as the music industry. It will make new ones. Even today, if you want to release a video globally you need to get permissions from hundreds of different publishing authorities and it is still a quagmire ...
WHAT REALLY IS GOOGLE?
An Internet-service provider. A media company. A software company. What really is Google? In its DNA, Google is a technology company. If you talk to Larry (Page) and Sergey (Brin) or Eric (Schmidt), they're all technologists. They get excited about trying to solve large-scale technology problems around the world. We don't discuss business models or revenue potential ....Google Search is a by-product of Larry and Sergey's vision to organise the world's information. Today, with billions of sites around the world, to be able to give a sub-second response to a query requires a lot of technology, a lot of computing and a lot of computing power. There is audio, there is video, there are structured and unstructured databases. To parse through all that is a hugely complex task.
So, innovation is what really drives Google? Yes. For instance, I don't know when was the last time we had innovation in mapping business. Look at Google Street View, nobody would have actually thought of that. I was travelling with Larry on a plane on a clear day, and looking at the landmass below he was calculating how long it would take a fleet of cars to map every mile of every road in the US perhaps 500 cars in six months or thousand cars in three months? That's how his mind works. That's how Google Street View was born, because Larry thought that it would be cool to not just look at a map but see how cool it would be to look at where you're driving. That's how technological challenges are born. One day he decided that the software on a phone wasn't that efficient and that is how Android was born.
Google is becoming a byword for globalisation. What does that say about the company? The cycle of technology adoption is getting shorter. Radio took may be 100 years to be adopted, television took less than that, but Google took 10 years, YouTube five and Facebook just three. Our ability to adopt a technology is constantly growing. Broadband connectivity has hastened the process now. That's why, I think, Google in some places is synonymous with the Internet. And Internet with globalisation.
For a company which has been in existence for 10 years, has had revenues for 7 years and has really scaled globally only after it became public in early 2005, I think it's a huge testament that one can scale a business to so many countries in the world so fast.
When engineers come to you with a great idea do you ever find yourself saying, hold on, we have to figure out a way to make money on this? Let me try and explain the process at Google. We have a lot of engineers, and Larry and Sergey have this fundamental view that so far works. They believe that we have to spend 70 per cent of our time working on our core search business that is our bread and butter. Twenty per cent of our time is spent on related technological projects and the remaining 10 per cent on whatever one wants to do.
Take Gmail, for instance. This is how it would have been developed. This young guy wants to design an e-mail product. At most companies his proposal would be shot down because there are already so many other email products. At Google, we said OK, here is a bunch of engineers, go pitch your idea to them. I might be dramatising for effect, but you present your idea to a bunch of people in the room and people keep leaving. The last few people in the room might say that this is a great idea and that "I'll work with you .
The guy designs Gmail, and then goes to the IT guy who runs the operations and says that "I would like to use server capacity. The IT guy tells him that "I only have so much capacity, so you have to limit the number of users . That's how Gmail gets launched as "by invitation mail service. As it turned out, "by invitation mail meant not only initially limiting the number of users but also no spam because you got Gmail only from a known member. How Gmail succeeded later we all know.
When do you think of making money from a product? We understand that some of the products may make money, some of the products may not make money and some may make money many, many years later. But an interesting perspective that I have found at Google, something that stimulates me, makes me love what I do, is Larry and Sergey's view that until you get a lot of people excited about a product and get them using it, what is the point of talking about monetisation? Even with search, until we got a lot of people using it we couldn't figure out search advertising. Even then, we said let the people using the ads decide the price. Originally, we started the way TV and print sell ads.
We also have a product launch philosophy: Launch early and launch often. Larry's view is there is no point in putting 600 people into a warehouse and shutting the door and having them coming out three years later with a "great product saying it has got 50,000 features of which probably 49,500 will never be used. He believes in trying different things and then seeing what works. Google is the only Internet business which tries to get the users off our pages as quickly as possible. Every other business talks of engagement, eyeballs, how long you can keep them within your site. We say: Get off our page as quickly as possible and then you will come back.
FREE YET PROFITABLE
Will all Google products always remain free to users? You have to remember that Google's mission is to organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Having started with a commitment to increasing access to information, our consumer offerings have to be almost all free. There are a few products we charge for but in the main they are free.
It's a matter of perspective. For example, should we charge for the Android operating system for phones? Probably not. But guess what? We may get 20 times the number of searches from Android than we do from other phones. And that's going to create more monetisation opportunities for us on search. So, do I really have to charge for Android? No. Sometimes, people lose this perspective.
What challenge does a free-to-customer model pose to you, who has to earn money for the company? That's not how we look at things. We look at what problems we can solve for our users and then figure out the money side of things. If you worry about money first then you are not focussing on what is right for the user. We've also found that the right sort of advertising, which gives users relevant information at the right moment, is actually helpful and generates revenue. So, a product can be both free for the user and generate revenue for Google, which is a model that has worked well for us.
A key attraction of Google for the users was the absence of display ads. Will making YouTube profitable entail Google having to accept display ads? We've already embraced display ads, and not just on YouTube. But it's all about understanding which ads are best suited for a given type of content. On our search results pages, we've found that the keyword-linked text ads provide the best experience for users and advertisers. In other contexts, contextual or interest-based display ads are a great option. We give advertisers and publishers these options and data to make the most of those options.
Google's sources of revenues remain skewed towards the US and Europe. How do you plan to build viable business in the smaller markets like India? Building viable businesses for Google anywhere is dependent on our ability to build great products for consumers and having great relationships with our partners and customers. It's true of India just as it is true of the US. But we, of course, have a big advantage with Google in India we have years of trial and error elsewhere to learn from. I do think India will progress on mobility and the PC, perhaps simultaneously, which requires us to work effectively on both fronts in this market.
BEING A GOOGLER
Google is supposed to change the mindset with which people work. What is the Google culture in your words? We actually predefine the values under which we want to operate. There are some very fundamental principles on the back of which Eric would like to operate. Cool offices and free food, that's not culture, that's a way of creating an environment where people flourish. We want to create an entrepreneurial environment .... We at Google work for the employees, we don't work for the management. Just yesterday, I interviewed a person for a new position, and I am wondering if this person will bring way too many preconceived notions from his past life that may make it harder for him to adapt to the way we think. People tend to define success as something that has worked in the past.
Things like being able to bring kids or pets to office ...are those meant to get employees spend long hours at work or you just want people to be comfortable? The way you're saying it seems to suggest that it is an explicit strategy of some sort. It isn't. These things come from the employees. They ask, "Why am I not allowed to bring my pet to the office? We say: Why not? You are a smart guy, you won't bring your kid or pet to the office every day. So, go ahead. Of course, there have been instances of pets getting lost in the office. In the New York office, an employee lost his pet python, and the Wall Street Journal ran a story with the headline "Google Searching .
GOOGLE, NIKESH & amp; INDIA
How was it for you to transition from a company that first made business plans and then products to a company where products come first and foremost? When I joined about four and a half years ago, we were in nine markets across Europe, and we didn't know how the company was going to scale. It made $3 billion in 2004. I had to sit down and figure out how we were going to scale. There is so much room in search, so much better return on investment relative to direct mail or even some print advertising. I spent 3-4 years working with the teams and getting business around Europe and making that an $8-billion business.
What is your role in Google today? One part of my job is to monetise the existing businesses that we have: search, display and even YouTube. I sort of act part counselor, part executor, part evangelist internally like (I tell people) if you design a product this way it will be easier for us to sell it or if you do it this way it will be easier to get partnerships. For example, YouTube is all about partners, we have 500 partners globally. Another thing we do collectively as a team is look at the various products of the company and see how those can be monetised.
Being an Indian what do you think you can do differently in India? How big is India in Google? India is big strategically, but small in real money terms. I think the opportunity in India is such that we may end up becoming a cloud computing nation, and skip through the idea of having lots of software on your PC, which is how the West has evolved. But I am disappointed in terms of infrastructure. What we have achieved in mobile telephony, I wish we could have achieved in broadband too. Google may be synonymous with the Internet, but it is not Internet. I can make things work once there is broadband connectivity. But I cannot make the broadband connectivity work.
Strategically, it's a fascinating market. Indians are very tech-savvy; they adapt to new things very quickly. It is also a very innovative market; people try to find different ways to get the things done, whether it is right or wrong. There is inbuilt creativity and innovation. In fact, it goes back to a Google principle as well scarcity breeds creativity. Larry and Sergey will never fund a project with extra resources. A project with too many resources will create several redundant things with too many bells and whistles that nobody will ever use. If I give you less (number of) people, you will be very focussed on what needs to be done. India works the same way, scarcity brings clarity and breeds creativity.
In China you are not the dominant Internet player. Are you scared India could be another China for Google? We are never scared. India is a large consumer market, it's democratic and where consumer choice is respected. Google is happy to operate in markets where the consumer is in charge. We want to build great products and we want people to love those products. If people tell us ours is a bad product, I don't have a problem in reworking my product. We need competition. That's what creates evolution. Google Search was not the first search engine in the world. Google Maps wasn't. As Larry says, we will shut down products if there isn't anything innovative or exciting about them.
Do you ever wish Twitter should have come out of Google? Of course. We had Google Video, but we decided to acquire YouTube when it had become a huge phenomenon. There's something about two guys in a garage (that's where YouTube and so many Silicon Valley companies were born). Who is to know if two people in a garage are building something somewhere that will challenge us.
Does Nikesh bring extra India input into Google? There is always a subconscious material that comes to any conversation based on people undertaking it. It is not explicit, though. I am in India three times a year and I'm on the board of Bharti. There is a different level of understanding, a different perception. There is always an unintended positive consequence which will happen. I think the management team in Google is cosmopolitan enough and not fixated on short-term goals.
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