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<h1 style="text-align: center;">Founders Letter</h1>
<h2>[WHAT]</h2>
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<li>] Annual letter from google founder, Larry Page answering the question of what is google today</li>
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<h2>[WHY]</h2>
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<li><strong>[on SEARCH]</strong></li>
<li>] The activity on Google Search is astounding. &nbsp;There are over 100 billion searches a month (a whopping 15 percent of which we&rsquo;ve never seen before), and we now update our index within seconds to ensure we show the freshest results.&nbsp; </li>
<li>] we&rsquo;re increasingly able to provide direct answers to your questions. &nbsp;For example, &ldquo;what&rsquo;s the deepest lake in the world?&rdquo; (It&rsquo;s Lake Baikal in Siberia at 1,741 meters) or, &ldquo;when does my flight leave?&rdquo; or, &ldquo;how many calories in a <a href="https://plus.google.com/+LarryPage/posts/femx4iQhX6Z" target="_blank">pancake</a>?&rdquo; &nbsp;And, I am excited by the progress we have made with Voice Search, which now works in over 38 languages, including, most recently, Thai and Vietnamese. &nbsp;Speaking is often the quickest, easiest way to ask, especially if you&rsquo;re using a mobile device.</li>
<li>] <span style="background-color: #ffff00;">Yet, in many ways, we&rsquo;re a million miles away from creating the search engine of my dreams, one that gets you just the right information at the exact moment you need it with almost no effort.</span></li>
<li><strong>[on GOOGLE's TEAM] </strong></li>
<li>] It's amazing what you can achieve with a small dedicated team when you start from first principles and aren&rsquo;t encumbered by the established way of doing things. It&rsquo;s why we&rsquo;ve put so much energy into hiring independent thinkers at Google, and setting big goals. &nbsp;Because if you hire the right people and have bold enough dreams, you&rsquo;ll usually get there.</li>
<li><strong>[on FUTURE]</strong></li>
<li>] In healthcare we have Calico&mdash;a new company led by the former CEO of Genentech, Art Levinson, that&rsquo;s focused on health, wellbeing and longevity&mdash;and Iris, a smart contact lens designed to transform the lives of people with diabetes. &nbsp; </li>
<li>] We also recently acquired Nest, a company that&rsquo;s taken unloved household products like thermostats and made them much more useful.&nbsp; </li>
<li>] And we&rsquo;re excited about our new Google Shopping Express service, which is a &nbsp;great way to get deliveries the same day you order them, and self-driving cars (no explanation needed!).&nbsp; </li>
<li>These seem like pretty crazy ideas today, but if the past is any indicator of our future success, today&rsquo;s big bets won&rsquo;t seem so wild in a few years&rsquo; time.</li>
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<h2>[WHERE]</h2>
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<li>] <a href="http://investor.google.com/corporate/2013/founders-letter.html" target="_blank">http://investor.google.com/corporate/2013/founders-letter.html</a></li>
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<h2>[WHEN]</h2>
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<li>] 2014-05-15</li>
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<h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2>
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<h2>[HOW-TO]</h2>
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<h2>[REFERENCE]</h2>
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