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Founders Letter

[WHAT]

1. ] Annual letter from google founder, Larry Page answering the question of what is google today

[WHY]

1. [on SEARCH]
2. ] The activity on Google Search is astounding.  There are over 100 billion searches a month (a whopping 15 percent of which we’ve never seen before), and we now update our index within seconds to ensure we show the freshest results. 
3. ] we’re increasingly able to provide direct answers to your questions.  For example, “what’s the deepest lake in the world?” (It’s Lake Baikal in Siberia at 1,741 meters) or, “when does my flight leave?” or, “how many calories in a pancake?”  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.  Speaking is often the quickest, easiest way to ask, especially if you’re using a mobile device.
4. ] Yet, in many ways, we’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.
5. [on GOOGLE's TEAM]
6. ] It's amazing what you can achieve with a small dedicated team when you start from first principles and aren’t encumbered by the established way of doing things. It’s why we’ve put so much energy into hiring independent thinkers at Google, and setting big goals.  Because if you hire the right people and have bold enough dreams, you’ll usually get there.
7. [on FUTURE]
8. ] In healthcare we have Calico—a new company led by the former CEO of Genentech, Art Levinson, that’s focused on health, wellbeing and longevity—and Iris, a smart contact lens designed to transform the lives of people with diabetes.  
9. ] We also recently acquired Nest, a company that’s taken unloved household products like thermostats and made them much more useful. 
10. ] And we’re excited about our new Google Shopping Express service, which is a  great way to get deliveries the same day you order them, and self-driving cars (no explanation needed!). 
11. These seem like pretty crazy ideas today, but if the past is any indicator of our future success, today’s big bets won’t seem so wild in a few years’ time.

[WHERE]

1. ] http://investor.google.com/corporate/2013/founders-letter.html

[WHEN]

1. ] 2014-05-15

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NAME: 2013-founders-letters

DESCRIPTION: By Larry Page @ google investor relations - Annual letter, 2013 answers the question what is google today

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