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Secrets of success from Google co-founder
January 5, 2009
If you have a product that's really gaining a lot of usage, then it's probably a good idea.
When you grow, you continually have to invent new processes. We've done a pretty good job keeping up, but it's an ongoing challenge.
We built a business on the opposite message. We want you to come to Google and quickly find what you want. Then we're happy to send you to the other sites. In fact, that's the point. The portal strategy tries to own all of the information.
Pretty early on, I saw a newspaper story about Googling dates. People were checking out who they were dating by Googling them. I think it's a tremendous responsibility. If you think everybody is relying on us for information, you understand the responsibility. That's mostly what I feel. You have to take that very seriously.
Part of our brand is that we're pretty understated in what we do. If you look at other technology companies, they might preannounce things, and it will be a couple years before they really happen, and they don't happen in the way they said they would.
Image: Larry Page is joined by former NBA star Kenny Smith during the former's keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. | Photograph: REUTERS/Steve Marcus
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