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Google 's Country Experiences : France, Germany, Japan

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Makala Young, Andrea Hollis, Devona van Norden September 30, 2014 Comprehensive Case 1 Google’s Country Experiences: France, Germany, Japan A search engine is designed to help people find information stored on the World Wide Web. There are differences in the way various search engines work, but they all perform the same basic functions. They search the internet-or selected pieces of the internet based on certain keywords. A search engine analyzes the contents of each page to determine how it should be indexed. The search engine keeps an index of the words they find and where they find them and allows users to look for words or a combination of words found in that index. Google’s search engine became the world’s largest search engine …show more content…

Its business model of AdWords allowed companies to purchase keywords for advertising purposes. Advertisers paid on a Cost-Per-Click basis-only when a user clicked on one of its ads. An internet user searching on that keyword would get organic (unsponsored) results as well as the advertisements (sponsored links). In 2002, Google released its AdSense service that distributed relevant ads from advertisers, for display with search results on the Google Network members’ sites, which are a large group of websites and other products such as e-mail programs and blogs, who had partnered with Google to display AdWords ads. Apart from search, Google expanded its portfolio by introducing an array of new software and added services. It sought ways to import offline media, such as books and television shows, into its search engine. Through 2001 to 2007 the company made about 44 acquisitions, including the video sharing service YouTube. Google continues to expand in emerging economies specifically in the Asia-Pacific. Google’s strategy was to expand its reach into new international markets. In 2000, Google’s new search index that included a large collection of international websites was released, which acknowledged Google’s plan to expand into new international markets. Google’s revenue was increasing more because of its international income. Because of Google’s rapid rise and its dominance, there were concerns in several

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