Search and rescue

A few years ago, Google launched Project Oxygen, a research and comprehensive program to compare and contrast key management behaviours and cultivates them through communication and training. It identified desirable management traits which it offered to its employees. It became so popular that employees later adopted it hence significant improvements in multiple areas of managerial effectiveness and performance. After the review, Project Oxygen identified eight behaviours followed by…

Stanford University, California. Google today is a multinational technology company with its headquarters in Mountain View, California. It operates in areas of Internet-related products and services that incorporate web based advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. A large portion of its income are derived from AdWords, a web based advertising service. Nexus Program The Nexus program was Google's way for offering a "stock" or pure form of Android to…

Discussion Points 1. Do some Internet research on Chevron’s use of seismic imaging technology? Briefly explain how it works and how it has helped Chevron discover new oil and gas reservoirs. Seismic waves are used to study earthquakes. Seismic imaging technology is widely used to explore underground oil and gas reservoirs by sending sound waves by ultrasensitive device, geophones which detect the appropriate location of oil and gas. This technology is successful in tapping the locations for oil…

Google the Almighty Google through the years and growth of the internet has become a multi-billion dollar organization that has captured the essence of convenient searching. It has grown into a household name and can be used by anyone with basic computer knowledge. In its commercial called “Grads”, it shows the life of the average high schooler and his or her journey through it. The commercial shows the ups and downs, the exciting moments, and the tough moments when it seems like…

In their case it comes from advertisement, not from the search service itself. Other vehicles like newspapers, radio and television have used this business model, but the Internet has changed the advertisement industry and in benefit of comfort and business has been betraying privacy and private property. Google…

In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” which appeared as a cover article of the Atlantic in 2008, Nicholas Carr argues that the use of google and the web is making humans stupid. Carr talks about the fact that his concentration has drifted easily, and his reading skills have become a struggle due to the time he spends online. However, Carr agrees that the web does have the advantage of immediate access to information…“what the net seems to being doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and…

dependent on the search engine for the information. We now lack to will and desire to truly retain information since it is so easily accessible. After researching Google, I have realized my original topic has been written about, so I had to choose a new topic. In all my writing concerning Google I have always made it a point that it is a tool which has potential to make people smart or dumb. In either case we have become so dependent to the point where it is a daily task to Google search…

If we look into the first factor that is Motivators we can pin point many of them. Motivators Google.Inc provides many intrinsic factors to googlers that help them to remain motivate and perform at work. According to what Herzberg has defined as motivators Google.Inc provides its employees with factors like promotion, bonus for good performance and opportunities for development and growth of employees. Google.Inc lets the employees work in groups and gives them 20% of their time to work on their…

We chose gunpowder as our project because of how much impact it has had on the world for the past twelve centuries. If you look at any country's history you are not going to find many countries histories without the mention of the use of gunpowder in war or trade. We also thought that it would be an interesting topic to do research on because of the broad range of information on it. Gunpowder changed how early civilizations hunted, instead of using spears they started using guns which…

The purpose of this case study is to discuss Marissa Mayer’s, chief executive officer (CEO) of Yahoo! Inc. (Yahoo), strengths and challenges around rebuilding Yahoo’s brand (Subramanian, 2015). In 1994, two students, David Filo and Jerry Yang, became overwhelmed with trying to keep track of their favorite websites, so they developed a website that allowed them to “capture their categorization method and called it Yahoo!” (Subramanian, 2015, p. 398). Later, their friends also wanted to use their…