Google Flashcards
What is the difference between a contractor and an employee
control and who provides the tools
what is an NDA
Nondisclosure agreement
What is NEXUS
sales tax is assessed at the county level so online companies dont have to pay but if a company putsw its ervers ina county then it can claim Nexus and charge sales tax
When was GOOG founded
1998
When did GOOG IPO?
2004
Whats goog’s market cap?
375B
Whats the mission and the motto
organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful; dont be evil
Which segment o finternet advertising dominates?
paid search
what is goog’s next big challenge?
to dominate mobile like they did PC
what is a query
a search
What does google call its orgainic search ranking algorithm
PageRank (ranks based on how many credibl eliks are linked to a page)
What is SEO?
the process of improving a page’s organic search results
what are some of the factors Pagerank uses
link counts (sources not created equal), keywords, keywords in URL, destination sites, fresh/stale content
How does Google work
sends out spiders that crawl the site creating an idex. search terms matched against index by an algorithm
How many servers does GOOG have in its server farms
1.4 Million (high cost of admission in search)