25 years of Google: the brand so big it became a verb
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🗓️ 4 September 2023
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From the BBC World Service: Google was founded 25 years ago today. We hear from Elizabeth Linder, who started her career at Google and later became an executive at Facebook. Also, BBC’s senior Africa correspondent, Anne Soy, reports from Kenya, where African heads of state are gathering to discuss the continent’s approach to climate change. And finally, BBC’s Leanna Byrne reports on long queues for Italian cabs after the taxi drivers’ unions resist reforms aimed at increasing licenses.
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| 0:00.0 | Google turns 25 today. Hello, and you're listening to the Marketplace Morning Report live from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:09.0 | A very happy Monday and happy Labor Day to you and happy birthday to the search engine that's so popular, it's a verb. |
| 0:17.0 | Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two PhD students at Stanford University in California. |
| 0:25.0 | Now it's one of the world's biggest technology companies with over 100,000 employees. |
| 0:30.0 | It's owned by Alphabet and near two trillion dollar company. |
| 0:34.0 | The BBC's Wilbaen spoke to Elizabeth Linder, chief diplomatic officer at the AI company Adarja, |
| 0:39.0 | who started her career at Google and later became an executive at Facebook. |
| 0:43.0 | So the Googleplex, as we called it, out in California, had really the feeling of being a college campus. |
| 0:50.0 | So those of us who went from college directly to Google and bucked the trend of so many college graduates in America that would go straight into finance or consulting. |
| 1:01.0 | You know, we Googlers felt that we were doing something that was so exciting and fresh and new that really was part of creating the future. |
| 1:12.0 | I guess there's been questions, hasn't there in the last three or four years about how it uses our data, how it sells us adverts, whether it's too big and powerful. |
| 1:22.0 | How do you think in a sort of PR sense it takes on some of those challenges going forward? |
| 1:26.0 | I think it's complicated because I think for most consumers, the goal is, is the product actually working in the way that it should. |
| 1:34.0 | And on that, we can't knock Google around too much. |
| 1:38.0 | So when it comes though to corporations thinking about then how data is used, how they're looking after their individual consumer. |
| 1:46.0 | I think there's a lot of lessons to be learned there because trust matters too. |
| 1:51.0 | And ensuring that you're building a company that no matter how big you get, you are not losing sight of the relationship that you have with your end users. |
| 2:02.0 | That's of course always incredibly important. |
| 2:06.0 | I was Elizabeth Linder speaking, now let's do the numbers. |
| 2:09.0 | Price rises in Turkey are up by more than expected, jumping to 59% in August and speaking of Turkey, Turkey's president Erdogan is meeting Vladimir Putin to revive that Black Sea grain deal today. |
| 2:20.0 | So we'll keep an eye on that for you. |
| 2:22.0 | And generally Asian stocks are up after more than a dozen Chinese cities relaxed mortgage rules and it bid to boost the economy. |
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