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It is amazing to me that it has been nearly ten years since Sergey and I founded Google.
When we went public, we promised to write a yearly founders’ le er in a frank style to keep
all of you updated on our progress. We’ve taken turns writing the le er, and this year that
responsibility falls to me.
We have seen our company scale tremendously, to more than , employees in
countries worldwide. But what’s even more amazing to me are the possibilities that appear
before usclose enough to envision, but important enough to inspire our best e orts. I’m
excited and hopeful we will continue to make progress in a wide variety of signi cant areas.
I’m also happy to report that Sergey, Eric, and I continue to work together fabulously. I feel
very lucky to be working with them and with our whole growing team (growing mostly just
in numbers, despite our excellent food).
Speaking of our team, I wanted to give our deep thanks to George Reyes, our retiring chief
nancial o cer. He has served Google extremely well. I also could not be more grateful to
our users, customers, Googlers (our employees), and investors who help bring everything
that is Google to life.
I will try to keep this le er relatively short, but I want to cover a lot of ground. I gure if you
are interested in a particular area, you can just use Google to get more depth.
Search is a really hard problem. To do a perfect job, you would need to understand all the
world’s information, and the precise meaning of every query. With all that understanding,
you would then have to produce the perfect answer instantly. We are making signi cant
progress, but remain a long way from perfection. We’re so serious about improving search
that more than a third of our people are working on it. Another third work on advertising.
We have dramatically improved our understanding of all the di erent languages, the
meanings and synonyms of words, and the many di erent types of specialized information
such as businesses and products. We continue our e ort to extract more and more real
meaning from the web in order to help people nd the right answers. We recently improved
universal search, integrating di erent types of relevant information, such as video, maps,
news, books, images, and more, right into your search results.
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