Tag: ideas

Today, September 27, 2019, everyone’s favorite search engine turned 21 years old. What began as a merely an idea, a paper published by Stanford PhD students Sergey Brin and Larry Page called “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine”, has become a multibillion-dollar company and the most popular search engine by a wide margin. Not only is it a search engine, but Google has its own browser with its very own suite of services like Gmail, Google Docs, Sheets and cloud storage with Google Drive. In a matter of merely 21 years, Google has become the primary way that people search the internet. How did this happen? Now that Google is of legal drinking age in the US, let’s take a look at how they got where they are today.

 

Last night I slept for roughly two hours. I laid in bed for hours and hours tossing and turning, thinking about a whole heap of things.

There are many reasons people do not reach their full potential. Some are due to circumstances that they feel they cannot get out of. Other reasons may be that they're over their head with commitments. Or perhaps it's them. They dream big but do nothing about it.

In this day and age, there are so many brilliant ideas out there it can feel overwhelming. What is the key to staying ahead of the game and leading the pack in terms of innovation? While some may argue that it can all be attributed to generous funding or technological advancements, the real key is a creative toolkit for insight generation.