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Google is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Kasner and James Newman. It refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google’s use of the term reflects the company’s mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.

Back before Google? Aye, there’s the Rub.

According to Google lore, company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were not terribly fond of each other when they first met as Stanford University graduate students in computer science in 1995. Larry was a 24-year-old University of Michigan alumnus on a weekend visit; Sergey, 23, was among a group of students assigned to show him around. They argued about every topic they discussed. Their strong opinions and divergent viewpoints would eventually find common ground in a unique approach to solving one of computing’s biggest challenges: retrieving relevant information from a massive set of data.

By January of 1996, Larry and Sergey had begun collaboration on a search engine called BackRub, named for its unique ability to analyze the "back links" pointing to a given website. Larry, who had always enjoyed tinkering with machinery and had gained some notoriety for building a working printer out of Lego™ bricks, took on the task of creating a new kind of server environment that used low-end PCs instead of big expensive machines. Afflicted by the perennial shortage of cash common to graduate students everywhere, the pair took to haunting the department’s loading docks in hopes of tracking down newly arrived computers that they could borrow for their network.

A year later, their unique approach to link analysis was earning BackRub a growing reputation among those who had seen it. Buzz about the new search technology began to build as word spread around campus.

The search for a buyer

Larry and Sergey continued working to perfect their technology through the first half of 1998. Following a path that would become a key tenet of the Google way, they bought a terabyte of disks at bargain prices and built their own computer housings in Larry’s dorm room, which became Google’s first data center. Meanwhile Sergey set up a business office, and the two began calling on potential partners who might want to license a search technology better than any then available. Despite the dotcom fever of the day, they had little interest in building a company of their own around the technology they had developed.

Among those they called on was friend and Yahoo! founder David Filo. Filo agreed that their technology was solid, but encouraged Larry and Sergey to grow the service themselves by starting a search engine company. "When it’s fully developed and scalable," he told them, "let’s talk again." Others were less interested in Google, as it was now known. One portal CEO told them, "As long as we’re 80 percent as good as our competitors, that’s good enough. Our users don’t really care about search."

Touched by an angel

Unable to interest the major portal players of the day, Larry and Sergey decided to make a go of it on their own. All they needed was a little cash to move out of the dorm — and to pay off the credit cards they had maxed out buying a terabyte of memory. So they wrote up a business plan, put their Ph.D. plans on hold, and went looking for an angel investor. Their first visit was with a friend of a faculty member.

Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, was used to taking the long view. One look at their demo and he knew Google had potential — a lot of potential. But though his interest had been piqued, he was pressed for time. As Sergey tells it, "We met him very early one morning on the porch of a Stanford faculty member’s home in Palo Alto. We gave him a quick demo. He had to run off somewhere, so he said, ‘Instead of us discussing all the details, why don’t I just write you a check?’ It was made out to Google Inc. and was for $100,000."

The investment created a small dilemma. Since there was no legal entity known as "Google Inc.," there was no way to deposit the check. It sat in Larry’s desk drawer for a couple of weeks while he and Sergey scrambled to set up a corporation and locate other funders among family, friends, and acquaintances. Ultimately they brought in a total initial investment of almost $1 million.

Everyone’s favorite garage band

In September 1998, Google Inc. opened its door in Menlo Park, California. The door came with a remote control, as it was attached to the garage of a friend who sublet space to the new corporation’s staff of three. The office offered several big advantages, including a washer and dryer and a hot tub. It also provided a parking space for the first employee hired by the new company: Craig Silverstein, now Google’s director of technology.

Already Google.com, still in beta, was answering 10,000 search queries each day. The press began to take notice of the upstart website with the relevant search results, and articles extolling Google appeared in USA TODAY and Le Monde. That December, PC Magazine named Google one of its Top 100 Web Sites and Search Engines for 1998. Google was moving up in the world.

On the road again

Google quickly outgrew the confines of its Menlo Park home, and by February 1999 had moved to an office on University Avenue in Palo Alto. At eight employees, Google’s staff had nearly tripled, and the service was answering more than 500,000 queries per day. Interest in the company had grown as well. Red Hat signed on as its first commercial search customer, drawn in part by Google’s commitment to running its servers on the open source operating system Linux.

On June 7, the company announced that it had secured a round of funding that included $25 million from the two leading venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In a replay of the convergence of opposites that gave birth to Google, the two firms — normally fiercely competitive, but seeing eye-to-eye on the value of this new investment — both took seats on the board of directors. Mike Moritz of Sequoia and John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins — who between them had helped grow Sun Microsytems, Intuit, Amazon, and Yahoo! — joined Ram Shriram, CEO of Junglee, at the ping pong table that served as formal boardroom furniture.

In short order, key hires began to fill the company’s modest offices. Omid Kordestani left Netscape to accept a position as vice president of business development and sales, and Urs Hölzle was hired away from UC Santa Barbara as vice president of engineering. It quickly became obvious that more space was needed. At one point the office became so cramped that employees couldn’t stand up from their desks without others tucking their chairs in first.

No beta search engine

The gridlock was alleviated with the move to the Googleplex, Google’s current headquarters in Mountain View, California. And tucked away in one corner of the two-story structure, the Google kernel continued to grow — attracting staff and clients and drawing attention from users and the press. AOL/Netscape selected Google as its web search service and helped push traffic levels past 3 million searches per day. Clearly, Google had evolved. What had been a college research project was now a real company offering a service that was in great demand.

On September 21, 1999, the beta label came off the website.

Still Google continued to expand. The Italian portal Virgilio signed on as a client, as did Virgin Net, the UK’s leading online entertainment guide. The spate of recognition that followed included a Technical Excellence Award for Innovation in Web Application Development from PC Magazine and inclusion in several "best of" lists, culminating with Google’s appearance on Time magazine’s Top Ten Best Cybertech list for 1999.

Built-in innovation

At the Googleplex, a unique company culture was evolving. To maximize the flexibility of the work space, large rubber exercise balls were repurposed as highly mobile office chairs in an open environment free of cubicle walls. While computers on the desktops were fully powered, the desks themselves were wooden doors held up by pairs of sawhorses. Lava lamps began sprouting like multi-hued mushrooms. Large dogs roamed the halls — among them Yoshka, a massive but gentle Leonberger. After a rigorous review process, Charlie Ayers was hired as company chef, bringing with him an eclectic repertoire of health-conscious recipes he developed while cooking for the Grateful Dead. Sections of the parking lot were roped off for twice-weekly roller hockey games. Larry and Sergey led weekly TGIF meetings in the open space among the desks, which easily accommodated the company’s 60-odd employees.

The informal atmosphere bred both collegiality and an accelerated exchange of ideas. Google staffers made many incremental improvements to the search engine itself and added such enhancements as the Google Directory (based on Netscape’s Open Directory Project) and the ability to search via wireless devices. Google also began thinking globally, with the introduction of ten language versions for users who preferred to search in their native tongues.

Google’s features and performance attracted new users at an astounding rate. The broad appeal of Google search became apparent when the site was awarded both a Webby Award and a People’s Voice Award for technical achievement in May 2000. Sergey’s and Larry’s five-word acceptance speech: "We love you, Google users!" The following month, Google officially became the world’s largest search engine with its introduction of a billion-page index — the first time so much of the web’s content had been made available in a searchable format.

Through careful marshalling of its resources, Google had avoided the need for additional rounds of funding beyond its original venture round. Already clients were signing up to use Google’s search technology on their own sites. With the launch of a keyword-targeted advertising program, Google added another revenue stream that began moving the company into the black. By mid-2000, these efforts were beginning to show real results.

On June 26, Google and Yahoo! announced a partnership that solidified the company’s reputation — not just as a provider of great technology, but as a substantial business answering 18 million user queries every day. In the months that followed, partnership deals were announced on all fronts, with China’s leading portal NetEase and NEC’s BIGLOBE portal in Japan both adding Google search to their sites.

To extend the power of its keyword-targeted advertising to smaller businesses, Google introduced AdWords, a self-service ad program that could be activated online with a credit card in a matter of minutes. And in late 2000, to enhance users’ power to search from anywhere on the web, Google introduced the Google Toolbar. This innovative browser plug-in made it possible to use Google search without visiting the Google homepage, either using the toolbar’s search box or right-clicking on text within a web page, as well as enabling the highlighting of keywords in search results. The Google Toolbar would prove enormously popular and has since been downloaded by millions of users.

As 2000 ended, Google was already handling more than 100 million search queries a day — and continued to look for new ways to connect people with the information they needed, whenever and wherever they needed it. They reached out first to a population with a never-ending need for knowledge — students, educators, and researchers — paying homage to Google’s academic roots by offering free search services to schools, universities, and other educational institutions worldwide.

Realizing that people aren’t always at their desks when questions pop into their heads, Google set out to put wireless search into as many hands as possible. The first half of 2001 saw a series of partnerships and innovations that would bring Google search to a worldwide audience of mobile users. Wireless Internet users in Asia, Japanese users of i-mode mobile phones, Sprint PCS, Cingular, and AT&T Wireless customers, and other wireless device users throughout the world gained untethered access to the 1.6 billion web documents in Google’s growing index.

Google finds a few things it needs

Meanwhile, Google had acquired a cornerstone of Internet culture. In February, Google took on the assets of Deja.com and began the arduous task of integrating the huge volume of data in the Internet’s largest Usenet archive into a searchable format. In short order, Google introduced improved posting, post removal, and threading of the 500 million-plus messages exchanged over the years on Usenet discussion boards.

As Google’s global audience grew, the patterns buried in the swarm of search queries provided a snapshot of what was on humanity’s mind. Sifting through a flood of keywords, Google captured the top trending searches and institutionalized them as the Google Zeitgeist, a real-time window into the collective consciousness. The Google Zeitgeist showcases the rising and falling stars in the search firmament as names and places flicker from obscurity to center stage and fade back again. Like an S&P Index for popular culture, the Google Zeitgeist charts our shifting obsessions and the impermanence of fame.

As Google’s search capabilities multiplied, the company’s financial footing became even more solid. By the beginning of the fourth quarter of 2001, Google announced that it had found something that had eluded many other online companies: profitability. And in a nod to Google’s growing business impact, Dr. Eric Schmidt, whose long-time technology career included stints as CEO at Novell Inc. and CTO of Sun Microsystems, joined Google as CEO in August 2001.

Information without barriers

Google’s circle of friends continued to widen. An agreement with Lycos Korea brought Google search to a new group of Asian Internet users. In October, a partnership with Universo Online (UOL) made Google Latin America’s premier search engine. New sales offices opened in Hamburg and Tokyo to satisfy growing international interest in Google’s advertising programs. Google’s borderless appeal was also evident in its evolving user interface: Users could now limit searches to sites written in Arabic, Turkish, or any of 26 other languages.

Meanwhile the Google search engine evolved again and learned to crawl several new kinds of information. File type search added a dozen formats to Google’s roster of searchable documents. In December, Google Image Search, first launched during the summer with 250 million images, came out of beta with advanced search added and an expanded image index. Online shopping took a leap forward with the beta launch of Google Catalog Search, which made it possible for Google users to search and browse more than 1,100 mail order catalogs that previously had been available only in print.

December also brought another milestone: The Google search index reached 3 billion searchable web documents, another leap forward in Google’s mission to make the world’s information accessible. Google’s year came to a close, appropriately, with the Year-End Google Zeitgeist, a retrospective on the search patterns, trends, and top search terms of 2001.

Good things come in yellow boxes

Google’s success in charting the public Internet had helped make it the Internet search engine of choice. But Googlebot, the robot software that continually crawls the web to refresh and expand Google’s index of online documents, had to turn back at the corporate firewall — which left employees, IT managers, and productivity-conscious executives wishing for a way to bring the power of Google search into their workplaces.

Their wish came true in February of 2002, with the introduction of the Google Search Appliance, a plug-and-play search solution in a bright yellow box. Soon it was crawling company intranets, e-commerce sites, and university networks, with organizations from Boeing to the University of Florida powering their searches with "Google in a box."

In love with innovation

The love affair between Google and the technology community — engineers, programmers, webmasters, and early adopters of all shapes and sizes — went back to the days when word-of-mouth from tech-savvy users spread the budding search engine’s reputation far beyond the Stanford campus. That ongoing romance was evident at the 2001 Search Engine Watch Awards, announced in February of 2002, where the webmaster community awarded Google top honors for Outstanding Search Service, Best Image Search Engine, Best Design, Most Webmaster Friendly Search Engine, and Best Search Feature.

Google showed the affection was mutual with a trio of initiatives to delight the most avid technophile. The Google Programming Contest coupled a daunting challenge with a tempting prize: $10,000, a visit to the Googleplex, and a chance for the winner to spend some quality time with the Google code base. (The eventual winner, Daniel Egnor of New York, created a program enabling users to search for webpages within a specified geographic area.)

Google’s web application programming interfaces (APIs) enabled software programs to query Google directly, drawing on the data in billions of web documents. Their release sparked a flurry of innovation, from Google-based games to new search interfaces.

Google Compute, newly added to the Google Toolbar, took advantage of idle cycles on users’ computers to help solve computation-intensive scientific problems. The first beneficiary: Folding@home, a non-profit Stanford University research project to analyze the structure of proteins with an eye to improving treatments for a number of illnesses.

Advertising that people want to see

In February of 2002, AdWords, Google’s self-service advertising system, received a major overhaul, including a cost-per-click (CPC) pricing model that makes search advertising as cost-effective for small businesses as for large ones. Google’s approach to advertising has always followed the same principle that works so well for search: Focus on the user and all else will follow. For ads, this means using keywords to target ad delivery and ranking ads for relevance to the user’s query. As a result, ads only reach the people who actually want to see them - an approach that benefits users as well as advertisers.

In May, that approach got a vote of confidence when America Online — calling Google "the reigning champ of online search" — chose the company to provide both search and advertising to its 34 million members and tens of millions of other visitors to AOL properties. Further confirmation came when BtoB Magazine named Google the #1 business-to-business website and the #5 B2B ad property in any medium, online or off.

The launch of Google Labs enabled Google engineers to present their pet ideas proudly to an adventurous audience. Users could get acquainted with prototypes that were still a bit wet behind the ears, while developers received feedback that helped them groom their projects for success. Works-in-progress ranged from Google Voice Search, enabling users to search on Google with a simple telephone call, to Google Sets, which generates complete sets (a list of gemstones, say) from a few examples (topaz, ruby, opal), giving each member of the new set its own search link.

All the news that’s fit to click

Google News launched in beta in September of 2002, offering access to 4,500 leading news sources from around the world. Headlines and photos are automatically selected and arranged by a computer program which updates the page continuously. The free service lets users scan, search, and browse, with links from each headline to the original story.

Froogle, a product search service launched in test mode in December of 2002, continued Google’s emphasis on innovation and objective results. Searching through millions of relevant websites, Froogle helps users find multiple sources for specific products, delivering images and prices for the items sought.

And the worlds turn

Google’s innovations continued to reshape not only the world of search, but also the advertising marketplace and the realm of publishing. In 2003, Google acquired Pyra Labs and became the home for Blogger, a leading provider of services for those inclined to share their thoughts with the world through online journals (weblogs). Not long thereafter, the Google AdSense program was born, offering web sites of all sizes a way to easily generate revenue through placement of highly targeted ads adjacent to their content. Google AdSense technology analyzes the text on any given page and delivers ads that are appropriate and relevant, increasing the usefulness of the page and the likelihood that those viewing it will actually click on the advertising presented there.

Version 2.0 of the Google Toolbar was released in the Spring and the Google Deskbar joined it in the Fall. The Toolbar’s enhancements included a pop-up blocker and form filler, while the Deskbar’s location in the Windows Taskbar made it possible to search using Google without even launching a web browser. And there was so much more to find, thanks to the addition of a calculator feature, parcel tracking, flight information, VIN numbers and more, all accessible through the same Google search box.

This message just in

As Google’s site index increased to 4.28 billion web pages, Brandchannel again named Google as "Brand of the Year" for 2003, and ABC News marked the occasion by naming Larry and Sergey "Persons of the Week." Google consolidated much of its Mountain View operations into new headquarters campus. And on February 17 Google announced an expanded web index with more than 6 billion items (including the aforementioned 4.28 billion web pages plus 880 million images, 845 million Usenet messages, and a growing collection of book-related information pages).

And on April 29, Google filed with the SEC for an initial public offering (IPO). In early May, Blogger rolled out an upgraded version of its free web-based publishing software that enables users to create, collect, and share opinions and experiences with a global audience. And in June, Google announced a new version of the Google Search Appliance, now with the capacity for more than 300 queries per minute and the ability to scale from 150,000 to 15 million or more documents.

What’s a picture worth?

Google announced its acquisition of Picasa, Inc. on July 13. This Pasadena, Calif.-based digital photo management company helps users to organize, manage and share their digital photos. Picasa also makes Hello, a small application for posting photos to Blogger weblogs and sharing them with friends using instant messenger technology.

Also in October we announced our first quarterly results as a public company, with record revenues of $805.9 million, up 105 percent year over year. We also signed a new expanded alliance with AOL Europe to provide a comprehensive and relevant search and advertising experience to approximately 6.3 million members in the UK, France and Germany.

What’s a picture worth? (part 2)

Towards the end of October, Google announced the acquisition of Keyhole Corp., a digital and satellite image mapping company based in Google’s own headquarter town, Mountain View, Calif. The acquisition gave Google users a powerful new search tool to view 3D images across earth, and the ability to tap a rich database of roads, businesses and many other points of interest.

Our European operations moved into new Dublin headquarters, with an official welcome from the Deputy Prime Minister, Mary Harney. The 150 Googlers who work here come from 35 countries and speak 17 languages – imperative for doing business across Europe. And our founders received new honors: Larry Page was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, and he and Sergey Brin are named the 2004 Marconi Fellows, joining the august company of such previous winners as Tim Berners-Lee and Bob Metcalfe.

Expanding horizons

In a nod to Google’s continuing international expansion, Nikesh Arora joined as senior executive overseeing Google’s operations in the European market. Based in London, Arora, fresh from executive stints at T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom, became responsible for continuing to create and expand strategic partnerships in Europe. And elsewhere in the world – namely Tokyo – we announce a new R&D center to attract the best and brightest among Japanese and other Asian engineers. Further expansion occurs in Kirkland, Washington, where we open a new engineering center, which joins the others around the world. Also in November, the Google index of web pages now numbers 8 billion.

In December, launches included Google Groups, a new version of the venerable Usenet archive of 1 billion posts on thousands of topics that Google has managed since 2001. The new Google Groups enables users to create and manage their own email groups and discussion lists. And the Google Print program announced agreements with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Oxford, and The New York Public Library to digitally scan books from their collections so that users worldwide can search them in Google.

Something blue, something new

The Google Search Appliance spawned a new blue Google Mini, a smaller and lower-cost solution for small and medium-sized businesses that want Google quality search for their documents and sites. The Mini is the first (and so far only) Google hardware product to be sold only through the Google Store alongside a variety of consumer goods that often feature the four-color logo. Google Video also launched – a new project that captures the closed-caption information on TV programming and makes it searchable. Meanwhile, Google’s Image Search grew to contain more than 1 billion images of all types – photos, drawings, paintings, sketches, cartoons, posters, and more.

Another new feature launched in Google Local: Google Maps, a dynamic online mapping feature users in North America use to find location information, navigate through maps, and get directions quickly and easily. Google Maps is distinguished by easy navigation, detailed route directions, and business locations related to the requested query. Even more fun: by integrating Keyhole technology, Google Maps can display a map view or a satellite view.

The faster we go…

At Google we find that speed is of the essence, and it appears that many other people also crave saving time. This universal fact has led to such innovations as My Search History (saving time by knowing, and showing, what you’ve searched before) and the Google Web Accelerator (saving time serving web pages by "pre-fetching" them – delivering only updated content).

Keeping true to our roots in search, in mid-September we released Google Blog Search, a tool to help people find lively content as soon as it’s live on blogs around the world. And in recognition of our indebtedness to visionaries, we announced the hiring of Internet pioneer Vint Cerf to continue his global Internet thinking on our behalf.

Going local and global

In October we merged our Local and Maps products into a single Google Local service that (naturally) features maps. Perhaps even better for those away from their computer screens, we now offer Local service via mobile phones – after all, you need these way-finding tools even more when out in the wilds of major cities. We also noted, in our third quarter earnings announcement, the fact that we now have 4,989 full time employees – that’s up from 4,183 at the end of the previous quarter.

The more initiatives we undertake, the greater the need to expand, and so we announced a new office in Phoenix, and also ramped up staffing when we announced that Johnny Chou will join Kai-Fu Lee in Beijing as president of sales and business development for greater China. Not long after, we opened our first offices in Latin America too – in Sao Paulo, Brazil and in Mexico City.

Enhancing core businesses

In mid-November 2005, we launched two significant services that expand on our core businesses of search and advertising. One, Google Base, is a new way for people to upload content – lists, web pages, items of any type – in a structured format that interested searchers can then find. This could be for sale items, but might just as easily be scientific data or recipes or Top 10 lists – things that might not have had a web presence before. The other, Google Analytics, was formerly known as "Urchin" – a service we acquired, and then integrated, into our advertising products. The fast-growing trend is to be able to measure the actual results of online ad and marketing campaigns – and this service, which is now free, is available to everyone who needs to track these aspects more closely.

As we closed in on the finish of 2005, we launched a music search feature that delivers a mix of information on artists, titles, links to albums, reviews and where to buy information for a wide range of musicians and performers. Late in the month, we announced a significant new agreement with AOL that expands a long-standing strategic alliance between the two companies. Among other things, this agreement creates a global online advertising partnership, makes more of AOL’s content available to Google users, and includes our $1 billion investment in AOL. And finally this month, we marked the end of our first full year of the Google Blog by tallying, among other things, the number of product tips (38), new product announcements (77), Google culture items (40) and international posts (19) we published. As with everything else – there will be more to come next year.

The new year’s fresh takes

And the year arrived with a bang: a brand new Google Video store – now featuring many titles from numerous content partners, and the ability to view or download them using a new Google Video Player. What’s more, filmmakers can set the price and level of copy protection for their productions, giving fans far more variety than was previously available. While at the massive Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, we also unleashed a Google Pack – a free collection of safe and useful software for improving the web experience. And a first for Google: Larry Page delivered a keynote speech at CES, which has become a huge event for reporters, industry folks and consumers alike.

And on and on

What’s next from Google? It’s hard to say. We don’t talk much about what lies ahead, because we believe one of our chief competitive advantages is surprise. And then there’s innovation, and an almost fanatical devotion to our users. These are the things that fuel us, and, we hope, fuel your own dreams. Take a peek at some of the ideas our engineers are currently kicking around by visiting them at play in Google Labs. Have fun, but be sure to wear your safety goggles.

Last updated January 2006

Juventus - Verona 1-0

Lying just a point off top spot in the 2006/07 Serie B championship, the Bianconeri came into this afternoon’s game looking to extend their unbeaten record with a seventh straight home win. Deschamps welcomed back Del Piero, Piccolo, Zebina and Zalayeta to the squad after injury lay-offs, pairing the latter up front with Palladino in a dangerous looking attack. The suspended Nedved was replaced by Bojinov on the left wing, while Chiellini and Zebina took their places in the left and right fullback positions.

True to form Juventus set off in a high gear, looking to supply Zalayeta with ammunition in the Verona penalty area, but it was the away side who caused an early scare, Iunco sneaking into the box with a late run in the 8th minute and blasting his effort just wide of the left post. It took the Bianconeri quarter of an hour before they took the game by the scruff of the neck, with Bojinov coming agonisingly close to opening the scoring on the 15 minute mark. The Bulgarian showed good strength and balance to work his way past three defenders and into the box, but he couldn’t direct his effort the right side of Pegolo’s bar. The home side continued to apply the pressure but Verona were closing down well and there was little room to manoeuvre in final third. Palladino almost broke the deadlock on 26 minutes, thumping the bar with a right-footed pile driver from twenty-five yards out and five minutes later Zalayeta came close, blasting a powerful shot across the face of goal from a tight angle, but the scores remained level. Camoranesi continued probing with angled balls from deep but the Gialloblù kept their cool at the back, answering the questions posed by the insistent Bianconeri. In added time at the end of the half, it was Camoranesi who came inches within setting the game alight, smashing a tremendous volley just wide of the left post from inside the box, but the half ended all square.

The Bianconeri started the second half with their tails up, Zalayeta racing into the box and forcing Pegolo to save with his legs with a tricky grass-cutter from just inside the box. The Uruguayan headed over from the resulting corner, and a minute later Zebina suffered the same fate, sending his effort a foot wide of the right post from another set-piece. Juventus were relentless as they went in search of the opener and in the 54th minute, their efforts were rewarded, Camoranesi latching onto a floated Palladino cut-back and heading in from ten yards out (1-0). It was exactly what the game needed and as the Bianconeri faithful breathed a collective sigh of relief, the players quickly set about chasing a second. On 63 minutes Del Piero relieved Bojinov in the Juventus attack and the captain’s impact was almost immediate, supplying Camoranesi with a perfectly weighted cross a minute later and watching as his fellow international headed just over the bar. On 68 minutes it was Del Piero himself who threatened to double the lead, forcing Pegolo into a diving save with a curling effort from the edge of the box. The captain was in the thick of it once more in the 75th minute, forcing another save from the Verona number with an angled header. Pegolo palmed the ball back into danger and it took a crucial tackle from the Verona defender to stop Zebina side-footing into the back of the empty net. De Ceglie replaced Zalayeta in the 79th minute and seconds later, Del Piero smashed a powerful first time effort a hair’s breadth wide of the busy Pegolo’s right post. Juventus were in full command of the game with the Gialloblù pegged back into their own half in a brave attempt at damage limitation. With the game as good as won, Deschamps handed a debut to Piccolo, taking off Marchisio with three minutes to go. As the game drew to a close, Buffon wowed the crowd with some showboating, dribbling past Nieto in his own box and launching the ball clear. It was one of very few occasions he actually touched the ball and the one-sided affair was brought to an end moments later with the Bianconeri victorious by a solid goal to nil.

GOALS: Camoranesi 54’

BOOKED: Zebina 58’, Cossu 62’

JUVENTUS: Buffon; Zebina, Boumsong, Kovac, Chiellini; Camoranesi, Marchisio (Piccolo 88’), Paro, Palladino; Zalayeta (De Ceglie 79’), Bojinov (Del Piero 63’)
Subs: Mirante, Urbano, Venitucci, Guzman
Coach: Deschamps

VERONA: Pegolo; Pedrelli, Perticone, Turati (Comazzi 77’); Mancinelli, Italiano Mazzola (Nieto 53’), Guarente (Greco 63’), Pulzetti; Iunco, Cossu
Subs: Loschi, Cutolo, Dianda, Magliocchetti
Coach: Ficcadenti

REFEREE: Pierpaoli
ASSISTANTS: Altomare, Sacco
4TH OFFICIAL: Nicodano

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Oh iya.. td juga abis dr kantor jemput istri di kantor.. abis menghadap bos, soalnya hari senen besok udah mulai kerja lagi ..  nantinya memang Sultan di titipin ke rumah neneknya klo kita2 lagi kerja.. tp klo saya pulang pagi ya saya yg momong lah sementara istri kerja..

enaknya shift ya beginilah.. masuk sore pulang pagi, udah keitung 2 hari kerja.. pdhl di kantor klo malem juga santai2 aja.. hehehe.. jadi malah lebih sering keliatan dirumah..

besok, rencananya mo ke bank, ambil atm, ke pasar sama istri, trus ada rencana ke pameran angrek di TMII.. itu juga klo mood lagi bagus ..  yah semoga besok cuaca bersahabat ^^

If you actually follow your own plans, whether you win or lose, you are several steps ahead of most of the human race who don’t even have a plan in the first place.

What can we do to make it more likely that we shall carry out our plans? Keep them simple!

When Seko, the Japanese runner, won the Boston Marathon in 1981, he was asked about his training plan. Seko explained it with only twelve words:

“I run 10 kilometers in the morning and 20 in the evening.”

This simple plan enabled him to outrun the world’s most gifted runners.

When Seko was told that his plan seemed too simple, compared to that of other marathoners, he replied:

“The plan is simple, but I do it every single day, 365 days a year”.

Simple? Yes!

Effective? Yes!

Easy? No!

Most people fail to reach their goals not because their plans are too simple or too complicated.

They fail because they do not follow their own plans. All plans are useless if they are not followed.

Seko’s plan was effective not because it was simple but because he followed it every single day.

On the other hand, we are more likely to follow a plan if it is simple.

The great marathon runner, Paula Radcliffe, has a simple race plan. She gets out in front and stays there!

In the film ‘Waterloo’, the Duke of Wellington is asked by his second in command what his plans are for the battle.

The iron duke replies: ‘To beat the French’.

Wellington was a man who paid close attention to detail in all his campaigns but he kept the simple over all plan in constant view. Every smaller plan must fit into the big simple picture.

Epictetus was another person who knew how to keep things simple:

“If you wish to be a writer, write.”

The writer who has the simple plan of writing for an hour every day will eventually complete whatever they are writing. The weight lifter who lifts for an hour every other day will become strong.

A simple plan that is followed is worth far more than a sophisticated plan which is not followed.

The great novelist, Anthony Trollope, had the simple plan of getting up at 6 a.m every morning.

Trollope wrote: “Few men, I think, ever lived a fuller life than me. I attribute the power of doing this altogether to the virtue of early hours."

He would write 250 words every 15 minutes and would write for three hours before going to work at the post office. His writing schedule became legendary.

He finished his novels at incredible speed and started a new novel as soon as he had completed the old one. In the end he wrote over 40 books which were mainly novels. Many of these are classics like ‘The Barchester Chronicles’ and ‘The Palaces’.

Whenever he traveled by train, he would take his writing desk and write in pencil. His faithful wife, Rose, would copy in ink what he wrote in pencil when he returned home.

The achievement is remarkable since he also worked full time for the post office for 33 years and is credited with bringing the pillar box or mail box to England. He needed to write as he needed to eat but he also grew to love his post office work.

Trollope, in addition to all the above, had a happy marriage and was father to two sons. He even managed, in his later years, to fit in a harmless ‘romance’ with the beautiful young American woman, Kate Field.

Trollope reminds me of my granddad who also had the simple plan of getting up early at 6 a.m. and getting in a day’s work before the rest of us managed to get out of bed.

Charles Simeon, the great preacher, had the same early morning plan. When he failed to get up at 6 a.m. he threw a golden guinea into the River Cam. He only had to do this once.

I am not sure if chef Rick Stein gets up early but he, too, advises simplicity. He speaks of how the real secret of cooking is learning what not to do. When he was a young chef he would try to impress his guests with 3 different kinds of fish and 3 different kinds of sauce to go with them.

Now he laughs at this over complication and is content to keep his cooking simple and delicious. Simple basic cooking is often the best.

Bruce Lee, the great martial artist, used to do 500 kicks a day with each leg. This was a simple but very effective training plan. Bruce became world famous even though he died young.

Joe Calzaghe (aged 34) the Welsh super-middleweight boxing champion of the world, trains in a simple, classical way. His gym is also simple and lacks the sophisticated glamour of the bigger gyms.

Joe is trained by his dad, Enzo Calzaghe. Enzo has been described affectionately as a ’sadist’ by another world champion, Enzo Maccarinelli who now trains with him even though he has to commute for an hour to get to the gym and another hour to get home.

Enzo Maccarinelli is the WBO cruiser weight champion of the world.

Training with Enzo Calzaghe has already paid off for Enzo Maccarinelli. He was on the same card as Joe Calzaghe on October 14th, 2006. He knocked out the challenger, Mark Hobson, in the first round.

Enzo Calzaghe had noticed that Enzo Maccarinelli punched harder with his left hand than with his right. Enzo Calzaghe developed a simple training plan. He decided to make Enzo Maccaranelli’s right hand punches as powerful as his left hand punches.

The fight was won with a punch from Enzo’s right hand. No sophisticated combinations were employed. A simple left jab was followed by a glancing right hand blow close to Mark Hobson’s left ear. Mark lost all balance and the referee stopped the fight immediately.

Enzo had trained to be able to throw 370 punches a round but all he needed were two simple punches.

Enzo Calzaghe’s son, Joe Calzaghe, has become a legend in his own life time. He has won 41 fights out of 41. He won 31 of those fights by knockout.

On the night of October 14th, 2006 I watched, him successfully defend his title against a ferocious challenger, Sakio Bika, whose own manager said: ‘He fights like a wild man.’

Sakio, aged 27, is called the ’scorpion’ because he was stung by a scorpion as a young boy and survived. However, his right cross and his head butts, whether accidental or not, had all the venom and power of a scorpion’s sting.

The fight was a hard, bruising battle. Joe could have been knocked out at any time either with a head butt or a legitimate punch. He survived to win.

A former world champion, Chris Eubank, described Joe as the real thing - a true warrior. Simple, effective and home grown training has allowed him to dominate his weight category for about ten years.

To sum up: a simple plan you follow is far superior to a clever plan you don’t!

Any plan is useless if you don’t actually follow it.

Which plans are you more likely to follow: the simple or the complicated?

The simple.

So I suggest, at the very least, starting with a simple plan for any project you have in mind. You can always complicate your plan later when the simple version has been working well for a while.

You may not win any marathons or become a world famous author or chef or boxing champion but you will make progress in achieving success in any project you are attempting.

You may even astonish yourself by achieving success beyond your wildest dreams.

Incidentally, a simple ‘grocery’ list has the power to help you achieve these dreams.

Simply write down about 3-6 things you plan to do tomorrow. Sleep on the list (literally if you think it will help) and let your subconscious work on it. On the morrow, keep this list in view and refer to it throughout the day.

Stick at the first task until it is completed. Cross it off and then move on to the next. The head of a business corporation once paid a large amount of money for this simple 6 task list solution. He had realized its enormous value.

It is definitely worth a try if you haven’t already experimented with this suggestion. I tried the suggestion today and was amazed at how well it worked. Good luck and keep things simple.

Remember that if you actually carry out your plans, whether they bring the results you wish for or not, you will be amongst the elite of the human race.

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hmm.. ya saya sebagai warga negara yg taat pada peraturan lalu lintas.. cieee.. ya ikutan nyalain lampu motornya donk.. ya mungkin dr sekarang ga usah ngutak ngutik saklar lampu lagi nih.. biarkan dalam kondisi on. saya sendiri masih mempertanyakan efektifitas dr peraturan ini, apa benar bisa menekan angka kecelakaan? berapa persen sih?

seharusnya kalau memang hal ini untuk menunjang disiplin biker dalam berkendara, seharusnya yg lebih di tekankan adalah perilaku berkendara itu sendiri, contohlah saat lampu merah.. kebanyakan biker2 pada rebutan utk menjadi yg terdepan.. hehehe.. ga sabaran banget nungguin lampu merah yg paling cuma 1 - 2 menit. seharusnya lebih banyak polantas yg di tempatkan di perempatan2 jalan.. karna disini yg lebih rawan pelanggaran.

eh melebar ga sih topiknya
huehueheu ya wes.. makin terang aja deh jakarta ^^

Pokonya yg menting jalan dulu, kalau kata rekan2 TDA, yang penting action dulu.. kedepannya sambil belajar

oh ya blogstorenya bisa dikunjungi di sini

di weblog ini juga ada linknya di sisi kiri di bagian "Bisnis Saya".

Sekalian juga mempraktekkan internet marketing nih, satu macem aja dulu, google adsense pokonya doain yah semoga bisnis yang saya jalankan ini barokah ^^

sebenernya mau pake joomla, tp belum punya hosting pribadi sih.. hehehe, jadi coba aja dulu blog gratisan, nanti gampanglah soal ngembangin pake joomla ^^

Profit Target: US$100
Step 1: Get a free website
• Go to www.blogger.com to get a free website

Step 2: Go to youtube.com
• You can use video as your content
• It is free
• Video is much more attractive than TEXT
• Make sure you like the videos e.g. funny video
Put the video on the website
• Go to your blogger.com website
• Put the embeded code of video to the message
• Leave some comments on this video
• DONE!
• I suggest you to add 3-4 videos…one video is not enough to entertain your visitors
Put the video on the website
• Go to your blogger.com website
• Put the embeded code of video to the message
• Leave some comments on this video
• DONE!
• I suggest you to add 3-4 videos…one video is not enough to entertain your visitors
I don’t have Paypal, Will Google Pay Me?
• Paypal is owned by ebay.com
• Ebay is the partner of Yahoo
• Will Google pay you via its COMPETITOR?
Google pays you by cheque or wire transfer.

Step 4: Traffic
• Go to myspace.com, register a free account, write something about you (profile), search and find right person
• Add this person as your friend
• Everyday, you can add up to 500 people to your account
• Communicate with your friends by posting bulletin message (it’s similar to mailing list)
• Friend always loves to check friend’s website

Everyday…
• Add new videos
• Find the new and targeted friends
• Focus. Don’t use the same myspace account for different subjects
• Don’t spend more than 1 hours.

When you make the 1st US$100…Next
Best Use Your First $100
• But you must have your own identity on the internet
• If you rely on the free resources alone, you can not add new features easily.
Goals after $100
• Start to build a “small” community.
• Your friends can leave messages (content) to you
• You have new content on your website everyday
• Your friends will come to your website everyday
• The traffic can accumulate more efficiently

Reinvestment
Action 1: Use your own domain (US$8.2- www.godaddy.com)
Action 2: Find a cheap shared hosting (US$40-$60/year). Make sure your server providers offer the free phpbb forum script
Action 3: Upload the files from blogger.com to your own domain
Action 4: Install the forum script. It is automatic and no technical knowledge is required
I suggest you cannot spend more than $60 dollars for the domain/hosting. The remaining $40…put it to your bank account, don’t use it.

We start a new game
Step 1: you post video on your website
Step 2: Remember to write a small comment about the video, build a hyperlink to the forum to let them discuss it
Step 3: Send a bulletin message to your friend list at myspace.com about your new videos
Note:
1. you still need to add new friends at your myspace account
2. Remember to put the Adsense code to your forum

Examples:
Go to: http://www.ambatch.com/blog.html

You can study how I link my website to the forum. How to combine these things in a single website
Repeat Step 1-3 Everyday
• You must repeat the steps everyday until you see the people return to your site, they start to talk without your input….definitely I suggest you to input new content to your site

You can make US$500 because:
• New visitors come to your website
• The visitors return to your website
• Traffic accumulation process

Suggestion
If you want to master your website traffic strategy, you must learn how to read traffic data and management

It’s a little bit advanced..!

Questions
I know I speak too much 

If you have question, please go to http://www.ambatch.com/forum

You can find a category called “Indonesia”. So you can ask questions there.

trus seharian ini dirumah aja sih.. ga kemana2.. tiduran, nonton, nemenin Sultan tidur de. hhehee. hmm  Sultan sekarang dah mulai ngoceh2 loh.. lucunya.. yah pokonya seharian ini free di rumah aja ga jalan2 kemana tau.. sorenya ke rumah neneknya sultan deh.. ngapain? ya onlen nih kek sekarang, pinjem pc disini, gprs-an deh.. heheheh.. Sultan juga diajak.. tp lagi tidur tuh.. nyenyak banget