Company Motivation Profile-Google Corp. Since the beginning of Google, it has been a great time for Internet users. Larry Page, a doctoral student at Stanford, began a research project in January 1996 that resulted in Google's search engine. Larry was looking for a thesis topic, among other things, exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web and understanding its connection in cuddly graph form. Soon after, Page and his partner Sergey Brin began exploring the Web with their web crawler; which was dated March 1996. The location of the crawl was on Page's home page. On September 7, 1998, they officially and successfully incorporated their company into Google, Inc. in a friend's garage in California. By the end of 1998, Google had an index of approximately 60 million pages. The name "Google" comes from a misspelling of "googol", which refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by one hundred zeros. Google has found its way into our everyday language and has been added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford. English Dictionary, in 2006, meaning: “Using the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet. In October, however, while discussing a possible initial public offering (IPO), Microsoft contacted the company about a possible partnership or merger; , in January 2004, Google announced the hiring of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group to organize an IPO. The planned IPO was a success and raised up to $4 billion for Google's products and services. desktop, mobile and online products; like Earth Gmail/Google Notifier Pack Photos Screensaver Secure Access Gmail, and each has its own specific task. The technology that is...... middle of paper ...... would be caused. due to the family's feeling of abandonment because the employee spends more time at work. As a result, I would recommend Google to offer a minimum work from home time. The employee could think better during the time spent at home. Google could test the recommendation with a few employees to see the results. Google's main interest is how employees can work better and more creatively to improve and add value to the company. Reference: Lyman, A. Great Workplaces Push 'People Power'. Retrieved June 29, 2008 from http://www.motivationstrategies.comSullivan, J. (2006). A look at Google's talent machine. Retrieved June 28, 2008 from http://www.humanresourcesmagazine.comVorster, G. (2007). In Pursuit of Success, Personnel Today, Business Source CompleteVogelstein, Fred (2004), It's Not Business, It's Personal, Fortune, 150(10)