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Google headquarters in Mountain View Friday Mar. 27, 2010. Despite all the bells and whistles of Android phones, language translation, Gmail, web browsers, cloud computing and its myriad other products, almost everything Google does still comes back to search, which accounted for 97 percent of the company's $24 billion in revenues last year. And what search really comes down to is relevance, which at Google is the province of a small group of engineers, a sort of geek all-star team that has been with Google almost since the beginning. (Photo by Patrick Tehan/Mercury News)
Google headquarters in Mountain View Friday Mar. 27, 2010. Despite all the bells and whistles of Android phones, language translation, Gmail, web browsers, cloud computing and its myriad other products, almost everything Google does still comes back to search, which accounted for 97 percent of the company’s $24 billion in revenues last year. And what search really comes down to is relevance, which at Google is the province of a small group of engineers, a sort of geek all-star team that has been with Google almost since the beginning. (Photo by Patrick Tehan/Mercury News)
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