‘How to ace Google interview?’: Sundar Pichai recounts using Search in 2003

In a weblog submit celebrating Google’s twenty fifth anniversary, Sundar Pichai, the chief government of the tech large, wrote on Tuesday that he used Google Search companies in 2003 to get assist in his Google interview.

“The product they (Larry Page and Sergey Brin) built, Google Search, went on to help billions of people around the world get answers to their questions,” Pichai wrote.

Pichai shared that he was as soon as a daily person of Google, identical to anybody else on the net, and the questions he requested Google advanced over time. He talked about queries like “How do you fix a dripping faucet?”, “Fastest route to Stanford Hospital?” and “Ways to calm a crying baby?” He famous that within the spring of 2003, he may need requested, “How to ace a Google interview?”

Pichai joined Google in 2004 and rose by way of the ranks to turn out to be CEO in 2015.

Google’s historical past

Google originated as a analysis mission in March 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin whereas they have been PhD college students at Stanford University. The firm was formally launched in 1998, with its major product, Google Search, gaining vital success. Google relocated a number of occasions earlier than settling in Mountain View, California, in 2003. The firm went public with its preliminary providing in 2004 and quickly grew to turn out to be one of many world’s largest media corporations.

‘Google Search core of the corporate’

Pichai emphasised that, regardless of Google providing 15 merchandise serving over half a billion individuals and 6 merchandise with greater than two billion customers every, Google Search stays on the core of their mission. He referred to it as their “biggest moonshot” with rather more potential for the long run.

Pichai additionally mentioned how know-how has advanced over the previous 25 years. “Years ago, when I was studying in the U.S., my dad — who was back in India — got his first email address. I was really excited to have a faster (and cheaper) way to communicate with him, so I sent a message,” stated Google CEO. However, the reply took “two full days”.

‘AI is the long run’

The Google CEO expressed hope that synthetic intelligence will allow them to perform much more significant feats on a bigger scale within the coming years.

“Our search for answers will drive extraordinary technology progress over the next 25 years. And in 2048, if, somewhere in the world, a teenager looks at all we’ve built with AI and shrugs, we’ll know we succeeded. And then we’ll get back to work,” Pichai concluded.