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Google's Larry Page Urges Scientists to Market Themselves

Speaking at a convention in Feb 2007, Google co-founder Larry Page advised the scientists to market the technologies better and make it readily available to the world, and this way they can solve problems such as energy consumption, poverty and global warming.

He felt that Science has a marketing problem. There may be the best products one creates in the lab, but without marketing it becomes a failure if no one knows about it. The Scientists should expend part of their research budget in marketing and spread the word. Blogs and Networking can help also, in his opinion

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Labels: google, larry-page, marketing

This long and detailed article from Moment Mag (Feb 2007) provides excellent insights into Sergey & his family's (Dr Michael & Eugenia Brin, his parents) background, their emigration from the (then) USSR and the subsequent struggles before they reached where they did.

A useful read for anyone wishing to know the non-technical side of the geek.

See the full report here

Labels: google, internet, sergey-brin