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'''Google''' is a popular search engine that directs traffic on the Internet.  The CEO of Google since 2001 is [[Eric Schmidt]].

'''Google''' is a popular search engine that directs traffic on the Internet.  The CEO of Google since 2001 is [[Eric Schmidt]]. Google was founded on September 7th, 1998, by [[Larry Page]] and [[Sergey Brin]]. Since then, it has grown to be the largest internet search engine in the world. According to Alexa Internet, over 25% of all Internet users visit Google monthly.<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=www.google.com Alexa Traffic Results for Google]</ref>

Google has been accused of [[liberal]] bias; for several years, searching for phrase "miserable failure" returned the biography page of [[George W. Bush]]<ref>[http://boingboing.net/2007/01/26/bush_no_longer_miser.html Bush no longer "miserable failure": Google tackles googlebombs]</ref> due to an exploit of its search algorithm, and it consistently includes links to the liberally-biased [[Wikipedia]] on its first page of results. A reason for this is that its search algorithm gives a higher rank to sites which are linked to by many other sites; the interconnected nature of the Wiki model necessarily improves the ranking of Wikipedia pages.

Google has been accused of [[liberal]] bias; for several years, searching for phrase "miserable failure" returned the biography page of [[George W. Bush]]<ref>[http://boingboing.net/2007/01/26/bush_no_longer_miser.html Bush no longer "miserable failure": Google tackles googlebombs]</ref> due to an exploit of its search algorithm, and it consistently includes links to the liberally-biased [[Wikipedia]] on its first page of results. A reason for this is that its search algorithm gives a higher rank to sites which are linked to by many other sites; the interconnected nature of the Wiki model necessarily improves the ranking of Wikipedia pages.