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Censorship of Google in China[edit]

Further information: Censorship in the People's Republic of China

Remembering his youth and his family's reasons for leaving the Soviet Union, he "agonized over Google's decision to appease the Communist government of China by allowing it to censor search engine results", but he decided that the Chinese would still be better off than without having Google available.[8]

On January 12, 2010, Google reported a large cyber attack on its computers and corporate infrastructure that began a month earlier, which included accessing two Gmail accounts and the theft of Google's intellectual property. After the attack was determined to have originated in China, the company stated that it would no longer agree to censor its search engine in China and may exit the country altogether. David Drummond, Google's Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, reported that "a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists, but that the attack also targeted 20 other large companies in the finance, technology, media and chemical sectors."[43][44] It was later reported that the attack had also targeted "one of Google's crown jewels, a password system that controls access by millions of users worldwide".[45]

In late March 2010, it officially discontinued its China-based search engine while keeping its uncensored Hong Kong site in operation. Speaking for Google, Brin stated during an interview, "One of the reasons I am glad we are making this move in China is that the China situation was really emboldening other countries to try and implement their own firewalls."[46] During another interview with Der Spiegel, he added, "For us it has always been a discussion about how we can best fight for openness on the Internet. We believe that this is the best thing that we can do for preserving the principles of the openness and freedom of information on the Internet."[47]

Senator Byron Dorgan stated that "Google's decision is a strong step in favor of freedom of expression and information." And Congressman Bob Goodlatte said, "I applaud Google for its courageous step to stop censoring search results on Google.cn. Google has drawn a line in the sand and is shining a light on the very dark area of individual liberty restrictions in China."[48] From the business perspective, many recognize that the move is likely to affect Google's profits. The New Republic adds that "Google seems to have arrived at the same link that was obvious to Andrei Sakharov: the one between science and freedom," referring to the move as "heroism".[49]

2009--present[edit]

In November 2009, Forbes decided Brin and Page were the fifth most powerful people in the world.[63] Earlier that same year, in February, Brin was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, which is "among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer … [and] honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice…". He was selected specifically, "for leadership in development of rapid indexing and retrieval of relevant information from the World Wide Web".[64] In their "Profiles" of Fellows, the National Science Foundation included a number of earlier awards:

he was a featured speaker at the World Economic Forum and the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference. … PC Magazine has praised Google in the Top 100 Web Sites and Search Engines (1998) and awarded Google the Technical Excellence Award, for Innovation in Web Application Development in 1999. In 2000, Google earned a Webby Award, a People's Voice Award for technical achievement, and in 2001, was awarded Outstanding Search Service, Best Image Search Engine, Best Design, Most Webmaster Friendly Search Engine, and Best Search Feature at the Search Engine Watch Awards.[65]

According to Forbes, he is the 12th richest person in the world with a personal wealth of US$39.2 billion as of October 2016.[6

(brother of Sergey)

https:// techcrunch.com/2013/07/30/sergey-brins-younger-brother-co-founds-a-startup-of-his-own/

Sam Brin, 26-year old younger brother of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, has spent the last few months in a bit of borrowed office space with college pal Jon Li quietly building a startup of their own.

Sam And Jon’s company, Butter Systems (part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2013 class), wants to put a tablet at your table. The tablet would supplant (or augment) a restaurant’s paper menu, allowing customers to order food and drinks, or request their check without having to flag down a server. They’re quick to clarify that they’re not trying to replace the server --- they’re just trying to make the server’s life easier, while bumping up the amount that restaurants pull in per table. As Sam put it, “We want to increase sales by making it easier to order more, all while keeping that human touch.”

(father of Sergey)

https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brin_Prize_in_Dynamical_System

Michael Brin is a retired mathematician at the University of Maryland and a specialist in dynamical systems.

(mother of Sergey):

http:// www.nydailynews.com/opinion/immigration-vital-economy-google-founder-mom-flow-fresh-talent-overseas-article-1.419211

http:// www.famechain.com/family-tree/41492/eugenia-brin

Eugenia Brin

Bio Details Full name Eugenia Brin Also known as Genia Brin

Occupations NASA Scientist Education Moscow University, Moscow, Russia

Wife of Sergey:

https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Wojcicki

https:// www.wsj.com/articles/a-day-in-the-life-of-anne-wojcicki-1452613783

After graduating, Wojcicki worked as a health care consultant at Passport Capital, a San Francisco-based investment fund[5] and at Investor AB.[4] She was a health care investment analyst[6] for 4 years, overseeing health care investments, focusing on biotechnology companies. Disillusioned by the culture of Wall Street and its attitude towards health care,[9] she quit in 2000, intending to take the MCAT and enroll in medical school. Instead, she decided to focus on research.[4]

In 2006, she co-founded 23andMe with Linda Avey.[10] 23andMe is a privately held personal genomics and biotechnology company, based in Mountain View, California, that provides genetic testing.[11] The company is named for the 23 pairs of chromosomes in a normal human cell. The company's personal genome test kit was named "Invention of the Year" by Time magazine in 2008.[12]

Wojcicki is also a member of the Xconomists, an ad hoc team of editorial advisors for the tech news and media company, Xconomy.[13] In October 2013, Fast Companynamed Wojcicki "The Most Daring CEO".[4][14]

NO ADULT CHILDREN

Mother-in-law of Sergey:

https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Wojcicki

Esther Denise "Woj" Hochman Wojcicki[1] (/woʊˈdʒɪtski/ woh-JIT-skee)[2] is an American journalist, educator,[3][4] and vice chair of the Creative Commons advisory council.[5] Wojcicki has studied education and technology.[3] She is the Founder of the Palo Alto High School Media Arts Center in Palo Alto, CA.

Father-in-law of Sergey:

https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Wojcicki

Wojcicki worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and was a National Science Foundation fellow at CERN and the Collège de France. In 1966, he joined the Stanford University physics faculty where he headed the Department of Physics from 1982--85 and 2004-2007.[6]

Wojcicki has served as an advisor to government funding agencies (US and foreign) as well as to several high energy physics laboratories. He also headed the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, which advises the United States Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation on particle physics matters.[6]

Sister-in-law of Sergey:

https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Wojcicki

In September 1998, the same month that Google was incorporated, its founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin set up office in Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park.[12][13] Before becoming Google's first marketing manager in 1999, Wojcicki worked in marketing at Intel in Santa Clara, California,[8] and was a management consultant at Bain & Company and R.B. Webber & Company.[14] At Google, she worked on the initial viral marketing programs, as well as the first Google Doodles.[15] Wojcicki also took part in the development of successful contributions to Google such as Google Images and Google Books.[16]

Wojcicki grew within Google to become senior vice president of Advertising & Commerce and lead the advertising and analytic products, including AdWords, AdSense, DoubleClick, and Google Analytics.[11]

YouTube, then a small start-up, was successfully competing with Google's Google Video service, overseen by Wojcicki. Her response was to propose the purchase of YouTube.[11]

She handled two of Google’s largest acquisitions --- the $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube in 2006 and the $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick in 2007

Sister-in-law of Sergey:

https:// pediatrics.ucsf.edu/faculty/janet-wojcicki

http:// www.amecenter.ucsf.edu/janet-wojcicki

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO

Dr. Wojcicki is an anthropologist and epidemiologist with an interest in early life risk factors for the development of obesity in high-risk populations. Specifically, she is interested in maternal exposures in pregnancy and early-life feeding decisions that can increase risk for obesity by age five. Additionally, she has international expertise, particularly in sub-Saharan African populations, in evaluating the relationship between nutritional factors and HIV and HHV-8 infection and progression.

Dr. Wojcicki’s research currently focuses on the evaluation of early life risk factors for obesity. She recruited a mother-child Latino cohort with support from the NIH and CDHNF to evaluate the relationship between exposure to maternal prenatal and postnatal depression and risk for obesity at age 2, 5 and 7. In addition to obesity, Dr. Wojcicki is also interested in how pediatric undernutrition can contribute to HIV progression and infection with HHV-8. She is a collaborator on a long-term cohort study in Lusaka, Zambia.

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