On September 27, 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google and began their work in the garage of businesswoman Susan Wojcicki. Up to this day, the company has become one of the most powerful in the field of search, cloud computing, productivity software, and advertising, running more than one million servers world wide.
Das von der EU geförderte Projekt SAPIR will eine Alternative zu Google, Yahoo und MSN bei der Suche nach audio-visuellen Informationen bieten. Anders als die Konkurrenz durchsucht die Software nicht nur die Metadaten der Videos oder Fotos, sondern auch die Daten selbst.
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