Friday, July 6, 2007

Article 12-Susan Wojcicki- Her garage-created Google search engine

She went from landlord to AdSense mastermind-Mount ion View, Calif. Susan Wojcicki is reminiscing about her old home in Menlo Park Calif. It's a very humble house less than 2,000 square feet, she recalls fondly. A cozy, four bed room home and incredibly historic. She rented her garage to no ordinary slackers, but the Google Guys, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who incubated Google right there. Her home helped start the worlds most popular search engine. It also landed Wojcicki a key early job a Google less that a year after purchasing the home. Today she's one of it's top-ranked executive, overseeing the crucial online advertising business as vice president of product management. There are no words that can describe Susan's contribution to the company. says Google CEO Eric Schmidt. She's historic, in terms of our company's founding. She's also one of those people who thinks very broadly and quickly, and she's so pleasant. Her early duties included refining the original Google logo designed by Brin and the overall spare look of the Google home page.

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