History of Google

On 7^th September, 1998 history of Google had just begun. Two students of Stanford University named Larry Page and Sergey Brin co-founded Google, a company they commenced as part of a research project in January 1996. In the beginning Google was first organized as a privately held association but became public on 4^th August, 2004, which raised 1.6 billion dollars. Everyone knows the name Google. Google has created very impressive milestones of its time and continues to grow rapidly every day.

Google’s mission statement is, “to organize the world information and make it universally accessible and useful”. History of Google is genuinely analogous to the story of other big shots like Microsoft and Apple. A couple of simple guys, started working on a project that would one day open a whole new world for the rest of us.

How Google got its name?

Back in history of Google, it was said that in accordance to few people both co-founders contradicted on just about everything during their first meeting. In 1996, then firm friends and both of them computer science grad students began developing a search engine called BackRub. This search engine had been operational on their University’s servers just for a year as it started taking up to much bandwidth at Stanford. So they decided to switch servers and renamed the search engine in 1997, calling it Googol. The name arrived from a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. The usage of the term imitates its objective to systematize an enormous amount of information on the web.

Google in 1999

In August of 2008, Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, wrote a cheque of $100,000 in the name of ‘Google’, to a company that didn’t even exist that time. It was at this brief of time they understood what they had and incorporated the name Google Inc. Their accomplishments were considerable, but not great enough to convince investors. As it was hard to get investors, history of Google began struggling for financial support. Bechtolsheim was among few who saw real potential of what these boys had developed.

History of Google Inc!! Initial steps till now…

In September Larry and Sergey moved to Menlo Park, California and had setup their workspace in Susan Wojcicki’s garage. After that they went on to file for incorporation in California on 4^thSeptember, 1998.  They opened a bank account in the name of Google Inc after just finishing this essential work. After the establishment, Google started making history when they started hiring employees for their new business. By December of the same year Google hired their first employee, Craig Silverstein. Eventually, Google emerged as one of the Top 100 websites in 1998. During the initial phase they were successful to get awesome reviews.

Mentalplex

By February 1999, number of employees at Google rose to 8 which made Google to look out for a real office. During end of year Google had 40 employees. In 2000 they baffled everyone by playing their 1st April Fool’s Day joke, Mentalplex. The hoax had searchers believing Google could read their mind. This eventually became a Google tradition. Latest attributes were added, such as 10 languages, Google Ad Words and Google toolbar.

By the end of year 2001 they had accelerated and launched Image Search and indexed 3 billion web documents. It was a great achievement in the entire history of Google. By 2002 they added 72 language choices, and also launched their 1st hardware, a yellow box for businesses called Google Search Appliance. Next in the history of Google, they additionally launched Google News and Froogle, a shopping search. Froogle is now Google Product Search and is being frequently used by almost everyone.

Google had also launched Gmail, Google Buzz, Google Trends and more. They have acquired Blogger and YouTube. Google Inc has its offices across world. In history of Google, till the end of 2009 it had employed over 19,800. Their offices have 5 star chefs and special areas for their employees to take naps. They have been going strong ever since, making them the largest and best search engine website today, with multiple enrichments. Google is creating history by launching unique features day by day.

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