Google – the story of a search engine
On 7th September 2008 celebrated its 10 Google search engine. Birthday. What once started as a vision of two students is the most valuable and most influential companies in the world today…
Already some years before the official company founded in 1998 filter Larry Page and Sergey Brin at their idea to call a custom search engine. This should compared to existing search engines faster, easier and easier to use be.
Was tomorrow for the later success ‘ PageRank ‘, up until then completely new assessment criteria for Web pages. The PageRank evaluated Web pages due to the quality and number of incoming references party.
In the first years, Google was still BackRub, the official headquarters was a small garage in California. With the company formation on 7. September 1998 the name Google was born. Google is a reference to the word Google which stands for a 1 with 100 zeros. The name should indicate the immense size of the Internet.
Already in the alpha stage Google could convince significantly better search results with its simple user interface and the compared to other search engines. More and more users and also investors were out on Google. One of the first donor was the German Andreas, founder of Sun Micro systems. He was by the commitment of both students and ready to invest $ 100 k.
Inspired by the overwhelmingly positive response and other investors capital two Google founders continue to work to improve their search engine. Moved in a small office in Palo Alto, new employees were up and increased the daily queries from initially 10,000 quickly to over a million. 1999 The time was to magazine Google the ‘ top 100 ´ Web pages.
The ultimate breakthrough Google in 2000. Now in the Google, well-known companies such as Yahoo!, AOL, Netscape, were due to the increasingly growing quality of search results beaten give ´ in mountain view resident free serve and BBCi and cooperate with Google. The former garage firm of absolute leader in search was quick.
Another milestone in the history of Google’s was the IPO in 2004. Google shares belong to the most successful shares at all. Former employees who have received some shares in addition to its content are partly multiple millionaires today.
The two Google founder Larry page and Sergey Brin over the last decade empty originated. Belong to the richest people in the world and still all make Google brand more known.
Google more makes long no secret to coordinate someday all information of humanity. In addition to a vision become reality, Google has also become a risk. Time to 10. Birthday has sent the company a satellite into orbit, its high-resolution make everything so far something in the…
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