Google Inc. is an American multinational public company which invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and technology advertising. Google developed a number of Internet-based services and many generate profits primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. The name "Google" was actually a change from the word "Googol" which means 10 ^ 100, which means the numbers 1 and followed by one hundred zeros that are intended to show that on Google there is a wealth of information about "countless" number.
In 1995
Edward Lawrence (short: Larry) Page met Sergey Brin at Stanford University.
January 1996
Google began as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were both completed the study as a PhD student at Stanford University in California. Unbelievably, the giant and stars internet coming from the garage of a friend of two young men (Larry Page and Sergey Brin), They designed the search engine "BackRub", a precursor Google. It was named for the BackLinks, which are analyzed to determine the value of a web page. Based on the logic that the page with many links pointing to that page is important and relevant pages, then Larry Page and Sergey Brin do testing for their search engine. Finally, they used search engines made by Stanford University in google.stanford.edu.
September 15, 1997
Domain google.com was registered and became a company Google Inc.
September 4, 1998
Google is at that time was still based at the garage owned by a friend of Larry Page and Sergey Grin, at that time Google has reached an investment to $ 1.1 million, including $ 100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the inventors of Sun Microsystems.
March 1999
Google's move to Palo Alto office. Since that, Google continues to grow and continue to receive many visits through its search engines, because a simple design and good search results. About 500,000 searches were then recorded daily.
June 7, 1999
A round of equity funding totalling $25 million was announced.
September 1999
In 2000
Google began to open lines of advertising based on keywords, is Google Adwords.
September 4, 2001
Google patented a system of ranking search results that is currently popular is called PageRank. Google's success continues with the many innovations and services that create useful for Internet users.
In 2003
After quickly growing, the company leased a complex of buildings in Mountain View at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway from Silicon Graphics (SGI).
In 2006
With the price of $ 319 million, Google is finally able to buy the property from SGI.
In 2008
Google is a big company in America with an income of approximately $ 21 billion / year. Income of that, 99.9% obtained from the advertising spread in almost all aspects of cyberspace.
Until recently, Google has been developing very rapidly.
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