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| ==Company Background== | | ==Company Background== |
| + | In 1996, [[Larry Page]] and [[Sergey Brin]], both Stanford University graduate students, partnered in building '''BackRub''' a search engine that determined the importance of individual web pages. This search engine operated for more than a year at Stanford servers until it took too much bandwith to suit the university.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html History]</ref> |
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− | In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both Stanford University graduate students partnered in building '''BackRub''' a search engine that determines the importance of individual web pages. This search engine operated for more than a year at Stanford servers until it took too much bandwith to suit the university.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html History]</ref>
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| + | In 1997, Page and Brin decided to change the name of the BackRub search engine, the two brainstormed and came up with '''Google'''- a term derived from the mathematical term '''googol,''' which means the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.<ref>[http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Googol.html Mathworld]</ref> The name reflects the founders objective, which is to organize an infinite amount of information on the web. |
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− | In 1997, Page and Brin decided to change the name of the BackRub search engine, the two brainstormed and came up with '''Google'''- a term derived from the mathematical term '''googol,''' which means the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.<ref>[http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Googol.html Mathworld]</ref> Google represents the founders objective which is to organize an infinite amount of information on the web.
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− | | + | On September 4, 1998, Google was incorporated in California. The company started its business operations in a garage at Menlo Park. Craig Silverstein, was the first employee hired by Page and Brin, a fellow computer science graduate from Stanford. PC Magazine recognized Google as one of the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html History]</ref> |
− | On September 4, 1998, Google was incorporated in California. The company started its business operations in a garage at Menlo Park. Craig Silverstein, was the first employee hired by Page and Brin, a fellow computer science graduate from Stanford.PC Magazine recognized Google as one of the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html History]</ref> | |
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| ==First Investors== | | ==First Investors== |