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− | '''Google''' is a multi-national company providing search, advertising, cloud computing services and many other business solutions. The company aims to organize and monetize the world information.<ref>[http://www.crunchbase.com/company/google CrunchBase]</ref> The company ranked 4th on Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2011.<ref>[http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2011/snapshots/4.html Fortune]</ref> | + | '''Google''' is a multi-national company providing search, advertising, cloud computing services and many other business solutions. The company's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/index.html Google Mission]</ref> The company ranked 4th on Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2011.<ref>[http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2011/snapshots/4.html Fortune]</ref> |
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| ==History== | | ==History== |
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| + | ===Origins of Google=== |
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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> 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> |
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| + | ===First Investors=== |
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| + | [[Andy Bechtolsheim]], co-founder of [[Sun Microsystems]] was Google's first investor in 1998 followed by [[Ram Shriram]], former President of Junglee and current Managing Director at [[Sherpalo Ventures]]. On June 7, 1999, Google received a major equity funding of $25 million from '''Sequoia Capital''' and '''Kleiner Perkins'''; '''John Doerr''' and '''Michael Moritz''' join the company's board of directors.<ref> |
| + | [http://classic-web.archive.org/web/20000309205910/http://google.com/pressrel/pressrelease1.html Press Release]</ref> |
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| + | ===Timeline: 2000-present=== |
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| + | In 2000, Google is already available in different languages which include French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish,<ref>[http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease22.html Google Goes Global]</ref> Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. <ref>[http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease34.html Global Expansion]</ref> The Google Adwords was launched with 350 customers and Google Toolbar. On June 11, 2000, the google home page became the largest search engine with 1 billion items.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/timeline/#2000 Timeline Year 2000]</ref> |
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| ==References== | | ==References== |