Google is coming to campus today and all the events are hosted in Jepson Hall.
While you can learn much about Google’s hiring process, culture, job and/ internship opportunities, are you curious about how did Google get started?
Start:
Google started with two students Larry Page(at age 23) and Sergey Brin (at age 24), who were pursuing their Ph.D. at Stanford University. While they were collaborating on a search engine called BackRub in 1996, which was written in Java and Python and ran on several Sun Ultras and Intel Pentiums running Linux.
They achieved great success with the server and officially launched Google.com as a domain on September 15, 1997. The company was formally incorporated on September 4, 1998. The name Google was a word play on mathematical term "googol," which means ten raised to the power of a hundred (10^100). This term represented their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
They achieved great success with the server and officially launched Google.com as a domain on September 15, 1997. The company was formally incorporated on September 4, 1998. The name Google was a word play on mathematical term "googol," which means ten raised to the power of a hundred (10^100). This term represented their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
Development and Today:
Instead of allowing pop-up advertisement in the search engine, Google only allows is single text ads. Even though the home page was still marked "Beta (development stage)," many articles already argued that Google provided better search results than its competitors. During the dot-com bubble, Google was also referred to as "the future of the Web", especially by stock market investors.
Over the next ten years, Google took a series of acquisitions and launched many applications including Google Group, Google Toolbar, Google News, Google Images and so much more. In 2004, Google had IPO of 19,605,052 shares of Class A common stock takes place on Wall Street. Opening price was $85 per share. It also owns websites including YouTube and Blogger. In August 2015, Google reorganized its interesting as a holding company named Alphabet Inc.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Instead of allowing pop-up advertisement in the search engine, Google only allows is single text ads. Even though the home page was still marked "Beta (development stage)," many articles already argued that Google provided better search results than its competitors. During the dot-com bubble, Google was also referred to as "the future of the Web", especially by stock market investors.
Over the next ten years, Google took a series of acquisitions and launched many applications including Google Group, Google Toolbar, Google News, Google Images and so much more. In 2004, Google had IPO of 19,605,052 shares of Class A common stock takes place on Wall Street. Opening price was $85 per share. It also owns websites including YouTube and Blogger. In August 2015, Google reorganized its interesting as a holding company named Alphabet Inc.
1.https://www.google.com/search?q=google&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiB5_nPkOfPAhVIHT4KHQQuBMMQ_AUICygE&biw=1249&bih=589#imgdii=7IKHjqDTO__xIM%3A%3B7IKHjqDTO__xIM%3A%3B2stnn3dUTo2FjM%3A&imgrc=7IKHjqDTO__xIM%3AICygE&biw=1280&bih=628#imgrc=mRJiumYp6_53fM%3A
2.https://www.google.com/search?q=Larry+Page+23+and+Sergey+Brin+24&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwji746UkefPAhXKWz4KHefRCCIQ_AUICSgC&biw=1249&bih=585#imgrc=hXyZDfTlNsffUM%3A
Writing References:
1. https://www.google.com/about/company/history/
2. http://www.steegle.com/about/google-101-facts/1-11-how-it-all-began
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google
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Interesting blog topic! I am indeed curious about how Google started and this blog post answers me. Previously, I did not use Google, but recently I have used it more and more. I totally agree that Google provided better search results than its competitors!
ReplyDeleteWow its cool to know how Google started. Especially being from the Bay Area I regularly drive by the Google campus, and see google cars driving around. To think that the widlely known search engine was created simply by two grad students I think is quite amazing.
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