Google History: from the best search engine to the best company

History of Google Inc. Begins its existence from the end of the 20th century. It was then, in September 1998, that Sergei Brin and Larry Page registered a new company in the State of California, which was destined to change people's views on search engines and their capabilities.

However, the "official" creation of Google Inc. Preceded by three intense years, during which two founding friends invented and polished their offspring. They met and met in 1995, at Stanford University, when Breen received a doctorate there , and Paige was just about to begin his studies. Both agreed that existing search engines, to put it mildly, are ineffective, although they differed in points of view on many other things.

Sergey Brin at the time was looking for a topic for his scientific work, and among other things, he was interested in problems of data collection. In late 1995, together with Larry, he began work on a project that turned into the search system BackRub. In her work, a completely new approach to assessing sites on the Internet was used: if other existing search engines took into account how many times a search word was found on the page, BackRub "watched" how many times and which sites refer to each one available.

According to the logic of the developers, the more some site is mentioned, the more useful and interesting the information is on it. This has significantly improved the quality of the search. The brainchild of Sergei and Larry earned on the servers of Stanford University, allowing all students of this institution to use it for internal search.

The system worked really well, and users were very enthusiastic about it. In 1997, the creators decided to give their development a new name, and, finally, stopped at "Google" (here played the sound of "googol" - the word, which means 10100).

However, in about the same year, Sergei and Larry had to look for another room and opportunities for the system, since, becoming popular, it more and more downloaded the server of Stanford. Having patented a new search technology, the creators tried to sell it - however, none of the companies that they offered it, did not agree to purchase. Perhaps it was one of those fortunate events, thanks to which the history of the creation of Google did not end without ingloriousness - it was the refusal of potential buyers that forced Brin and Page to found their own company, which is now one of the most successful in the world.

The first investor of Google was Andy Bechtolsheim, the first employee was a student of the same Stanford Craig Silverstein, and the first office is the garage of Susan Wojcicki. However, in February 1999, the office moved to a new location in Palo Alto - the garage became cramped for a team of eight people. A couple more moves followed, until finally the company settled in a town called Mountain View.

Meanwhile, Google's history continued: innovation and development appeared as if from a cornucopia. In May 2000, the company presents versions in French, Spanish, German, Swedish and 6 more languages, concludes an agreement with Yahoo !, launches Google AdWords, buys the Usenet discussion service, creates and provides users with image search, opens an office in Tokyo ... The organization grows , The number of employees is increasing, new applications, developments and opportunities continue to appear at a fantastic pace.

In 2002, Google already supports 72 languages, among which is the Klingon, fictional language of the alien race from the "Star Trek" series. In the same year, Google's history captures the appearance of the Froogle service, which will later be renamed Google Shopping.

The following year, a growing company buys Pyra Labs, the creator of the Blogger platform, and Applied Semantics, which uses the technologies of the AdSense service. Appears Google Print, later turned into Google Books.

In 2004, the company moved again - this time in Googleplex, also in Mountain View. She establishes an Anita Borg scholarship, places her shares on the stock exchange, a beta version of the Google Academy appears.

And while a serious business is being done, the guys do not forget about the fun - on April 1 they come up with more and more jokes. For example, the year 2002 was marked by the fact that, within the framework of the April Fool's novelty, they "revealed the secret" - their algorithm is so good because it uses ordinary pigeons.

Meanwhile, the history of Google continues - the News application is launched, AdWords is developing, users are able to personalize the Google homepage, contest logos, competitions between programmers, opening new offices. Investments in the development of alternative energy, charitable projects - they want to make the world a better place, and they do it well.

Although more than ten years have passed since the company was founded, it still continues to develop explosively - creating the hope that the history of Google will continue and so, we are waiting for even more amazing opportunities and discoveries from the most beloved search engine for Web users.