Google History: From a Garage to The Whole World

Today, who does not know Google? Internet giant one is slowly getting popular in the internet world and the farther left the competition - pesaingya. With approximately 20,000 full-time workers at this time, I always pull out innovation and new products that are increasingly difficult to match by competitors. Currently, Google is a big company in America with an income around $ 21 billion in 2008 and expected to reach $ 40 billion in 2009.




99.9% of that income derived from advertising spread in almost all aspects of the virtual world. Google's initial mission is to "bring together all the information from around the world and make it accessible and useful" it is now indeed become a "star" in the internet world.

But who would have thought that the internet giant and the star came from the garage of a friend's two boys and began in January 1996. At that time a study conducted by Larry Page and Sergey Brin worked with when they were both PhD students at Stanford University, California. They concluded that a search engine that analyzed the relationships between websites produces better ranking results than search engines with the methods available at that time.

Finally they both make a search engine with the name "Backrub" because it has a system to check backlinks to estimate the importance of the level of a site. At that time a small search engine called Rankdex also doing the same investigation.

Based on the logic that a page with many links leading to that page is the page that are important and relevant, then Larry Page and Sergey Brin tested their thesis and make the search engines for their research. Finally made ​​their search engine used by Stanford University in google.stanford.edu. And domain google.com was registered on 15 September 1997 and became the company Google Inc..
On 4 September 1998, Google at that time was based on the garage owned by a friend of Larry Page and Sergey Grin has reached an investment up to $ 1.1 million, including $ 100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems. Google's new office in March 1999 moved to Palo Alto. Since those times google continues to grow and continue to receive many visits to search enginenya because the design is simple and the results are good.

Server First Owned GoogleIn 2000 Google began opening track kahirnya advertising based on keywords, ie Google Adwords. On 4 September 2001 Google has also patented a system perankingan search results now popularly called PageRank. Google's success continue rising as more innovative and useful service for Internet users. It's time to make many other internet giants like Yahoo and even Microsoft to worry. Even until now, even Google still innovating with will launch various new products such as the Flip, and Google is always updating and developing long products such as Picasa and Google Chrome. Even Google is also diligent in perfecting and completing a variety of its products such as Google Translate widget can now be installed on all pages of the site.

Google name itself is actually a play on the word Googol which means 10 to the power of 100, which means the number 1 followed by one hundred zeros and purporting to show that at Google there is a wealth of information about "countless" number.