History of Google

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In 1996 two Standford University students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on a search engine model which they named “Backrub”. “Backrub” operates on Stanford servers, eventually taking up too much bandwidth suitable for the University.

After some brainstorming they decided to change the name in 1997. Word playing with the word googol, which represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros, they came up with Google. The term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly endless amount of information on the net.

PC Magazine named Google, search engine of choice in 1998, saying Google “has an uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results”

In May 2000 the first 10 language varieties of Google are released: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish.
Google AdWords launched with 350 customers in October 2000.
On 26 June 2000 Google became the world’s largest search engine; whom announced the first billion-URL index, which grew to 3 billion web documents in December 2001.

In February 2004 Google search index hit a new milestone: 6 billion items, including 4.28 billion web pages and 880 million images
Google announced more than 100 Google domains in September 2004, which has since grown to more than 150.

In November 2004 Google had more webpages in their index than there are people on the planet till recently documented: 8 Billion.
Google maps went live in February 2005.
On June 2005 Google Earth were launched. “Google Earth: a satellite imagery-based mapping service combining 3D buildings and terrain with mapping capabilities and Google search.”

Email can be used as a chat as from 7 February 2006.
On 25 July 2008 Google announced “Our indexing system for processing links indicates that we now count 1 trillion unique URLs (and the number of individual web pages out there is growing by several billion pages per day).

In October 2006 Google became the proud new owner of Youtube.com, bought from the original owners.
Google Launched their social network website called Google Plus in June 2011.

To visit Google, go to http://www.google.com/

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