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Google, is the biggest and most widely used search engine, gives us every each website we search for, but do you know about its history? It can be quite fascinating, that the Google we see now, was born ten years ago, and started off as a two-man company, wandering to seek their place on the web. But as years rolled by, Google emerged as one of the major companies in the world and certainly the best search engine in the world, used by about 10 million people everyday. The Google History, begins here, In September 1998, two 25-Year

Google Co-founders(Larry Page & Sergey Brin)

old guy named Larry Page and Sergey Brin, educated at the Stanford University, developed a search engine and named it “Google”. While leading their life eating fast foods, they looked for investors but everyone seemed to disapprove their plan even their friend and Yahoo Chairman David Filo, then the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Andy Bechtolsheim, became interested in their search engine and issues a cheque to Google, Inc of $100,000. By this support, Google continues to develop to compete against the then famous search engines, Yahoo, Excite, and AltaVista, and finally changes from the Beta stage to the final stage and the Google logo comes out to public in the year 1999. Then in the next year, i.e., in 2000, Google starts displaying Advertisements on their website. Aware of the fact that excessive of image advertisements can cause a loss of users of the site, Google starts

Google Adwords

Adwords, which displays small text based advertisements on the side of the search result page, that is designed to read the content and display advertisements according to it. In the year 2001, Google introduces Image Search, according to it, users would be able to find image results too from about 250 million+ images in their database. Then comes the year 2002, when Google

taps some about 4500+ News Sources, launches the Beta Version of Google News, and plans for archiving thr news in the future, so that the users would be able to find them in a matter of minutes, even though they are years old. Then came the time for Google Adsense in 2003, in which webmasters would be able to display advertisements from Google Adwords in their own sites, and keep some part of the advertising revenue. In the year 2004, Google came out to public, they launched their shares in NASDAQ and made them available only

through auctions, which made many employees milionaires almost overnight. In the same year Google launched its Mail Service named as Gmail, is was made available only through invitations and would offer great mail service to the users providing them a storage space of about 1GB. Then came the time for Google Earth and Google Maps, which provided users with the facility of viewing their places with ease and right from their homes, and to find their way incase of getting lost anywhere. Google extended this facility to Google Sky with which users would be able to explore Space, from their home, no rocket needed. In the year 2006, came the time for one of the biggest deals ever made on the history of Web, the acquisition of YouTube,

the largest video platform in the world, by Google, Inc for about $1.65 billion, putting Google Video to long term rest. Then in the year 2007, Google enhanced its maps to Street View, by capturing the real street view by fitting 360 degrees camera to innumerous cars and zooming across the city, clicking photos everywhere, for giving the users the ability to view the places as they would view if they were really there. Finally came the time for Google Android and Google Crome, which also reflected the company’s personality and won the hearts of the users worldwide, as Android provides the users with better features on the phones, and Chrome makes it easy and fast to surf the web. One of the most exciting facts about Google is that, nothing definite can be expected from the

company as Google keeps surprising us in many ways by its splendid products and services. Hats Off to the best search engine in the Universe, Google!!!

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