Google Story: From the student project to tens of billion company

         Google Story: From the student project to tens of billion company





Earlier last week, Google has celebrated 11 years of existence. During these years, the research project started by Sergey Brin and Larry Page at Stanford University has become a company with an annual turnover of billions of dollars.

The anniversary was held on September 27 in recent years, although the company has officially born September 4, 1998, and the area that made it famous, google.com was registered on 15 September 1997. It began in January 1996, however.

The idea - 1996

In January 1996, Larry Page, then a student at Stanford, started a research project which was shortly joined by Sergey Brin, another student.They were of the view that a search engine that analyzed the relationships between sites could produce better results than the techniques used then to arrange the results by number of appearances of the search term per page. Their creation was originally the name BackRub.
Eventually, they changed the name to Google, originating from a misspelling of the word "googol", the number one followed by one hundred zeros, which was picked to signify that the search engine wants to provide large quantities of information for people. Originally, Google ran under the Stanford University website, with the domain google.stanford.edu

The beginning - 1998

Larry Page and Sergey Brin called BackRub abandoned in favor of Google, a derivative of the mathematical term "googol". Followed to obtain the domain google.com, after a period used the google.stanford.edu address. With support from Andy Bechtolsheim 100,000, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, Page and Brin rented a space with 1,700 dollars a month in Menlo Park. Was born in September "Google Technology Inc". By the end, Google has begun to appear in newspaper articles, and Craig Silverstein became the first employee of the company.

New people, new offices - 1999

I had to hire more people, Google has moved premises twice in 1999. In the first half of the year was not enough existing space, so Google has moved to Palo Alto. Also in June, launched its first press release announcing the acquisition of funds of 25 million dollars. The move followed in Mountain View, after Google had reached 40 employees. Also in that year the company name was removed from an exclamation point.

Development and Expansion - 2000


2000 was a year of growth for Google: in addition to reaching number 1 billion web pages indexed, Google site was înbunătăţit to support 15 other languages, including Chinese, French, German, Japanese, and others.
In that year, Yahoo!, a company already high at the time, announced that it will use the Google engine. It was an important agreement because Yahoo! was then one of the most common sites for searches on Google and it had set as distant rival.
AdWords successful launch took place until the end of the year, with Google toolbar. The company grew steadily, pushed forward engine Google, which already held 100 million searches a day.

Global Expansion - 2001

After making its search engine available in over 25 languages, it seemed natural to follow the international Google opening an office in Tokyo.
However, the former Novell CEO Eric Schmidt, Google has been recruited as President of the Board. He later became CEO.
Google already have 3 billion web pages indexed, it was decided to launch an image search service. It was originally 250 million images indexed.

Launches Year - 2002

In 2002 the company launched several products, including online procurement program Froogle, Google Labs or service experimentalul successful Google News. The number of languages ​​offered by the site has exceeded 70, there is included a translation into Klingon for Star Trek fans.
Also in this year achiziţioant Pyra Labs, creators of Blogger service that allowed users to easily publish their thoughts online.
Real recognition of the company occurred in 2002 when his name began to be used as a verb - "Google it" has become synonymous with the word search. He attended the launch of Google Print in December. Currently this product is known as Google Book Search, a service enabling users to see fragments of thousands of books in digital format.

E-mail Google style - 2004

The biggest news about Google in 2004 was the launch of their e-mail service, Gmail. 1GB space had not been offered by any provider of free e-mail before, and also benefit Gmail and easy to use interface and a search box in your inbox. Initially launched by invitation only. Program out of beta in 2009.
In 2004, Google moved the "Googleplex" headquarters where there is today. Also opened a research and development center in Tokyo and an office in Europe, in Dublin. The number of employees exceeded 3,000. Already have 8 billion items indexed.

Drawing the world - 2005

In 2005, the company's effort to organize the world's information is translated by Google Maps. Google Maps service has been constantly improved since then, new tools were added as satellite images and travel directions, and information about many places. Quickly followed Google Earth, a 3D application of satellite imagery. Since that year, each user was able to arrange Google page after its needs through the launch of iGoogle. They also launched Google Reader RSS and Google Analytics, but also versions of Gmail, Blogger and Search for mobile phones.
That year, a couple has children named Google, and Google has announced the acquisition of video site for $ 1.65 billion.

The continuous growth - 2007

Arrived in Australia Google Maps, Google Docs suite became available in several languages, and Gmail was released.
The main innovation of Google in 2007 was the addition of images in Google Maps street. Called Street View, allowing exploration of many American cities at street level.
YouTube success has infected at Google, and video content site purchased in 2006 has become a phenomenon. Even the Queen of England had its own channel.

After 10 years - 2008

With the 10th anniversary, Google shows no sign that would slow down. In 2008 he released his first iPhone application, Street View has expanded to other countries, launched a new version of Picasa photo and Knol, a Wikipedia-type service.
The most important movement in 2008 the company was launching its own web browser, Chrome. Last year came on the market and the first mobile phone equipped with the operating system developed by Google, Android.
Google News 2008: offline access to Gmail, Google's new version of Earth, Google Wave, Latitude.
By far the most important company announcement: working on an operating system. Google Chrome OS would be released in 2010.