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1995Larry Page(American) Sergey Brin (Russian)
Larry and Sergey met
at Stanford University , USA
1996● Page and Brin created a search engine
named as “BACKRUB”
● It occurred to them that a search engine based on “PageRank” would produce better results than existing techniques.
What is PageRank?
● A way of analyzing websites based on their link relationships.
● PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value.
● In essence, it interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B.
● But, it looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives and it also analyzes the page that casts the vote.
● Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important.”
Difference between PageRank and existing techniques at that time
Other techniques ● At the time that Page and
Brin met, search engines typically linked to pages that had the highest keyword density, which meant people could game the system by repeating the same phrase over and over to attract higher search page results.
PageRank● Page and Brin's theory is
that the search results should not only be depending on the keywords but also link relationships.
1998
● Larry and Sergey got their first big investment of $25 million
● They moved from Stanford to their new office at Palo Alto , which is in same city
● Larry and Sergey formally incorporated their company and it Google Inc.
2000
Google hit many milestones :● Its 26th official language.● Its first two webby awards.● Became the largest search index
on internet.
2001
● Sergey and Larry hired Google's first
CEO, Eric Schmidt
● Also opened its first international office in Tokyo● Google IMAGES with 250 million images pages
2002
● Launched Google NEWS with 4000
news resources online.
2003
GOOGLEPLEX : Google’s mega office with 1,628 employees working in it
2004
Google launched Orkut , its social networking site
● Google also introduced Gmail with 1 gb storage space
2005
● Google introduced Google Maps and Google Talks
Google maps Google Talks
2006
By this year:● Google announced that it would buy the popular
online video site YouTube for $1.65 billion● It release Google Trends, a way to visualize the
popularity of searches over time.
2007
● Android mobile operating system
was introduced.
2008
by this year,● 20,222 employees in Googolplex, the
headquarter of Google
AND● It enters the browser wars with introducing its
browser Google chrome
2009
2010
● Google was the 2nd most visited website
in behind Facebook.
● Google ended the year with $35 billion in cash
2011
What was left for the Google to take on ?
● It acquired Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion
Today
● Google has more than 70 offices in more than 40 countries around the globe.
● Google’s net worth is around $ 200 billion with 53,546 employees working making it one of the largest multinational companies
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