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Google’s 10 birthday. September 27, 2008

Posted by aminz in Uncategorized.
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Now-a-days we cant think a day without google.and also it makes us very informative.sometimes i search in google instead of searching a word in my dictionary.everything is very easy to find.As a software engineer i am in deep fear,if google stop its service definitely i have to search for new job. ha ha.whenever i need a simple solution at first i googling instead of thinking.

Google.com domain name was registered, September 15 1997, so the company will turn 11 next week.But i dont know why its 10th birthday.
From http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html

1995-1997

1995

* Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford. (Larry, 24, a U Michigan grad, is considering the school; Sergey, 23, is assigned to show him around.) According to some accounts, they disagree about most everything during this first meeting.

1996

* Larry and Sergey, now Stanford computer science grad students, begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub.
* BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year — eventually taking up too much bandwidth to suit the university.

1997

* Larry and Sergey decide that the BackRub search engine needs a new name. After some brainstorming, they go with Google — a play on the word “googol,” a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.

1998

August

* Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check for $100,000 to an entity that doesn’t exist yet: a company called Google Inc.

September

* Google sets up workspace in Susan Wojcicki’s garage at 232 Santa Margarita, Menlo Park.
* Google files for incorporation in California on September 4. Shortly thereafter, Larry and Sergey open a bank account in the newly-established company’s name and deposit Andy Bechtolsheim’s check.
* Larry and Sergey hire Craig Silverstein as their first employee; he’s a fellow computer science grad student at Stanford.

December

* “PC Magazine” reports that Google “has an uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results” and recognizes us as the search engine of choice in the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998.

Whatever it…i know google is my friend.Wish a good success of google. JOY GOOGLE.

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