Google History
Many users prefer using the Google search engine because of the ease of use and the quick load time of the home page when compared to its competitors.
Larry Page started Google as a research project in 1996, and soon after started the project at Stanford University, with Sergey Brin joining the project. The program was first developed as a new search engine for the Stanford Digital Library Project, and the goal was to make a single, integrated and universal digital library for the students of the university. Page and Brin received a large amount of funding for this project from the National Science Foundation and the rest is history.
The focus of the project was to figuring out how certain web pages link to one another across the web and making sure that these pages were cohesive in subject manner. For example, typing in a certain keyword into a search engine would pull up sites that did not have anything to do with the particular keyword. In turn, this made many have to dig through many other sites in order to find the correct information. Many people can remember the frustrations of surfing the World Wide Web with many primitive search engines in the early days of the internet, this has all changed.
Many wonder on how the name “Google” first came about as a name for the search engine. The funny sounding name is actually the misspelled word “googol”. The word googol refers to the number one that is followed by one-hundred zeros. The term ‘Google” is now used in every day conversations and was first inducted into the Merriam Webster dictionary in 2006. The definition of “Google” in the dictionary is “to use the search engine Google to search for information on the internet.”
The domain name Google was first registered on September 15, 1997, and the day google.com was born would change the way many of us search the internet forever. The pair first became a corporation on September 4, 1998, and named the company Google Inc. All of these things took place in a friend’s garage in Menlo Park, California and has had a direct impact on the world of computer search engines.
When Page and Brin first incorporated Google, they were against the whole idea of using pop-up ads with their search engine. The pair soon found out the money that could be made by allowing the use of this type of advertising on their search engine. At that time Google only allowed simple text ads to be used in the pop-ups, but today that has all changed and Google advertising is one of the most popular and lucrative ways in which to advertise a business on the web.
At the end of 1998, Google had a total of about 60 million pages within its index. Even funnier is that the home page was still marked as “BETA” even after having such a huge search index. Google soon grew again when an article in Salon.com was arguing the fact that the Google search engine results were more accurate and of better quality, than those of many of the larger competitors in the business. These competitors included Excite.com, Hotbot, Yahoo!, Netscape, AOL.com and MSN.com. Google was soon becoming a more innovative search engine and the most commonly selected. Many people still believed Google was a passing fancy, but were very, very wrong.
Google is one of the top innovators in search engines and is constantly growing and expanding. All of these factors combine to make Google the top search engine of choice for internet users the world over.
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