Hardly any sites have been so important in network history as the Google search engine. With over 50 percent of all the searches conducted through the tens of thousands of computers that make up Google, it has the strongest position on the web.
It have not always been that way.
Google started as the smallest of all the student projects at Stanford University outside San Francisco. Two students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page had a new idea about how search engines could calculate which pages were the most relevant for any search.
At that time, the search engine AltaVista was the king of search engines, that everybody went to.
People had a feeling that Google gave more precise search results than other search sites at the time. One of the reasons for this was that Google not only tried to match the words the user searched on the web pages for, but also how popular web sites were.
It was done by creating a system where websites with more links from other websites was higher on the list than other sites.
At the same time other search engines experimented with squeezing sponsored results highest on the list, making more relevant results to come further down.
The Name Google
The strange name came from a wrong syllable of the word Gogol, describing 1 with one hundred zeros behind. The name should describe the enormous amount of information that Google invested in to cover.
Growing Fast
Shortly after the launch of Google search on the university's systems, Google moved to the later iconic network name google.com and 7 September 1998 Google was founded as a privately owned company.
As with many other U.S. technology pioneers such as Hewlett Packard, Cisco and Apple, Google started in a garage of a friend of Page and Brin.
Google quickly grew out of the garage after having received around one million in initial funding, and went through a lot of places before they settle at Mountain View, California. The area where Google has its headquarters is called The Googleplex, a pun on the word behind the foundation of Google.
Having settle down in Mountain View, Google established itself quickly as a different company with a business culture that separated them from the other companies.
More services as possibility to bring pets to work, cleaning services, child care and a world famous canteen gave Google a good reputation.
In addition, the Google engineers could set aside a day of the week to work with their own projects they think was funny, without authorization. It led to many side projects as Google Mail or Gmail.
For many years, Google was the dream workplace for all IT-educated and pulled to them tens of thousands of new employees in a short time.
The Controversy
Google included a remarkable statement in the stock statement before the stock opened for public trading. The motto "Do not be evil" was included in the shares prospect and has since been linked to Google as their motto. It does not relieve Google for more controversy over the years.
With over half the market for search engines and competitors seemingly without the ability to get up, Google has shot to the sky and been there. The simple home page of Google have become almost standard starting point for finding information, which has led to a fear of powerful control of the network information.
China has also worked with both Google and Yahoo where they agreed to follow China's censorship laws. It awakened the mind of many champions of online freedom worldwide.
It have not always been that way.
Google started as the smallest of all the student projects at Stanford University outside San Francisco. Two students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page had a new idea about how search engines could calculate which pages were the most relevant for any search.
At that time, the search engine AltaVista was the king of search engines, that everybody went to.
People had a feeling that Google gave more precise search results than other search sites at the time. One of the reasons for this was that Google not only tried to match the words the user searched on the web pages for, but also how popular web sites were.
It was done by creating a system where websites with more links from other websites was higher on the list than other sites.
At the same time other search engines experimented with squeezing sponsored results highest on the list, making more relevant results to come further down.
The Name Google
The strange name came from a wrong syllable of the word Gogol, describing 1 with one hundred zeros behind. The name should describe the enormous amount of information that Google invested in to cover.
Growing Fast
Shortly after the launch of Google search on the university's systems, Google moved to the later iconic network name google.com and 7 September 1998 Google was founded as a privately owned company.
As with many other U.S. technology pioneers such as Hewlett Packard, Cisco and Apple, Google started in a garage of a friend of Page and Brin.
Google quickly grew out of the garage after having received around one million in initial funding, and went through a lot of places before they settle at Mountain View, California. The area where Google has its headquarters is called The Googleplex, a pun on the word behind the foundation of Google.
Having settle down in Mountain View, Google established itself quickly as a different company with a business culture that separated them from the other companies.
More services as possibility to bring pets to work, cleaning services, child care and a world famous canteen gave Google a good reputation.
In addition, the Google engineers could set aside a day of the week to work with their own projects they think was funny, without authorization. It led to many side projects as Google Mail or Gmail.
For many years, Google was the dream workplace for all IT-educated and pulled to them tens of thousands of new employees in a short time.
The Controversy
Google included a remarkable statement in the stock statement before the stock opened for public trading. The motto "Do not be evil" was included in the shares prospect and has since been linked to Google as their motto. It does not relieve Google for more controversy over the years.
With over half the market for search engines and competitors seemingly without the ability to get up, Google has shot to the sky and been there. The simple home page of Google have become almost standard starting point for finding information, which has led to a fear of powerful control of the network information.
China has also worked with both Google and Yahoo where they agreed to follow China's censorship laws. It awakened the mind of many champions of online freedom worldwide.
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