The history of the creation of Google. Why is Google Google? Public IPO of Google Inc


Do you use Google search engine? Did you know that Google stores your search queries in your Search History?

If you know, then this is already good, because if necessary, delete your search history over a certain period of time it will not be difficult for you. And if you don’t know, then it is advisable for you to familiarize yourself with the contents of this article, since all your data that will be stored or is already stored there is.

What information does Google store:

  • your search queries entered into Google search, sorted by day;
  • their results;
  • the actions you take with these results;
  • your actions with advertisements;
  • information about the browser you are using...

I think that this information is enough to think about whether to continue to store this data or delete it if necessary. But without access to your Google account, and Search History is turned on automatically when you create an account, no one except you and probably Google will know about it :).

Now remember, do you always click the “Log out” button in your account before closing your browser? Therefore, without properly completing your work with your account, all users of your computer (relatives, friends, employees, etc.) can have access to the Search History.

There is also a huge plus, for example for me, on the days I need, I don’t leave my account on home computer and I always know what my children are looking for on the Internet! Or another plus, if today you forgot on which site, for example yesterday, you found it necessary information(video, article, etc.), then now you will always know where to look for the answer!

Please also remember that sensitive data is also stored in Internet browsers. Therefore, if you clear your Search History, then clear your confidential data in the browser. You can read how to do this.

SEARCH HISTORY

https://history.google.com/history/

This is what this storage location looks like (for all time).

Or by sections (in the example, the “Video” section).

HOW TO DELETE SEARCH HISTORY

On the right side of your account, click on the gear icon, click on “Delete records”, select the desired period for deletion and click the “Delete” button.

HOW TO DISABLE IT. Go to:

https://www.google.com/settings/accounthistory/search

and click on the “Disconnect” button.

I think manually clearing your Search History periodically would make more sense! You can find details at this link:

https://support.google.com/accounts/topic/14148?hl=ru&ref_topic=28726

by copying it and pasting it into address bar Internet browser. Don’t leave the blog, because about 500 more useful tips and instructions are waiting for you!

The Google story begins in 1995 at Stanford University. Larry Page was considering Stanford for grad school and Sergey Brin, a student there, was assigned to show him around.

By some accounts, they disagreed about nearly everything during that first meeting, but by the following year they struck a partnership. Working from their dorm rooms, they built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine Backrub.

Soon after, Backrub was renamed by Google (phew). The name was a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros and aptly reflected Larry and Sergey"s mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

Over the next few years, Google caught the attention of not only the academic community, but Silicon Valley investors as well. In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Larry and Sergey a check for $100,000, and Google Inc. was officially born. With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki (employee #16 and now CEO of YouTube). Clunky desktop computers, a ping pong table, and bright blue carpet set the scene for those early days and late nights. (The tradition of keeping things continues to this day.)

Even in the beginning, things were unconventional: from Google’s initial server (made of Lego) to the first “Doodle” in 1998: a stick figure in the logo announcing to site visitors that the entire staff was playing hooky at the Burning Man Festival. “Don"t be evil” and “The ten things we know to be true” captured the spirit of our intentionally unconventional methods. In the years that followed, the company expanded rapidly - hiring engineers, building a sales team, and introducing the first company dog, Yoshka. Google outgrew the garage and eventually moved to its current headquarters (a.k.a. “The Googleplex”) in Mountain View, California. The spirit of doing things differently made the move. So did Yoshka.

The relentless search for better answers continues to be at the core of everything we do. Today, with more than 60,000 employees in 50 different countries, Google makes hundreds of products used by billions of people across the globe, from YouTube and Android to Smartbox and, of course, Google Search. Although we’ve ditched the Lego servers and added just a few more company dogs, our passion for building technology for everyone has stayed with us - from the dorm room, to the garage, and to this very day.

Mobile Google version Docs now has a text editing feature.

Company Google Inc. founded in 1998 (date of registration - September 4, 1998) by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Brin and Page met at Stanford University and began working together on a project that later became Google. According to the company's founders, "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it accessible and useful to everyone."

Today the company has more than ten thousand employees worldwide. Brin is President of Technology and Page is President of Products.

Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive officer, joined Google from Novell in 2001. Under his leadership Google company significantly expanded its infrastructure and product range. His extensive work experience has prepared him well to lead the development of user-centric technology solutions. Together with the company's founders and other members of the management team, Schmidt is responsible for the company's technical and business strategies.

Google's headquarters are located at 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043.

One of the most important areas of the company’s activities is the delivery of search results (and other information) in real time.

Except search engine,Google provides various online services to users. Among the most popular are Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps and others.

The company owns a popular video hosting service YouTube and the online photo editor Picasa, which allows you to process photos and create web albums from them.

Postal Google service with virtually unlimited message storage space, internal search and a smart anti-spam system. It has a standard mode and a basic HTML version, which switches to automatically when logging into Gmail using a browser that is not fully supported.

Google Docs

Online application for remote collaboration on documents. Google Docs lets you add documents Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or plain text files, create documents from scratch, as well as upload your own Internet documents; edit documents online simultaneously with any users you choose and invite other people to view those documents; publish documents on the Internet; Send documents via email as attachments.

Google Docs also allows you to work with tables, presentations and illustrations.

Google Maps

A Google service that offers user-friendly map search technology and local business information including address, contact information and driving directions. You can work with maps in three display options: satellite photographs, schematic maps, and a hybrid of the first two maps. Searching for a point by latitude and longitude is supported.

The service also includes the Google Traffic service, " Google Places», mobile versions maps, custom map designer, etc. Using Google Street View, you can explore 3D panoramic images of various settlements peace.

Google Earth

Google Earth is a client installed on the user's computer. It lets you travel the world using a virtual globe and view satellite photos, maps, landscapes, 3D buildings and more. Google Earth also allows you to virtually explore the sky, dive into the ocean, walk on the Moon and fly to Mars.

What is Google?

A googol is a mathematical term for one followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of the American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was first described in the book Mathematics and the Imagination by Kasner and James Newman.

The material was prepared based on information from the official website

1996-2001

Create a search

Google began in March 1996 as a scientific project of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. , Stanford students worked on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). SDLP was the goal of "Development promising technologies for a Single, Integrated, and Universal Digital Library" and was funded by the National Science Foundation, among others federal agencies. In search of a topic for his dissertation, Page considered, among other things, studying the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, representing the structure of links in the form of a huge graph. His thesis advisor, Terry Winograd, encouraged him to take this idea (which Page later recalled as " best advice, which I've ever received"), and Page focused on the problem of figuring out which web pages link to this page, considering the number and nature of such backlinks in terms of the value of information on a page (similar to the role of quotes in scientific publications). In this scientific project, called "BackRub", he was soon joined by Sergey Brin, a Ph.D. Stanford, supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Brin was already a close friend of Page, whom he first met in the summer of 1995 in a group of freshmen whom Brin volunteered to show around campus. The search robot began indexing Internet pages in March 1996, configured from home page Page at Stanford. To convert the collected data into the importance level of a given web page, Brin and Page developed the PageRank algorithm. After analyzing the BackRub results, which consisted of URL list ranked by the number of backlinks to a given URL, they realized that a search engine based on PageRank would lead to best results than existing search algorithms (existing search engines at this time rated pages based on the number of times the searched word appeared on the page).

A small search engine called "RankDex" from IDD Information Services (an affiliate of Dow Jones) developed by Robin Lee, since 1996, has already explored a similar page ranking and ranking strategy. RankDex's technology was patented and used later when Li founded Baidu in China.

Convinced that pages with the most links to them from other high-ranking pages should be the most relevant in searches, Page and Brin tried out their thesis through research and laid the groundwork for their search. By early 1997, Backrub's description page was worded as follows:

Some rough statistics (since August 29, 1996) Total pages indexed: 75.2306 million Total content downloaded: 207.022 gigabytes … BackRub is written in Java and Python and runs on Sun Ultra and Intel Pentium running on Linux. The main database is stored on a Sun Ultra II with a 28GB disk. Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg provided a lot of talented assistance. Sergey Brin also took an active part and deserves great gratitude.-Larry Page [email protected]

The search engine was originally located on Stanford's website google.stanford.edu. Domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997.

Brin and Page were against the use of pop-ups advertising messages in search results, or sponsored search results models and they wrote research work in 1998 on this topic, while still students. However, they soon changed their minds and early on allowed the inclusion of simple text ads, which are now Google's main source of revenue.

Company Creation

Google received its first funding in August 1998 in the form of US$100,000 from Andy Bechtolsteim, one of the founders of the late Sun Microsystems. Google was officially incorporated on September 4, 1998, in a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California.

The name "Google" comes from the word "googol", meaning the number 1 followed by one hundred zeros. (Although Enid Blyton used the phrase "Google Bun" in The Magic Faraway Tree (published 1943). Increasingly used in everyday language, the verb "to google" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006 as meaning " using Google to search on the Internet."

By the end of 1998, Google had indexed about 60 million pages. On home page was still marked "BETA", but an article in Salon.com already claimed that the results Google search were better than other search engines such as Hotbot or Excite.com, and praised Google for greater technological innovation than the overloaded portal sites (e.g. Yahoo!, Excite.com, Lycos, Netscap's Netcenter, AOL.com, Go .com and MSN .com), which during the growing dot-com bubble, were seen as "the future of the web", especially by stock market investors.

In March 1999, the company moved its offices to 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto, where other Silicon Valley technology startups were located. After rapid growth, the company leased a building complex in Mountain View at 1600 Amphitheater Parkway from Silicon Graphics (SGI) in 1999. The company has remained at this location ever since and the complex has since become known as the Googleplex (a pun on Googleplex, the number equal to 1 with a googol of zeros). In 2006, Google bought the property from SGI for $319 million.

Google Search attracted a loyal following among a growing number of Internet users who loved its simple interface. In 2000 Google started selling advertising related to search keywords. The advertisement was text-based, without cluttering the page design or reducing its loading speed. Keywords were sold based on a combination of bid price and number of clicks, with prices starting at $0.05 per click. This model of selling keyword advertising was pioneered by Goto.com (later renamed Overture Services before being acquired by Yahoo! and rebranded as Yahoo! Search Marketing). Although many of its competitors failed to break into the new Internet market, Google was quietly rising.

Since 2002

On December 10, 2012, Google, as well as Facebook and 6 other companies, spoke out against -patents that describe “abstract ideas.”


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Even 20 years ago it was still difficult to imagine that computers would become so firmly established in Everyday life each person.

Work, relax, communicate - all this can be done using a device with Internet access. And being on the World Wide Web and not knowing what Google is is the same as living in Paris and missing the Eiffel Tower.

Advanced search technologies and great amount useful services have made this company the true king of the Internet.

Who do you need to be to conquer the world? For some, this will require an army of well-trained soldiers, and for others, beauty. But nowadays everything more people win recognition and respect with their intelligence.

Many biographies of famous personalities contain descriptions of ordinary guys who started creating in their own garage. All they had initially were brains with bright ideas.

History of Google began with precisely these young people who were ready to work hard to bring their plans to life:

The path from zero to billions

There is a deep domestic trace in the formation and development of Google. The talented mathematician Sergei Brin, who emigrated to the United States at the age of five, was at the very beginning of the company and still manages it today:


To realize the amazing transformation from "nothing" to a giant on the front line modern technologies, it is necessary to note the most important stages in the development of Google.

  • 1995 Sergey Brin volunteered to give a tour of Stanford University to students, one of whom was Larry Page. The student and the “tour guide” immediately began to argue about everything in the world, which became the basis for further strong friendship and the same cooperation;
  • 1996 Development of a search system, the operation of which was based on PageRank technology, the essence of which is the ranking of sites depending on the link juice obtained using backlinks. This technology was a real revolution, since previously the main criterion for search engines was the number of keywords on a resource page;
  • 1997 Google has found its name. It’s simply impossible to imagine how much information there is on the World Wide Web, so Sergey and Larry decided to choose as the name the number that is closest to “ it's impossible to imagine how much" A googol is a hundred zeros added to one. The spelling of the word was slightly corrected for euphony;
  • August 1998. The only question Andy Bechtolsteim (one of the founders of Sun) was: " In whose name should the check be written??. One hundred thousand dollars went to the account of the not yet born Google Inc;
  • September 1998. The company moves to its first office - a garage. There are already 3 employees on staff.
  • February 1999. The company already has 8 people and rents an office in Palo Alto.
  • September 1999. Moving to our own building located in Mountain View.
  • year 2000. Google signs an agreement with Yahoo, becoming the main provider of information search services and the largest search engine in the world.
  • year 2001. The company has expanded its influence in the territories South America. The search engine's index includes 3 billion documents.
  • 2002 A new office opens in Sydney.
  • 2003 Google buys Pyra Labs, whose best-known technology was Blogger.
  • 2004 The main office is moving to a new building, the number of employees has increased to 800 people. Google goes public for the first time, offering its shares on NASDAQ. Larry Page and Sergey Brin become billionaires.

Subsequently, things went better and better for Google, and today it is no longer possible to imagine using the Internet without the popular services that the company has developed.

Services we can't live without

Throughout its existence, Google wasted no time. The company has developed a huge number of useful services, the most popular of which should at least be listed:


  • Google Docs is a service that allows you to create text documents, tables and presentations. Data can be saved in cloud storage;
  • Google Drive is a virtual drive on which you can store up to 15 GB of your own information and access it from anywhere in the world:


  • AdSense - contextual advertising, which is automatically placed according to the topic of the page;
  • Analytics is a tool for developers and SEO optimizers. Provides detailed statistics on the operation of a web resource:


  • Gmail – email;
  • Maps – geographic Maps, with which you can easily calculate the route to your destination:


  • News – news generated from the headlines of the most popular publications in the world. The composition of categories is displayed according to user preferences;
  • Play – game application store;
  • Picasa is a service that allows you to work with images.

Your personal browser

One of the company's outstanding achievements was the creation Google browser Chrome, which immediately proved to be competitive in a market where it would seem there could be no rivalry:


In September 2008, the company announced the release of its own web browser, which came as a big surprise, because before that Google had in every possible way denied such a possibility, citing inexpediency.

The beta version was released only for Windows, but by December, thanks to the hard work of the developers, the browser occupied one percent of the market, which is a colossal result in such a short time.

Until 2013, Chrome was based on WebKit technology, but subsequently switched to the innovative Blink engine.

In 2009, Chrome became the regular browser of 9% of users, and a year later - already 15%. Today, about 40 percent of people with Internet access prefer Google Chrome.


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