Find in Google, google, help you - these and many other modern winged expressions entered our lives thanks to the fact that almost two decades ago two graduate students of Stanford University decided to protect the scientific project by creating a search system.
The history of Google is really unusual, but even more interesting are the fathers of this corporation, who brought their offspring to the top.
Google or what happened before her birth?
Researchers believe that the company Google Google began its rapid progress in 1995, when a student at Stanford University, an American of Russian origin Sergey Brin, decided to conduct a tour of his territory for a group of students.
Another talented American, Larry Page, accidentally wormed into this group.
The dispute that started out on a trifle passed first to a strong friendship, and then to fruitful cooperation.
A year later two friends, and part-time young ambitious graduate student decided to conquer the teachers with their research project - the search engine PageRank.
The search engines that existed before did their job very badly, bringing to the first place the texts with the most keywords.
Often absolutely useless texts thanks to spam( a pile of key words stuck to the place and out of place) were given the first number in the search engine. ..
P.S.I know that many will not understand what "keywords" are, so I highly recommend that you open the Google search engine and write "what are keywords"!🙂
Larry Page decided that you need to act differently and took the analogy of gaining authority in the academic environment.
The steeper the scientist, the more unique scientific texts he wrote, the more often his colleagues use articles in their writings, that is, they refer to them.
What do Google employees complain about?
The PageRank searcher also acted: the ranking was made not at the expense of the number of keywords, but due to the quality of the texts themselves and the number of references to them, as the source.
Such an approach revolutionized: users could find information on a qualitative rather than quantitative algorithm.
Google Company - a brilliant history of the creation of
An excellent search engine already existed, but it was necessary to come up with a short and memorable name for it.
After touching about fifty variants, Page and Bryn opted for the modified term "googol"( a huge number: 1 with a hundred zeros).
In 1997, all students and professors of Stanford already used the new search system, appreciating its convenience.
Original and so beloved by us the design of the main page( colorful letters on a white background) is not the result of a long work of the design team, but the product of the lack of money of future billionaires. .. 😎
They really did not have the money to hire at least an inferior designer,, having made "it is unpretentious and with taste".
The history of the creation of Google came to its logical conclusion.
But the ascent of a newborn search engine to the top was just beginning.
Further development story of Google. ..
1998 was a pretty good year for Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
They registered Google Inc., withdrew their first office( well, and that it was a garage!), Hired 3 employees and received a check for 100 thousand dollars from Andy Bechtolstein.
And then -
- Winter 1999 - moving to Palo Alto and hiring 8 employees.
- Autumn 1999 - buying your own office space in Mountain View.
- 2000 - signing a contract with the largest US corporation specializing in Yahoo Internet services.
- 2001 - the conquest of South America.
- 2002 - the conquest of Sydney( I remind for the twins that it is Australia).
- 2003 - acquisition of the well-known in the US publishing service Blogger.
But the most important in the history of the creation of Google was 2004, when the shares of an actively developing company were first thrown out onto the stock market, making their creators billionaires.
How does Google feel today?
Despite the fact that Larry Page and Sergey Brin became billionaires in the early 2000s, they were not going to rest on their laurels.
Programmers decided not to limit the activities of their corporation to one search engine, introducing more and more new products.
Today we are happy to use services such as Gmail, Google+ social networking, Google Docs( a program for convenient work with documents), a service for processing and publishing photos on the Internet Picasa and many others.
Google is an English-speaking service, but thanks to specially written algorithms, it searches for both living and working languages, dead( Latin), and artificial( such as Esperanto).
This search engine is used by residents of all countries without exception.
His popularity beats all records.
And for big national holidays and dates the birth of famous personalities - the design of the Google logo is updated: there are pictures, animation.
And if you move the cursor over the logo, you can read what date is marked today, and if you click on it, the search will provide links with information.
By the way, an excellent occasion for self-education.
A few words about the creators of Google. ..
Sergey Brin( 21.08.1973, Moscow, USSR) was born into a family of mathematicians of Jewish nationality.
His parents took him to the USA at the age of five, for which Sergei is very grateful to them( he did not say this in one interview).
He graduated from high school, then enrolled in Stanford, where he started with Larry Page to create his own formula for success.
In 2006, I married a talented scientist, biologist Anna Vojitski, with whom I gave birth to two children: a boy and a girl.
Larry Page( 26.03.1973, Lansing, Michigan, USA) was born into a family of programming teachers. He received his bachelor's degree from a higher education institution in Michigan, and a master's degree from Stanford.
One of the richest people on the planet( 14th line in Forbes list).He is married to a clever( doctoral candidate of bioinformatics) and a beautiful( luxurious blonde) Lucy Southworth.
Both lead a modest way of life, despite the billions on their accounts.
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As you can see, the history of creation by Google is quite interesting and, like all unique discoveries, is full of surprises.
We are certainly grateful to Larry Page and Sergey Brin for such a wonderful search engine.