Who created Google and when was it created?

Answer 1

Google first began in March of 1996. It started as a project by 2 students at Stanford. The students that created google were Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and they were in a Ph.D. program at the university, working on the Stanford Digital Library Project.

Are you interested in how the internet has developed, and have you wondered who created Google? Google is a multinational public computing and Internet search technology corporation. It's used as a search engine, for mail, for calendars, and for a variety of different applications. However, what is the history behind this important corporation? When was it created, how was it created, and who created Google?

Google first began in March of 1996. It started as a research project by two students at Stanford. Who created Google? The students were Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and they were in a Ph.D. program at the university, working on the Stanford Digital Library Project.

While Page was attempting to come up with a dissertation topic, he considered writing about the mathematical properties of the World WIde Web and how the link structure can be actually understood as a huge graph. His supervisor liked the idea and encouraged Page to follow up on it.

While researching for the topic, Page focusing on discovering what web pages link to specific names, and the number and design of the backlinks for the information on a certain page. The research project was named "BackRub" and it soon caught the eye of Sergey Brin, a fellow student of Larry's. Brin joined the project.

Together, Brin and Page developed the Pagerank algorithm to convert the backlink data that measured the importance of any given webpage. While they were analyzing the results from this, they realized that a search engine would in fact produce more efficient results than the current technologies.

The duo began to create the foundation for search engine, and by 1997, they had created the beginnings of Google. When it originated, it only used the Stanford website as a domain. The domain name was "google.standford.edu." On September 15, 1997, the domain name "google.com" was registered. On September 4, 1998, they incorporated their company "Google Inc." at a friend's garage in California.

Google quickly grew as a company and as a search engine. By the end of 1998, Google had an index of approximately sixty million pages. Even though the home page was still marked "BETA," leading magazines were arguing that Google was more accurate and efficient than other leading search engines.

It was considered more innovative than some competitor sites, such as Yahoo, Hotbot, or Excite.com. In 1999, the company was able to move into an office building in California. In fact, the company's address at the end of 1999 has remained its address throughout the last decade.

Why Was Google Successful?

Google became popular because users appreciated the search engine's simple design. Then, in 2000, Google had the idea to sell advertisements associated with different search keywords.

To ensure that the simple design of Google was not compromised, the ads were text-based. Keywords were sold based on a number of different factors, such as price bid and click-throughs. The bids started at .05 per click.

Thus, Google was able to outlast other dot-com rivals, and its revenue rapidly increased. At its peak, in 2004, Google handled over eighty percent of all search requests on the World Wide Web through the Google website.

Google was also able to become successful because it was able to acquire funding throughout its startup period. In 1998, it secured one hundred thousand dollars in funding from Andy Bechtolsheim. Then, in 1999, Google was able to acquire twenty-five million dollars from different venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. In January of 2004, Google announced that it was hiring Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group to arrange an IPO. This IPO raised almost four billion dollars.

Thus, Google is an important company because of its innovation and its growth. Google was able to outlast the majority of other "dotcom" companies of its time and continue to grow as a company. Today, it continues to put out innovative and breakthrough products for its users.

Answer 2

Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the "Google Guys", while the two were attending Stanford University as PhD candidates. It was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004.

Answer 3

Lawrence "Larry" Page[2] (born March 26, 1973) is an American computer scientist best known as co-founder of Google Inc., along with Sergey Brin. They are often known together as the "Google Guys". According to Forbes he is currently the 24th richest person in the world with net worth of US$17.5 billion in 2010.[1]

Page was born into a Jewish family in East Lansing, Michigan.[3] His parents were computer science professors at Michigan State University.[4] During an interview, Page said that "their house was usually a mess, with computers and Popular Science magazines all over the place." His attraction to computers started when he was six years old when he got to "play with the stuff lying around." He became the "first kid in his elementary school to turn in an assignment from a word processor."[5] His older brother also taught him to take things apart, and before long he was taking "everything in his house apart to see how it worked." He said,"From a very early age, I also realized I wanted to invent things. So I became really interested in technology...and business. So probably from when I was 12 I knew I was going to start a company eventually."[5]

Page attended the Okemos Montessori School (now called Montessori Radmoor) in Okemos, Michigan from 1975 to 1979, and graduated from East Lansing High School (1991).[6] He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan with honors and a Masters degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. While at the University of Michigan, "Page created an inkjet printer made of LEGO bricks" (actually a line plotter),[7] served as the president of the HKN,[8] and was a member of the solar car team.

Academic researchAfter enrolling for a Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, Larry Page was in search of a dissertation theme and considered exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge graph.[9] His supervisor Terry Winograd encouraged him to pursue this idea, which Page later recalled as "the best advice I ever got".[10] Page then focused on the problem of finding out which web pages link to a given page, considering the number and nature of such backlinks to be valuable information about that page (with the role of citations in academic publishing in mind).[9] In his research project, nicknamed "BackRub", he was soon joined by Sergey Brin, a fellow Stanford Ph.D. student.[9]

John Battelle, co-founder of Wired magazine, wrote of Page that he had reasoned that the "entire Web was loosely based on the premise of citation - after all, what is a link but a citation? If he could devise a method to count and qualify each backlink on the Web, as Page puts it 'the Web would become a more valuable place'."[9] Battelle further described how Page and Brin began working together on the project:"At the time Page conceived of BackRub, the Web comprised an estimated 10 million documents, with an untold number of links between them. The computing resources required to crawl such a beast were well beyond the usual bounds of a student project. Unaware of exactly what he was getting into, Page began building out his crawler."The idea's complexity and scale lured Brin to the job. A polymath who had jumped from project to project without settling on a thesis topic, he found the premise behind BackRub fascinating. "I talked to lots of research groups" around the school, Brin recalls, "and this was the most exciting project, both because it tackled the Web, which represents human knowledge, and because I liked Larry."[9]

Brin and Page originally met in March, 1995, during a spring orientation of new computer science Ph.D. candidates. Brin, who had already been in the program for two years, was assigned to show some students, including Page, around campus, and they later became good friends.[11]

To convert the backlink data gathered by BackRub's web crawler into a measure of importance for a given web page, Brin and Page developed the PageRank algorithm, and realized that it could be used to build a search engine far superior to existing ones.[9] It relied on a new kind of technology which analyzed the relevance of the back links that connected one Web page to another.[11] In August 1996, the initial version of Google was made available, still on the Stanford University Web site.[9]

BusinessMain articles: Google and History of Google

In 1998, Brin and Page founded Google, Inc.[12] Page ran Google as co-president along with Brin until 2001 when they hired Eric Schmidt as Chairman and CEO of Google. Both Page and Brin earn an annual compensation of one dollar.

Personal lifePage married Lucinda Southworth at Richard Branson's Caribbean island, Necker Island, on December 8, 2007.[13][14] Brin and Page are the executive producers of the film, Broken Arrows. In 2004, he and Sergey Brin were named "Persons of the Week" by ABC World News Tonight.

Larry Page spoke at the commencement ceremony of the University of Michigan in 2009,[15] at which time he also received an honorary Doctor of Engineering Degree.[16]

Other interestsPage is an active investor in alternative energy companies, such as Tesla Motors, which developed the Tesla Roadster, a 220-mile (350 km) range battery electric vehicle.[17] He continues to be committed to renewable energy technology, and with the help of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, promotes the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric cars and other alternative energy investments.[5] Awards and recognitionIn 2003, both Brin and Page received an honorary MBA from IE Business School "for embodying the entrepreneurial spirit and lending momentum to the creation of new businesses..."[18] And in 2004, they received the Marconi Foundation Prize, the "Highest Award in Engineering," and were elected Fellows of the Marconi Foundation at Columbia University. "In announcing their selection, John Jay Iselin, the Foundation's president, congratulated the two men for their invention that has fundamentally changed the way information is retrieved today." They joined a "select cadre of 32 of the world's most influential communications technology pioneers..."[19] In 2005, Brin and Page were elected Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[20]

The World Economic Forum named Page as a Global Leader for Tomorrow and the X PRIZE chose Page as a trustee for their board.[7] PC Magazine has praised Google as among the Top 100 Web Sites and Search Engines (1998) and awarded Google the Technical Excellence Award, for Innovation in Web Application Development in 1999. In 2000, Google earned a Webby Award, a People's Voice Award for technical achievement, and in 2001, was awarded Outstanding Search Service, Best Image Search Engine, Best Design, Most Webmaster Friendly Search Engine, and Best Search Feature at the Search Engine Watch Awards."[21]

Larry Page received an honorary doctorate from the University of Michigan on May 2, 2009 during the commencement ceremony exercises of the class of 2009.[22]

In 2009, he was ranked 26th on the Forbes list of the world's billionaires and as the 11th richest person in America, despite his compensation of one dollar annually.[23][24]

In 2009, Brin and Page were ranked fifth on Forbes' "The World's Most Powerful People" list. [25]

References

Answer 4

The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California.[30]

It was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004.

Answer 5

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