September 27th is the date Google selected for its birthday and the low-key company celebrates its 13th Birthday with a new doodle. What did Google do in the past 13 years?
September 27th is the date Google selected for its birthday and the low-key company celebrates its 13th Birthday with a new doodle. Google first registered Google.com on September 15, 1997 and the internet company was incorporated on September 7, 1998 after it received is first $100,000 funding from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Instead of either one of those two dates, Google selected the 27th because they're Google and they can.
In the era Yahoo! and AOL ruled the internet, Google born as a little brother when users enjoying a fast university internet connection and using both Alta Vista and Yahoo as their main search engines.
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Google was originally named BackRub back in 1996, when Larry Page and Sergey Brin where still at Stanford for their PhD. They eventually reevaluated the name in favor of Google, a play on the mathematical figure, "googol," which represents the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes. The name embodied their mission to create an infinite amount of web resources. As of now, Google became a household name that, more often than not, is used as a verb, like when you're asking a question and the person you're asking doesn't know the answer, the response you get it is, "Google it." Google now has more than 1 billion unique visitors and an 8.4 percent increase from a year ago with 931 million unique visitors. Meanwhile, Google took a 90% share of the global internet search market.
What did Google do in the past 13 years?
1996-1997
The transition from BackRub to Google. At the time of the time most of the giants like Yahoo, AOL thought that the search they did was enough, Page and Brin insisted to do the search that users need and pull their good will on the search engine.-Don't Be Evil. Page and Brin originally nicknamed their new search engine "BackRub", because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site. They eventually reevaluated the name in favor of Google, a play on the mathematical figure, "googol," which represents the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes.
1998
On September 4, 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin filed for incorporation as Google Inc. after they had received a $100,000 check from form Andy Bechtolsheim.They set up shop in Susan Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park, CA where they hired their first employee Craig Silverstein and where they launched their first homepage which kind of looked like Yahoo! as Google was Google! back then.
1999
Google moved out of their first office and set up shop in Palo Alto, CA and received the first round of funding, $25 million, from venture capital firms Sequioa Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Bayers.
2000
Google reached the 1 billion mark, making them the largest search engine available and becomes Yahoo!'s default search browser. AdWord, a self-service ad program that allows users buy keywords that appear alongside search results.
2001
Google Image Search was released that year.
2002
Google Labs debuts and made available to people who want to try out products and services in their Beta phase. News tools was also launched this year which offered links for over 4,000 sources.
2003
They moved to Mountain View, CA which houses their infamous Googleplex. AdSense, ad program was launched that year. It bought PyraLabs.
2004
In 2004, Google purchased Keyhole Inc., the developer of Earth Viewer, that brought us the 3D view of the earth. It launched the invitation only, Beta-version of Gmail on April Fool's day.
2005
Google Maps born this year and Earth Viewer was renamed Google Earth. Google Reader,a Web-based aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds online or offline was launched. Urchin was acquired.
2006
Acquired a video-sharing website, YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock. Google Trends, Gchat for Gmail users, and Google Checkout launched.
2007
Acquired GrandCentral which later evolved into Google Voice. The famous open mobile operation system --Android was released.
2008
Google Chrome, an open-source browser was released and had numerous updates and versions since then. G1, the first Android phone was revealed as well as Google Suggest.
2009
Google Wave, a platform they launched for real-time web communication was released which d was discontinued after a year. Picasa, a Mac-based photo editing application was also released this year.
2010
Google Apps Marketplace was their take on the Apple iTunes Store. Google Buzz was a Gmail-based failed attempt at social networking. Google TV a service that came from Google's team up with Sony, Intel and Logitech which up to present, hasn't gained any traction.
2011
Google+ is their latest attempt in the social network scene and maybe their most successful attempt up to date. Google+ achieves 50 million users and a 1269% traffic increase since it launched. It acquired Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion for reasons that aren't quite clear up to now.