The two students who founded Gogle 21 years ago

Google was founded in January 1996 by Larry Page, who joined Sergey Breen, when the two were students at Stanford University in California. They had the idea of a search engine which, by analyzing the behavior of websites, would produce better results compared to existing techniques.

After the great success achieved with the research engine this corporation made linguistic globalisation of its programme, as well as began providing many other services within the main activity, meaning. Offering access to information quickly.

Initially, the research engine used at Stanford University with domain Google.stanford.edu. Location Google. com It was registered on September 15, 1997, and the company was released as Google Inc on September 4, 1998, to a garage friend in Menlo Park, California.

Total of initial investments set up for the new company amounted to nearly $1.1m, including a US $100,000-controlled US $100,000 by Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems.

Name “Google” origin is due to a common error in the word “gogogogogue”, which refers to 10100, represented by a number 1 followed by a hundred zeros. Finding its way more and more in everyday language, the verb “google” was added to student Merriam Webster Dictionary and Oxford English Dictionary in 2006, which means “to use search engine to get information on the Internet. ”

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is now the most successful online corporation, with a capital of $104.5 billion and 55,419 in 2014.