Google’s History

Google’s 22 st Birthday on September 27, 2020. Google’s mission is to organize the

world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. However, the mission
statement doesn’t use the word “search”. Instead, Google says it wants to “organize”
information. Google was the brainchild of two Stanford University graduate students. Larry
Page and Sergey Brin. Their first collaboration in 1996, was a simple search engine called
BackRub. The name “Google” actually is a play on the words of “googol”. Googol is the digit
1 followed by 100 zeroes. By 1998, Larry and Sergey found an investor in the form of Andy
Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems. He wrote a check for $100,000 and
Google, Inc. was born. In 1999, Google moved from its humble garage to a real office in
Palo Alto. At that time, Google had a whole of eight employees.
Google introduced AdWords, a self-service program for creating online ad
campaigns. In 2002, Google started further helping businesses with its Google Search and
added cost-per-click pricing to its Adwords. In 2003, Google announced Google Adsense.
Adsense lets businesses connect with vast networks of advertisers. On April Fools day in
2004, Google launched Gmail.Google Initial Public Offering of 19,605,052 shares of Class A
on the stock market. Google launched Google Maps and Google Earth in 2005. In 2006,
Google acquired online video sharing site YouTube. Google announced Android as an open
platform for mobile devices. Google Chrome was born in 2008 and fast became one of the
most used web browsers. Google+ launched in 2011 with Google Drive released a year later
in 2012.
Google company has packed a lot into a relatively young life. Since Google was
founded in 1998, Google has grown to serve millions of people around the world. The
company also continues to build on its all-star lineup of product and services