Google began in March 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D.

students at Stanford[1] working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The SDLP's goal was to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library." and was funded through the National Science Foundation among other federal agencies.[2][3][4][5] In search for a dissertation theme, Page consideredamong other thingsexploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge graph.[6] His supervisor Terry Winograd encouraged him to pick this idea (which Page later recalled as "the best advice I ever got"[7]) and Page 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).[6] In his research project, nicknamed "BackRub", he was soon joined by Sergey Brin, a fellow Stanford Ph.D. student supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.[2] Brin was already a close friend, whom Page had first met in the summer of 1995 in a group of potential new students which Brin had volunteered to show around the campus..

Lawrence "Larry" Page(born March 26, 1973) is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with Sergey Brin, is best known as the co-founder of Google. On April 4, 2011, he took on the role of chief executive officer of Google, replacing Eric Schmidt.As of 2012, his personal wealth is estimated to be $18.7 billion, ranking him #15 on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans.He is the inventor of PageRank, which became the foundation of Google's search ranking algorithm.Together, Brin and Page own about 16 percent of the company's stock,

AdMob Mobile advertising network. Google AdSense Offers a contextual advertising solution to web publishers, and delivers text-based Google AdWords ads that are relevant to site content pages. Google AdWords advertise with Google AdWords ads in the Sponsored Links section next to search results to boost website traffic and sales. Adwords Express Local online advertising made easy

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FeedBurner news feed management services, including feed traffic analysis and advertising facilities. Google 3D Warehouse online service that hosts 3D models of existing objects, locations (including buildings) and vehicles created in Google SketchUp by the aforementioned application's users. The models can be downloaded into Google SketchUp by other users or Google Earth. Google Apps service for businesses, enterprise and education providing independently customizable versions of several GoGoogle Video, Google Groups, Google Buzz, Google Talk, Go ogle products under a custom domain name. Features included are Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites, Google Contacts, ogle Maps, Google Mars, Google Moon, and Google Earth.

Weve come a long way from the dorm room and the garage. We moved into our headquarters in Mountain View, Californiabetter known as the Googleplexin 2004. Today Google has more than 70 offices in more than 40 countries around the globe.

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