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google history: Google is a company whose main product is the search engine of the same name.

Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford.

Sergey Brin (23 years now) and Larry Page (24), cofounders of Google and currently chairman and CEO, is known at a ceremony organized by Stanford University for a Ph.D. candidate in computer science. Both had a common goal, to get relevant information from a large amount of data.

In 1995 Larry and Sergey start working in the "Digital Library Project" at the University of Stanford. Starting to create a search algorithm for data. This technology gives Larry name "PageRank" later became the "heart" that will run at Google.

In 1996 begin to develop a search engine called "BackRub". And as indicated in their description, BackRub is written in Java and Python and runs on several machines. The database is hosted on a Sun Ultra II computer with 28GB hard drive.

In 1997 BackRub becomes "Google" the name comes from a play on the word "googol", coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, to refer to the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use reflects the company's mission to the vast amount of information available on the web. And that same year Larry and Sergey register the domain "google.com".

In 1998 Larry and Sergey continued working to perfect the search technology. Although fever "dotcom" could not find investors who financed Google, having to get money from relatives and friends. Until the summer of that same year Andy Bechtolsheim (Sun Microsystems co-founder and vice president of Cisco Systems) will sign a check for $ 100,000 payable to "Google Inc.. Yet" Google Inc. "does not exist, and to collect the check needed to search premises and found a company with that name.

On December 7, 1998, Google Inc., already had offices in Menlo Park, California.

Google.com had 10,000 visits per day. In 1999 got $ 25 million from two major investors Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkin Caufield & Buyers.

Months after Menlon Park offices, and were small for them, so they moved to the Googleplex, the current headquarters of Google in Mountain View, California, with more employees and responding to about 500,000 hits a day. Today Google is the best search engine network and the most used.

On October 10, 2006 Google acquired video download portal "online" YouTube for 1.650 million.

Google, has become an emblematic case of complicity with censorship to be agreed with the Chinese government the contents of its pages. Currently, as part of its business strategy of finding new markets, the results of the search engine user oriented Chinese suffer pre-filtering, that obvious, but so inform the results that may be contrary to government policy.

Google wins Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities 2008; Award which gave him the Prince of Asturias Felipe de Borbon on October 24, 2008, at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, Spain, the co-founder Larry Page and VP Nikesh Arora.

Google is considered the best search Internet history and allows millions of users around the world access to knowledge and information quickly and organized.

Happy 12th birthday Google
Google is celebrating the September 27, 1998 was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford. And to celebrate its logo has been replaced by a pastel drawing by famed American painter Wayne Thiebaud.
The logo of today clarifies the exact date of the anniversary of Google that sometimes took place on September 7. While the domain "Google.com" was registered on 15 September 1997, as recorded by "Portaltic" from "Mashable".

Google acquires Motorola Mobility Holding for 12 thousand 500 million dollars.
Google announced on August 15, 2011, the purchase by 12 thousand 500 million dollars, of Motorola Mobility Holdings, the maker of mobile phones from Motorola, allowing you to gain patents it needs to boost its Android operating system.

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