Google hits 10 years old today, Happy Birthday… glad to see you make it out of beta!

Then

Now

The Company
Google Inc. was founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page to make it easier to find high-quality information on the web. The company is based on three years of research in web search and data mining done by the founders in the Stanford University Computer Science Department. Google Inc.’s headquarters are located in scenic downtown Palo Alto, California.

Google Inc. is not at present a publicly traded company, and we are currently unable to speculate on whether or when our privately-held status might change.

The Name
10^100 (a gigantic number) is a googol, but we liked the spelling “Google” better. We picked the name “Google” because our goal is to make huge quantities of information available to everyone. And it sounds cool and has only six letters.

A new camera, what a great birthday present! - see the launch

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The First Decade with Google - 1998 - 2008

Copyright © 2008, by Stephen Pitts aka SEOpittfall.com, All Rights Reserved. The First Decade with Google - 1998 - 2008