2. Origins
- Google began in 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin Ph.D students in Stanford University. Both of these
students were interested in the mathematics of the Internet, studying how each website could be located through its roots of urls
and connections between each other.
-The initial search engine was named “BackRub”, named for its analysis of the web’s “backlinks”. Google took its official name
from a brainstorm to “Googol” short for “Googolplex” and its spelling was an accident when another student misspelled the word
during the domain search.
Larry Page & Sergey Brin The first
google computer - composed of lego
3. Launch
The domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997. They formally
incorporated their company, Google, on September 4, 1998 in their friend Susan
Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park, California.
4. Business
-Google owns and operates nine data centres across US, Asia and Europe all powered by 100%
renewable energy and storing a total of 15 exabytes of cloud data ( equal to 30 million home
computers ) .
-As of 2015 Google has 57,100 staff working for them around the world .
-2nd October 2015 - The founders of Google set up their own umbrella parent company “ Alphabet “ to
make Google's services “ cleaner and more accountable” whilst furthering each of the seven
subsidiaries separate directions and products.
5. Timeline 1995 - 2007
1995 - Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford University
1996 - Page and Brin begin collaborating on a search engine called
BackRub, named for its ability to analyse website backlinks for
relevance
· The first version of Google is released on the Stanford University
website in August
1997 - Google.com is registered
1998 - An unincorporated Google Inc receives its first investment:
$100,000 (£56,000) from Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim
· Google sets up a workspace in a garage in Silicon Valley
1999 - Google outgrows its garage office and moves to an office with
eight employees
2000 - The first 10 language versions of Google.com are released:
French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch,
Norwegian and Danish
2002 - Major partnership with AOL
- Google News launched, with 4,000 sources
2004 - Gmail launched - Google goes public
2005 - Google Maps and Google Earth launched
2006 - Acquires video-sharing site YouTube
2007 - Streetview Launched
6. Timeline 2008-2017
2008 - Search Index reaches 1 Trillion
- Google Chrome Announced
2009 - Releases Google Chrome OS for 3rd Party Netbooks
2010 - Unveils Google Nexus One mobile phone
2011 - Announces plans to buy Motorola Mobility
- Google Plus 1 Social Network Launched
2012 - Revenue hits 50 Million Dollars
2013- Purchases Boston Dynamics Robotics
2014 - Acquires Nest home automation buisness
2015 - Makes 15 buisness acquisitions
- Restructured Buisness through Alphabet
2016 - Makes another 15 buisness acquisitions
-Focus on Artificial Inteligence
2017 - Google fights with Uber reagrding self driving technology
7. Google's Companies
A - Android / AdSense / Analytics / Ara / AdMob
/ Alerts
B - Blogger / Boston Dynamics / Books
C - Calico / Cardboard / Capital
D - Drive / DeepMind / Design / DoubleClick
E - Earth / Express
F - Fiber / Fi / Flights / FeedBurner / Firebase /
Finance
G - Google / Gmail / Glass / Groups
H - Hangouts
I - Images / Ingress / Inbox / Invite Media
J - Jump
K - Keep
L - Life Sciences / Local / Loon
M - Maps / My Business / Makani
N - Nest / News / Nexus / Now/ Niantic
O - Offers
P - Plus / Play / Photos / Picasa / Pixate / Patents
Q - (Nexus) Q
R - Refine / reCaptcha
S - Search / Shopping / SageTV /Stackdriver /
Skybox / Skia / Scholar
T - Translate / Tango
U - N/A
V - Voice / Ventures / VirusTotal / Video
W - Wallet / Wing
X - X Labs
Y - YouTube
Z - Project Z / Zagat
8. Net worth of Google
Google entered the stock market and incorporated their company on September 4th 1998. As of
9/3/2017, the overall net worth and cost of Google is valued to $498 Billion. Compared to Apple,
which is around $495 Billion, Google has been certified as the most dominant web development
company in the world.
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9. Users
Google now processes over 40,000 search queries every second on average (visualize them here), which translates to
over 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion searches per year worldwide. There are also over 2.2 Google
conglomerated accounts that are linked with all of the additional services such as Gmail, Drive, Docs, Calendar, Earth,
YouTube and Plus (+). Plus is one of the least popular services Google has used as only 111 million of theses users
have used the social network.
10. Criticism
Over the years, Google has collectively been known to have
multiple cases of controversy from the Media. For example,
Google was avoiding tax for months most notably in Ireland
and UK costing up £120 million. Google was also being
connected with other government affiliates such NSA with
its PRISM program, as revealed by Edward Snowden which
brought up the subject of privacy with its services. With its
PRISM program, the National Security Agency have
connections with google with cumulate search histories,
emails, documents and much more and store digital address
to the devices IP, account details and other connecting
services and accounts used with the Google account.